Somewheeeeeere under the rainbow you’ll find that 2018 is bringing lots of beautiful new rainbow books! On the rise from January through June this year are explicit asexual and pansexual representation, romances between bisexual female main characters and genderqueer love interests, and rep of non-white queer guys. Glaringly absent? Transgender main characters in novels, which […]
If there’s one thing teens from the ’90s onward understand, it’s the magical power of the internet to connect us, whether via social media like Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram, or more one-sided communication, like podcasts, vlogs, and blogs. For introverts or kids with no one around them who thinks/looks/loves like they do (or both!), the window […]
A fun fact about YA authors: waaaaay more than you probably realize got their start writing fanfiction. Whether Supernatural or Harry Potter or Star Trek or Sailor Moon, fiendish love for existing characters and storylines, spun into their own creative worlds, has been around forever, but this season in particular is seeing a major (awesome) trend of […]