February 5, 2018 marks the TENTH publication anniversary of my first YA novel GOOD ENOUGH (HarperCollins 2008). Can you believe ten years have gone by? To celebrate this special day, I recently recorded a fun tribute video about this novel and its musical influences from Mozart to the Violent Femmes. Go here to check it out…
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It’s 11:30 PM on a Tuesday night, and I just got home from visiting artist TIM YOUD as he typed Novel #47 out of his 100 Novels Project. He’s currently typing John Rechy’s City of Night at the LACE art gallery on Hollywood Boulevard from June 15 to July 1, 2016 every night from 10 PM to 3 AM.…
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UPDATE AS OF JULY 18, 2016: Thank you to everyone who donated YA novels and children’s books, comic books, and DVDs featuring positive LGBTQIA+ characters and themes for the Orlando Youth Alliance. I received a beautiful letter from their president, Michael Slaymaker, thanking us. He wrote the following: “Roberto, a longtime member of the Orlando Youth Alliance,…
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