Robin Talley
New York Times-bestselling author of young adult fiction
Melody McIntyre, stage manager extraordinaire, has a plan for everything. Need a breath mint? She’s on it. Comic relief bust a seam? Mel’s sewing kit is at the ready. Not only is her Plan A foolproof, she’s got a Plan B, and a Plan C, because actors can be total fools. What she doesn’t have? Success with love. Every time she falls for someone during a school performance, both the romance and the show end in catastrophe. So Mel swears off love until the upcoming production of Les Mis is over. But there’s something even Mel didn’t plan for…
It’s summer 1977, and Tammy Larson can’t be herself anywhere. Not at her strict Christian high school, not at her conservative Orange County church and certainly not at home, where her ultrareligious aunt relentlessly organizes antigay political campaigns. Tammy’s only outlet is writing secret letters in her diary to gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk…until she’s matched with a real-life pen pal who changes everything.
In 1955, eighteen-year-old Janet discovers a cheap paperback lesbian romance novel in a bus station and realizes for the first time that she isn’t the only girl like her. She decides to try her hand at writing a story of her own. Sixty-odd years later, high school senior Abby finds a lesbian pulp novel published by a mysterious author who disappeared after publishing one now-classic book under a pseudonym — and becomes obsessed with tracking that author down.
Fifteen-year-old Aki Hunter knows she’s bisexual, but up until now she’s only dated guys—and her best friend, Lori, is the only person she’s out to. When she and Lori set off on a four-week youth-group mission trip in a small Mexican town, it never crosses Aki’s mind that there might be anyone in the group she’d be interested in dating. But that all goes out the window when Aki meets Christa.
A teen couple — Gretchen, who identifies as a cis lesbian, and Toni, who identifies as genderqueer — struggle to stay together during their first year in college, despite the growing rift caused by distance and Toni’s shifting gender identity.
Set in 1959 Virginia, Lies We Tell Ourselves centers around a black girl and a white girl who fall in love while their school is being desegregated for the first time.
