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  • A Field Guide to Deception
  • All in the Seasoning
  • Angels and Manners
  • Babies, Bikes and Broads
  • Bleeding Hearts
  • Blood Guilt
  • Booked for Murder
  • Cat Rising
  • Common Murder
  • Conferences are Murder
  • Dance in the Key of Love
  • Dawn of the Dance
  • Deadline for Murder
  • Dreams and Swords
  • For Now, For Always
  • Girls with Hammers
  • Greetings from Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer
  • Hostage to Murder
  • I Came Out For This?
  • Idaho Code
  • Last Chance at the Lost and Found
  • Legacy of Love
  • Mirrors
  • Miss McGhee
  • Mouths of Babes
  • Never Ending
  • Red Audrey and the Roping
  • Report for Murder
  • Risk
  • Stranded
  • Thicker than Water
  • Under the Witness Tree
  • Verge
  • What's Best for Jane

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Marianne K. Martin on Romance Marianne K. Martin on Romance

Romance is not the obvious place to explore the difficulties faced by gay teachers and students. All the more reason, says Marianne K. Martin, to do so. After all, “fictional characters, like real people, need to react to plausible, relevant life situations...  More


Events

Stella Duffy touring the UK Stella Duffy touring the UK

Stella Duffy is on the road promoting her new UK book, Theodora, Actress, Empress,  More


Elana Dykewomon in New York Elana Dykewomon in New York

Elana will be in New York for In Amerika they Call Us Dykes: Lesbian Lives in the  More


Lisa Gitlin Events Lisa Gitlin Events

Bywater Books is happy to announce the release of Lisa Gitlin’s first novel,  More


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Newsletters

September 2010 September 2010

Elana Dykewomon explains why her writing is a form of activism—and why she chose  More


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Authors

Bett Norris Bett Norris

Bett Norris, born and raised in Alabama a few short miles from the place where Harper  More


Elana Dykewomon Elana Dykewomon

Elana Dykewomon is an activist, an author, and a teacher and has a fiercely dedicated  More


Lindy Cameron Lindy Cameron

Lindy Cameron lives on Victoria’s beautiful Mornington Peninsula outside Melbourne,  More


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News

Review: I Came Out for This? | Amazon Top 10 Review: I Came Out for This? | Amazon Top 10

Lisa Gitlin comes onto the summer literary scene with a novel I Came Out for This?  More


Review: I Came Out for This? | Akron Beacon Journal Review: I Came Out for This? | Akron Beacon Journal

Teenage angst is like this, falling hard and fast for the first person you date and  More


Three Bywater titles are Lambda Literary Awards finalists Three Bywater titles are Lambda Literary Awards finalists

Congratulations are in order for Z Egloff, Elana Dykewomon, and Jill Malone.  More


Review: A Field Guide to Deception | outinprint.net Review: A Field Guide to Deception | outinprint.net

I love “iceberg” books like this – small and simple on the surface yet massive  More


Review: Verge | Lesfic Underbelly Review: Verge | Lesfic Underbelly

Lesfic Underbelly has posted a rather animated review of Verge, by Z. Egloff. Check  More


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Submissions

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Manuscript Submission Use this form to submit your work. Be sure...  More


Submission Tips Submission Tips

The Basics: 1. Follow Directions While it may seem that publishers are in a conspiracy to force you to make changes every time you have to submit a manuscript, this is not the case....  More


Submitting your manuscript to Bywater Books Submitting your manuscript to Bywater Books

How to Submit Your Manuscript Bywater Books is looking for well-written commercial fiction targeted to lesbian readers. We are especially interested in mysteries, romances and general...  More