This morning, the cover for my novel A Line in the Dark went live on the internet at one of my favorite websites, Autostraddle. I’ll post the direct link in a few paragraphs, but first I want to tell you a little behind-the-scenes detail about the cover. I am fortunate to be working with the super talented team at Dutton Books and Penguin Young Readers on A Line in the Dark, and they really came through with the cover design.
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Eight months! Which means things are getting real around here. There are a million things that have to happen before a book hits the bookstore shelves, involving everything from double- and triple-checking every word (shout out to copyeditors and proofreaders, who are invaluable), to designing the book cover (which is totally stunning and you will get to see very soon), to advance planning about book events and publicity and …
Read MoreI've put together a list of resources for writing with and about diversity.
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We have arrived at the end of another calendar year. Every year I look back on what I did and look forward to what comes next; these posts are tagged taking stock if you want to see where I’ve come from.
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Today is the publication day for Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst. Like M-E Girard’s Girl Mans Up, I have a special history with this novel, and I’m so thrilled to celebrate its launch today.
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Yesterday, for the first time in years, I went to church. I was motivated to go not only by a need to connect with people in my community in an offline space, but by the banner that was hanging outside the church.
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Today is the publication day for Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard, one of this fall’s bumper crop of YA books about LGBTQ teens — and this one’s special to me. Let me tell you why.
Read MoreThe first gay club I went to was a small, dark bar on the plains of Colorado, the summer after my first year in college. I went with my childhood best friend, because we’d both spent the last year discovering that our sexual orientations weren’t as straight as we’d thought. I don’t remember the name of the club. I do remember feeling like I was stepping into a new world, one that was both terrifying and exhilarating.
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