Australian lesbian fiction author Cheyenne Blue reveals who she is and the tips and lessons she learned along the way when she started writing. Tell us five important, funny, or unusual things about yourself I always wear brightly [...]
Jae reveals what makes her tick, as well as the mistakes and lessons learned on her way to being a best-selling author of lesbian romances. Please tell us five unusual or important things about yourself. Okay, let’s see… [...]
When Linda Riley, publisher of iconic lesbian magazine DIVA, decides to put on a new British literary festival, there’s little doubt she can pull it off. Not just pull it off, but lure in the likes of queer actress [...]
Notice anything about the above list? It’s the list of book categories in my local library. Yup, that’s right. No LGBTQ+ section. That’s not to say there aren’t LGBTQ+ books. There are—just not many of them, and they’re also [...]
London. One of the greatest cities in the world, and the place I have called home—albeit with a couple of interruptions—for the past twenty-seven years. It’s a city that conjures up a wealth of adjectives in the thoughts most [...]
Your fandom ship never sailed. Everyone was treated terribly from beginning to end. Your favorite character died in the most tragic way. But in the past few years, some queer fandoms started to make clear that they would no [...]
Ylva author Jae’s new novel, Perfect Rhythm, is a lesbian romance that is a little different. In this interview, Jae reveals why she decided to write about an asexual main character, as well as the research and approach she [...]
There are more and more books being published in lesbian fiction. So, here at Ylva, we thought it was time to take a closer look at what’s hot and selling at the moment. It will come as no surprise [...]
Bisexuality. It’s eleven letters, but for some in the lesbian community it might as well be a four-letter word to take offense at, like “fuck” or “cunt.” You know what I mean; those words that just get people 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 [...]