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Next up, my new picture book, “Like THAT Eleanor!”
My third picture book is coming out Summer 2025 and it’s all about making the world more fair — and learning how to be an ally!
I invite you to sign up for email updates that will include the launch day event reading with myself and illustrator Kelly Mangan on June 3, 2025.
Cool Stuff for Queer Kids
(a.k.a. The Blog – and yes, allies are welcome!)
Both of My Books Published in 2021 Make the Children’s Book Committee of the Bank Street College of Education “Best Books of the Year” List!
This is such cool news. Red and Green and Blue and White was included in the picture book category, with the diversity and read-aloud icons, along with this summary review: "A fictionalized account of a town bonding together to stop bigotry, told with stunningly...
What We Devour – Dark YA Fantasy with Asexual and Aromantic Representation
What We Devour by Linsey Miller Lorena Adler has a secret—she holds the power of the banished gods, the Noble and the Vile, inside her. She has spent her entire life hiding from the world and her past. She’s content to spend her days as an undertaker in a small town,...
I’m interviewed on the “Thoughts That Rock” Podcast
It's not every day you get interviewed by a rock star... Brant Menswar and Jim Knight are funny, and thoughtful, and the three of us had a really great discussion. We talk about my books, publishing, diversity, independence, why the messenger matters, and so much...
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My New Podcast
(Because stories — especially our Queer stories and history — should be available for all.)
Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: The Podcast
Join me each Thursday in June as I share my award-winning novel, Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill, chapter by chapter, in its entirety, to empower Queer teens and their allies with the information that would have changed my life if I’d learned it back when I was a closeted Gay Jewish 13 year old who loved adventure books but thought history had nothing to do with me.
- Podcast announcement
- Lee Wind author photo
(credit Joanna DeGeneres) - Podcast logo
- Check out the books
Celebrate #QueerJoy
(a.k.a. Events and News)
Where I'll be coming up in 2024
CALIBA Fall Fest- IBPA booth host, author - Sep 2024, Pasadena, CA
Recent Media
Big Gay Fiction podcast -- Audiobook Connection podcast -- Read Your World Instagram Live -- Mombian article-- Paper Phoenix Ink interview -- Publishers Weekly (“Love of the Half-Eaten Peach” announcement) -- Publishers Weekly (“A Different Kind of Brave” announcement) -- Books that Make You podcast -- Remarkable Leadership Lessons podcast -- and more to come!
