I love romance. Love it, love it, love it. Nothing satisfies me more than getting to the end of a well-written lesfic romance, closing the book (or switching off the Kindle), and breathing out that deep sigh of bliss [...]
Many factors affect how we, as writers, approach sex scenes. Of course, no matter our approach, there will always be readers who love the end result and readers who emphatically don’t. Just as people’s sexual preferences vary, so do [...]
The Happy End Factory plans to produce beautiful lesbian and feminist T-shirts when its crowdfunding finishes this month. To support their awesome ambitions, Ylva Publishing is joining forces to give away some of their cool T-shirt designs in postcard [...]
Tooling around social media the other day, I happened upon a comment that shot my eyebrows straight up into startled little apostrophes. An ardent romance fiction reader was complaining that she hated the conflict/hardship/tension trope that hits many a [...]
Books were everywhere in the house I grew up in. We had a library wall with its own sliding ladder in our living room. We had the basket where we kept the books from the actual library. Then there [...]
My only wish when I open a book is that somewhere amongst the thousands of words, there will be a few that will stick with me. That line that speaks to my heart, makes me laugh or shed a [...]
Ylva author and Carmilla webseries story editor Ellen Simpson has jumped on board the Ylva Top 5 Books challenge. Here she names the novels that were meaningful and influential in her life, revealing a taste for timeless classics, historical [...]
For us at Ylva HQ, 2016 was a hoot. We published over fifty English novels, novellas, anthologies, and short stories. Some of them were shortlisted for awards, some of them even won awards, a lot sold in the thousands [...]
New Year’s resolutions. Oh, how I hate them. Wait, should I start a blog post like that? Ah, well. I can’t help it. I think we all know we make these well-intentioned statements, resolved and a little liquored up [...]
The votes are in, and oh-so many of you voted. But there can only be one winner for Ylva’s Book of The Year 2016, and that was…drumroll, please…Four Steps by Wendy Hudson, for her romantic suspense novel with heartache, [...]