Malinda Lo

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→

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→

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→

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→

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→

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→