Introduction to Bisexual Awareness Week Series
Welcome to GayYA's Bisexual Awareness Week Series! Bisexual Awareness Week is a yearly event that “exists to help draw attention to the public policy concerns of bisexual people while also celebrating the great resiliency of [...]
Pat Schmatz Blog Tour: Book Birthday
We're thrilled to be hosting the last post of Pat Schmatz's book release blog tour. Pat's new book, Lizard Radio, is out in stores today! You should make sure and pick up a copy-- not [...]
Author Interview: Elliott DeLine
We're thrilled to be talking today with Elliott DeLine, author of the YA/NA books Refuse and I Know Very Well How I Got My Name, and the autobiographical nonfiction book Show Trans! We got to [...]
Cover Reveal + Interview: Pride: Celebrating Diversity and Community by Robin Stevenson
Pride: Celebrating Diversity and Community by Robin Stevenson is delving into an awesome new area—it's a Middle Grade nonfiction book about the history of Pride and Stonewall! It'll be coming out April 2016. Today, we're [...]
On Love in a Dystopian Time: A Call to ([White] Queer) YA Authors About #BlackLivesMatter
by Jennifer Polish As authors (us too, fan fic writers!), aspiring authors, and readers of YA literature, many of us are often thinking about the meanings of love in dystopian societies. Katniss’s protectiveness of Rue, [...]
Cover Reveal + Interview: Dagger by Steven dos Santos
We are big fans of Steven dos Santos's first series The Torch Keeper. Today, we are THRILLED to reveal the fantastic cover of his next book, Dagger. Dagger was turned down by an agent back [...]
Review: Street Dreams by Tama Wise
by Nathaniel Harrington Street Dreams (Bold Strokes Press 2012) From Goodreads: Tyson Rua has more than his fair share of problems growing up in South Auckland. Working a night job to support his [...]
Dumbledore Gets Married in Ireland. Sort Of.
by Jennifer Polish So Dumbledore and Gandalf got married. At the suggestion of J.K. Rowling. And all the fandoms rode off into the proverbial sunset. But that’s not the entire story. In the same episode [...]
Cover Reveal + Interview: Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
We are HUGE fans of Robin Talley's debut novel Lies We Tell Ourselves. Today, we are THRILLED to reveal the gorgeous new cover that this fantastic book will soon be getting! We also got to talk [...]
My Big Gay Sequel
by Casey Lawrence This past May my first book, Out of Order, was published through Dreamspinner Press’s YA branch Harmony Ink. My first foray into queer YA has been, on the one hand, a whirlwind [...]