Like It or Not

by Amy G. Dalia

Overview

When all the world's a stage... who will you be?

Gabe
Tomorrow can change everything. Sixteen-year-old Gabe stands on a precipice. His whole life, Gabe has felt trapped in a life he loathes and a body that isn't true to who he is. Meeting a boy isn't part of his plan, but by the end of the night he's given Orlando his heart, his phone number, and the wrong name!
What will happen when they meet again after Gabe transitions?

Orlando
Orlando can't stop thinking about the green-eyed girl he met at his Touchstone's masquerade party. Heartbroken when she vanishes the next day, he throws himself into painting, bad poetry, and begging his best friend to spill what he knows.
When a new school year starts, he is stunned and flustered by the new boy, whose eyes look just the like ones he's been painting for months. His confusion builds when Gabe starts flirting with him... and he wants to flirt back! But can he let go of Rose to give Gabe a chance?

LIKE IT OR NOT is a contemporary Young Adult retelling of William Shakespeare's As You Like It.
This story contains themes of loss, parental rejection, misgendering, dysphoria, suicidal ideation, transphobia, and homophobia. Ultimately, my hope is that they're handled in a way that is uplifting, but if these are triggering for you, please read with caution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798985814927
Publisher:	Amy G. Dalia
Publication date:	03/24/2022
Pages:	380
Sales rank:	906,734
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Amy is a transplant to California, having spent the first four decades of her life on the East Coast before moving to the Bay Area with her family. She has three adult children and one very needy cat.
Much of her childhood was spent in the bookstore where her mother worked. There, she found and fell in love with the written word and helped bemused customers who wandered into the children’s section.
She has a bachelor’s degree in art history, which she uses when playing team trivia, as well as a master’s in school counseling, which she uses no more often than the art history.
While she may not use her education formally, it led her in the direction of her love for the written word, helping her realize a lifelong dream to combine her passions for LGBTQ issues and supporting youth into writing Young Adult fiction with queer stories and themes.
By day, Amy works on the other side of the fiction-writing industry, supporting authors of LGBTQ romance as a developmental editor, copyeditor, professional beta reader, and proofreader.
She is a lover of all things Greek, and dreams of the day she can move to a little villa in Crete and spend her days writing and reading on a shady balcony and her evenings enjoying food and friendship at a local taverna.