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Dahlia Adler

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Dahlia Adler is an editor by day, a freelance writer by night, and a writer of Contemporary YA and NA at every spare moment in between. She's the author of the Daylight Falls duology, Just Visiting, the Radleigh University series, Cool for the Summer, Home Field Advantage and the upcoming Going Bicoastal; a contributor to anthologies All Out, The Radical Element, and It's a Whole Spiel; the editor of the anthologies His Hideous Heart, That Way Madness Lies, At Midnight, and, with Jennifer Iacopelli, Out of Our League (2024); and crafter of over five billion tweets as @MissDahlELama. She lives in New York with her family and their overstuffed bookshelves. ...more

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i was wondering what it's been like to switch from sexy m/f stories to a sexy f/f one. i'm just wondering how writing an lgbtq+ story might differ to writing a het one? and are you excited to share it, or is there any sort of apprehension?

Dahlia Adler Ooh, good question! Well, I definitely love writing both, so it's been fun ;)

(I'm just gonna blanket state from here that I'm talking about cisgender…moreOoh, good question! Well, I definitely love writing both, so it's been fun ;)

(I'm just gonna blanket state from here that I'm talking about cisgender guys and girls in this answer, i.e. people of the same gender they were assigned at birth; there's so much interesting discussion in writing trans characters and how the dynamic can vary so much more then, but I have yet to write any.)

I think the most interesting and different thing about writing same-sex versus hetero is that you don't have the same gender dynamics at play. For instance, when I write m/f, it's with the conscious knowledge that men are usually coming from the position of societal and physical power, and that factors in to the way I write things like interaction, consent, sexual history, contraception - not that I necessarily stick to the expected norm, but I think you can't not put it on the page when there's a deviation from that. Whereas when you write same-sex, you're working with two people who've experienced the world through a similar lens (and of course, this will range through race, ability, etc.) and that's a big thing to consider.

Then you specifically look at f/f, and you have not writing guys in at all, which is extra interesting because particularly in sexy m/f, these dominant "alpha" males are so central, but when you take them out of the romance equation and just work with two women, it's a totally different experience. Especially if they're new to understanding their sexuality, how do they know if they're more than friends? Who might have added responsibility to confirm all sex acts are consensual when there's no obvious physical strength differential? And with all same-sex pairings, there are the added questions of "Are they out? To who? What's that like? Have they both been out for the same amount of time? Do they have queer friends?" Setting becomes much more important, too, because a queer relationship isn't gonna be the same in, say, the deep south as it will be in New York City. So there are all these additional factors you can kinda take for granted in m/f that you can't in LGBTQ+.

Regarding being excited to share f/f, the answer is unhesitatingly yes. I might've been a little nervous about it before Under the Lights released, mostly about how well I handled the content, but thankfully, the response has been really great. It's something we're seriously lacking, and it makes me really happy to contribute to filling that gap. I love knowing that there might be one more answer to people asking for f/f recs when they're feeling completely down at how few there are, and feeling like the lack invalidates them. I love having added a YA with a queer girl of color and a happy ending, as well as positive bisexual representation. I love knowing that there'll be NA to point to when someone asks for a rec for a book where a main character IDs as Pansexual on the page. And I love my f/f books themselves!

What I do know is that not everyone who read Behind the Scenes followed to Under the Lights, and not everyone who'll read my first two NAs will follow to the third. Writing is not how I earn my living, so in the sense of "What does that mean for my career??" that doesn't matter to me. Of course I'm sad when people won't try f/f, and I wish more people would - I'm certainly honored at how many *did* for the first time with Under the Lights. But that's sadness, not fear; anyone who has a problem with me writing/publishing f/f is...not for me, shall we say! It's something I very much plan to keep doing (though I do have more m/f plans and one m/m plan as well), and even if old readers don't stick with me/those books, hopefully the new readers who need them will!(less)

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Hey Dahlia. I JUST WANTED TO KNOW WHAT ARE YOU CURRENTLY WORKING ON?

Dahlia Adler Hi there! Most immediately, I'm working on HIS HIDEOUS HEART, which is the Edgar Allan Poe-retellings anthology I'm editing that releases in fall 2019…moreHi there! Most immediately, I'm working on HIS HIDEOUS HEART, which is the Edgar Allan Poe-retellings anthology I'm editing that releases in fall 2019 and for which I'm doing a queer contemporary twist on "Ligeia." In the land of novel-writing, I'm working on both an f/f YA sports romance currently titled OPPOSITION and an f/f NA "big sister's best friend" romance called WHAT HAPPENS IN ICELAND, which gives you a whole lot of clues as to its content ;) (less)

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	Cool for the Summer 3.79 avg rating — 8,429 ratings — published 2021 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Last Will and Testament (Radleigh University, #1) 3.62 avg rating — 3,241 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	His Hideous Heart by Dahlia Adler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kendare Blake (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Rin Chupeco (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.56 avg rating — 2,668 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Behind the Scenes (Daylight Falls, #1) 3.71 avg rating — 1,610 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Out on Good Behavior (Radleigh University, #3) 3.70 avg rating — 1,147 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	That Way Madness Lies by Dahlia Adler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lily Anderson (Goodreads Author), Brittany Cavallaro (Goodreads Author) 3.50 avg rating — 1,152 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Right of First Refusal (Radleigh University, #2) 3.53 avg rating — 818 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Like boys all you want, Park. It still won't fix this. I'm bi and I promise you, it's not a fucking light switch. You can't just set it on 'boy' because it's inconvenient that you like a girl right now.”
― Dahlia Adler, Under the Lights

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“Anyone who doesn't want you to be happy with who you are is an asshole. Fuck pleasing everyone else. You only live once. Who are you gonna do it for?”
― Dahlia Adler, Under the Lights

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“Tabarnac de câlisse,” he swears under his breath, looking me up and down. God, I love Canada.”
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“If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless," I tell him.
He swerves to the side of the road and stops the car abruptly.
"Not driving any more.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

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“That's right,' she told the girls. 'You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.”
― Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette

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“This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying.
"Raffy, half our House has burnt down," I say wearily. "We don't have a kitchen."
"Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?" she asks. "We can double up in our rooms and have a barbecue every night like the Cadets."
Silently I vow to keep Raffy around for the rest of my life.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

tags: humor, ya

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“He stops and looks at me. 'I'm here because of you. You're my priority. Your happiness, in some fucked way, is tuned in to mine. Get that through your thick skull. Would I like it any other way? Hell, yes, but I don't think that will be happening in my lifetime.”
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