Well, we’ve all been there. Romantic night, popcorn in hand, hot date snuggled up to you on your sofa. You’ve just hit Netflix or the DVD store for some hot new queer cinematic masterpiece you’ve heard is adored by [...]
On January 9, champagne popping, cheers, and wobbly cries of “I do” will sound across Australia as same-sex marriages are finally allowed to be performed. But amid the joy and rush to the altar, there’s another side to the [...]
E-books are one of the most satisfying presents to receive and they’re so easy to give…if you know how. The festive season is whizzing toward its fir-treed, bauble-lit, ho-ho-ho-tastic climax so you may be thinking: “What do I give [...]
After a bruising, costly, non-binding public debate and vote, the survey on whether to allow marriage equality in Australia saw almost 62 per cent of people say “yes”. An astonishing eight in ten eligible Australians voted, despite it not [...]
Ylva is dipping its toes (or should that be ears?) into the growing market of audiobooks. We love the idea you can kick back at home, or on the train, or while driving to work and be served up [...]
It never occurred to me I could be an author. Even though I was a journalist for decades, I just assumed I wasn’t good enough to be in that mystical creative writers’ club. Then one day a fanfiction I [...]
What’s a sensitivity reader and why are authors increasingly using them? It’s the hiss I remember most. I heard it from three different friends, across three different countries, and it sounded the same in each. I had just told [...]
Five things to know about lesfic protagonists: They should be white (Malibu tans are acceptable however), smoking hot (six-pack abs optional), rich (preferably a self-made millionaire), twenty-ish (ahh the perfection of youth), femme (soft butch if you must blur [...]
( Content Note: Suicide ) What is a hero? These days we call everyone a hero, from a child calling 911 to a sporting star doing his multimillion-dollar job. But what are heroes? Really? It’s Wednesday, March 26, 2014. [...]
Ylva’s firing up the party poppers over taking home six Goldies at the Golden Crown Literary Awards (GCLS) at the weekend. The awards recognize excellence in lesbian literature across fourteen genres and in five special categories. Ylva’s winning novels [...]