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 [...]
A lesbian book club sounded like such fun. A small, friendly circle of book-loving women engaged in witty conversation—that’s an introvert’s equivalent of a New Year’s Eve celebration. Throw in some wine and cheese, or coffee and cake, and [...]
Catherine Lane discusses her love of American football and why she thinks it’s the most romantic lesbian sport. Romantic and football are not two words you usually string together. American football is a game of hard hits and precision [...]
Author Jody Klaire asks what’s with all the labels, and do we really need them to define ourselves? Life is full of labels, asking us to define ourselves, but do you ever feel like you’re a multiple-choice questionnaire? I [...]
A year ago, I was a literature student with the vague idea of wanting to be an editor one day, while trying to set my expectations of getting any job in that area low after everyone told me how [...]
Movies come and go, like this summer’s splashy Ocean’s 8 with Cate Blanchett playing it gayer than she did in Carol. Television though. That’s the real MVP, where the shows and characters that come into our lives once a [...]
One thing readers who love diverse fiction will tell you is that traditional publishing houses have left some mighty huge holes in the market. “Diversity” is generally a catchphrase for those publishers, more than a real commitment. So if [...]
What makes a perfect kiss? As a lesbian reader, there’s nothing I love more than a perfect fictional kiss. But having to write a good kiss? That scares the hell out of me. Kisses—especially first kisses—are hard to write. [...]
Lesbians + sport. They go together like beer and jalapeño poppers. And, I firmly believe that tennis is the most lesbian of sports. That rumbling noise in the background? That would be the sound of engines firing up as [...]
When I tell people I write lesbian romance novels for a living, I often get raised eyebrows. What surprises people even more is that I, as a German, write my books in English and then translate them into my [...]