Books by Lisa Lees

In 2010 I removed my novels from print distribution so I could make revisions and convert them to e-books.

Fool for Love is available in EPUB and PDF form after very minor edits (grammar, spelling, markup).

A Queer Circle of Friends needs a major rewrite, which is in progress. Once that's done, it will again be available in EPUB and PDF form.

Fragments of Gender, my collection of essays and short fiction, is no longer available.


		Jami has lead a sheltered life; she's home-schooled, shy, smart and pretty. Carys helped start the GSA in her high school, is a clown and a theater geek, doesn't get along with her parents, is bullied at school, and doesn't quite know what she is. Jami and Carys meet at a spring break arts camp and fall in love. Figuring out what that means, for one girl who has never willingly worn a dress and another who is intersexed, is a bit of a problem. Being a teenager in love is never easy; for Carys and Jami falling in love with each other is a sometimes terrifying journey in self-discovery and trust. Read the first chapter online. More information.
Fool for Love, 220 pages, 2005. $5 e-book download on Lulu.com; ISBN 1-4116-4268-6. A young adult coming of age / coming out romance with intersex and genderqueer main characters and a happy ending. Cover by Jade Gordon, who drew the Lean on Me web comic.

		Direct sequel to Fool for Love. Jami and Carys have been living together for six months. The thrill of striking out on their own has begun to wane, to be replaced by the work (and occasional excitement) of finding and building a community of friends. One day a tragic event and the subsequent delivery of a mysterious package make Carys and Jami very thankful that they have a queer circle of friends. Queer Circle is undergoing the major rewrite it did not receive when I rushed to publish it as I resumed working full time in 2006. Here are the first two chapters as they currently stand. (May 2012.)
A Queer Circle of Friends, 288 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-4116-8577-6. A young adult romance and mystery novel with intersex, trans, genderqueer and and GLBQ characters. Cover art by Jade Gordon, who drew the Lean on Me web comic. Currently unavailable.

	This quote from the book has shown up all over the web: "One of the great myths of our culture is that at birth each infant can be identified as 'male' or 'female' (reproductive physiology), will grow up to have correspondingly 'masculine' or 'feminine' behavior (gender), live as a 'man' or a 'woman' (social role), and marry a woman or a man (heterosexual affective orientation). This is not so. There is much disagreement as to why this is not so, but a significant number of people in fact do not fit this simple idea of biologically predetermined gender/role destiny."
Fragments of Gender, 216 pages, 2005, ISBN 978-1-4116-3711-5. Essays, short fiction and a few poems from the first ten years after gender transition. No longer available.

I also used to do a combined web comic and written story known as Out of phase tomboy: Multiple Muse Disorder. No print version, but there is an e-book of some recent sections.