This Book Lovers Day, August 9, Ylva Publishing’s Lee Winter pays tribute to author and poet Murasaki Shikibu, the woman credited with writing the first full-length novel. Murasaki created her ground-breaking manuscript at a time in Japan when only [...]
Lesbian Workplace Romances? Remember work? Remember offices? Remember going to work in offices (and other places)? It really has been a long year, hasn’t it? Now as some countries take steps back to “normal”, our thoughts can turn to [...]
Popular Ylva author Lee Winter chats with us about her thought-provoking lesbian superhero novel Shattered as part of our Free Book Sundays campaign. Shattered won the 2018 Goldie Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy. Shattered is about a disillusioned lesbian superhero, but [...]
Last week, we gave you Jae’s favorite lesbian romances. This week, we’ve spoken to our wonderful senior editor, Jenny Spanier about her favorite lesbian books. It’s an eclectic list of mainstream reads and old favorites. How many have you already [...]
Angela Dawe, the hugely popular audiobook narrator of mainstream and lesbian fiction, discusses her Michigan roots, love of stories, rapping badly, philosophy, and whether she is, in fact, on the lam, in this second half of Lee Winter’s interview. [...]
What does it take to bring an audiobook to life? How does a narrator leap from accent to accent, exotic sci-fi place to erotic lesbian sex? It’s all in a day’s work for popular mainstream and lesbian fiction narrator [...]
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 [...]
In the second part of our celebration of October Fanfiction Theme Month, we’re highlighting the other eight lesbian books of sixteen that are on special sale because of their fanfiction origins. And, in case you missed the first blog here, [...]
Fanfiction has given millions of readers escapist fun as characters from their favorite shows get re-imagined by amateur writers in infinite ways. Sites such as Archive of Our Own and Fanfiction.net, to name the two biggest, get millions of [...]
Lesbians over fifty in real life are as commonplace as Cate Blanchett crushes and Miranda Priestly’s steaming-hot lattes. But within the pages of our books, where are the older women? I’m not talking about older, secondary characters—the quirky neighbor, [...]