Fifteen-year-old Wali Khan, affectionately called “Vali the Vomiter” by his older twin sisters, has always chalked up his throwing up to a delicate stomach. And the headaches in ninth grade? Worrying about grades. But waking up in the hospital in the second week of tenth grade, he is shocked to hear the cause: acoustic neuroma,
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Andy Darcy Theo is an author whose work is deeply shaped by his background in psychology and his experience in both clinical and educational settings. His understanding of human behaviour, mental health, and the complexities of the mind plays an important role in the stories he tells. He first began writing his YA fantasy series
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Alex Sanchez has published ten novels, including the American Library Association “Best Book for Young Adults” Rainbow Boys and Lambda Award-winning So Hard to Say. His novel Bait won the Tomas Rivera Mexican-American Book Award and the Florida Book Award Gold Medal for Young Adult fiction. You Brought Me the Ocean, his graphic novel from DC Comics, was illustrated by
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Ryan Douglass is a queer author and poet from Atlanta, Georgia. He is the New York Times bestselling author of the The Taking of Jake Livingston, which was an ALA Rainbow Booklist Pick and a Black Caucus American Library Association Best of the Best Booklist Pick. His sophomore novel, The Great Disillusionment of Nick and
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Erin Cotter writes young adult fiction. Originally from Buffalo, New York, she currently calls Austin home. When not writing, she spends time with her partner and pets, eating tacos, and searching for Golden-cheeked Warblers in the Texas Hill Country. Her books include By Any Other Name, A Traitorous Heart, and A Dangerous Bargain. A Dangerous
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Our guest today is an author whose path to fiction is as unconventional as the stories he writes. After earning a degree in religious studies and philosophy, he initially came to Harvard Divinity School intending to become a New Testament scholar. Instead, he transferred to Harvard Law School and went on to build a career
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K. Ancrum, is an author of speculative contemporary Young Adult Fiction. She is best known for the LAMBDA award winning ICARUS and the National Book Award nominated THE CORRUPTION OF HOLLIS BROWN. K. is a Chicago native who is passionate about reflective representation in young adult fiction, and exploring the edges of what is possible
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Robbie Couch is the New York Times bestselling author of If I See You Again Tomorrow, in addition to Blaine for the Win, The Sky Blues, and Another First Chance. He is also the author of the novel Bloom for adults. Originally from small-town Michigan, Robbie now calls Los Angeles home. In Just the Good Parts, Caspen discovers he can enter other people’s memories
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From acclaimed author K. Ancrum, on the National Book Award longlist for The Corruption of Hollis Brown, and Lambda Literary Award winner for Icarus, comes a queer romantic horror thriller that is a love letter to Frankenstein about the consequences of our decisions, the legacy of family, and the depths we’ll go to be forgiven.
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What happens when the person who has always felt like an outsider suddenly finds herself in a world where survival is everything? That’s the question at the heart of Jo Salazar’s YA horror novel If We Survive the Night. Originally self-published as The Dead Weight, the novel follows sixteen-year-old Quinn as she tries to survive
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