Ylva’s having an ultimate Fanfiction-to-Book Sale, and ex-fanfiction writer LEE WINTER explains the allure of everyday writers fixing what’s broken in straight-centric TV and films. Okay, picture it: your two TV crushes—hot actresses with so much swagger and sapphic [...]
Ylva would like to introduce its newest author, Ana K. Wrenn. Her debut sapphic novel, Strange Attractors, is set in dark academia in Appalachia and has aspects of romance, psychological thriller, and suspense. Tell us about yourself, Ana. [...]
Author LEE WINTER learned a lot about life from studying Anne Lister in the TV series Gentleman Jack. She shares some fun lessons we might take from the charismatic 19th century landholder and ladies woman. Dress to confound [...]
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 [...]
In honor of “Celebrate Bisexuality Day”, September 23, Ylva Publishing is delighted to go truly international and chat with Sarita KC, a bisexual LGBT+ campaigner from Nepal. Welcome Sarita. What was your coming out experience like in [...]
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 [...]
We love a good lesbian book at Ylva, so we’re cheering on the Sapphic Reading Challenge 2021, dreamed up by our best-selling author, Jae, by tossing in some Ylva titles of our own. To participate in this fun challenge [...]
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 [...]