Hero author Perry Moore (Photo: Joyce Dopkeen for the NYTimes)
The 20th Annual Lambda Literary Award winners were announced on Friday, highlighting the best in LGBT writing for 2007.
Among the winners were AfterElton.com fave Hero by Perry Moore (LGBT Childrens/Young Adult), Call Me By Your Name by Andre Acimen (which we reviewed here) for Men's Fiction, and AfterElton.com's own Flying Monkey, Brent Hartinger, for his double-novel, Split Screen (Bisexual). Woo-hoo!
Big congrats to all the winners, which you can find over here.
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on Mon, 2008-06-02 11:22.
Congratulations Brent!!
Congratulations Brent!!
I picked up Split Screen along with Geography Club a few weeks ago and finished them both over a very enjoyable lazy weekend. How many others are in the series?
There are three books total
Yes..CONGRATULATIONS TO BRENT!
I hope Michael took you out to dinner to celebrate! (and paid) ;)
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Good Job Brent
Split Screen joins your ouvre of intriguing and fascinating writings. Or as they say in West Hollywood, "You go Girl."
Really? Hero?
Really? Hero? But it wasn't even that good! I wanted to like it, really I did, and he won major points from me for having one of the characters be Croatian. But as good as the idea was, the execution failed, in my opinion, dragged down by either amateur writing or lazy editing. Might it have won because it was the ONLY LGBT Childrens slash Young Adult to come out last year? (Brent's book notwithstanding, but that one ended up in the bisexual category...)
However, the more people do something, the more likely they are to get better, and I'll still be greatly looking forward to reading what he might give us next.
Umm, no, Hero wasn't the
Umm, no, Hero wasn't the only queer YA novel to release last year.
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Are you talking about
Lots of gay YA
Well, besides Vintage there was in 2007:
The God Box by Alex Sanchez
Freak Show by James St. James
Saints of Augustine by P. E. Ryan
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron
and those are just the gay male ones from the top of my head.
The God Box! That's RIGHT!
More gay YA
Yeah, there was tons and tons of gay YA in 2007. Along with the ones you mentioned, there were these titles.....
7 Days at the Hot Corner (Terry Trueman)
The Straight Road to Kyle (Nico Medina)
Almost Home (Jessica Blank)
Grl2grl: Short Fictions (Julie Anne Peters)
Another Kind of Cowboy (Susan Juby)
Tips on Having a Gay (Ex) Boyfriend (Carrie Jones)
Hear Us Out! (Nancy Garden)
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List (Rachel Cohn)
Killing Miss Kitty and Other Sins (Marion Dane Bauer)
Mistik Lake (Martha Brooks)
Busted (Phil Bidner)
A Secret Edge (Robin Reardon)
Probably more that I'm not coming across in my search...
And none of these were
And none of these were better than Hero? I was kind of excited for the new reading list until I thought about none of them being chosen over that one for the award.
Oh well, I'll still probably read them all. Thanks for the very useful list.
Congrats, Brent! A
Congrats, Brent! A well-deserved win.
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I really did not like Split