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Interview: Tessa Gratton and Serial Box’s Tremontaine, Season 3

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

Today, Serial Box kicks off Season 3 of Tremontaine, a wildly lush, queer, gorgeous fantasy told in a serialized format through their app. I'm a fan of the work and especially the writers who've come through the series like Malinda Lo and Tessa Gratton. So when Serial Box reached out to us about doing something for the launch of season 3, we absolutely jumped at the chance! We're thrilled to have Tessa Gratton here with us today to talk about writing for Serial Box and writing queer characters, especially! How did you get involved in Serial Box? [...]

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Interview with the Writers of Serial Box’s GEEK ACTUALLY

By |2020-03-28T13:40:14-05:00June 7th, 2017|Categories: Archive|

I've loved serial fiction for a long time; particularly fanfiction—and now podcasts. There's something so thrilling and maddening about being hooked on a series and having to wait for the next installment to come out. So when The Gay YA was approached about covering Serial Box's new series Geek Actually, a diverse, geeky Sex and the City, we jumped at the chance. Serial Box is doing wonderfully innovative new things with serial fiction, and we absolutely can't wait to see where they take this series. We sat down with two of the writers, Cecelia Tan and Rachel Stuhler, to [...]

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Interview with Ashley Herring Blake

By |2020-03-28T13:40:14-05:00April 28th, 2017|Categories: Archive|

When I read Ashley Herring Blake's How To Make A Wish last year, I knew it would become one of my favorite contemporaries of 2017. It's almost Sarah Dessen-ish in feel, with an openly bisexual protagonist named Grace you just can't help but root for. Throw in messy, complicated family dynamics and a gorgeous setting and you've got an absolutely wonderful book. I'm so thrilled we got to ask Ashley about How to Make a Wish, and I know you'll enjoy her answers about this wonderful book. Be sure to get it when it comes out Tuesday! What inspired you to [...]

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Cover Reveal: THE OLIVE CONSPIRACY by Shira Glassman

By |2020-03-28T13:41:09-05:00January 11th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Cover Reveal, Fun Things|Tags: , , , |

We're fans of Shira Glassman's books here at The Gay YA, and even bigger fans of the work she does promoting diverse LGBTQIA+ lit and her passion for representation. Today, we're revealing the cover for The Olive Conspiracy, the fourth book in the Mangoverse series! Here's some info from Shira about the book: The Olive Conspiracy is due out on July 20, 2016 from Prizm Books. It's part of the Mangoverse series but you don't have to read any of the other books first because I try my best to write my books as standalone adventures about the same family-of-choice. It's [...]

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BLEEDING EARTH Exclusive Trailer Reveal + Giveaway!

By |2020-03-28T13:41:14-05:00October 21st, 2015|Categories: Archive, Fun Things|Tags: , |

Hey everyone! We're so supremely super excited today at The Gay YA because we get to exclusively reveal the trailer for Kaitlin Ward's upcoming queer girl sci-fi, BLEEDING EARTH! We're also sharing an exclusive excerpt with you AND a chance to win signed ARCs of the book! So let's get started!!! Lea was in a cemetery when the earth started bleeding. Within twenty-four hours, the blood made international news. All over the world, blood appeared out of the ground, even through concrete, even in water. Then the earth started growing hair and bones. Lea wants to ignore the blood. She wants to [...]

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Labels are for Soup Cans (and also for me)

By |2020-03-28T13:41:47-05:00May 17th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: , |

by Nita Tyndall I was twelve the first time I realized I was queer. Back then, I identified as bisexual. Although I didn’t think I was a lesbian (even though I’d never felt attracted to boys), I wanted to keep my options open. And when I was twelve, those were the only two words I knew—lesbian and bisexual, though neither of them felt right. Gay didn’t, either, because I’d always associated that word with gay men, and I wasn’t one of those. So from twelve to thirteen, I was bisexual. When I was in high school and started [...]

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Announcing the GayYA Blogathon!!

By |2020-03-28T13:42:01-05:00May 1st, 2015|Categories: Archive, Updates and Announcements|

GayYA has many goals, but everything we do essentially comes down to one purpose: get more LGBTQIA+ YA published. We are more committed to this than ever! This May, we're thrilled to bring you a month long blogathon. Every day, you'll hear from different authors, librarians, educators, and bloggers. We hope to use this opportunity to spread the love far and wide for LGBTQIA+ YA, and show anyone that might have any doubt that there is huge audience for LGBTQIA+ YA. (If we can accomplish these things, more LGBTQIA+ YA will be published!) We so look forward to [...]

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