It’s the festive season, and here at Ylva, we feel a personal responsibility to make the yuletide gay! We’ve collected eleven different stories from authors all across the globe, who have shared with us what the festive season means [...]
Catherine Lane discusses her love of American football and why she thinks it’s the most romantic lesbian sport. Romantic and football are not two words you usually string together. American football is a game of hard hits and precision [...]
Two years ago this week, Lee Winter took the plunge to become a full-time author of lesbian fiction. She learnt way more than she ever bargained for. Finding yourself at a major life crossroads can be as much fun [...]
Author Jody Klaire asks what’s with all the labels, and do we really need them to define ourselves? Life is full of labels, asking us to define ourselves, but do you ever feel like you’re a multiple-choice questionnaire? I [...]
A year ago, I was a literature student with the vague idea of wanting to be an editor one day, while trying to set my expectations of getting any job in that area low after everyone told me how [...]
Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin once called editors “a writer’s natural enemy.” He may have also claimed editors drive authors to drink and crimp their sex lives, but that’s another story. He is right, though, about the [...]
In the second part of our celebration of October Fanfiction Theme Month, we’re highlighting the other eight lesbian books of sixteen that are on special sale because of their fanfiction origins. And, in case you missed the first blog here, [...]
Movies come and go, like this summer’s splashy Ocean’s 8 with Cate Blanchett playing it gayer than she did in Carol. Television though. That’s the real MVP, where the shows and characters that come into our lives once a [...]
Fanfiction has given millions of readers escapist fun as characters from their favorite shows get re-imagined by amateur writers in infinite ways. Sites such as Archive of Our Own and Fanfiction.net, to name the two biggest, get millions of [...]
I know that some people have mixed feelings about National Coming Out Day. I get it—the encouragement and celebration of one’s coming-out shouldn’t be restricted to one day. On the other hand, the day itself has become such an [...]