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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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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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Teens Talk About LGBTQIAP+ YA: Part 1

By |2020-08-19T22:34:34-05:00August 21st, 2020|Categories: Archive, Readers on Reading, Teen Voices|Tags: , , , , , |

Earlier this year, we asked teens to tell us about the LGBTQIAP+ YA books that have touched their lives. This is our first round-up of those stories! We are so excited to be able to share these. Books can touch lives in unseen ways, something that is especially the case for LGBTQIAP+ YA books. We wanted to make some of those unseen experiences visible. This series of post is a reminder of why LGBTQIAP+ YA is so important, why it is so necessary for all of us to keep writing and advocating for these books. "Of Fire [...]

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Writing Your Way Out Of The Closet

By |2020-08-13T21:19:35-05:00August 19th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: , , , , |

by Abdi Nazemian Many years ago, after my first book – an adult gay novel called The Walk-In Closet was published – a wonderful and open-minded Iranian therapist hosted a book club at her home. The attendees were largely Iranians of my parents’ generation. They all dressed for the event like it was an awards show. It was very formal. And I was very afraid. Because up until then, I had largely been hiding my queerness from my cultural community. Or maybe the right way to put it is that they had been choosing not to see [...]

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Interview: Tillie Walden, author of SPINNING

By |2020-03-28T13:40:09-05:00November 11th, 2017|Categories: Author Interview|Tags: , , , , |

Jen Wang, author of the upcoming graphic novel The Prince and the Dressmaker, interviews Tilly Walden, author of Spinning, an autobiographical graphic novel about growing up and coming out. Tillie Walden First of all Tillie, I wanted to say Spinning is so fantastic. Reading it felt so intimate, I kept flashing back to my own teenage memories. So much about being a teenager is about learning what you do or don’t have control over. You started skating before you were old enough to know what you wanted and later as a teenager you took up art. In both [...]

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‘Room at the Table’: Pulse, Vincent Rutherford, and the Work We Have Left to Do

By |2020-03-28T13:40:10-05:00July 1st, 2017|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs|Tags: , , , , |

Pride Month Blogathon: Day 14 – Introduction to Pride Month Blogathon by Weezie Wood I woke up the morning of June 12, 2016, to a text from my cousin asking me if I had seen the news. I was already running late for brunch with my dad and I typed out a quick “No, what’s up?” before heading out the door. I should have heard the news in the car. By that point in the day, there wasn’t a news or radio station that wasn’t blasting what had happened around 2 am that morning in Orlando, but I wouldn’t learn [...]

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So Now What? The Post-Coming Out Story in LGBTQ YA Fiction

By |2020-03-28T13:40:30-05:00November 11th, 2016|Categories: Author Guest Blog|Tags: , , |

by Emily O’Beirne Does every single LGBTQ young adult book have to be a coming out story? This is a sighed-out question we hear a lot these days. And while I do think that we need to pause and take some small pleasure in the fact that we’ve reached a cultural point where we can complain about the ubiquity of any kind of LGBTQ story, there’s definitely a glut of coming out narratives dominating this corner of the world. But let’s not kid ourselves, either. We’d be misguided to think that coming out stories are not still a vital [...]

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Interview: E.M. Kokie, author of RADICAL

By |2020-03-28T13:40:31-05:00October 2nd, 2016|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, New Releases|Tags: , , , |

While I was at ALA, I (Vee) had the chance to meet and interview the fantastic E.M. Kokie. E.M. Kokie is the author of Radical, Personal Effects, and has stories in the Violent Ends  anthology as well as the Things I'll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves anthology. I had a fabulous time interviewing her-- we chatted for about a half hour, and talked about diversity within LGBTQIA+ YA, survivalist groups, how the experience of being queer is different depending on class & location, and writing books that ask more questions than they answer. I felt like we [...]

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Interview: Vee sits down with David Levithan & Nina Lacour

By |2020-03-28T13:40:35-05:00June 29th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Blogathon 2016, Book Club, Fun Things, New Releases, Teen Voices|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

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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Interview: Caleb Roehrig author of Last Seen Leaving

By |2020-03-28T13:40:36-05:00June 27th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Blogathon 2016, New Releases|Tags: , , , , , , , |

One of the amazing authors I got to interview at BEA was Caleb Roehrig! Caleb and I were both slightly food-deprived and wholly overwhelmed by the massiveness that was BEA, so some of our questions and answers were a little off the wall (frex: after the interview, I learned some fun facts about the population living around Lake Superior). But we also discussed new narratives in LGBTQIA+ YA, how his debut book Last Seen Leaving fits into the mix, and our favorite LGBTQIA+ YA books. So I'm SUPER psyched to be able to share this interview! (Also apparently I cannot [...]

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