Author Interview: Smash or Pass by Birdie Schae Birdie Schae’s debut, Smash or Pass, is exactly the sapphic summer (sporty!) romance we need right now. Ellie is autistic, freshly dumped, and ends up at a beach volleyball camp where she is paired with Sierra, a volleyball legacy who wants nothing […]
Author Interview: Where You’ll Find Us by Jude St. Jude There are books that feel like they were written for exactly this moment, and Where You’ll Find Us by Jude St. Jude is one of them. Cal is a trans teen who stumbles upon a place called Amaranth, a farmhouse […]
Author Interview: The Others by Cheryl Isaacs Cheryl Isaacs is a Mohawk author writing YA horror that uses Indigenous folklore the way good horror has always worked best: not as decoration but as the beating heart of what the story is actually about. The Others is the second book in […]
Author Interview: The Labyrinth of Waking Dreams by Michelle Kulwicki Michelle Kulwicki’s The Labyrinth of Waking Dreams is a portal fantasy set in Appalachian West Virginia, with three teens who are all trapped in different ways before they ever find the Labyrinth, queer love that costs something, and monsters with […]
Author Interview: Someday Perfect by Kat Schneider There is something quietly devastating about growing up inside a world that has already decided who you are supposed to be. Someday Perfect by Kat Schneider follows Meg, a pastor’s kid navigating two weeks at a strict Christian sleepaway camp where first love […]
Author Interview: The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America by David Levithan and Gabriel Duckels Being xennial/elder millennial queers, we grew up on the edges of the AIDS crisis, old enough to feel its shadow but young enough that much of what happened was filtered through adult commentary, news […]
Blog Tour & Author Interview: One Word, Six Letters by Adib Khorram We’ve been following Adib Khorram’s work since Darius the Great Is Not Okay, and watching him build a body of work that consistently makes space for readers who don’t often see themselves on the page. His newest novel, […]
Author Interview: Deadly Ever After by Brittany Johnson Fairy tales promise happy endings, but Deadly Ever After by Brittany Johnson asks a darker question: what happens when love itself becomes the risk? In this sharp, emotionally layered reimagining, Amala and Kha’dasia don’t just fight fate; they fight the expectations placed […]
Author Interview: Heiress of Nowhere by Stacey Lee Stacey Lee has always written heroines who stand at the fault line between who they’re expected to be and who they dare to become, and Heiress of Nowhere might be her most haunting exploration of that tension yet. Set on an Orcas […]
Author Interview: Maysoon Zayid, The Girl Who Can Can by Seema Yasmin In her writing, Seema Yasmin has a gift for bringing extraordinary real life stories to young readers in a way that feels honest, hopeful, and deeply human. In Maysoon Zayid, The Girl Who Can Can, Seema introduces kids […]