rachelmanija and sartorias speaking up against erasure:

We are published authors who co-wrote a post-apocalyptic young adult novel. When we set out to find an agent for it, we expected to get some rejections. But we never expected to be offered representation… on the condition that we make a gay character straight, or cut him out altogether...Posting this from the drs ( Read more... )

Here are things so far that are worth mention but don't fit on my list :)

Featuring but not mainly about POC:
Francesca Lia Block, Weetzie Bat books
Michael de Larrabeiti, The Borrible trilogy
Tamora Pierce, The Circle of Magic quartet/The Circle Opens quartet/The Will of the Empress
Daja's Book and  in the first quartet and Cold Fire in the second are ( Read more... )

ETA: This list is still in progress but I absolutely need to get a dissertation chapter to my committee before updating I need to recover (breathing and thus cognitive focus) before the list is anything but a confusion and a daunting thing.

ETA2: I am not well enough to put all of this information together yet, but wanted to add a link to this ( Read more... )

- is the book I am most looking forward to getting just now.

It's a YA fantasy that won the prestigious Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. And I'm just a soft touch for award-winning YA, for YA fantasy, and for fantasy about girls who are different. So not only does it seem to be a wondrous book, it seems to be a wondrous book that ( Read more... )