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September 13, 2011

Announcements: Teenquake, #YesGayYA, and Diversify Your Reading

Teenquake! If you’re a teen writer in the San Francisco Bay Area, I’m going to be judging a writing contest on Figment.com for Teenquake, the teen portion of Litquake, which is a giant literary festival coming up in October. I’ll be judging the fantasy portion, but you can also write realistic fiction, poetry, or mystery. ... More→

August 19, 2011

2011 Reading Resolutions: “Annie on My Mind”

Nancy Garden’s classic lesbian coming-of-age novel, Annie on My Mind, is one of the four books I resolved to read this year. Annie was first published in 1982, and is about two 17-year-old girls in New York, Liza and Annie, who fall in love with each other. NOTE: There will be SPOILERS in this post! ... More→

June 20, 2011

2011 Reading Resolutions: “The Price of Salt”

One of the four novels I resolved to read this year is Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt. I read it while traveling for the Diversity Tour, and I’ve been meaning to blog about it ever since I finished. Overall, I really enjoyed it. It surprised me constantly, for many reasons. First and foremost, I ... More→

April 25, 2011

Taking the homophobia out of fantasy

This post was originally published at GayYA.org. In my two young adult fantasy novels, Ash and Huntress, the main characters are girls who fall in love with other girls. I admit there’s something different about the love stories told in my books, but it’s not that they’re gay love stories. The difference is: in the ... More→

April 13, 2011

How hard is it to sell an LGBT YA novel?

I have been doing a lot of interviews lately since Huntress was just published, and I almost always get a question along these lines: Did you have any problem getting your gay YA novel published? Have you experienced any homophobic backlash to your books? I always find these questions a little jarring, because from where ... More→

March 16, 2011

On cross-dressing and queerness

Earlier this month, the March newsletter from the Sirens Conference arrived in my in box1, and to my pleasant surprise, it included a review of Ash! And what a lovely, smart (and extremely flattering) review it was, too! You can go here to read it if you’d like. One part that jumped out at me ... More→

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