To celebrate the holiday season and our first year in publishing, we will be giving away free e-books and printed books every Sunday in Advent and on December 24 (since this is the day we celebrate Christmas in Germany). [...]
First, thank you to my publisher for letting me use their blog since I don’t have one of my own yet. I’ve been tagged by fellow author Jae for the 23rd week of The Next Big Thing Blog Hop. [...]
The first Christmas markets in Germany have opened. A good reason to present an excerpt of our Lesbian Christmas Anthology Gingerbread Hearts. For today we’ve chosen an excerpt of It’s in the Pudding by Emma Weimann. Here’s the blurb [...]
We’re happy to announce that our Christmas anthology Gingerbread Hearts: Six Lesbian Christmas Stories has been published just in time for the start of the holiday season. It’s now available in e-book format at Amazon and Smashwords. We put together [...]
We mentioned before that we’re going to blog about the reasons why we reject manuscripts. At the start of our series of blog posts, let’s talk about the most common reason for rejecting manuscripts: The author told the story instead [...]
Publishing e-books is fun. There’s no question. And we love publishing e-books. But then there’s the other kind of books. The one you read under the blanket as a child, the one that has this certain smell always associated [...]
In our first year of business, we received more than a dozen manuscripts. We had to reject ninety percent of them—mostly for the same reasons. Here are the top twelve reasons manuscripts are rejected: The author is telling instead [...]
In Jae’s newest novel, Something in the Wine, straight accountant Annie is tricked into going on a blind date by her brother Jake. When Annie finds out Jake’s supposedly male friend Drew is really a lesbian, she and Drew [...]
There are many myths and misconceptions about writing and publishing, including the assumption that a book will be published with minimal changes soon after the author submits it to the publisher. But that’s not the case, at least not [...]
Something in the Wine, Jae’s first novel-length book with Ylva Publishing and her first traditional lesbian romance, has just been released. We asked Jae to tell us a little bit about the novel and how she came up with [...]