Malinda Lo

Today, in part 4 of my series on avoiding LGBTQ stereotypes in YA fiction, I’m blogging about secondary characters and gay jokes. Here are the other posts in this series: Part 1: Major LGBTQ stereotypes Part 2: Gender Part 3: Words to watch out for Part 4: Secondary characters and gay jokes Part 5: Resources ... More→

After yesterday’s think-heavy post about gender, today I’m going practical with a post about words to watch out for when writing about LGBTQ characters. Here are the other posts in this series: Part 1: Major LGBTQ stereotypes Part 2: Gender Part 3: Words to watch out for Part 4: Secondary characters and gay jokes Part ... More→

Yesterday, in part 1 of this series, I blogged about major LGBTQ stereotypes. Today I’m blogging about gender. Once again, here’s the complete schedule of posts: Part 1: Major LGBTQ stereotypes Part 2: Gender Part 3: Words to watch out for Part 4: Secondary characters and gay jokes Part 5: Resources If you haven’t read ... More→

A few months ago, I gave a talk at a local SCBWI chapter about LGBTQ1 stereotypes and how to avoid them when writing YA fiction. I’ve been meaning to post that talk here on my website for some time, but deadlines and travel got the best of me. Now it’s June, which is also Pride ... More→

One of the most incredible places I visited in Ireland was the Dingle peninsula, which juts out of the west of Ireland in County Kerry. The first hint that this was going to be a spectacular place was the road on the way there: The Dingle peninsula is a pretty popular place for tourists, but ... More→

My blog has been sadly quiet lately, but the one thing about traveling (and deadlines) is that it makes it hard to blog. I’m at home for a few weeks now and have some fun (hopefully) things planned for this blog, so stay tuned! Meanwhile here are a few awesome things I wanted to share ... More→