The Geeks OUT Blog
Enjoy our extensive catalogue of geeky media coverage with an eye towards the LGBTQ+ community. Our editors strive to provide a diverse range of topics, genres, figures, and perspectives just for you.
Interview with Amber Chen, Author of Of Jade and Dragons
Amber Chen is a Singaporean-Chinese author of SFF and contemporary fiction. She spends much of her free time living within Chinese fantasy novels and dramas and also drinks one too many cups of bubble tea. One of her webnovels, The Cutting Edge, has been adapted for...
Interview with Ashley Wilda, Author of The Night Fox
Ashley Wilda has an MFA in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. In addition to writing, she loves painting, making ceramics, playing music, rock climbing, and hiking with her husband, Ethan, and rescue pup, Phoenix. I...
Interview with Kamilah Cole, Author of This Ends in Embers
Kamilah Cole is a national bestselling, Dragon Award-nominated Jamaican-American author. She worked as a writer and entertainment editor at Bustle for four years, and her nonfiction has appeared in Marie Claire and Seventeen. A graduate of New York University, Kamilah...
Interview with Cassandra Calin, Creator of The New Girl
CASSANDRA CALIN is a cartoonist and humorist best known for her semi-autobiographical webcomic series, Cassandra Comics, in which she talks about her life with curly hair, high expectations, and other daily problems. Originally from Romania, Cassandra immigrated to...
Interview with Jinwoo Chong, Author of I Leave It Up to You
Jinwoo Chong is the author of the novel Flux, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and VCU Cabell First Novel awards, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and named a best book of the year by Esquire, GQ, and Cosmopolitan. His short stories and other work have...
Interview with Melissa Iwai, Author of Dumplings for Lili
Melissa Iwai is an award-winning author/illustrator of over thirty picture books, including Soup Day, Pizza Day, Dumplings for Lili, which is a Crystal Kite Award winner and Bank Street Best Book. Her I Can Read Series, Gigi and Ojiji, is...
Interview with M.C. Hutson, Author of French Pressed Love
M.C. Hutson is a booktoker, author and host of A Very Sapphic Podcast. She was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. When M.C. isn’t reading, reviewing, writing or talking about gay shit on her podcast, you can find her in the kitchen replicating recipes she finds on...
Interview with Christina Li, Author of True Love and Other Impossible Odds
Christina Li is the author of the middle grade novels Clues to the Universe and Ruby Lost and Found, which won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Children's Literature, as well as the forthcoming teen novel True Love and Other Impossible Odds. At any given time she...
Interview with Kimberly Lemming, Author of I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com
Kimberly Lemming is a USA Today bestselling author who is on an eternal quest to avoid her calling as a main character. She can be found giving the slip to that new werewolf that just blew into town and refusing to make eye contact with a prince of a far-off land....
Interview with Alexis Hall, Author of Confounding Oaths
Alexis Hall (whatever pronouns) does not like writing biographies or talking about himself in the third person. She lives in southeast England with their extensive collection of hats and four angry duckchildren. I had the opportunity to interview Alexis, which you can...