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Interview With Francesca Lia Block

By |2016-05-24T14:52:10-05:00September 6th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Book Club|

Francesca Lia Block is the author of our August Book of the Month, Love in the Time of Global Warming! Hope you enjoy. :) [Transcript to come.] This is our first recorded interview-- if you have comments or suggestions for us, tweet us @thegayya, or shoot me an email at victoria@gayya.org. (Our comments are STILL not working. Le sigh.) Our September Book of the Month is The Summer Prince, by Alaya Dawn Johnson. Stay tuned for our interview with Alaya! If you have something you'd like us to ask her, hit us up on Twitter!  

Review: Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block

By |2020-03-28T13:42:41-05:00August 6th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Book Club, Book Review|Tags: |

First things first, this a beautiful book. You don't even need to read it to realise that it's beautiful: you can tell by the way the dust jacket is all textured and pretty, with the letters jutting out and being bumpy underneath your fingers. It is a gradient turquoise sky, a stormy sea, and a splash of orange that's like the splash of hope this book will provide for the queer teenagers who read it or have read it. Our August 2014 Book of the Month! It's a reimagining of Homer's Odyssey, which is incredible in [...]

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Announcing GayYA’s August 2014 Book of the Month, and Other Updates!

By |2020-03-28T13:42:41-05:00July 21st, 2014|Categories: Archive, Book Club, Updates and Announcements|

Announcing our August 2014 BotM: Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block! Our August 2014 Book of the Month! Her life by the sea in ruins, Pen has lost everything in the Earth Shaker that all but destroyed the city of Los Angeles. She sets out into the wasteland to search for her family, her journey guided by a tattered copy of Homer’s Odyssey. Soon she begins to realize her own abilities and strength as she faces false promises of safety, the cloned giants who feast on humans, and a madman who [...]

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Wait! This novel has GAY people in it!

By |2020-03-28T13:42:42-05:00July 14th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Book Club|Tags: , |

Molly Beth Griffin I didn’t start writing my first novel assuming that it would actually be read by anyone but me and my graduate school advisor, and maybe the memory of my teenage self. It was an experiment in longer-form fiction taken on by a self-defined picture book writer. But the project took flight, and after years of hard work, *Silhouette of a Sparrow *hit shelves in hardcover in 2012 and then again in paperback in 2013. Which was terrifying. Aside from the usual trepidation of a debut novelist, I had some added fears. Why? Because although the [...]

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REVIEW: Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin

By |2020-03-28T13:42:42-05:00July 4th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Book Club, Book Review, Teen Voices|

SILHOUETTE OF A SPARROW is GayYA’s July Book of the Month. We are giving away a signed copy in our monthly raffle, which you can enter HERE! Upon opening Silhouette of a Sparrow, I took its first-person narrative as a tragic misstep, which is the case in many YA novels I have read (or, attempted to read).  I was pleasantly mistaken, and by chapter 2, I was hooked. Silhouette of a Sparrow is narrated by 16-year-old Garnet Richardson, a bird-lover with a curious mind and an honest voice, who is sent to stay with relatives, the Harringtons, over the summer while [...]

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Interview With Kirstin Cronn-Mills, Author of BEAUTIFUL MUSIC FOR UGLY CHILDREN

By |2020-03-28T13:42:42-05:00June 23rd, 2014|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Book Club|

Hey everyone! Today we have Kirstin Cronn-Mills, author of BEAUTIFUL MUSIC FOR UGLY CHILDREN (our June 2014 Book of the Month) talking about music, research, her book, and of course ice cream. Tune in! Victoria: Beautiful Music for Ugly Children is about a guy named Gabe, who is navigating his way through life, romance, family and friendship, the same as any other teen. The only difference is that he was born in a girl's body, as Elizabeth. BMUC tells the story of him coming into himself and leaving Elizabeth behind. How did this story come to you? Kirstin: This story was [...]

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Interview with Tess Sharpe

By |2020-03-28T13:42:44-05:00May 15th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Book Club|Tags: |

  Tess Sharpe is the author of Gay YA's May Book of the Month Far From You-- which has quickly found a place on my Favorites shelf. This book features a bisexual and disabled protagonist, and I found it to be incredibly moving and well-written. Join our discussion of it over on the forums and read our full review! Tess Sharpe is here today, discussing her writerly journey and her thoughts on Gay YA. This is my first interview, so I hope you all enjoy it! -Victoria Victoria: While on the path to getting published did you ever run into any [...]

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