SILVER IndieFab for Jill Malone

The 2013 IndieFab Awards were established fifteen years ago by Foreword Reviews to recognize the best in independent publishing, and the judges are drawn from a panel of more than 100 librarians and booksellers. The winners for this year’s Indie Fab Awards have...

A Decade of Bywater Books

Bywater Books is 10 years old! In that time, we’ve published 20 titles that have won awards — or, to put it another way, two-thirds of the new fiction we’ve published has been recognized by organisations as diverse as the American Library...

Celebrating 10 Great Years

On April 1, 2014 Bywater Books, the award-winning publisher of quality lesbian writing, celebrated a decade in the book industry and the receipt of its 20th prize for literary merit. Bywater publishes approximately six books per year, both literary and commercial...

More Great Reviews for Wynn Malone

Since it was published this spring, Finding the Grain has been picking up great reviews for Wynn Malone. Lezbelib says that both “story and the characters are marvelously described”, and ends with this enthusiastic sign-off: “Yes, I liked this book...

Sally is a Winner!

Congratulations to Sally Bellerose, whose short story “Corset” has been announced as the winner of the Saints and Sinners 2014 Short Fiction Contest. Sally was one of twelve finalists and was chosen as the eventual winner by Jewelle Gomez, a Lambda...

Leap nominated for a Goldie

Congratulations to Z Egloff! The Golden Crown Literary Society has just announced the Goldie Finalists for 2014, and Z’s second novel, Leap, has just been nominated in the category Dramatic/General Fiction.