AfterEllen.com - Interview with Julie Anne Peters
Young adult author Julie Anne Peters was shocked when her novel Luna (2004), a story about a transgender teen, was nominated for a National Book Award. “I just couldn’t believe it,” she says. A self-described reclusive writer who lives in Colorado with her partner of 31 years, Sherri Leggett, Peters had written nine children’s books before her editor suggested that she write a young adult lesbian love story. That suggestion turned into Keeping You a Secret (2003), and changed Peters’s choice of career into a calling: to tell more stories about LGBT teens. Her latest novel, Far From Xanadu, which will be published in May...
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