Raven’s Heart wins Benjamin Franklin Book Award 2013

Congratulations to Jesse Blackadder! Her novel The Raven’s Heart has just been awarded the top prize in Historical Fiction category. As the largest not-for-profit trade association in the book industry, the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA)...

Lambda reviews Giraffe People

Merry Gangemi recently interviewed Jill Malone for Woman-Stirred Radio. For Lambda Literary, she reviewed Jill’s new novel, Giraffe People, and says it’s a title she “really liked.” There is, she says, a lot to appreciate about the writing: the...

LLF Book Club reads Art on Fire

The Lambda Literary Foundation’s Online Book Club chooses a title to read and promises that the books selected “will be a heady mix of LGBT classics, unheralded gems, and buzz-worthy new releases.” The Club has now chosen Hilary Sloin’s Art on...

Goldie WINNERS 2013

Congratulations are due again to Jesse Blackadder and Hilary Sloin! Both authors have received a lot of praise, picking up nominations for awards and even the awards themselves. Now the Golden Crown Literary Society has given awards to Jesse Blackadder in the...

GO loves Marianne K. Martin

Marianne K. Martin is featured on Go Magazine’s 2013 List of 100 Women We Love. The magazine tips its hat to her for the court case she fought to win equal pay for women coaches, her involvement in Bywater Books, and her nine (and counting) novels. She writes...

Saints & Sinners 2013 honors Marianne K. Martin

The Saints & Sinners Literary Festival is recognised by the publishing industry as the best and brightest gay literary gathering. This year was its tenth anniversary and so particularly exciting. Our own Marianne K. Martin (right) was inducted into the Saints and...