Featured Indie Book: Queer Greer (A.J. Walkley)

Featured Indie Book on Indie Author News: YA Novel in the LBGT Genre) Queer Greer by A.J. Walkley.

QUEER GREER is one of the few books currently available that deals with bisexual issues and the problems teenage girls must face when coming to terms with their sexuality. It was written with the intention of helping anyone dealing with such issues realize that they are not alone and that what they are feeling is natural.

The Book (re-release) has been (self-)published via the independent publisher Rocket Science Productions (March 27, 2012) and is available on the Rocket Science Website as Paperback and on Smashwords as eBook. [see links at the end of this article]

About the Book

QUEER GREER is a coming of age story about high school junior Greer MacManus. Greer is uprooted from her childhood home in South Carolina when her father is determined to fulfill his strange but pressing dream to become a border-crossing coyote. Her parents take her and her younger sister to Prescott, Arizona to start a new life closer to the border. Greer enters a new school with the hopes of reinventing herself from the wallflower with one friend to speak of, to become more of a social butterfly. She soon finds herself among the company of athletes, a swimmer herself.


While Greer tries to get comfortable in her clique under the admiring eye of Cameron Keeting, the most attractive jock in school, Greer becomes increasingly interested in someone else. Rebecca Wilder, the beautiful swim team captain and infamous lesbian in town, befriends Greer, taking her under her wing. A love triangle soon overtakes Greer's world, leading to drug experimentation over the course of the year as she comes to grips with her sexuality.

Shocked at the reactions of her best friend and boyfriend, and finding herself more alone than ever before, Greer turns to self-mutilation in order to cope when things start to fall apart. Without anyone to turn to, Greer must find an inner strength and the courage to be herself in a society that doesn't always understand

Reviews (Excerpts)

- "A.J. Walkley's story telling ability is apparent from the start of this great read. She tells a compelling story about Greer McManus and her trials and tribulations with her sexual identity during her high school days.. [...] " - Deborah A. Bloom

- "[...] A.J. Walkley effectively illustrates how such an impressive woman can retain her individuality and social graces while remaining in a social circumstance that ostracizes the LGBT community. The novel clearly addresses several youth-oriented issues surrounding coming-out in high school and identifying oneself as part of the LGBT community." - Zachery Lahey

- "Queer Greer is a significant book. I read it over the weekend and I am glad I did. As a parent, former high school teacher and retired district administrator I found the characters real, genuine and very honest. Some might say too honest. To see this amazing novel as strictly the story of a teen coming to grips with her own sexuality is a mistake. As significant as that issue is, Walkley invites us to look much deeper into the lives of her characters; [...]" - Jim007 (Amazon)

All reviews were based on the 1st Edition (2009)

About the Author

A.J. Walkley was born and raised in Connecticut before heading to Dickinson College in Pennsylvania where she obtained her BA in English Literature and Creative Writing. She has been writing since elementary school when she created her own Mary-Kate and Ashley newsletter, to middle school when she wrote Hanson fan-fiction, to high school when she was involved in a Slam poetry club.

She wrote Queer Greer, her first full-length novel, upon her return from the U.S. Peace Corps in Malawi, Africa.

A.J. Walkley has written three novels, two of which she self-published and are available online (Queer Greer and Choice). She prefers to tackle controversial subject matter that gets her readers to think, whether than be LGBT issues (Queer Greer), abortion (Choice) or cross-cultural traditions (her upcoming VUTO).

She has also been working on another project based on the life and incarceration of Texas inmate Elizabeth Burke, with whom she has been corresponding for three years.

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Links to the Authors and the Book

Link to A. J. Walkley's Website

Connect with A. J. Walkley via Twitter @AJWalkley

Link to the Book Queer Greer on Rocket Science as Paperback

Link to the Book Queer Greer on Smashwords as eBook with Excerpt & Sample Download

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