I’m a queer woman of color. I’m also a comic book fan. Sometimes, those things feel incompatible. It’s easy to understand why it often feels like comic books are written for fifteen-year old boys (or gross man-children) who spend [...]
Inspiration comes from all sorts of places for authors. I didn’t expect it to tap me on the shoulder one day while I was downing a drink or two at the local pub, but suddenly I found myself drawn [...]
Audiobooks are the fastest growing segment in publishing. Little wonder so many lesbian authors and publishers are jumping into the audio game. Ylva’s no exception, and right now we already offer lesbian audiobooks, including feelgood dating romance Popcorn Love, [...]
I love writing about desire between women. It’s a delight and also a privilege – how many women throughout history ever got a chance to do that? Living at a time when silly, joyful lesbian smut can be shared [...]
The hard part of selling any book in today’s lesbian fiction market is to make potential readers aware that it exists. It’s a struggle to get your voice heard among the huge number of lesbian books published daily. Ylva [...]
A huge part of our history and culture is the Pride events that are a celebration of queer communities and are held—usually—annually in many cities around the world. This is a huge gathering of people proud to be who [...]
I am not a romantic. I’m not kidding. Ask my wife, she’ll tell you and have a major eye roll to go along with it. I brought her flowers once, and when I tried to give them to her, [...]
February is Ylva’s month of romance and few books are sweeter than Hazel Yeats’s delightful first novel, Bunny Finds a Friend. It’s about a driven American children’s author finding romance with a laid-back Dutch woman in Amsterdam, and was [...]
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 [...]
After reading lesbian romances set in exotic Western locales, I always wondered what it would be like to read a story based in my own world. Since, as far as I could ascertain, such a story didn’t exist, at [...]