Ever want a chill to run up your bones? Study a good villain. Not someone who mustache twirls or cackles, or monologues about why they have to kill the country/planet/universe (spoiler: because they’re evil, bwahaha). Nor someone weak as [...]
Languages can be a minefield. It’s hard enough mastering one, let alone telling stories in a different tongue. Obviously translators don’t always get it right and there are so many things that can go wrong with foreign languages…or right, [...]
We live in an age of constant flux, and our relationship with technology is rapidly changing. Machines are no longer separate entities, that we switch off and on, but a crucial part of our daily lives. There’s this eccentric Australian [...]
On January 9, champagne popping, cheers, and wobbly cries of “I do” will sound across Australia as same-sex marriages are finally allowed to be performed. But amid the joy and rush to the altar, there’s another side to the [...]
Ylva is releasing award-winning novelist Lee Winter’s Requiem for Immortals in German this month, as Requiem mit tödlicher Partitur. We’d love to share the interview she did for German lesfic lovers on how she came up with her gritty, [...]
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 [...]
What’s a sensitivity reader and why are authors increasingly using them? It’s the hiss I remember most. I heard it from three different friends, across three different countries, and it sounded the same in each. I had just told [...]
Ylva Publishing is doing a happy jig today after two more of its books won prizes in the mainstream 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards. The Caphenon (Chronicles of Alsea Book 1) by Fletcher DeLancey tied for a bronze medal [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]