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A Letter From My Younger Self

By |2020-09-16T22:48:55-05:00September 17th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: , , , |

For today's blogathon post, we're so excited to share this video from Aaron H. Aceves, author of the forthcoming THIS IS WHY THEY HATE US. In this video, he talks about reading a letter from his younger self, and how his journey towards being published has been eighteen years in the making! -- Aaron H. Aceves is a Mexican-American writer born and raised in East L.A. He graduated in 2015 from Harvard, where he received the Le Baron Russell Briggs Award after being nominated by Jamaica Kincaid. His work has appeared in Germ Magazine, Raspa [...]

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A “Real” Author: How Meeting Adam Silvera, Bill Konigsberg, and Angie Thomas Helped Me Find My Voice

By |2020-09-04T21:13:22-05:00September 5th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: , , |

by Zack Smedley To me, one of the central themes of Pride month is the idea that we all lift each other up…empowering each others’ voices so we can all accept ourselves for who we are. That said, I wanted to share stories of a few authors who have lifted me up—and, in doing so, helped me find my voice throughout my road to publication. Adam Silvera The month is September 2017. I’m standing in a library in Washington D.C., with about thirty other young adults my age. Sitting up front, signing [...]

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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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Book Review: INKMISTRESS by Audrey Coulthurst

By |2020-03-28T13:40:08-05:00March 13th, 2018|Categories: Book Club, Book Review|Tags: , , , |

  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 [...]

You Are Not Alone: Finding Community as a Nonbinary Teen

By |2020-03-28T13:40:11-05:00June 28th, 2017|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs, Teen Voices|Tags: , , , , |

Pride Month Blogathon: Day 12 – Introduction to Pride Month Blogathon by Kav If I'm being honest with myself, I never thought of myself as “straight.” Growing up, I never labeled myself that way and instead thought along the lines of “I’ll love who I love, no matter their gender.” That's not to say that I never struggled to discover my gender and romantic and sexual orientations or that I never had a coming out experience - it's definitely been a rocky ride. But when it came down to it, I was always fortunate enough to have been sure [...]

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The Queer, Enchanted Girls

By |2020-03-28T13:40:11-05:00June 20th, 2017|Categories: Author Guest Blog, Guest Blogs, New Releases, Writers on Writing|Tags: , , , , , |

Pride Month Blogathon: Day 8 – Introduction to Pride Month Blogathon by Anna-Marie McLemore I love fairy tales. I love them so much that even when I don’t mean them to, they find their way into my stories. But my third book, Wild Beauty (October 3), may be the story I’ve written so far that looks, from the outside, most like a fairy tale. It’s a book of secrets, pretty dresses, and magical gardens. It’s the story of a generation of cousins who are both haunted by their family’s legacy and enchanted by their own fierce hearts. It’s also [...]

You Do Not Have to Be Good

By |2020-03-28T13:40:11-05:00June 9th, 2017|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Guest Blogs, New Releases, Writers on Writing|Tags: , |

Pride Month Blogathon: Day 3 – Introduction to Pride Month Blogathon by Rebecca Podos You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild [...]

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Bi YA Reads Bookmarks

By |2020-03-28T13:40:34-05:00September 28th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Fun Things, Teachers & Librarians|Tags: |

Introducing.....Bi YA Reads bookmarks! What: rad double-sided bookmarks with 15 of our fave Bi YA books. Who: anyone is free to use/print these out! Why: Our main goal for these was to develop a resource that librarians and booksellers can put in their teen section. Bookmarks and other hand outs are a great way to spread knowledge of inclusive books, sometimes even more so than displays. While displays are incredibly important, teens who aren't out may not feel comfortable browsing them. Bookmarks ensure that these teens can be informed & request these books privately, or find an ebook version. In [...]

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Interview: C.B. Lee & Rachel Davidson Leigh

By |2020-03-28T13:40:34-05:00September 23rd, 2016|Categories: Author Interview, New Releases, Writers on Writing|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Bisexual Awareness Week Series Day #3 – Previous Posts: Introduction -- Duality, YA, and Crumpled Stickers -- Let's Push For More Nuanced Bi+ Representation Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee & Hold by Rachel Davidson Leigh are both ALL THE WAY UP on our TBRs! Today, we're so excited to have BOTH of these authors on GayYA! Add Not Your Sidekick & Hold to your TBR Buy Not Your Sidekick & Pre-Order Hold CB: Hello! Thank you so much for having me on your blog, I'm very excited to be here. I'm C.B. and from [...]

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Let’s Push For More Nuanced Bi+ Representation

By |2020-03-28T13:40:34-05:00September 22nd, 2016|Categories: Guest Blogs, Readers on Reading, Writers on Writing|Tags: , , , |

Bisexual Awareness Week Series Day #2 – Previous Posts: Introduction -- Duality, YA, and Crumpled Stickers by Angélique Gravely I didn't start actively reading LGBTQ+ YA until I was almost a college graduate. By that time, I had more or less accepted my bisexual attractions and my desire to be a YA writer so I dove into LGBTQ+ YA in search of inspiration for the queer stories I now felt drawn to write and, in all honesty, in search of reflections of parts of myself and my story I hadn't been able to acknowledge as a teen. While [...]

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