Lee Wind October 2015 Newsletter

[Lee Wind]

Hi Everyone!

Here's my October 2015 Newsletter. 

It's in four sections:

1. New on the "I'm Here. I'm Queer. What the Hell do I Read?" Blog

2. Lee's News

3. Children's Literature, SCBWI and Publishing World Updates

4. Current Inspiration

I hope you'll find it useful and inspiring!

Thanks for reading!

Lee

p.s. - If you'd like to be in touch, please don't hit 'reply' - just send me an email directly at iamle...@gmail.com Thanks!

1. New on the "I'm Here. I'm Queer. What the Hell do I Read?" Blog

Books:

The Elected Series - In a Future America, a girl pretends to be a Man to become President (with a girl-girl-guy love triangle!) http://www.leewind.org/2015/10/the-elected-series-in-future-america.html

Some Assembly Required: The Not So Secret Life Of A Transgender Teen - a memoir

 http://www.leewind.org/2015/10/some-assembly-required-not-so-secret.html 

The Pebble Champion - a gay teen comes of age in the face of loss, guilt and figuring himself out

 http://www.leewind.org/2015/10/the-pebble-champion-gay-teen-comes-of.html 

The Paths of Marriage - 3 generations of Indian and Indian-American women struggle with a granddaughter’s coming out and keeping their family from coming apart

http://www.leewind.org/2015/10/the-paths-of-marriage-3-generations-of.html

Rethinking Normal: A Memoir In Transition - a transgender teen memoir

http://www.leewind.org/2015/10/rethinking-normal-memoir-in-transition.html

Smorgasbord - Humans discover that Vampires and Zombies are delicious (and a gay Werewolf couple who protect the main characters!

http://www.leewind.org/2015/10/smorgasbord-humans-discover-that.html

Edge - Short stories by M.E. Kerr that include a lesbian teen, a homophobic dad, and a society where sex isn’t special (but ideas are)

http://www.leewind.org/2015/10/edge-short-stories-by-me-kerr-that.html

Outlander Leander - A Science Fiction/Fantasy series that includes LGBTQ characters (and treats them the same as everyone else!)

http://www.leewind.org/2015/10/outlander-leander-science.html

Playing By The Book - Preacher’s son Jake is 17, from Alabama, and in New York City for the Summer. Cue the handsome Jewish guy that turns Jake’s head (and life) around… 

http://www.leewind.org/2015/10/playing-by-book-preachers-son-jake-is.html

The Boy’s Own Manual To Being A Proper Jew - 17-year-old Yossi is coming to terms with being gay and growing up in a Jewish Orthodox community at the same time

 http://www.leewind.org/2015/10/the-boys-own-manual-to-being-proper-jew.html 

Moon At Nine - a novel about two teenage girls who are arrested for being gay in Iran

http://www.leewind.org/2015/10/moon-at-nine-novel-about-two-teenage.html

Culture, Politics and Gay-Straight Alliance Info:

 

OUT for Safe Schools - a very cool program that started in Los Angeles and is now going to nine other school districts in the U.S.A.

http://www.leewind.org/2015/10/out-for-safe-schools-very-cool-program.html

2. Lee's News

I had a great time co-presenting “Interventions for LGBTQ Youth” at the California Association of School Counselors Conference this month! I met so many dedicated and passionate-about-helping-young-people counselors! I shared some of the resources I mentioned in my presentation here: http://www.leewind.org/2015/10/resources-if-you-were-at-my-casc15.html 

I’m loving working at Little Pickle Press, passionately writing evenings and weekends, blogging on the weekends too, and trying to figure out when I’m supposed to be getting groceries. (Though there’s really no one else at the store at 9:45pm, so it does go fast!) Finding the rhythm of my new schedule, and very happy about how the things I’m doing feel resonant and meaningful.

3. Children's Literature, SCBWI and Publishing World Updates

Jen Rofé (Andrea Brown Literary): Agent Looking For Diversity

http://www.leewind.org/2015/10/jen-rofe-andrea-brown-literary-agent.html

Are you NaNoWriMo-ing? Here’s some advice and strategies from 2,000 writers who’ve done it in the past…

http://scbwi.blogspot.com/2015/11/are-you-nanowrimo-ing-heres-some-advice.html

Check out Author Amy Stewart’s Publishers Weekly article, “10 Tech Tools For Writers”

http://scbwi.blogspot.com/2015/10/check-out-author-amy-stewarts.html

“Just a Drop of Water” - The 2015 Crystal Kite Interview with Kerry Cerra

http://scbwi.blogspot.com/2015/10/just-drop-of-water-2015-crystal-kite.html

Oliver Jeffers teaches us how to draw a penguin

http://scbwi.blogspot.com/2015/10/oliver-jeffers-teaches-us-how-to-draw.html

“Hello From Nowhere” - the 2015 Crystal Kite Interview with Karen Blair

http://scbwi.blogspot.com/2015/10/hello-from-nowhere-2015-crystal-kite.html

The #WeNeedDiverseBooks Mentorship Program 

http://scbwi.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-weneeddiversebooks-mentorship.html

Jake Green goes inside Illustrators’ studios

http://scbwi.blogspot.com/2015/10/jake-green-goes-inside-illustrators.html

“Bog” - the 2015 Crystal Kite Interview with Karen Krossing

http://scbwi.blogspot.com/2015/10/bog-2015-crystal-kite-interview-with.html

“Be A Changemaker” - the 2015 Crystal Kite Interview with Laurie Ann Thompson

http://scbwi.blogspot.com/2015/10/be-change-maker-2015-crystal-kite.html

Registration opening for #NY16SCBWI

http://scbwi.blogspot.com/2015/10/mark-your-calendars-set-your-alarms.html

Success: What Counts? A Guest Post by Claudia Harrington

http://scbwi.blogspot.com/2015/10/success-what-counts-guest-post-by.html

4. Current Inspiration

“…But if you banish the dragons then you banish the heroes, and we become attached to the heroic strains in our own lives." — Andrew Solomon, 

as found 13 minutes into this amazing TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_solomon_how_the_worst_moments_in_our_lives_make_us_who_we_are?language=en

Lee Wind, M.Ed.

Producer, Blogger, Author, Speaker

2015 SCBWI Member of The Year

Founding Blogger of the Award-Winning "I'm Here. I'm Queer. What the Hell do I Read?" at http://www.leewind.org

Official Blogger for SCBWI: THE BLOG at http://scbwi.blogspot.com/ and Captain of SCBWI Team Blog

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