Say Yes to Gay YA

Sep 12, 2011 12:29

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 ( Read more... )

lgbtq, genre: young adult, writing, homophobia, genre: fantasy, genre: science fiction

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:D ext_786647 September 12 2011, 21:54:09 UTC
I giggled at that too!

I would definitely buy this book, I'm tired of straight white girls.

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Re: :D rachelmanija September 18 2012, 16:32:58 UTC
We sold the Yes Gay YA novel to Viking! Click on this link for a post with more details. Thank you so much for your support!

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twisted_times September 14 2011, 02:18:58 UTC

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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rachelmanija September 18 2012, 16:33:14 UTC
We sold the Yes Gay YA novel to Viking! Click on this link for a post with more details. Thank you so much for your support!

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twisted_times September 18 2012, 20:00:00 UTC

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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rachelmanija September 18 2012, 16:32:39 UTC
We sold the Yes Gay YA novel to Viking! Click on this link for a post with more details. Thank you so much for your support!

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