New Releases: May 2015.
May 1st (USA) Flesh and Bone (Luminis Books, 2015) Flesh and Bone by William Alton — (G,Q) Goodreads Summary: "A literary novel for young adults that deals with a despairing teen uncertain about [...]
Review: Hold Still by Nina LaCour
reviewed by Marie Hagen of MarietheLibrarian Hold Still by Nina Lacour Hold Still | Nina LaCour | 231 pages | Paperback | With illustrations Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Realistic fiction Themes: Death, friendship, [...]
LGBTQ YA by the Numbers: Gender and Genre
After seeing an ask about speculative fiction with LGBTQ+ protagonists on the Gay YA tumblr a few weeks ago, I got curious, so I did what I often do in circumstances like these: I went [...]
Friendships Are Hard.
by John Hansen By most standards, I've won the queer lottery. I live in one of the first U.S. states to have legalized gay marriage; I have parents who went through only a minimal learning [...]
Writing Across Barriers
by Bill Konigsberg With my new novel The Porcupine of Truth, I tried to be brave. I decided to do the one thing that writers talk about as being among the most challenging things an [...]
Reasons Writers Exclude Queer Characters: Debunked!
by Libertad Araceli Thomas As an aspiring writer, over the past year I’ve heard and read perhaps a dozen reasons why some writers are reluctant to incorporate queer narratives in their work in progresses. I mean, [...]
Searching the Aisles for Girls Kissing Girls
by emily m. danforth It’s nearly summer, and for me that always means more time to read and write: long mornings spent at my desk followed by endless hammock-afternoons spent with a stack of novels [...]
Let’s Take Queer YA Out of the Closet
by Vee S. Authors, editors, and readers are important to the Queer YA community, but there’s another group that matters too: reviewers. We are lucky that there are so many fantastic reviewers reading, loving, and [...]
Never Sellout Your Heart
by Adam Silvera When my agent and I went on submission with More Happy Than Not, I expected editors to reject the book. I wasn’t wrong. I’m not some pessimist who believed publishers would pass [...]
Tumblr Teens: BookMad for Diversity
by Manda/BookMad “People talk about coming out as though it’s this big one-time event. But really, most people have to come out over and over to basically every new person they meet. I’m only eighteen [...]