I hope I managed to convey this message I hope people can finish this book feeling hopeful.
With The Deepest Breath, I wanted to show that queerness is a beautiful and joyful thing, that you can be accepted and loved as you are, even if the journey isn’t always the easiest, such as Stevie’s mum not quite understanding what Stevie was experiencing-they still got a happy ending. I didn’t read a queer book until my late teens, and it showed me a bleak future for myself. So queer media, in my opinion, is good for everyone. I think that seeing yourself in the media you consume can be life-changing, and equally I believe that seeing people different from you can be enlightening. I wanted to reassure queer kids and I wanted to soothe queer adults who were once queer kids who didn’t see themselves in the books they read. It was only through writing and getting to know Stevie and the people in her life that a goal started to become quite glaring I wanted to comfort people. When I started writing The Deepest Breath, my middle grade verse novel that follows Stevie as she muddles her way through questions of queerness and mental health, the story I had in mind was quite different. I usually have a simple idea and a main character, and that character and I figure it all out together. I don’t have a goal in mind when I start writing a book. It’s part of Build Your Stack, ® an NCTE initiative focused exclusively on helping teachers build their book knowledge and their classroom libraries. Build Your Stack ® provides a forum for contributors to share books from their classroom experience inclusion in a blog post does not imply endorsement or promotion of specific books by NCTE.
This blog post was written by author Meg Grehan.
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