Malinda Lo

Last night it was announced that this year’s winner of the Lambda Literary Award in the LGBT Nonfiction category was Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas by Dale Carpenter (W.W. Norton). I don’t normally recommend nonfiction books here (though I don’t know why, since I read a lot of them), but I’m making ... More→

My friend C.J. Omololu’s new book Intuition is coming out June 18th, and I have an advance copy of it to give away to one lucky reader! What’s it about, you say? Well, Intuition is the sequel to her awesome novel Transcendence, which is about past lives and is set in my favorite city in ... More→

This morning I woke up to the news that Amazon was about to launch “Kindle Worlds,” a New Publishing Model for Authors Inspired to Write Fan Fiction. My initial reaction: WTF?! I read the press release, and then I read the Kindle Worlds for Authors guidelines and this is what I’ve concluded: This isn’t Amazon ... More→

In 2010, I guest posted at Justine Larbalestier’s site about Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior. In that post I began, “Recently there has been a lot of discussion about race and representation in young adult books. Justine’s blog has become one of the centers for that discussion, and because of that, when she asked ... More→

Recently I read Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey, which bills itself as a good old-fashioned space opera. I picked it up after a recommendation from Laini Taylor on Twitter; she described it as combining elements of mystery and horror as well as sci-fi, and that combination sounded irresistible to me. Seriously — I went ... More→

It’s been way too long since I gave away a free book on a Friday, so today I’m getting back into the giving spirit with First Day on Earth by Cecil Castellucci. Anybody who’s read my novel Adaptation should be very aware of my fascination with UFOs, and if you’re interested in UFOs or the possibility of ... More→