To the folks who looked over Crest and Sean’s Journey along the way, thank you for creating a gentle current of encouragement with your comments, notes, and blurbs: Gene Brenek, Elise Bryant, Z. R. Ellor, Eric Geron, Bayne Gibby, Sarah Henning, Georgina Kamsika, Megan Wagner Lloyd, Alejandra Oliva, Bethany C. Morrow, Steven Salvatore, Adam Sass, and Jonathan Unger.

To all the authors, librarians, booksellers, podcasters, journalists, and book bloggers who made my debut year with Jay’s Gay Agenda something truly magical. From panels to launches to interviews to DMs to emails, there are so many of you who reached out and showed me so much kindness, and I will be forever grateful for your love, advice, and generosity.

To Mom and Dad and Mom, to all the aunts and uncles, to my cousins, to my nieces and nephews, to my in-laws, to my brother, to all my friends who are family: You are my pod. Y’all have never stopped encouraging my imagination and my ambition, and I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you swimming by my side.

To the readers! You make being an author a whale of a good time! Seriously, I can’t tell you enough how much your messages and tweets and reviews have meant to me. Whether it was with Jay and Albert and Max and Lu in JGA, or here with Crest and Sean and Kavya and Miguel, you picking up my books and flipping through their pages and sending me your thoughts on my stories is why I write. I’m squealing in Dolphin, and it means You are everything!

Finally, to Jerry, for riding every wave with me and pulling me up if ever I flounder. I love you.

About the Author

Illustration by David Salamanca R.

JASON JUNE has planned to be a merperson ever since he first saw The Little Mermaid and strongly identified with King Triton’s daughters. While he waits for his fin to appear, Jason June writes young adult works full of queer joy and love and lust and magic. He is the author of Jay’s Gay Agenda and can be found on social media @heyjasonjune and on his website at www.heyjasonjune.com.

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Books by Jason June:

Jay’s Gay Agenda

Out of the Blue

Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

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