“My personal epiphany as a writer came from this advice: think of your book as a movie in which you’re presenting scenes to the reader. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a vivid detail is worth a few hundred.’’ —Alex... Read More

Strong Like You / T. L. Simpson / North Star Editions / Softcover $14.99 (224pp) / 978-1-63583-094-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In T. L. Simpson’s moving coming-of-age novel Strong Like You, a high school student... Read More

The Book Bait / An ongoing dispute between my husband and I: is Mr. Coreander, the bookseller in The Neverending Story, friend or foe? In recent years I’ve filed him as a villain. He baits Bastian with the book, I’ve argued, and he... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Marjorie Hudson, Author of Indigo Field / Everyone who has ever been given the privilege of recording history has suffered from the same set of conflicting pressures—1) tell the truth, 2)... Read More

“I know I have three audiences: Queer teens and their peer allies; adults who are allies to those Queer teens (including librarians, teachers, parents, and other family); and Queer adults who are reading for their inner... Read More

A Different Kind of Brave / Lee Wind / Duet Books / Softcover $12.99 (256pp) / 978-1-64160-950-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In Lee Wind’s exciting novel A Different Kind of Brave, two gay teenagers who emulate... Read More

If your grandmother is eighty years old and when she was a child of five met a woman who was eighty and when that woman was five met a man who was ninety and when he was five met a woman who was a hundred and continuing back, consider... Read More

Man’s World / Charlotte Haldane / Radium Age / Softcover $19.95 (296pp) / 978-0-262-54763-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / A timely reissue of Charlotte Haldane’s brilliant 1926 dystopian novel, Man’s World is set... Read More