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C. B. Lee

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American author of young adult fiction
C. B. Lee
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
GenreYoung adult fiction
Years active2015-present
Notable worksNot Your Sidekick
Seven Years at High Tide
Notable awardsRainbow Award 2015
Website
cb-lee.com

C. B. Lee is an American author of young adult literature based in Los Angeles, California.[1] They are best known for their Sidekick Squad series, which follows a quartet of teenagers in a near future world of superheroes and supervillains.

Profile

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Lee's parents are immigrants from Vietnam and China.[2] Lee is bisexual[3] and open about their struggles with mental illness.[4] They have been featured in Teen Vogue , Hypable, and Wired Magazine for their novels.[5] Lee is represented by Thao Le of the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.[5]

Selected works

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Their debut young adult novel, Seven Tears at High Tide, about a boy who gets rescued and falls for a selkie, was published by Duet Books in 2015. It won the 2016 Rainbow Award for Bisexual Fantasy & Fantasy Romance in 2016[6] and was a finalist for the 2016 Bisexual Book Award in the category Young Adult and Speculative Fiction.[7]

The first book in the Sidekick Squad series, Not Your Sidekick, was published by Duet Books in 2016.[8] It tells the story of Jess, a bisexual teen without superpowers living in a world where superpowers are normal, who has to compete with her town's infamous supervillain for her dream internship and deal with her crush on her friend Abby.[9] [10] Not Your Sidekick was a finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award in the category LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult[11] and a finalist for the 2017 Bisexual Book Award in Speculative Fiction.[7] The second book, Not Your Villain, following the protagonists from the first novel who have now joined a resistance movement, was published by Duet Books in 2017.[12] A third book, Not Your Backup, was published in 2019. Lee cites the X-Men and wanting to write a story incorporating identity and alienation as inspiration for writing the series.[13]

Lee also contributed a short story to Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!, published by Inkyard Press in 2020.[14]

Selected bibliography

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Young Adult series

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Sidekick Squad

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  • Not Your Sidekick (Duet Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-945053-03-0)[15]
  • Not Your Villain (Duet Books, 2017)[16]
  • Not Your Backup (Duet Books, 2019)
  • Not Your Hero (2022)

Stand-alone young adult novels

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  • Seven Tears at High Tide (Duet Books, 2015)
  • A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix (Macmillan, 2021)[17]

Awards

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Year Award Category Work Result Ref
2016 Rainbow Awards Bisexual Fantasy & Fantasy Romance Seven Tears at High Tide Won [6]
Bisexual Book Awards Young Adult and Speculative Fiction Seven Tears at High Tide Nominated [7]
2017 Lambda Literary Awards LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult Not Your Sidekick Nominated [11] [18]
Bisexual Book Awards Speculative Fiction Not Your Sidekick Nominated [7]

References

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  1. ^ "C.B. Lee". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2020年04月30日.
  2. ^ "11 Authors Discuss Dealing with Depression, Being Mixed Race, and More on September's YA Open Mic". The B&N Teen Blog. 2016年09月01日. Retrieved 2018年11月26日.
  3. ^ "Interview: C.B. Lee & Rachel Davidson Leigh – YA Pride". www.gayya.org. 23 September 2016. Retrieved 2018年11月26日.
  4. ^ "Redefining Super". Diversity in YA. Retrieved 2018年11月26日.
  5. ^ a b "About the Author". CB Lee. 2015年11月19日. Retrieved 2020年04月30日.
  6. ^ a b "2016 Rainbow Awards". www.elisarolle.com. Retrieved 2018年11月26日.
  7. ^ a b c d "Finalists & Winners". The Bi Writers Association. Archived from the original on 2018年04月30日. Retrieved 2018年11月26日.
  8. ^ "Children's Book Review: Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee. Duet, 16ドル.99 trade paper (262p) ISBN 978-1-945053-03-0". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018年11月26日.
  9. ^ "What's New in LGBTQIA+ YA September and October 2016". School Library Journal. Retrieved 2018年11月26日.
  10. ^ "Kick off Bisexual Awareness Week with 12 2016 YA Books". The B&N Teen Blog. 2016年09月19日. Retrieved 2018年11月26日.
  11. ^ a b Team, Edit (2017年03月14日). "29th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2018年11月26日.
  12. ^ Tesoro, Christina (2017年11月16日). "'Not Your Villain' by C.B. Lee". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2018年11月26日.
  13. ^ "The Best Superheroes Right Now Aren't on Screens. They're in Books". WIRED. Retrieved 2018年11月26日.
  14. ^ "Rights Report: Week of September 24, 2018". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018年11月26日.
  15. ^ Adler, Dahlia (2020年09月08日). "13 Spectacular Young Adult Books From Independent Publishers". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2024年10月25日.
  16. ^ Brown, Alex (2024年09月16日). "Backlist Bonanaza: 5 Underrated YA Books for Brat Summer". Reactor. Retrieved 2024年10月25日.
  17. ^ Robinson, Brianna (2021年08月21日). "September 2021 New Book Releases: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and the start of Fall". The Young Folks. Retrieved 2024年10月25日.
  18. ^ Johns, Wayne, ed. (2019年03月11日), "Where Your Children Are", Every True Pleasure, University of North Carolina Press, pp. 181–191, doi:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0020, ISBN 978-1-4696-4680-0, S2CID 242533467

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