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Private Display of Affection by Winter Sandberg

Please join me in welcoming debut author, Winter Sandberg, to my blog. Winter is here to talk about Private Display of Affection, a wonderful story of Kevin and Hugo finding first love and their struggle to deal with love hidden behind friendship, lies, girlfriends, and secret kisses. Happy release day, Winter, it's great to have you here! Take it away!
Abuse comes in several forms. Christy, in Cody's book Omorphi, survives horrific physical and sexual abuse, and when we read about such t...

Chapter Eighteen of Fairy is out!

Chapter Eighteen is out!!! A dicey moment in the bluebell field and Sadb gets a shrink! Check it out!

LGBT Characters and Their Place in Schools

Johanna Parkhurst writes a terrific post for Boys on the Brink Blog about the importance of LGBTQ characters and literature in schools. Check it out!

Fairy - CHAPTER 16 is out!

CHAPTER SIXTEEN  IS OUT!
A gay kid, a monstrous bully, and a badass fairy.
Meriadoc McDaniel wants to kill his parents. How they could name him after a hobbit is beyond him. Merry is shy, spineless, a geek of humongous proportions, and gay. Everyone at school calls him Merry the Fairy. To add insult to injury, puberty is taking its agonizingly sweet time with him. Now a senior in school, he touts five whole whiskers and hasn’t grown an inch since ninth grade. Typical. What is short on top o...

Fairy is back and Chapter Fifteen is out!

FAIRY IS BACK!
THE SAGA CONTINUES WITH CHAPTER FIFTEEN!

A gay kid, a monstrous bully, and a badass fairy.
Meriadoc McDaniel wants to kill his parents. How they could name him after a hobbit is beyond him. Merry is shy, spineless, a geek of humongous proportions, and gay. Everyone at school calls him Merry the Fairy. To add insult to injury, puberty is taking its agonizingly sweet time with him. Now a senior in school, he touts five whole whiskers and hasn’t grown an inch since ninth grade. Typic...

Joyfully Jay is the last stop on Safe's Blog tour and the final chance to win a copy of Safe!

Join me on Friday over at Joyfully Jay! Read one of my favorite excerpts from Safe and leave a comment with your email address for to be entered in the final chance to win and ecopy of Safe!

Safe is voted November 2013 Book of the Month by the Goodreads YA LGBTQ Group!

Silent by Sara Alva

Silent by Sara Alva
My guest today is author and friend, Sara Alva, whose newest novel is Silent . I first fell in love with Sara’s stories when I read Social Skills , a wonderful story of first love and painful social anxiety. Silent is a beautiful story about life as it really is for youth in a major metropolis. Sara is also a like-minded person who works tirelessly to help and advocate for our youth of today. Please join me in welcoming Sara Alva and Silent .

Alex’s life as a teenager in S...

Let Safe's Mini Blog Tour Begin!

Welcome to Safe's Blog Tour and six chances to win Safe!
They met at ten, they kissed at twelve, and were madly in love by eighteen. Caleb Deering is the captain of the swim team and the hottest senior in school. He comes from a loving home with a kind father and a caring, but strict, mother who is battling breast cancer. Nico Caro is small and beautiful, and has a father who rules with an iron fist--literally.  One morning Caleb forgets himself, and he pecks Nico on the lips at scho...

OMORPHI'S TRIVIA CONTEST!!!

OMORPHI'S TRIVIA CONTEST!
This is the LAST STOP and FINAL chance to win an ebook copy of Omorphi!!!

In order to enter this contest you must:

       1) have visited and commented on each stop on Omorphi’s Blog Tour - please be sure to leave your name and email address in your blog comment. “Anonymous” comments won’t qualify; and

       2) correctly answer these ten trivia questions by placing your answers in the comments section below.

The win...