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Fave Five: New and Upcoming YA Starring Trans Girls

These are 2024-26 releases.

Lucy, Uncensored by Mel Hammond and Teghan Hammond

One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller

Fawn’s Blood by Hal Schrieve

Queen of Faces by Petra Lord

This Wretched Beauty by Elle Grenier

Bonus: These are all prose novels, but for a graphic novel, check out Girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio and Paulina Ganucheau

Fave Five: Fantasy with Transfem MCs

Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane

The Calyx Charm by May Peterson

Princess of the Pomegranate Moon by Emily Wynne

Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders

Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

Bonus: These are all Adult, but in Middle Grade, check out The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki Smith, and in Young Adult, hang tight for the upcoming Queen of Faces by Petra Lord

Happy Trans Day of Visibility 2025!

Children’s

Just Like Queen Esther by Ari Moffic and Kerry Olitzky (text) and Rena Yehuda Newman (illustration)

Atara loves to wear her crown – to the library, to the dentist, even to her swim lessons. It gives her confidence, and shows the world that she is a girl, not a boy, like everyone thought at first. But when Atara reads the story of Queen Esther, on the Jewish holiday of Purim – she realises that you don’t need a costume to express who you really are…

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March 2024 Deal Announcements

Adult Fiction

Rosiee Thor and Kat Hillis‘s THE DEAD & BREAKFAST, a cozy mystery about two vampires who open a small town B&B and must prove their innocence when the local mayor shows up dead in their garden with something that looks suspiciously like puncture marks on his neck, to Michelle Vega at Berkley, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, by Saba Sulaiman at Talcott Notch Literary Services for Thor and Carrie Pestritto at Laura Dail Literary Agency for Hillis (world).

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