ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

 

’NATHAN BURGOINE is a tall queer writer of (mostly) shorter queer fictions, but novels keep happening. His stories tend to live somewhere in the Venn Diagram of romance, young adult, and spec-fic—often where at least two of those circles cross—but always queer. He grew up a reader and studied literature in university while making a living as a bookstore manager for a couple of decades.

’Nathan’s debut novel about a telepathic and telekinetic not-quite-superhero trying to save Pride Week, Light, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and his debut young adult novel about a hyper-organized gay teen who develops a teleportation problem two weeks before high school graduation, Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks, was a Prix Aurora Award finalist. His other novels include the contemporary paranormal Ottawa-set Triad Blood trilogy, Triad Blood, Triad Soul, and Triad Magic.

For young adults, ’Nathan also wrote the “don’t forget, queers have always been here” novella “Hope Echoes,” included in Three Left Turns to Nowhere, and his first hi-lo queer YA rom-com about two frenemies stuck together on a long train ride who realize they’ve completely misjudged each other and actually would maybe like to kiss, Stuck With You. If you don’t know what a hi-lo is, don’t worry, he didn’t either until someone asked him to write one. They’re accessible “high-interest, low-complexity” books written to be accessible for reluctant readers, readers with reading disabilities, or those who read English as a second language, but still telling interesting and relevant stories for young adult readers.

On the novella side of things, romance lovers can find the Little Village Holiday Novellas: Handmade Holidays, Faux Ho Ho, Village Fool, and Felix Navidad where awesome queer dudes with chosen families find other awesome queer dudes to fall in love with alongside some holiday cheer; the more magical romance novella A Little Village Blend where a tea-shop owner can brew magic into his teas; the far more spicy (and comedic) disaster-cute romance, Rear Admiral where a nurse meets his porn-star crush and it gets awkward, fast, and the wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey romance In Memoriam, which has, well, time-travel.

His first collection of linked short fiction was Of Echoes Born, which shares the dubious dual honour of being both his favourite and the book that sells the least. Writing is fun.

A cat lover, ’Nathan managed to fall in love and marry Daniel, who is a confirmed dog person. Their ongoing “cat or dog?” détente officially ended with the rescue of huskies. They live in Ottawa, Canada, where socialized health care and gay marriage have yet to cause the sky to cave in.

 

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