Sherwood Smith and I have a post up at Genreville, about how an agent offered to represent a YA novel we'd written on the condition that we make a gay character straight or remove him from the book
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When it gets published, I'm buying at least two copies!
My favourite YA novels (first read when I was 11 or 12) are Ursula K LeGuin's Earthsea trilogy, which contained exclusively people of colour over the titular archipelago. I'm not sure if she ever had as much trouble getting it published as YA authors today seem to have getting stories with LGBQT characters into print.
Wh00t! Congratulations on your success and your continued perserverence. I'm betting ten bucks on there being a bi triad or quad in the second volume. ;p
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I would definitely buy this book, I'm tired of straight white girls.
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When it gets published, I'm buying at least two copies!
My favourite YA novels (first read when I was 11 or 12) are Ursula K LeGuin's Earthsea trilogy, which contained exclusively people of colour over the titular archipelago. I'm not sure if she ever had as much trouble getting it published as YA authors today seem to have getting stories with LGBQT characters into print.
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Wh00t! Congratulations on your success and your continued perserverence. I'm betting ten bucks on there being a bi triad or quad in the second volume. ;p
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