For my monthly Dead Darlings post, I had planned to write about the things I’m happy I did before my book deal was announced. But then 49 members and allies of the LGBTQ community — mostly young, mostly latinx — were…
The horrific massacre in Orlando left me feeling helpless but I have to believe that one way to tackle the bigotry and hatred that triggered it is to provide young readers with books that promote tolerance and respect for diversity…
June is Pride month. It’s the one month where I get to be unabashedly gay gay gay. But lesbehonest, I’m pretty gay every day. And my bookshelf reflects that. But there’s always room for more books to add to the…
School’s out for summer. Almost. I still remember the delicious feeling of having a couple of months when my time was finally my own. And I would have appreciated it even more if I’d known that a soul crushing 9-5…
By Guest Contributor Melanie DeCarolis There are a lot of supposed rules about first novels that Martin Seay breaks with his debut, The Mirror Thief. It’s a publisher-unfriendly 592 pages. It’s a mashup of three ambitious yet interconnected time-hopping storylines:…
If you read nothing else in today’s links*, I hope you read Matthew Norman’s account of a reading at Barnes & Noble where no one showed up. Or at least he thought that no one had showed up to his reading until…