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Consider the wide variety of LGBTQ fiction books published this year that showcase our diverse lives, and our diverse forms of storytelling, from mysteries to Young Adult, fantasy and classics rereleased. Sex With Strangers: Stories (University of Wisconsin Press), the first short story collection by gay novelist and educator Michael Lowenthal ( The Paternity Test and others) is populated with characters, gay ("Over Boy," "Thieves," "The Gift of Travel") and straight ("You Are Here," "Uncle Kent," "Stud"), with sexual goals in common. Canadian Y/A fantasy author Ashley Shuttleworth makes th...

Nicole Melleby knows how tough New Jersey kids can be. The author of the upcoming "How to Become a Planet," Melleby grew up in Middletown and lives in Keyport. She reflects the tenacity of the Bayshore in her books for middle grade readers. “I think it was an Asbury Park Press quote that I read in high school, that was something about how ‘beach kids feel no pain,’ and it was a whole thing about that," Melleby said. "And growing up as a Bayshore beach kid, that always is something that had kind of stayed in my mind — that beach kids feel no pain.

New Jersey author explores mental health, LGBTQ topics for young readers: 'Very much kid issues as well' Alex Biese, Asbury Park Press LGBTQ history of the Jersey Shore saved by MCHA Replay Video Nicole Melleby knows how tough New Jersey kids can be. The author of the upcoming "How to Become a Planet," Melleby reflects the tenacity of the Jersey Shore in her books for middle grade readers, reports the Asbury Park Press, which is a part of the USA TODAY Network. © Courtesy of Liz Welch Monmouth County author Nicole Melleby is releasing her third middle-grade novel, "How to B...