Lee Wind Newsletter Issue #12 - May 1 - 16, 2012

[Lee Wind]

Hi, and welcome to the twelfth edition of my newsletter!

It's organized into four sections, 

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

2.  Speaker Visit News

3.  Children's Literature, SCBWI and Publishing Updates

4.  Current Inspiration

I hope you find it useful and inspiring.

Thanks for reading!

Namaste,

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:

My Mixed Up Berry Blue Summer - a middle grade novel with a lesbian mom http://bit.ly/IOIadg 

All of Us - a Bi teen and young adult novel #glbtq http://bit.ly/L0GQQh

Lamdba Literary's New #LGBTQ book club for teens! http://bit.ly/L0GI37

Culture & Politics:

Watch Pres. Obama make some history as an Ally http://bit.ly/L0GVU8 #glbtq

MLB player Brandon McCarthy @BMcCarthy32 stands up to kiss cam homophobia http://bit.ly/IIQE3c 

International Family Equality day is May 6! http://bit.ly/IKzohj

The Boy Scouts show their homophobia again http://bit.ly/KR5eD6 

Gay-Straight Alliance Info:

Gender 101, episode 28: Emmi's advice on interacting with gender non-conforming people http://bit.ly/IEA3AX 

Gender 101, episode 29: Meet B J http://bit.ly/KR58eV 

Dan Savage, speaking to high schoolers, on the hypocrisy of using the Bible to justify anti-gay bullying http://bit.ly/IFCMsL

2.  Speaker Visit News:

I spoke at Cal State Fresno (my first college gig!) on the FAIR education act! http://bit.ly/Jn4JQj 

"So you want to read YA?" my guest post at the blog Stacked http://bit.ly/IHaOf3

3.  Children's Literature, SCBWI and Publishing Updates 

Chip Kidd's TED talk on Designing Books http://bit.ly/JzZwcU 

@PaulaYoo Interview on National Picture Book Writing Week #NaPiBoWriWee http://bit.ly/IqyaW6

@JennBosworth pre-#SCBWI summer conference interview http://bit.ly/KR5sdq

The SCBWI 2012 Crystal Kite Members Choice Award Winners! http://bit.ly/KR5yC3

#SCBWI Summer conference Writer Intensives selling out http://bit.ly/IOIjgC

4.  Current Inspiration:

"The first draft of a story is to tell you what story you want to tell; every draft after that is to help you find the most dramatic way to tell that story." 

- Darcy Pattison, http://bit.ly/J5gazv

Lee Wind, M.Ed.

Blogger, Author, Speaker

Founding Blogger of "I'm Here. I'm Queer. What the Hell do I Read?"  (Voted Best GLBT Book Blog, BBAW 2009 and 2011) at http://www.leewind.org

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

Co-Regional Advisor, SCBWI Los Angeles 

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