Hey there, lovely readers! In today’s blogpost, we had the pleasure of interviewing Quinn Ivins, the talented sapphic romance author behind “Pop-Tarts and Rice,” a story that expands on the world of her novel Worthy of Love. In this [...]
Hey, fabulous folks! Today, we’re wrapping up an awesome two-part series where we hang out with some of the absolute best-selling authors of lesbian romances! Jae, Lee Winter, Clare Lydon, and Harper Bliss are letting us in on their [...]
Hey there! We’ve got something special prepared for our first entries of 2024—a two-part blog post series where we talk with some of the best-selling lesbian romance authors out there! Jae, Lee Winter, Clare Lydon, and Harper Bliss spilled [...]
Charlotte Loudermilt, beta reader, lesbian fiction lover, and sex scene expert offers her insights into intimate moments in wlw books. Let’s talk about sex scenes in books. Authors usually hate writing them, and readers usually love reading them. And [...]
Best-selling author Jae has had a busy nine years since she joined Ylva. She reflects on the changing world of publishing, her writing journey, and her popular lesbian historical book Backwards to Oregon, which is celebrating an anniversary of [...]
As a reader, I have always had one foot firmly in the thriller and mystery genre. I think my earliest conscious foray into mystery novels was when I picked up my first Patricia Cornwell novel – ‘Postmortem’. Personally, I [...]
Ah, second novel syndrome… It takes an incredible amount of luck and hard work to get one book published, and there’s a learning curve so steep that Lindsay Vonn could ski down it, but surely the comfort there is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]