Ian Jenkins
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Kaje Harper:
Greetings! Thanks for your newsletters and advocacy and promotion of queer visibility. I was wondering if my upcoming book would be appropriate for discussion and how to get that sent around? Romeo and Julian is a 60k word modern time queer biracial retelling of a the play including drag queens and a trans hero and featuring a delicious justice for rampant right wing corruption. Launches 2/28. ian, ihjenkins@ucsd.edu
Kaje Harper
Hi Ian, very best of luck with your story (and yay for trans rep and drag queens. Fingers also crossed for delicious justice.)
I'm not sure whether you're talking about the YA LGBT Books group newsletter or my personal author newsletter.
The YA group letter includes info about books nominated for Book of the Month in the group. Those books have to be under-age -18-appropriate, and have to be nominated by a member who is not the author, on the group. We then vote for a book of the month.
If your story is age-appropriate and you have an advocate who loved the book and nominates it on the correct thread on the group, then I will include it in the newsletter and poll.
My author newsletter includes a book rec and mini review at the end of each one. I love sharing favorite stories with my readers. Those are books that have appealed to me in my reading, that I bought for my own personal collection.
I'm an author, not a reviewer, despite the thousand-odd reviews I have here on GR. I never accept freebies for review even from friends. So that part of my author newsletter is personal recommendations only. Most of the authors whose work I recommend never hear about it, unless they happen to be readers.
For new-to-me authors, I generally look at what friends here on GR have thought of the story before buying and I sample some new to me every year. This year, I'm doing more comfort rereading, but some new mixed in. Perhaps I will pick up your book down the road and love it and recommend it, but that's an organic process, not something I deliberately steer.
I wish you all the best with your story, especially with that teaser info. If I have not answered your question, or can help in some other way, please message me here on my profile. Congrats on the upcoming release.
I'm not sure whether you're talking about the YA LGBT Books group newsletter or my personal author newsletter.
The YA group letter includes info about books nominated for Book of the Month in the group. Those books have to be under-age -18-appropriate, and have to be nominated by a member who is not the author, on the group. We then vote for a book of the month.
If your story is age-appropriate and you have an advocate who loved the book and nominates it on the correct thread on the group, then I will include it in the newsletter and poll.
My author newsletter includes a book rec and mini review at the end of each one. I love sharing favorite stories with my readers. Those are books that have appealed to me in my reading, that I bought for my own personal collection.
I'm an author, not a reviewer, despite the thousand-odd reviews I have here on GR. I never accept freebies for review even from friends. So that part of my author newsletter is personal recommendations only. Most of the authors whose work I recommend never hear about it, unless they happen to be readers.
For new-to-me authors, I generally look at what friends here on GR have thought of the story before buying and I sample some new to me every year. This year, I'm doing more comfort rereading, but some new mixed in. Perhaps I will pick up your book down the road and love it and recommend it, but that's an organic process, not something I deliberately steer.
I wish you all the best with your story, especially with that teaser info. If I have not answered your question, or can help in some other way, please message me here on my profile. Congrats on the upcoming release.
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Kaje Harper:
Hi, I just read one of your books and really loved it (Avocado Protection), and was just wondering: Have you written any original gay fairy tales or classic fairy tale retellings? If you have, please point me in that direction! I generally like any genre or theme as long as it’s MM romance, but the fairy tales are a guilty pleasure, but have discovered that there are much too few of those written to my liking. Thanks!
David
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Kaje Harper:
Hi Kaje - I am so pleased that you liked Wallaconia! It's a very insightful review, including many things I hoped people would think or say. Could I trouble you to put it on Amazon, too, if you have an Amazon account? It would be a very helpful additional boost. Thanks again, and the best of luck to you in all your writing--which I will now check out! Best, David
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