 In October 2019, DC Comics announced publication of "You Brought Me the Ocean", a graphic novel based on the character Aqualad, to be published in June 2020, authored by Sanchez and illustrated by Julie Maroh, author of "Blue is the Warmest Color (comics)".In 2011 the Lambda Literary Foundation awarded Sanchez the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize.In 2016 he received an attribution in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language for the word "majorly."