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Author Interview: Saruuh Kelsey

By Nadia|2020-03-28T13:41:38-05:00June 6th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Interview|Tags: Fantasy, LGBTQIA, PoC|

As part of the Queer Ya Scrabble event we got to interview author Saruuh Kelsey! Find letter hidden in this post (it will be in green), and you'll be one step closer to solving our anagram and having a chance to win a FABULOUS box of books. :) Saruuh Kelsey Saruuh Kelsey is the author of several novels for young adults, including the free Lux Guardians series and The Legend Mirror series. Her latest releases include THE BEAST OF CALLAIRE, the first novel of a new YA fantasy series, and a collection of diverse fairy tales in [...]

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Author Interview: Everett Maroon

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:02-05:00March 30th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Interview|Tags: Trans|

Today we bring you an interview with Everett Maroon, author of The Unintentional Time Traveler and Bumbling into Body Hair. In 2011 he was a regular contributor for GayYA-- we're so pleased to have him back for this interview on his books, trans YA, and himself. Hope you enjoy! The Unintentional Time Traveler by Everett Maroon (2014, Booktrope Editions) Fifteen-year-old Jack Inman has mad skills with cars and engines, but knows he'll never get a driver's license because of his epilepsy. Agreeing to participate in an experimental clinical trial to find new treatments for his disease, he finds himself in [...]

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Exclusive Cover Reveal + Interview: Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:06-05:00March 9th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Cover Reveal|Tags: Trans|

We're so happy to be revealing the cover of Pat Schmatz's newest novel, Lizard Radio! Lizard Radio will be released September 2015. I could go on for quite awhile about how excited I am for this book, but I think you'll experience the excitement yourself, as you learn more about this book, without any prompting. First, here is the newly released blurb! FEAST YOUR EYES. Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz: Fifteen-year-old bender Kivali has had a rough time in a gender-rigid culture. Abandoned as a baby and raised by Sheila, an ardent nonconformist, Kivali has always been surrounded by uncertainty. Where [...]

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Author Interview: Steven Dos Santos

By Nadia|2020-03-28T13:42:07-05:00February 19th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Interview|Tags: Dystopia, LGBTQIA, Queer Guys|

The Culling (Flux, 2013) Vee: Hello there Steven! Thank you so much for taking the time to talk with us. It's a pleasure to have you on the blog. To start off, can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Steven: Thanks for having me, Vee! I was born in the Big Apple to Portuguese & Dominican parents, but grew up in sunny South Florida, which I still currently call home (when I’m not calling it some not-so-nice words in the height of our steamy summers). I have a Journalism/Communications degree and also studied Motion Picture [...]

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Author Interview: Danny M. Cohen

By Nadia|2020-03-28T13:42:08-05:00January 27th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Interview|Tags: gay, Historical, New Releases, Queer Guys, Realistic|

Today we are talking with author Danny M. Cohen about his debut novel, TRAIN, which comes out today! Happy release day Danny! Train by Danny M. Cohen (Unsilence Project , 2015) About the book: TRAIN is a YA historical thriller with a particular focus on the Nazis’ persecution of homosexuals. This novel is self-published in partnership with Unsilence Project. “This thriller gives voice to the unheard victims of Nazism — the Roma, the disabled, homosexuals, intermarried Jews, and political enemies of the regime.” (via Danny Cohen's website) Over ten days in 1943 Berlin, six teenagers witness [...]

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Author Interview: Mystic Thompson

By Nadia|2020-03-28T13:42:20-05:00December 21st, 2014|Categories: Archive, Author Interview|Tags: Queer Girls, Realistic|

Author Shannon LC Cate was nice enough to share with us an interview she had with Mystic Thompson, about her novel "Fighting Kudzu". Let's read what Mystic had to say about it! Fighting Kudzu (Strategic Book Publishing, 2009) FIGHTING KUDZU by MYSTIC THOMPSON. In 1972 on a hot, late spring day in Georgia, five-year-old Noble Thorvald plays contentedly, alone in her suburban backyard. Her only companions...an imaginary professional football team. As she plays in her world of wonder and adventure, Noble is unaware of the challenges life will hurl in her direction-challenges that will redefine [...]

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The Question of Queering the Mainstream Novel: A Conversation with authors Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith

By Nadia|2020-03-28T13:42:21-05:00December 5th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Author Interview|Tags: Fantasy, gay, publishing, Queer Girls, Queer Guys, Representation, Speculative|

The story behind the story is sometimes, as they say, stranger than fiction. Stranger is the title of a Viking November release by Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith and, if you read this book, as I did (when Rachel asked me, in my paranormal YA novelist persona Tate Hallaway, to blurb it,) you might not think much more beyond how awesome and captivating a story of superpowers and survival in a post-apocalyptic future it is. Stranger (Viking Juveline, 2014) This book, however, almost didn’t get published. Sure, okay, you’re thinking, lots of great books don’t get published, what’s [...]

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Author Interview: Becky Albertalli

By Nadia|2020-03-28T13:42:23-05:00November 24th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Author Interview|Tags: gay, Realistic|

Maybe you have heard about this upcoming book called Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, which releases next year (April 7th), or maybe you haven't, either way I'm here to tell you about it and about how excited I am for it! First things first (I'm the realest...I had to, I'm sorry), what is it about ? According to Goodreads: Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon [...]

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Author Interview: Ami Polonsky

By Nadia|2020-03-28T13:42:24-05:00November 17th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Author Interview|Tags: Middle Grade, Realistic, Trans|

Gracefully Grayson, which we reviewed earlier this month, is a middle-grade book about a transgender girl and it's Ami Polonsky's debut novel. We had the pleasure of interviewing Ami about her amazing book and her writing process. Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky (Hyperion 2014) Q: Gracefully Grayson was just released on November 4th! What is it like to have your book out in the world? A: Thanks so much for interviewing me! It’s really exciting that GRACEFULLY GRAYSON is out in the world. I waited twenty-five months for pub day! On one hand, I love that people all over can read [...]

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Cover Reveal Exclusive: The Tear Collectors by Billy Jolie

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:24-05:00November 16th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Cover Reveal|Tags: gay, Realistic|

We have the great happiness of hosting our first ever exclusive cover reveal for The Tear Collectors by Billy Jolie. The Tear Collectors is a self published YA novel featuring a gay teen! THE TEAR COLLECTORS is the story of three teenage misfits whose lives entangle over the course of one summer; where secrets revealed give way to an explosive finale of love, angst, and casualty. Changes that accompany divorce can be hard. For Farrah, she’s forced to spend the summer at Crystal Lake with her alcoholic mother, but this is just the beginning of her problems. As her new [...]

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