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Book Review: None Of The Above by I.W. Gregorio

By |2020-03-28T13:41:48-05:00May 14th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Book Club, Book Review|Tags: |

by Alexandra von Klan from Inter/Act Youth   None of the Above is GayYA's book of the month. Grab a copy now and get ready to discuss later this month in our book club twit chat!     None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio (Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins, 2015)   Within the vast realm of young adult novels, I’m an amateur reader. I’ve yet to devour the Hunger Games trilogy and, up until a week ago, I had zero point of reference to John Green (although, after looking him up, I sobbed during the trailer for [...]

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When Books Save Lives… And When They Don’t

By |2020-03-28T13:41:48-05:00May 9th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: , , , |

(warning for discussion of suicide) by Alex Sanchez Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez (Simon & Schuster, 2001) When my first novel, Rainbow Boys, was about to be published my editor asked me, “Do you realize this book isgoing to save lives?” I wondered if he’d confused my book with someone else’s. But then the novel came out, and I began to receive emails from readers. Some said the protagonists had become their role models. Others said they’d read the book over and over when they felt lonely and afraid. And then came responses like this one: [...]

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The Love that Does Not Know Its Name

By |2020-03-28T13:42:00-05:00May 5th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: , |

by Elizabeth Wein Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein (Hyperion, 2013) Occasionally, in the heat of a conversation and unable to quickly recall this week’s in-favor politically-correct acronym, I find myself saying, “So, I heard about this new LGBT-QRST book…” Then I think, OMG, that’s not right! What did I forget? Someone is going to be so offended! My problem with labelling is that I don’t like boxes. I don’t like age-banding of books, and I don’t like genre categorization – I don’t like being branded. I write historical/fantasy/adventure/spy/Arthurian/mystery/war novels. The hero of four of my [...]

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