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There’s Magic Out There For All of Us

By |2020-09-08T18:18:16-05:00September 9th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: , , , |

by Emery Lee I’ve been fortunate enough to have a lot of moments of queer bookish joy since first joining the book community in 2015. Queer books have become such a prevalent part of the YA community, and they’ve been given a lot more spotlight, opening up more opportunities for queer authors and readers alike.  Of course, when I think about an instance of queer joy tied to some of my favorite books, one that always comes to mind is a story about the book What if It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera. In [...]

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Our well deserved happy endings / Nossos tão merecidos finais felizes

By |2020-09-07T15:03:12-05:00September 8th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: , , , , |

by Vitor Martins  In 2016 I was unemployed, binge watching Grey's Anatomy and living through a really dark phase of my life. Then I decided to write a book to make me forget about everything else. A book with a very self conscious gay kid who, just like me, needed to know that he was loved. That's when Here the Whole Time started to exist. The book was published in Brazil the following year and is hitting the US bookstores on November 10th this year. I may sound chill when I talk [...]

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Queer Bookish Joy

By |2020-09-05T13:32:04-05:00September 7th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: , , |

by L.C. Rosen Queer Bookish Joy.  That’s quite a thing to ask for these days.  The whole point of these posts is to lift people up and make them cheerful so I don’t want to get into how I’ve been, but I will say this – most moments of queer joy, in my opinion, come about because of queer rage.  Our power comes from anger. My story of queer bookish joy came about because of some rage.   The rage I felt was about how I felt queer boys were being portrayed in [...]

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Finding My Way to Queer Fairytales and a Book Deal

By |2020-09-03T21:56:36-05:00September 6th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: , |

by Leslie Vedder I’ve always wanted to be a writer.  This has taken a lot of different forms for me over the years.  Illustrator/author of stapled together grade-school masterpieces. Closet fanfiction writer. (Only in the sense that I wrote from the closet; my fanfiction was always slash!) Then I got into original work, learning to put the worlds and characters I’d imagined in my head down on paper.  My first attempts were mostly epic fantasy stories that hit all the familiar beats I’d read so many times—you know, nine guys go on a [...]

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A “Real” Author: How Meeting Adam Silvera, Bill Konigsberg, and Angie Thomas Helped Me Find My Voice

By |2020-09-04T21:13:22-05:00September 5th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: , , |

by Zack Smedley To me, one of the central themes of Pride month is the idea that we all lift each other up…empowering each others’ voices so we can all accept ourselves for who we are. That said, I wanted to share stories of a few authors who have lifted me up—and, in doing so, helped me find my voice throughout my road to publication. Adam Silvera The month is September 2017. I’m standing in a library in Washington D.C., with about thirty other young adults my age. Sitting up front, signing [...]

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How (Not) to Meet Your Heroes

By |2020-09-03T20:35:26-05:00September 5th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: , , , , |

by Jasper Sanchez I’m not the kind of guy you want to bring as a plus one to a book signing. Trust me on this. I spent the entire time I was in waiting to see Alison Bechdel working up the courage to say something eloquent about how her portrayal of butch identity in Fun Home meant so much to me as a baby queer trying to puzzle out the intricacies of my own sexuality and gender identities only to get to the front of the line, freeze, and stutter, simply, “Thanks.” Or, [...]

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Kick, Push, Coast, Indeed

By |2020-09-02T20:52:30-05:00September 4th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: , |

by Cam Montgomery I like to joke about the ways in which the stories I write, or other author faves write, are written for me. Literally, about me. This past year I was given the opportunity to really put that to the test. Anthology Queen, Saundra Mitchell, approached me about writing a contemporary story for her next antho, OUT NOW: QUEER WE GO AGAIN. It’s a collection of contemporary queer stories written by queer authors. Needless to say, I was mad stoked to be asked. We’re talking, full-body sweats, jumping-around, text-your-best-friend stoked. [...]

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The Joy of Knowing Yourself

By |2020-08-22T16:03:56-05:00August 28th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: , , , , |

by Maggie Tokuda-Hall I wrote The Mermaid, The Witch, and The Sea for one kid in particular. Her name is Clare. I met her when she was nine, and I worked in a bookstore. For the first two years I knew her, her parents would bring her into the bookstore where I worked, and would do most of the talking for her. She has a mess of unruly, bright red hair (she is AWARE she looks like the girl from Brave) and was also painfully shy.  But then one day a flip I hadn’t touched switched. [...]

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Lupe

By |2020-08-26T22:12:32-05:00August 27th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: , , |

by Aida Salazar I grew up watching impromptu drag shows in my living room. Many of my (very Mexican and straight) mother’s friends were men. They happened to be gay. Her best friend, Lupe, was like family. He and Mami knew each other from back in the pueblo when they were little and played dolls together. They both managed to find each other as immigrants in Southeast Los Angeles where they picked up right where they left off. Perhaps they were so close because Lupe’s strict Catholic family had disowned him and had even sent him to prison [...]

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Fan Fiction: By Us, For Us

By |2020-08-24T18:41:25-05:00August 26th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: , , |

by Kayla Ancrum As the days blur together and book shipping times get longer, people are beginning to reinvest their time in fan fiction. The art form is hardly without prejudice. Even mentioning it here might elicit some wincing or an eye roll or two. Most of the serious fiction writers I’ve met view it with disdain: a 7/11 lunch of doritos, arizona tea and beef jerky to their white wine and salmon with a salad on the side. Several authors I know personally, who honed their [...]

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