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Superb reviews for Sally Bellerose’s The Girls Club
Congratulations are due to Sally Bellerose for her incredible debut novel, The Girls Club. Here is what the critics have to say: “In her debut novel, Bellerose deftly tells the story of Cora Rose, Marie, and Renee LaBarre, a trio of working-class | More →
Woman-Stirred Radio Audio Archives
Click here to listen to Bywater authors Val McDermid, Marianne K. Martin, Joan Opyr, and many other fantastic writers. More →
New Marianne K. Martin title on sale
The Indelible Heart, the long-awaited sequel to Love in the Balance, is now available! “Marianne Martin is a wonderful story teller and a graceful writer with a light, witty touch with language and a sensitivity to the emotions of people | More →
Two Gold Medals for Lisa Gitlin
Lisa Gitlin’s novel I Came Out For This? has been awarded two Independent Publishers Book Award Gold Medals. She won in the both the Humor category and the Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Trans Fiction category. Joining Lisa in the Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Trans | More →
Sally Bellerose wins Short Fiction Contest
The winner and runners-up of the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival Short Fiction Contest have been chosen by this year’s judge, John Berendt. With so many entries it was hard to choose. Congratulations to all of the finalists. All the fine | More →
Literary Awards: Two Bywater Finalists
Parallel Lies by Stella Duffy has been shortlisted for two awards this week. It is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Mystery and a ForeWord Reviews’ Book of the Year Award in Gay/Lesbian Fiction. I Came Out For This by Lisa | More →
More McDermid Mysteries available from Bywater
Multi-award winning Bywater author Val McDermid has been attracting notice in various corners of the internet lately. She’s been listed as a go-to writer after you have finished Stieg Larsson‘s books and her award winning The Mermaids | More →
Review: Parallel Lies | Lambda Literary
Anyone who even glances at the tabloids by the register at the local drugstore or supermarket knows that celebrity has its dark side. Lindsay Lohan may be the best-known lesbian example (did she really just get out of re-hab and get a house | More →
Bywater Books’ publishers in Go Magazine
Marianne K. Martin, Val McDermid, and Kelly Smith have been featured in Go Magazine’s Workin’ It section. Check it out. More →
Stella Duffy wins Stonewall Writer of the Year 2010 Award
The fifth annual Stonewall Awards were held on Thursday 4 November 2010 at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. The event was hosted by comedian Sue Perkins and attended by more than 450 people including celebrities, politicians, sportspeople, | More →
Barbara Kahn wins playwriting award
Barbara Kahn, one of the authors included in Bywater’s holiday anthology All in the Seasoning with her short play “Winter Solstice: The Cat’s Meow” recently received the 2011 Robert Chesley Foundation Award for lgbt playwriting | More →
Lisa Gitlin talks with Carsen Taite
Carsen Taite inteviews author Lisa Gitlin on her first novel and the joys of rave reviews, making the personal fictional, and the possibility of a sequel. More →
Marianne Martin Blog at Red Room and at Women and Words
For Marianne K. Martin, the recent attention given to gay teen suicides evoked a deeply personal memory. Her latest blog was featured on the Red Room home page on Friday, October 29, 2010. Come and hear her story and please feel free to share | More →
Review: Parallel Lies | Book Marks
Yana Ivanova is Hollywood royalty, the best actress of her generation, with both a mysteriously vague past and a secret life that could shatter her hold on stardom. Jimmy is a chiseled hunk with a middling TV career whose primary occupation | More →
Review: I Came Out For This? | Lambda Literary
Bywater Books has been making a concerted effort to play with the big guns–Bella and Bold Strokes–in both the romance and mystery fields. With several Lammy finalists and a recent Lammy winner in their stacks, they are becoming a press | More →
Jill Malone Wins Lambda Literary Award
Jill Malone has won the 2010 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction for her second novel A Field Guide to Deception More →
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? that is bound to gather a large following. First, the subject matter: this is a the story of a Joanna Kane, a 47 year old Jewish woman from Cleveland, Ohio (‘which | More →
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 thinking it’s the real thing, you’ll never love another, you’ll die if you’re not together. It’s not supposed to happen when you’re | More →
Lisa Gitlin New Release and Cleveland Book Signings
Bywater Books is happy to announce the June 15th release of Lisa Gitlin’s first novel, I Came Out for THIS?, the hilarious coming out adventure of a Cleveland woman who moves to DC in pursuit of love. Lisa will be signing her book at | More →
Three Bywater titles are Lambda Literary Awards finalists
Congratulations are in order for Z Egloff, Elana Dykewomon, and Jill Malone. More →
