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In Our Own Words

I get asked a lot about how difficult it was to write Personal Effects from the first person POV of a seventeen-year-old male.  I answer the question by talking about avoiding generalizations, by...

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News and Happy 2015!

Happy 2015, friends! What better way to usher in a new year than with a revamped and updated website. (Not as pretty as my old site, but it’s a transition year and the new design will allow me to...

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Interview with Author Kekla Magoon

I’m up today at The Pirate Tree (a collective of writers for children and teens interested in social justice issues) with an interview with Kekla Magoon about her recent novels How It Went Down and X:...

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Review of Listen, Slowly by Thanhhà Lai

This week I posted a review of Listen, Slowly by Thanhhà Lai  at The Pirate Tree. With her first novel for young readers (Inside Out and Back Again, HarperCollins 2011), Thanhhà Lai captured in verse...

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Pirate Tree Round-up

I’ve been extremely derelict in posting links here when I post over at The Pirate Tree. Here’s a round-up of some recent posts: In May, I posted a review of the amazing forth-coming middle grade novel...

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Radical News!

Happy fall, friends! First, the news with immediate gratification potential — for the month of November, the e-book of Personal Effects is on sale for $1.99.   So, if you’ve been meaning to read...

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Cover Reveal!

I am so excited to finally reveal the cover for Radical! It went live today over at YA Books Central. Thanks to everyone at YABC for helping to celebrate the reveal!       Isn’t it fantastic? Special...

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Radical Is Coming!

I’ve been fairly quiet online lately. With recent events, I’ve been doing more listening than speaking, and reading, and trying to make sense of many, many things. But I’ve also been somewhat withdrawn...

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Radical is out Today!

I’m so very excited that Radical is out today! This book has been such a very long time coming.  The research and writing process took longer than expected, the revisions took longer than expected. And...

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Girls Loving Girls in YA 2016

  On Tuesday night I read that AfterEllen.com is shutting down as of Friday, September 23rd. I was shaken and saddened and angry, and it got me thinking that if we as queer women don’t support “our”...

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