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Lianne Simon’s father was a dairy farmer and an engineer, her mother a nurse. She grew up in a home filled with love and good books.

Tiny and frail, Lianne struggled physically, but excelled at her studies. In 1970, she was awarded a scholarship to the University of Miami, from which she graduated in 1973. Fond memories of her time there remain with her.

Some years later, after living in several states, and spending time abroad, Lianne settled in to the suburbs north of Atlanta, where she now lives with her husband and their cat.

While seeking answers to her own genetic anomalies, Lianne met a family whose daughter was born with one testis and one ovary. As a result of that encounter, she spent more than a decade answering inquiries on behalf ...more

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	Confessions of a Teenage Hermaphrodite 3.80 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	A Proper Young Lady 3.71 avg rating — 45 ratings — 3 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
	OtherWise Christian 2: Stories of Resistance by Chris Paige, Victoria Kolakowski, Virginia Ramey Mollenkott it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 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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I spend almost as much of my time on cover design as I do writing. And I enjoy it nearly as much. The design for the cover of Child of an Elfin Sea began when I ran across a watercolor mermaid by the same artist who did the watercolor that appeared on my Short Story Outsider.

After thinking about ways to build a cover from the image, I decided that the image was too busy as it was. So, I extracted

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Which book should the YA LGBT Books group read as our October 2013 Book of the Month?

Omorphi

by C. Kennedy **abuse themes**

34 votes 39.5%

Openly Straight

by Bill Konigsberg

16 votes 18.6%

Rebellion

by J. Tomas

14 votes 16.3%

Beautiful Music for Ugly Children

by Kirstin Cronn-Mills

10 votes 11.6%

Nail Polish and Feathers

by Jo Ramsey

8 votes 9.3%

Confessions of a Teenage Hermaphrodite

by Lianne Simon

4 votes 4.7%

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