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Dahlia Adler

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Dahlia Adler is the award-winning author of seven young adult novels, editor of five young adult anthologies, and founder of the website LGBTQReads. As a book blogger, her byline has appeared on Buzzfeed, B&N Reads, Reactor, Parents.com, and more. She enjoys ’90s rock, rewatching Grey’s Anatomy, finding great cover songs, crying at commercials, and extremely short walks on the beach. She lives in the New York City suburbs with her family.

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i was wondering what it's been like to switch from sexy m/f stories to a sexy f/f one. i'm just wondering how writing an lgbtq+ story might differ to writing a het one? and are you excited to share it, or is there any sort of apprehension?

Dahlia Adler Ooh, good question! Well, I definitely love writing both, so it's been fun ;)

(I'm just gonna blanket state from here that I'm talking about cisgender…moreOoh, good question! Well, I definitely love writing both, so it's been fun ;)

(I'm just gonna blanket state from here that I'm talking about cisgender guys and girls in this answer, i.e. people of the same gender they were assigned at birth; there's so much interesting discussion in writing trans characters and how the dynamic can vary so much more then, but I have yet to write any.)

I think the most interesting and different thing about writing same-sex versus hetero is that you don't have the same gender dynamics at play. For instance, when I write m/f, it's with the conscious knowledge that men are usually coming from the position of societal and physical power, and that factors in to the way I write things like interaction, consent, sexual history, contraception - not that I necessarily stick to the expected norm, but I think you can't not put it on the page when there's a deviation from that. Whereas when you write same-sex, you're working with two people who've experienced the world through a similar lens (and of course, this will range through race, ability, etc.) and that's a big thing to consider.

Then you specifically look at f/f, and you have not writing guys in at all, which is extra interesting because particularly in sexy m/f, these dominant "alpha" males are so central, but when you take them out of the romance equation and just work with two women, it's a totally different experience. Especially if they're new to understanding their sexuality, how do they know if they're more than friends? Who might have added responsibility to confirm all sex acts are consensual when there's no obvious physical strength differential? And with all same-sex pairings, there are the added questions of "Are they out? To who? What's that like? Have they both been out for the same amount of time? Do they have queer friends?" Setting becomes much more important, too, because a queer relationship isn't gonna be the same in, say, the deep south as it will be in New York City. So there are all these additional factors you can kinda take for granted in m/f that you can't in LGBTQ+.

Regarding being excited to share f/f, the answer is unhesitatingly yes. I might've been a little nervous about it before Under the Lights released, mostly about how well I handled the content, but thankfully, the response has been really great. It's something we're seriously lacking, and it makes me really happy to contribute to filling that gap. I love knowing that there might be one more answer to people asking for f/f recs when they're feeling completely down at how few there are, and feeling like the lack invalidates them. I love having added a YA with a queer girl of color and a happy ending, as well as positive bisexual representation. I love knowing that there'll be NA to point to when someone asks for a rec for a book where a main character IDs as Pansexual on the page. And I love my f/f books themselves!

What I do know is that not everyone who read Behind the Scenes followed to Under the Lights, and not everyone who'll read my first two NAs will follow to the third. Writing is not how I earn my living, so in the sense of "What does that mean for my career??" that doesn't matter to me. Of course I'm sad when people won't try f/f, and I wish more people would - I'm certainly honored at how many *did* for the first time with Under the Lights. But that's sadness, not fear; anyone who has a problem with me writing/publishing f/f is...not for me, shall we say! It's something I very much plan to keep doing (though I do have more m/f plans and one m/m plan as well), and even if old readers don't stick with me/those books, hopefully the new readers who need them will!(less)

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Hey Dahlia. I JUST WANTED TO KNOW WHAT ARE YOU CURRENTLY WORKING ON?

Dahlia Adler Hi there! Most immediately, I'm working on HIS HIDEOUS HEART, which is the Edgar Allan Poe-retellings anthology I'm editing that releases in fall 2019…moreHi there! Most immediately, I'm working on HIS HIDEOUS HEART, which is the Edgar Allan Poe-retellings anthology I'm editing that releases in fall 2019 and for which I'm doing a queer contemporary twist on "Ligeia." In the land of novel-writing, I'm working on both an f/f YA sports romance currently titled OPPOSITION and an f/f NA "big sister's best friend" romance called WHAT HAPPENS IN ICELAND, which gives you a whole lot of clues as to its content ;) (less)

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	Cool for the Summer 3.75 avg rating — 12,246 ratings — published 2021 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home Field Advantage 3.82 avg rating — 10,588 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Going Bicoastal 3.79 avg rating — 4,474 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Will and Testament (Radleigh University, #1) 3.62 avg rating — 3,431 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	His Hideous Heart by Dahlia Adler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kendare Blake (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Rin Chupeco (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.57 avg rating — 3,219 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Behind the Scenes (Daylight Falls, #1) 3.67 avg rating — 1,746 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	That Way Madness Lies by Dahlia Adler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lily Anderson (Goodreads Author), Brittany Cavallaro (Goodreads Author) 3.43 avg rating — 1,437 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under the Lights (Daylight Falls, #2) 3.72 avg rating — 1,268 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out on Good Behavior (Radleigh University, #3) 3.67 avg rating — 1,284 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Come As You Are 3.74 avg rating — 1,248 ratings — published 2025 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Like boys all you want, Park. It still won't fix this. I'm bi and I promise you, it's not a fucking light switch. You can't just set it on 'boy' because it's inconvenient that you like a girl right now.”
― Dahlia Adler, Under the Lights

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“Anyone who doesn't want you to be happy with who you are is an asshole. Fuck pleasing everyone else. You only live once. Who are you gonna do it for?”
― Dahlia Adler, Under the Lights

tags: inspirational, josh-chester, sexuality

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“Just because you're telling a good story, doesn't mean it's the right story. And I think that it's really important to tell the right story.”
― Dahlia Adler , Cool for the Summer

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“If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless," I tell him.
He swerves to the side of the road and stops the car abruptly.
"Not driving any more.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

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“That's right,' she told the girls. 'You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.”
― Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette

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“This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying.
"Raffy, half our House has burnt down," I say wearily. "We don't have a kitchen."
"Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?" she asks. "We can double up in our rooms and have a barbecue every night like the Cadets."
Silently I vow to keep Raffy around for the rest of my life.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

tags: humor, ya

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“He stops and looks at me. 'I'm here because of you. You're my priority. Your happiness, in some fucked way, is tuned in to mine. Get that through your thick skull. Would I like it any other way? Hell, yes, but I don't think that will be happening in my lifetime.”
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message 13: by nat

04 mai 2020 20:46

thanks for accepting my friend request, dahlia! love your content <3

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message 12: by Dahlia

06 mai 2015 19:26

Anya wrote: "Hi Dahlia and thank you so much for accepting the friendvite! I can hardly wait to read the second instalment of the Radleigh series. :D"

Thanks for the kind note, Anya! So glad you enjoyed LWaT, and I hope you'll enjoy RoFR too!

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message 11: by Anya

06 mai 2015 18:47

Hi Dahlia and thank you so much for accepting the friendvite! I can hardly wait to read the second instalment of the Radleigh series. :D

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message 10: by Dahlia

03 mai 2015 04:43

Vane wrote: "Thank you so much for accepting the friendvite! :)"

With pleasure! Welcome to the dark side.

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message 9: by Vanessa

03 mai 2015 04:15

Thank you so much for accepting the friendvite! :)

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message 8: by Dahlia

01 avr. 2015 18:32

Navessa wrote: "OH HAI AGAIN. Thanks for the friendvite, you beat me to it."

I MAY HAVE GOTTEN OVERLY EXCITED SORRY HI <3

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message 7: by Dahlia

03 mar. 2014 01:44

Juliew. wrote: "Thanks for accepting my friend request,Dahlia!Nice to meet you!"

Nice to meet you too, Julie!

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message 6: by Dahlia

03 mar. 2014 01:44

Camilla wrote: "I'm only 6 days late (was out of town) but I really wanted to wish you a happy birthday anyway.
Hope you had a great birthday, my fellow Aquarian. ;)"

Oh, I just saw this! Thanks, Camilla! And a happy birthday to you too!

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message 5: by Juliew.

02 mar. 2014 21:13

Thanks for accepting my friend request,Dahlia!Nice to meet you!

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message 4: by Cam *tactile seeker*

01 fév. 2014 15:05

I'm only 6 days late (was out of town) but I really wanted to wish you a happy birthday anyway.
Hope you had a great birthday, my fellow Aquarian. ;)

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message 3: by Wendy Darling

05 sept. 2013 11:20

I have a shelf of crush-worthy boys. I keep them on an island, where they roam about freely like ponies. You may visit if you please, they like to play.

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message 2: by Dahlia

04 sept. 2013 15:50

Wendy Darling wrote: "I was going to ask if you had a GR profile! Now we can creep each other's shelves more regularly. :D"

Yes! I am super excited about this! Also I feel it's only fair that I get to know who *your* book crushes are.

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message 1: by Wendy Darling

04 sept. 2013 07:22

I was going to ask if you had a GR profile! Now we can creep each other's shelves more regularly. :D

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