Author: Anthony Nerada

SKATER BOY coming Spring 2024 by Soho Teen!

I have waited my entire life for this moment…I’M GOING TO BE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR! And with the incredible team at Soho Teen (a Penguin Random House imprint) no less!

Thank you to everyone who has read my words over the years, who has listened to me pour my heart out and ramble on about all the stories inside my head! You don’t know how much you mean to me. ❤️

To Rena Rossner for believing in me and my story from the start. To Alexa Wejko for giving me a chance. I cannot say it enough, but THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

SKATER BOY skates onto the scene SPRING 2024 (!!!) 🛹🥹✨

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Skater Boy

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He was a punk.

He did ballet.

What more can I say?

My current work-in-progress follows the life of Stonebridge High’s resident bad boy, Wesley “Big Mac” Mackenzie, as he navigates through the intricacies of love and friendship all while learning that being yourself means meeting somewhere in the middle of who you were and who you want to be.

Skater Boy, a YA contemporary romance, is an LGBT-take on Avril Lavigne’s “Sk8er Boi” meets Darius the Great is Not Okay.