It’s freezing outside and and everywhere I look is snow and ice. I have to be honest: I do prefer this to gray and dreary weather. And I love to stay on my sofa, drink a cup of tea or [...]
The characters are the lifeblood of every story. You can have a great story idea and beautiful prose, but if readers don’t care for your main characters, they’ll put your book aside and never pick it up again. Readers [...]
Everyone starts with at least one resolution into a new year – even if it’s just the one to not have a resolution… We asked some of our authors about their writing-related resolutions for 2013. Jae: I’m planning on [...]
After another of the lesbian fiction publishers is about to close down, the discussions on some Yahoo groups started anew: What is better for authors—traditional or self-publishing? Well, we are a (not so) traditional publisher, but we tried to [...]
A very happy new year to all our readers. Before focusing on 2013 we wanted to take a last look back at 2012. Some of our authors shared with us what they found under the Christmas tree. Jae seems [...]
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for our lesbian book blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,600 views in 2012. If every person [...]
When I founded Ylva Publishing in the winter of 2011 and then published the first German e-book in April 2012, I never expected Ylva Publishing to sell more than 7,000 e-books in about nine months. Overall, we published five [...]
Thank you all for participating in the raffle. Unfortunately we only have two signed books of Something in the Wine by Jae to give away and the winners are: Erin Z. and Sandy R. Please write to info@ylva-verlag.de and [...]