Book Club – YA Pride

#PreOrderHurricaneChild Campaign

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:08-05:00March 17th, 2018|Categories: Book Club, New Releases|Tags: Black, Middle Grade, nonbinary, Queer Girls|

We are so excited to announce our first ever pre-order campaign, for HURRICANE CHILD by Kheryn Callender. There is very, very little LGBTQIAP+ representation in Middle Grade books. I can list maybe seven books of the top of my head, and could find a few more through research. If I tried to list Middle Grade books about queer kids of color, that list would trickle down to almost zero. YA Pride believes that LGBTQIAP+ representation in Middle Grade is just as important, if not more important, than it is in Young Adult. Sometimes Young Adult gets to readers [...]

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Book Review: INKMISTRESS by Audrey Coulthurst

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:08-05:00March 13th, 2018|Categories: Book Club, Book Review|Tags: Bisexual, Fantasy, New Releases, Queer Girls|

Asra is a demigod with a dangerous gift: the ability to dictate the future by writing with her blood. To keep her power secret, she leads a quiet life as a healer on a remote mountain, content to help the people in her care and spend time with Ina, the mortal girl she loves. But Asra’s peaceful life is upended when bandits threaten Ina’s village and the king does nothing to help. Desperate to protect her people, Ina begs Asra for assistance in finding her manifest—the animal she’ll be able to change into as her [...]

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Interview: Anna-Marie McLemore, author of When The Moon Was Ours

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:30-05:00October 3rd, 2016|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Book Club, New Releases, Writers on Writing|Tags: Latinx, Magical Realism, PoC, Speculative, Trans|

When I (Vee) was at BEA this Summer, I had the marvelous opportunity to meet and interview Anna-Marie McLemore. We had been chatting about trans & queer YA for a few months on Twitter, so it was LOVELY to be able to meet her in person. Her book When the Moon Was Ours (which is releasing tomorrow!!), is SO amazing ya'll. AND it's our #GayYABookClub read this month, so I have the perfect excuse to make you all read it immediately. :D When the Moon Was Ours follows two characters through a story that has multicultural elements and [...]

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Blog Tour & Giveaway: Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee

By Shelly|2020-03-28T13:40:34-05:00September 20th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Book Club, Fun Things, New Releases|Tags: Asian, Bisexual, Intersectionality|

Today we're very lucky to have C.B. Lee answering a few questions about Not Your Sidekick for the official blog tour! All of us at GayYA are SO EXCITED for this book! Hi C.B., thank you for agreeing to this interview. Tell us a little about yourself, your background, and your current book. Hello there! Thank you for having me here today. I'm C.B., a bisexual woman who grew up on the California coast. I'm a first generation Asian American and am very excited to introduce more characters whose backgrounds are like my own. My current novel is Not Your [...]

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GayYA Recommends Interview + Giveaway: Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:34-05:00August 29th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Book Club, New Releases|Tags: contemporary, lesbian, Realistic, Religion, Romance, Rural|

Our newest GayYA Recommends title is Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown. (That means it's our next #GayYABookClub read, too!) Georgia Peaches hits shelves tomorrow (8/30) but we still have an ARC & some awesome swag! So we're doing a flash giveaway. How to enter: Share one reason you're excited about Georgia Peaches via the #GayYABookClub hashtag. Multiple reasons mean multiple entries, so tweet as many times as you like! A winner will be randomly selected tonight (8/29) at 10pm CST. If you don't win a copy, buy yours at a local store tomorrow, or request [...]

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Interview: Vee sits down with David Levithan & Nina Lacour

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:35-05:00June 29th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Blogathon 2016, Book Club, Fun Things, New Releases, Teen Voices|Tags: Coming Out, gay, lesbian, Minor Queer Characters, New Releases, Poetry, Queer Girls, Queer Guys, Realistic, Representation|

I had the INCREDIBLE opportunity to be able to sit down with David Levithan & Nina Lacour when they came to Addendum Books on the You Know Me Well book tour. This was literally one of the best experiences of my life and I am so thankful to the authors for taking the time to do this and to everyone else who had a hand in making this possible. We got to talk about the new narratives You Know Me Well brings to the table of LGBTQIA+ YA, how the collaboration on YKMW began, and what its existence [...]

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GayYA Recommends: You Know Me Well by David Levithan & Nina Lacour

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:49-05:00June 5th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Blogathon 2016, Book Club, Book Review, New Releases, Readers on Reading, Teen Voices|Tags: gay, lesbian, Representation|

Who knows you well? Your best friend? Your boyfriend or girlfriend? A stranger you meet on a crazy night? No one, really? Mark and Kate have sat next to each other for an entire year, but have never spoken. For whatever reason, their paths outside of class have never crossed. That is until Kate spots Mark miles away from home, out in the city for a wild, unexpected night. Kate is lost, having just run away from a chance to finally meet the girl she has been in love with from afar. Mark, meanwhile, is in love with [...]

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May Book of the Month: If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:55-05:00May 7th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Book Club|Tags: New Releases, Trans|

A big-hearted novel about being seen for who you really are. Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret. She’s determined not to get too close to anyone. But when she meets sweet, easygoing Grant, Amanda can’t help but start to let him in. As they spend more time together, she realizes just how much she is losing by guarding her heart. She finds herself yearning to share with Grant everything about herself–including her past. But Amanda’s terrified [...]

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

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

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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February Book Club: The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun Hutchinson

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:07-05:00February 3rd, 2015|Categories: Archive, Book Club|

In February, we’ll be reading The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun Hutchinson! The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley (Simon Pulse, 2015) Andrew Brawley was supposed to die that night. His parents did, and so did his sister, but he survived. Now he lives in the hospital. He serves food in the cafeteria, he hangs out with the nurses, and he sleeps in a forgotten supply closet. Drew blends in to near invisibility, hiding from his past, his guilt, and those who are trying to find him. Then one night Rusty is wheeled into the [...]

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