Say Yes to Gay YA

[rachelmanija]

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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Saying yes to gay teens in YA novels

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[thecityofdis]

Wait, I'm confused, I thought this was put off till tomorrow? Did I miss something?

[rachelmanija]

Sorry about that! It was initially put off, but Rose decided it would actually work better to launch today.

[thecityofdis]

Ah, okay. Thanks for clarification! I am currently tweeting up a storm.

[rosefox]

Unrelated considerations required pushing it up to this afternoon.

:D

[ext_786647]

I giggled at that too!

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

Re: :D

[rachelmanija]

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!

[twisted_times]

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.

[shveta_thakrar]

*pumps fist*

*e-mails authors*

*tweets*

*finally makes post about your post*

Say Yes to Gay YA and Main Characters of Color!

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