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Come to the free online launch event for LOVE OF THE HALF-EATEN PEACH!
My second picture book is out in the world and you can attend the Highlights Foundation book birthday party with me and the book’s illustrator, Jieting Chen!
Join us on Instagram at 8:30am Pacific/11:30am Eastern on Tuesday September 10, 2024 for the Instagram Live stream: https://www.instagram.com/highlightsfound/
Cool Stuff for Queer Kids
(a.k.a. The Blog – and yes, allies are welcome!)
Lee’s Highlights from #scbwiWinter22
The SCBWI Winter Conference is always inspiring - and 2022 delivered! Here are seven of my personal highlights: "The act of turning the page makes a book a machine." —Brian Selznick, Author/Illustrator “You will be rejected. Don’t doubt your story – or your dream…...
Spin Me Right Round – A Queer YA Time Travel Adventure, Where Luis, super out and Gay in 2020s, travels back in time to the closeted 1980s where he may just have broken up his parents’ relationship… before he gets the chance to be born.
Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes All Luis Gonzalez wants is to go to prom with his boyfriend, something his “progressive” school still doesn't allow. Not after what happened with Chaz Wilson. But that was ages ago, when Luis's parents were in high school; it would...
#scbwiWinter22 – I’ll Be Blogging the 2022 SCBWI Winter Conference and Hosting their LGBTQIA2+ Social
So we're still online, but this week is the 2022 SCBWI Winter Conference. I really love the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), and their conferences are always a great and exciting mix of inspiration, craft, business, opportunity, and...
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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
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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!
