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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 →
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
I love “iceberg” books like this – small and simple on the surface yet massive with complexity beneath the waterline. Malone has crafted a rich, rewarding read full of intriguing characters that somehow never move or act quite as you expect, | More →
Review: Verge | Lesfic Underbelly
Lesfic Underbelly has posted a rather animated review of Verge, by Z. Egloff. Check it out.: More →
Kelly and Val on Women-Stirred Radio
Val McDermid and Kelly Smith were interviewed on Women-Stirred Radio on Feb 4, 2010. You can listen to the interview here. You can find out more about Women-Stirred on their website: http://woman-stirred.blogspot.com More →
Review: A Field Guide to Deception | AfterEllen.com
Similar to Malone’s celebrated debut novel, Red Audrey and the Roping, her new novel is an engaging exploration of a fairly straightforward but compelling premise: who and how we love is often connected to what we need. Liv and Claire’s | More →
Review: Verge | Lambda Book Report
In November, Lambda Literary News reviewed Verge, the first novel by Z Egloff, published earlier this year (and featured in our August newsletter). The verdict? A book that begins quietly before picking up pace and “sweeping the reader | More →
Val in Curve and HuffPo
Curve features an article with Val McDermid, who describes her childhood growing up in a mining community. The interview coincides with publication of A Darker Domain featuring a new character, DI Karen Pirie “as fascinating and nuanced | More →
Interview with Val McDermid | Women in Hollywood
For an interview to tie in with last month’s broadcast of A Place of Execution, Women and Hollywood, Val was asked once again about violence — and women writing about violence. (And yes, she admits to getting pretty frustrated about | More →
Bywater Books in Provincetown
As regular readers will know, Bywater Books teamed up with Kate Clinton to host the first annual Laugh Out Loud panel, and the film is now up on the web. More →
Video: Bywater Books Booksigning at Womencrafts
A short clip of Bywater authors Cynn, Z, Marcia, Mari, Bett, and Marianne at a booksigning at Womecrafts in Provincetown. More →
Val McDermid on Open Book – Neglected Classics
Val McDermid appeared on Open Book on BBC Radio 4. The program invited 10 authors to champion a book they believe has been unfairly neglected. Listeners were invited to listen to all 10 nominations and then choose the book they feel deserves | More →
Val McDermid’s “A Place of Execution” on PBS
A 13-year-old girl vanishes from an English village, and the mystery deepens 40 years later when a journalist arrives to make a film about it. What she finds shatters the lives of all involved. Starring Juliet Stevenson and Greg Wise. More →
Marcia Finical Wins a Goldie
Many congratulations to Marcia Finical: with Last Chance at the Lost and Found, she won a “Goldie” for best General Dramatic Fiction from the Golden Crown Literary Society. More →
Dykewomon wins Duggins Award
Many congratulations to Elana Dykewomon: with Risk, her recently published novel, she won this year’s James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists’ Prize, awarded by the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival. More →
Review: Jill Malone | Jane and Jane
It is rare to find an author who knows how to write books that truly booby-trap her readers — books that start out feeling like a trip to the carnival on a sunny summer day, and take a left turn at the Tilt-a-Whirl and enter a dark place | More →
BlogAsheville | Profile: Cynn Chadwick
Like any university professor, UNC-Asheville‘s Cynn Chadwick holds an advanced degree. But unlike most, she flunked out of college on her first try. “Instead of going to classes,” she says, “I used to go to the track | More →
Stella Duffy Interview on AfterEllen.com
Growing up in a small town in New Zealand, out author Stella Duffy did not necessarily consider writing as a viable career choice. “It all sounds a little disingenuous,” she told AfterEllen.com, “but I promise I truly didn‘t | More →
Dangerous Dykes at the Harrogate Crime Festival
Val McDermid sat alongside Stella on the Dangerous Dykes panel at Harrogate Crime Festival, to discuss how lesbian writers have come to dominate the world of crime fiction. More →
