Wine is a sensory experience, and so is love, but a book involves our imagination, not so much our senses. Book trailers give us a chance to involve two of our senses, sight and sound, though. So it’s only [...]
From March 3 until March 9, Read an E-Book Week will be celebrated. Read an E-Book Week is an annual international celebration of e-books. This year, it will be celebrated for the eleventh time. For one week, publishers and [...]
Ylva Publishing is happy and proud to announce that Lois Cloarec Hart has joined our team. Lois is the author of Coming Home, Broken Faith, and Kicker’s Journey. Kicker’s Journey won several awards, including the “IPPY” Bronze Medal of [...]
DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, and it refers to different technologies that publishers use to limit copying, sharing, and printing of e-books. The use of DRM is controversial. At first glance, DRM seems like a necessary thing to [...]
After the publication of Connected Hearts, Astrid Ohletz took the time to interview Joan Arling, who published her first story with Ylva Publishing. First of all, thank you very much for taking the time to answer my questions. How [...]
Today we’re going to talk about Smashwords, an e-book store and distributor that is growing rapidly but is still relatively unknown in Germany. Smashwords is an e-book publishing and distribution platform based in the US and used mostly by [...]
In the course of a seminar I was able to visit the S. Fischer Verlage, one of the top five publishers in Germany. For two hours, the heads of each department explained how their operational procedures work. It was [...]
Everyone starts with at least one resolution into a new year – even if it’s just the one to not have a resolution… We asked some of our authors about their writing-related resolutions for 2013. Jae: I’m planning on [...]
A very happy new year to all our readers. Before focusing on 2013 we wanted to take a last look back at 2012. Some of our authors shared with us what they found under the Christmas tree. Jae seems [...]
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for our lesbian book blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,600 views in 2012. If every person [...]