Wine is a sensory experience, and so is love, but a book involves our imagination, not so much our senses. Book trailers give us a chance to involve two of our senses, sight and sound, though. So it’s only [...]
From March 3 until March 9, Read an E-Book Week will be celebrated. Read an E-Book Week is an annual international celebration of e-books. This year, it will be celebrated for the eleventh time. For one week, publishers and [...]
Ylva Publishing is happy and proud to announce that Lois Cloarec Hart has joined our team. Lois is the author of Coming Home, Broken Faith, and Kicker’s Journey. Kicker’s Journey won several awards, including the “IPPY” Bronze Medal of [...]
DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, and it refers to different technologies that publishers use to limit copying, sharing, and printing of e-books. The use of DRM is controversial. At first glance, DRM seems like a necessary thing to [...]
Today, we want to introduce our newest lesbian novella, Hot Line, by posting a scene between the two main characters Linda and Christina: * * * When Linda returned from the kitchen and handed her a bowl of ice [...]
Thank you all for participating in the raffle. Unfortunately we only have two e-books of Hot Line to give away and the winners are: Nanc (Irish Eyes) and Peggy A. Congratulations to the winners. Please let us know to [...]
To celebrate Valentine’s Day with our readers, we are offering one of the stories from our newest anthology, Connected Hearts, for free. Jae kindly volunteered one of her stories and would like to say a few words to her [...]
After the publication of Connected Hearts, Astrid Ohletz took the time to interview Joan Arling, who published her first story with Ylva Publishing. First of all, thank you very much for taking the time to answer my questions. How [...]
Most of the submissions we had so far—and most lesbian fiction—are romance novels. The success of the book stands and falls with the writer’s ability to develop a believable, satisfying romance. Unfortunately, many of the submissions we received failed [...]