Movies have their Oscars and music has its Grammys, but the biggest day for queer lit across all categories is the announcement of the Lammy nominees, i.e., finalists for the Lambda Awards for Literature. This year’s YA Lammy finalists, announced today, are some truly beautiful works of art spanning the queer experience, from stories of […]
This month, you guys. THIS MONTH. Look, I try to not to make grand statements like “This is maybe the best YA publishing month of all time,” but you’ve got the returns of Anna-Marie McLemore, Nic Stone, Markus Zusak, Katherine Locke, Claire Legrand, Amy Rose Capetta, Destiny Soria, Cynthia Leitich Smith, and more, plus the very first […]
My love for the books I’ve read that release on this day is so deep, I want to get right to them. This is a beautiful day for truly nuanced queer fiction, extremely intense SFF, and the contemporary that made me cry harder than anything else I’ve read this year. So put on your seatbelt […]
It’s here! It’s here! The LGBTQAP July–December preview is here! This is one of the most unusual seasons of queer YA we’ve seen, I think, in that in over twenty titles, almost none is your usual “boy meets boy” or “girl meets girl.” (And the one that is happens to be between boys who never get that […]
In many ways, 2018 was a tough year. But when it came to middle grade books, it was something of a stand out. You don’t have to take our word for it though. Here, twelve amazing kidlit authors you love share their favorite middle grade reads of 2018. I’ll admit I’m biased because I’m a […]