The third book, Out on Good Behavior, was a finalist for the 2016 Bisexual Book Awards in both Teen Literature and Romance. Īdler wrote a three-book new adult series called Radleigh University. Under the Lights was included on ALA's Rainbow Book List in 2016. In the companion novel Vanessa has to deal with a new co-star while Ally is off at college, and the former unexpectedly falls for the girl assigned by her publicist to handle her. A companion novel, Under the Lights, followed in 2015. It has also been translated into Spanish and published by Ediciones Kiwi. Selected works Īdler's debut young adult novel, Behind the Scenes, about high school senior Ally who gets entangled in her celebrity best friend Vanessa's Hollywood life when she falls for her co-star, was published in 2014 by Spencer Hill. As of January 2020, she is a contributor to Buzzfeed Books.

In addition to writing novels, she also runs the queer representation-focused blog and was a blogger at the Barnes & Noble Teen blog from December 2013 until November 2019. She is a graduate of New York University, with a BA in journalism. And one in which Natalya explores the city, tries to repair things with her mom, works on figuring out her future, and goes for the guy she never saw coming.Cool for the Summer, Out on Good Behaviorĭahlia Adler is an American author of young adult and new adult fiction.ĭahlia Adler was born in New York City and raised in the suburbs. She can't, and so both summers play out in alternating timelines - one in which Natalya explores the city, tries to repair things with her mom, works on figuring out her future, and goes for the girl she's always wanted. Natalya Fox has twenty-four hours to make the biggest choice of her life: stay home in NYC for the summer with her dad (and finally screw up the courage to talk to the girl she's been crushing on), or spend it with her basically estranged mom in LA (knowing this is the best chance she has to fix their relationship, if she even wants to.) (Does she want to?) In Dahlia Adler's Going Bicoastal, there's more than one path to happily ever after. The Homo Sapiens AgendaĪ queer Sliding Doors YA rom-com in which a girl must choose between summer in NYC with her dad (and the girl she's always wanted) or LA with her estranged mom (and the guy she never saw coming). It's got all the Dahlia Adler trademarks-romance, wry humor, specificity, and genuine emotional depth.' - Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Kate in Waiting and Simon vs. 'This is what it looks like when a brilliant high concept is executed to perfection.

Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler