Follow Up: Do Literary Agents Tamper With Gay Characters?

I posted about whether or not literary agents tamper with gay characters earlier this week here. I also made it clear this has never happened to me and I've been writing LGBT (and "Q")for almost twenty years. I even added an update to my post, linking to a smart post written by agent Kristen Nelson over at Pub Rants.

I'm still following the story. There's no need for me to comment on it either. I have a rule: unless is happens to me personally, everything else is all hearsay and not worth listening to. I learned that in pre-law, but that's another post.

Check out this link to read an agent's POV, here. I've never queried this agent; I know nothing about her. Her response is interesting.

There are other links, with statistics and more opinions. But I don't want to bore my readers to death, and I think these are the basics and explain it best.

I know this isn't part of the discussion. It's in no way related to anything I just mentioned. But what really surprises me is that I just posted about a fantastic YA LGBT (and "Q") author, Hayden Thorne, who writes excellent YA books and has one of the most professional online personas I've seen in a long time. And I'm not even an agent. If I were an agent, I think I'd be checking her out to see if she has any material that the public might be interested in reading. She's on my TBR list next in line, as soon as I finish reading my latest Fannie Flagg book. And if you're reading this post and you're tired of what's been published...or has not been published, as the case may be...in YA LGBT (and "Q") fiction, I suggest you take the time to check her out and give her a shot and try something new.