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T.M. Croke
T.M. Croke lives in Newfoundland, Canada, and hold degrees in English and Classics. She’s always had a love of writing, but it was only a secret passion. Her voracious writing habit led to the creation of a weekly writing group, which inspired her to step out of her comfort zone and share her expansive portfolio of original lesbian fiction.
When not writing, she spends her time playing hockey, hiking with her dog, Karma, and reading. She is currently working on a full-length novel.
E-mail: tmcroke@gmail.com
Cheri Crystal
Cheri Crystal is a healthcare professional by day and writes erotic romances by night. She is a native New Yorker who was born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island. Recently, Cheri has crossed the pond to live in the United Kingdom with her loving wife. A day doesn’t go by that she doesn’t miss her three kids, technically adults, but thanks to Skype and lots of visits with her family, she enjoys living in England’s southwest coast. Cheri began writing fiction in 2003 after reviewing for Lambda Book Report, Just About Write, Independent Gay Writer, and other e-zines. She is the author of Attractions of the Heart, a 2010 Golden Crown Literary Winner for lesbian erotica. In her spare time, she enjoys swimming, hiking, viewing wildlife, cooking, jigsaw puzzles, and spending quality time with family and friends.
Website: www.chericrystal.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/chericrystal
Fletcher DeLancey
Fletcher DeLancey is an Oregon expatriate who moved to Portugal to be with the love of her life. Now happily married for five years, Fletcher lives in the beautiful, sunny Algarve, where she devotes her spare time to learning the local birds and plants, and trying every regional Portuguese dish she can get her hands on. (There are many. It’s going to take a while.)
The rest of the time, she teaches Pilates, gardens, bakes extremely good brownies, rides her road bike on narrow country lanes…and writes.
She is best known for her five-book Star Trek: Voyager epic, The Past Imperfect Series, and for her science fiction novel Without A Front. Currently, she is working on a prequel to Without A Front and as an editor for Ylva Publishing.
Website: fletcherdelancey.com
Blog: oregonexpat.wordpress.com
E-mail: fletcher@mailhaven.com
R.G. Emanuelle
R.G. Emanuelle is from New York City and spent more than 20 years in publishing. She is co-editor of Skulls and Crossbones: Tales of Women Pirates, as well as All You Can Eat: A Buffet of Lesbian Erotica and Romance and Unwrap These Presents, both from Ylva Publishing. Her short stories can be found in numerous anthologies, including the 2014 Goldie nominee When the Clock Strikes Thirteen.
When she was a child, a neighbor called her a vampire because she only came out after dark, so it’s fitting that her first novel, Twice Bitten, is about creatures of the night. Her 2013 romantic novella, Add Spice to Taste, stars a love-burned chef, but she is always summoned back by the things that go bump in the night.
Blog: http://rgemanuelle.com/
Facebook: facebook.com/RGEmanuelle
Twitter: @Rgemanuelle
Eve Francis
Eve Francis’s short stories have appeared in Wilde Magazine, The Fieldstone Review, Iris New Fiction, MicroHorror, and The Human Echoes Podcast. Romance and horror are her favourite genres to write in because everyone has felt love or fear in some form or another. She lives in Canada, where she often sleeps late, spends too much time online, and repeatedly watches old horror movies and Orange Is The New Black.
Website: evefrancis.wordpress.com
Tumblr: paintitback.tumblr.com
S. M. Harding
S. M. Harding has had two dozen short stories published in various crime fiction publications, both on-line magazines and in print anthologies and magazines. Two of the most recent include A Snake in the Grass in Spinetingler and Scarecrow Field in Indiana Crime Review. Spirit of Christmas Past, Christmas Future is forthcoming from Ylva Publishing. The novel I Will Meet You There will be published by Bella Books in Spring of 2015. She teaches classes at the Writers’ Center of Indiana and participated in panels for their annual Gathering of Writers, also at Indy Author’s Fair, Magna Cum Murder and various local libraries. She edited and contributed an essay to Writing Murder, a collection of essays by Midwestern authors about writing crime fiction.
Blog: storytellersfire.wordpress.com
Facebook: facebook.com/100004961079442
Lois Cloarec Hart
Born and raised in British Columbia, Canada, Lois Cloarec Hart grew up as an avid reader but didn’t begin writing until much later in life. Several years after joining the Canadian Armed Forces, she received a degree from Royal Military College and on graduation switched occupations from air traffic control to military intelligence. Lois married a CAF fighter pilot while in college, and went on to spend another five years as an Intelligence Officer before leaving the military to care for her husband, who was ill with chronic progressive Multiple Sclerosis and passed away in 2001. She began writing while caring for her husband in his final years and had her first book, Coming Home, published in 2001. It was through that initial publishing process that Lois met her wife-to-be. She now commutes annually between her northern home in Calgary and her wife’s southern home in Atlanta.
Website: www.loiscloarechart.com
Jae
Jae grew up amidst the vineyards of southern Germany. She spent her childhood with her nose buried in a book, earning her the nickname “professor.” The writing bug bit her at the age of eleven. For the last eight years, she has been writing mostly in English.
She used to work as a psychologist but gave up her day job in December 2013 to become a full-time writer and a part-time editor. When she’s not writing, she likes to spend her time reading, indulging her ice cream and office supply addiction, and watching way too many crime shows.
Website: jae-fiction.com
Facebook: facebook.com/JaeAuthor
Blog: jae-fiction.com/blog
E-mail: jae_s1978@yahoo.de
Catherine Lane
Catherine Lane started to write fiction on a dare from her wife. She’s thrilled to be a published author, even though she had to admit her wife was right. They live happily in Southern California with their son and a very mischievous pound puppy.
Catherine spends most of her time these days working, mothering, or writing. But when she finds herself at loose ends, she enjoys experimenting with recipes in the kitchen, paddling on long stretches of flat water, and browsing the stacks at libraries and bookstores. Oh, and trying unsuccessfully to outwit her dog.
She has published several short stories and is currently working on a novella.
Facebook: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004577749399
Clare Lydon
Clare Lydon penned her first novel at primary school and it scored 9.5/10. She’s still not sure what she was docked half a point for. A lack of lesbians perhaps? It’s not something anyone could accuse her of these days.
Clare’s debut novel, London Calling, was released in February 2014 and became an Amazon No.1 best-seller overnight. A tale of one woman’s search for love in modern-day London, the book is littered with ladygays, a vat of tequila and a colourful array of Converse. Her second novel, The Long Weekend, is due out in November 2014.
Clare’s a Virgo, a Spurs fan, a karaoke queen and a Curly Wurly devotee. She’s also never owned a cat and runs screaming from anything DIY. She lives with her wife in London.
Website: www.clarelydon.co.uk
Lee Lynch
Lee Lynch’s most recent book is An American Queer. It, The Raid and Beggar of Love, are published by Bold Strokes Books. She is the namesake and first recipient of The Lee Lynch Classic Award for The Swashbuckler. She’s been honored with the Golden Crown Literary Society Trailblazer Award, the Alice B. Reader Award, induction into the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame, the James Duggins Mid-Career Award, and, for Beggar of Love, the Lesbian Ficti
on Readers Choice Award, the Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award, and Book of the Year Award from ForeWord Reviews.
Website: http://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/author-lee-lynch.html
Andi Marquette
Andi Marquette is an editor and award-winning author of mysteries, science fiction, and romance. Her latest novels are Day of the Dead, the Goldie finalist The Edge of Rebellion, and From the Hat Down. She is also the co-editor of the anthology All You Can Eat: A Buffet of Lesbian Romance and Erotica.
Website: andimarquette.com
Patricia Penn
When Patricia was a teen, her school’s job qualification test said that she should be a surgeon since she has a big ego, and she doesn’t like other people. Later, she read a theory about how all authors secretly are social outcasts anyway, and decided that the pen suited her even better than the scalpel. She currently also sells her soul to a day job in marketing in Frankfurt, Germany. She lives with her dog in a small town near Frankfurt, and has given long-distance relationships a new meaning with her girlfriend, who lives in Massachusetts.
Cindy Rizzo
Cindy Rizzo lives in New York City with her wife, Jennifer, and their two cats. She has worked in philanthropy for many years and has a long history of involvement in the LGBT community. Cindy is the author of Exception to the Rule, a lesbian romance and winner of the GCLS Debut Fiction award. Her second book, Love Is Enough, was released in September 2014. Earlier writing includes essays in the anthologies, Lesbians Raising Sons and Homefronts: Controversies in Non-Traditional Parenting. She was the co-editor of a fiction anthology, All the Ways Home, published in 1995 (New Victoria) in which her story “Herring Cove” was included. She serves on the boards of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah in New York and Funders for LGBT Issues. She and her wife have two grown sons, a wonderful daughter-in-law, and a baby granddaughter.
L.T. Smith
L.T. is a late bloomer when it comes to writing and didn’t begin until 2005 with her first novel Hearts and Flowers Border (first published in 2006).
She soon caught the bug and has written numerous tales, usually with a comical slant to reflect, as she calls it, ‘My warped view of the dramatic.’
Although she loves to write, L.T. loves to read, too—being an English teacher seems to demand it. Most of her free time is spent with her furry little men—two fluffy balls of trouble who keep her active and her apologies flowing.
Facebook: facebook.com/pages/LT-Smith/535475523205666
Blog: ltsmithfiction.wordpress.com
E-mail: fingersmith@hotmail.co.uk
Ashley Stevens
Ashley has been spinning yarns for as long as she can remember. Originally trained in sociology, she made an honest attempt to function in the real world. However, it has since become clear that her calling is definitely a literary one as she does not play well with others. She is now a student at Georgia Regents University in Augusta, Georgia, where she is studying English with a concentration in creative writing. Ashley has lived in the Augusta area for over 20 years but has plans to run away and live on the beach. She shares her life with her two beasties (aka her children) and one spoiled Catahoula Leopard Dog.
Devin Sumarno
Devin lives a life full of contrasts and contradictions. She loves short verses and big dramas. Her voice couldn’t decide whether to be a tenor’s or a soprano’s. She’s too shy to say hello to a stranger but enjoys reciting monologues onstage.
Being half German and half Indonesian at least makes her a complete Hapa. Constantly being less than complete made her believe in diversity on the one hand and not taking herself too seriously on the other. She tries to close gaps because she sees no spaces between the letters of LGBTIQ.
Devin tells tales from the borderlines she lives at. She has a tendency to walk on the darker sides of life and literature but always tries to brighten them—with odd humor and idealistic naivety.
Come and visit Devin—she appreciates the company:
Website: devinsumarno.wordpress.com
Facebook: facebook.com/devinsumarno
Micro fiction blog: devinsumarno.blogspot.de
E-mail: devin.sumarno@aol.com
Wendy Temple
A passionate Scot, Wendy grew up in East Edinburgh. As a child it was her dream to live on the historic Royal Mile, which she did for a number of years before returning to the seaside a few years ago.
With an academic background in Community Education; Healthcare & Physical Education, she has held numerous jobs in these fields and is a passionate advocate of keeping access to further education & healthcare free for all and lessons in physical education available to all schoolchildren.
A sports fanatic, Wendy played hockey & volleyball competitively & five-a-side football for leisure. Her hobbies include watching lots of sport, reading & writing; genealogy & history.
Wendy started writing fanfiction in 2005 to impress a woman…
Website: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006125834803
E-mail: weebod@mac.com
Other books from Ylva Publishing
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Still Life
L.T. Smith
ISBN: 978-3-95533-258-7 (mobi), 978-3-95533-259-4 (epub)
Length: 95,000 words (352 pages)
After breaking off her relationship with a female lothario, Jess Taylor decides she doesn’t want to expose herself to another cheating partner. Staying at home, alone, suits her just fine. Her idea of a good night is an early one—preferably with a good book. Well, until her best friend, Sophie Harrison, decides it’s time Jess rejoined the human race.
Trying to pull Jess from her self-imposed prison, Sophie signs them both up for a Still Life art class at the local college. Sophie knows the beautiful art teacher, Diana Sullivan, could be the woman her best friend needs to move on with her life.
But, in reality, could art bring these two women together? Could it be strong enough to make a masterpiece in just twelve sessions? And, more importantly, can Jess overcome her fear of being used once again?
Only time will tell.
Under a Falling Star
Jae
ISBN: 978-3-95533-239-6 (mobi), 978-3-95533-240-2 (epub)
Length: 91,000 words (354 pages)
Falling stars are supposed to be a lucky sign, but not for Austen. Her new job as a secretary in an international games company isn’t off to a good start. Her first assignment—decorating the Christmas tree in the lobby—results in a trip to the ER after Dee, the company’s second-in-command, gets hit by the star-shaped tree topper.
Dee blames her instant attraction to Austen on her head wound, not the magic of the falling star. She’s determined not to act on it, especially since Austen has no idea that Dee is practically her boss.
Barring Complications
Blythe Rippon
ISBN: 978-3-95533-192-4 (mobi), 978-3-95533-193-1 (epub)
Length: 77,000 words (374 pages)
It’s an open secret that the newest justice on the Supreme Court is a lesbian. So when the Court decides to hear a case about gay marriage, Justice Victoria Willoughby must navigate the press, sway at least one of her conservative colleagues, and confront her own fraught feelings about coming out.
Just when she decides she’s up to the challenge, she learns that the very brilliant, very out Genevieve Fornier will be lead counsel on the case.
Genevieve isn’t sure which is causing her more sleepless nights: the prospect of losing the case, or the thought of who will be sitting on the bench when she argues it.
Bitter Fruit
Lois Cloarec Hart
ISBN: 978-3-95533-213-6 (mobi), 978-3-95533-214-3 (epub)
Length: 50,000 words (244 pages)
Fuelled by booze and boredom, Jac Lanier accepts an unusual wager from her best friend. Victoria, for reasons of her own, impulsively challenges Jac to seduce Lauren, her co-worker and a young woman Jac’s never met. Under the terms of their bet, Jac has exactly one month to get Lau
ren into bed or she has to pay up. Though Lauren is straight and engaged, Jac begins her campaign confident that she’ll win the bet. But Jac’s forgotten that if you sow an onion seed, you won’t harvest a peach. When her plan goes awry, will she reap the bitter fruit of her deception? Or will Lauren turn the tables on the thoughtless gamblers?
Mac vs. PC
Fletcher DeLancey
ISBN: 978-3-95533-188-7 (mobi), 978-3-95533-189-4 (epub)
Length: 32,000 words (148 pages)
As a computer technician at the university, Anna Petrowski knows she has one thing in common with doctors and lawyers, and it’s not the salary. It’s that everyone thinks her advice comes free, even on weekends. That’s why she keeps a strict observance of her Saturday routine: a scone, a caramel mocha, and nobody bothering her. So when she meets a new campus hire at the Bean Grinder who needs computer help yet doesn’t ask for it, she’s intrigued enough to offer. It’s the beginning of a beautiful friendship and possibly something more.