Queer Bookish Joy
by L.C. Rosen Queer Bookish Joy. That’s quite a thing to ask for these days. The whole point of these posts is to lift people up and make them cheerful so I don’t want to get into how I’ve been, but I will say this – most moments of queer joy, in my opinion, [...]
Finding My Way to Queer Fairytales and a Book Deal
by Leslie Vedder I’ve always wanted to be a writer. This has taken a lot of different forms for me over the years. Illustrator/author of stapled together grade-school masterpieces. Closet fanfiction writer. (Only in the sense that I wrote from the closet; my fanfiction was always slash!) Then I got into original work, learning to [...]
A “Real” Author: How Meeting Adam Silvera, Bill Konigsberg, and Angie Thomas Helped Me Find My Voice
by Zack Smedley To me, one of the central themes of Pride month is the idea that we all lift each other up…empowering each others’ voices so we can all accept ourselves for who we are. That said, I wanted to share stories of a few authors who have lifted me up—and, in doing [...]
How (Not) to Meet Your Heroes
by Jasper Sanchez I’m not the kind of guy you want to bring as a plus one to a book signing. Trust me on this. I spent the entire time I was in waiting to see Alison Bechdel working up the courage to say something eloquent about how her portrayal of butch identity in Fun [...]
Kick, Push, Coast, Indeed
by Cam Montgomery I like to joke about the ways in which the stories I write, or other author faves write, are written for me. Literally, about me. This past year I was given the opportunity to really put that to the test. Anthology Queen, Saundra Mitchell, approached me about writing a contemporary story [...]
The Joy of Knowing Yourself
by Maggie Tokuda-Hall I wrote The Mermaid, The Witch, and The Sea for one kid in particular. Her name is Clare. I met her when she was nine, and I worked in a bookstore. For the first two years I knew her, her parents would bring her into the bookstore where I worked, and would do most of [...]