As an eighteen-year-old headed to college in the fall, I can safely say the transition from high school to “wherever I’d end up” (a tiny women’s college in SoCal, if you’re curious) is the most change I’ve experienced in my life thus far. I‘ll be moving into this elusive new era called “Independent Adult Life” with […]
Those tender, transitional post-high school years have long been a tricky stage for publishing to nail, and when New Adult didn’t quite take off on the traditional path, it seemed we might never get our college kid books. But lo and behold, YA has gone from the trickle of books seen in past years and is finally […]
Happy Bi Visibility Week! Bisexual visibility is a tough battle on any ground; more often than not, despite being one of the letters in LGBT, bisexuality gets to be anywhere from “a stepping stone” to discarded in favor of “I don’t like labels.” But in YA literature, authors have been fighting like mad to ensure […]
Favorite time of year alert! If there’s one thing I love, it’s getting to highlight a whole host of rainbow titles making their way to YA shelves in the near future. The below titles include lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, genderqueer, genderfluid, intersex, asexual, agender, and pansexual rep in contemporary, sci-fi, fantasy, thrillers, magical realism, and even […]
