Blythe Rippon
Blythe Rippon holds a PhD in the humanities and currently teaches writing to undergraduates. Until now, her publishing has been of the academic variety. When not grading papers or imagining plots for future novels, she is usually holding forth about the political injustice of the day, hiking, or experimenting in the kitchen. She has lived all over the United States and at present can be found in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her wife and children.
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Website: sites.google.com/site/blytherippon/
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Ruth F. Simon
Originally from a small town in southern Arizona, Ruth F. Simon escaped the desert to spend twelve years in the Seattle metro area. She and her wife transplanted to Brooklyn in 2006 so Ruth could study medieval British literature at New York University.
A fountain pen and hat fanatic, Ruth is a member of the Golden Crown Literary Society, Sisters in Crime, the Mystery Writers of America, the Romance Writers of America, and the National Writers Union. She is a proud graduate of the first-ever GLCS Writing Academy program.
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Alison Ruth Solomon
Alison Solomon might be defined as the archetypal “Wandering Jew”: she grew up in England, lived for many years in Israel, moved to the USA, where she has lived on the East and West Coast, and also spent a number of years in Mexico. She is happily married to Carol. They live in Gulfport, Florida, with two rescue dogs, who very kindly allow the couple to take care of them.
Alison has published numerous articles and chapters on feminism, mental health, and diversity in academic textbooks, anthologies, journals, and newspapers. She authored Witch Hazel, a humorous, lesbian-feminist column that ran in the Philadelphia Weekly in the 1990s and an advice column in the Sacramento Jewish Voice.
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Website: AlisonRuthSolomon.weebly.com
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Lyn Thorne-Alder
Lyn Thorne-Alder was born in rural New York State and grew up in a log cabin (not a barn, as she often claims). She lives in the Finger Lakes region with her husband and three cats. Her garden occasionally threatens to take over the world.
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Caren J. Werlinger
Caren was raised in Ohio, the oldest of four children. Much of her childhood was spent reading every book she could get her hands on and crafting her own stories. She completed a degree in foreign languages and later another degree in physical therapy. For many years, her only writing was research-based, including a therapeutic exercise textbook. She has lived in Virginia for over twenty years, where she practices physical therapy, teaches anatomy, and lives with her partner and their canine fur-children. She began writing creatively again several years ago. Her first novel, Looking Through Windows, won a Debut Author award from the Golden Crown Literary Society in 2009. In 2013, Miserere, In This Small Spot, and Neither Present Time all won or placed in the 2013 Rainbow Awards. In This Small Spot won Best Dramatic Fiction in the 2014 Golden Crown Literary Awards.
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Website: cjwerlinger.wordpress.com
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Chris Zett
Chris Zett lives in Berlin, Germany, with her partner. TV inspired her to study medicine, but she found out soon enough that real life in a hospital consists more of working long hours than performing heroic rescues. The part about finding a workplace romance turned out to be true, though.
She uses any opportunity to escape the routine by reading, writing, or traveling. Her favorite destinations include penguin colonies in Patagonia and stone circles in Scotland.
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Unwrap These Presents
Astrid Ohletz & R.G. Emanuelle
ISBN: 978-3-95533-278-5 (mobi), 978-3-95533-279-2 (epub)
Length: 130,000 words (443 pages)
Twenty-three authors of lesbian fiction contributed holiday stories that give you snow, presents, plenty of food, Holiday cheer and nicely wrapped curvy women under the tree.
This anthology won the 2015 Golden Crown Literary Society Award in the category anthology/collection (fiction).
Love Beneath the Christmas Tree
Jae
ISBN: 978-3-95533-135-1 (mobi), 978-3-95533-136-8 (epub)
Length: 15,000 words
Three short stories that follow the lives of Rachel Lewis, self-confessed Christmas Grump, and Lillian Coleman, the woman who makes her believe in the magic of Christmas again.
The Christmas Grump: For Rachel Lewis, a security guard at the mall, the Christmas holiday season is one big headache. She wants nothing to do with the celebration of love, peace, and family harmony. Her disenchantment with the holiday slowly begins to change when she meets seven-year-old Tyler and his mother.
Kissing Ms. Santa Claus: Rachel is counting the days until she and Lillian celebrate their first Christmas together as a couple. She is filled with longing for only one thing to make her holiday complete: a long-term commitment from Lillian. She sets out to find the perfect gift that will reflect her love and devotion.
The Christmas Elf: After her home state finally recognizes same-sex marriages, Rachel wants to propose to Lillian. Rachel is confident she has it all covered. She plans to take a second job as the mall Santa Claus to earn the money for Lillian’s ring. But luck is not on her side, so Rachel finds herself with bells on her toes, playing a Christmas Elf.
Cast Me Gently
Caren J. Werlinger
ISBN: 978-3-95533-388-1 (mobi), 978-3-95533-389-8 (epub)
Length: 100,000 words (353 pages)
Teresa Benedetto and Ellie Ryan couldn’t be more different, at least on the surface.
Teresa still lives at home. As much as she loves her boisterous Italian family, she feels trapped by them and their plans for her life. Their love is suffocating her.
Ellie has been on her own for years, working hard to save up enough to live her dream of escaping from Pittsburgh to travel the world. Except leaving isn’t that simple when she knows her brother is out on the streets of the city somewhere, back from Vietnam, but not home.
When Teresa and Ellie meet and fall in love, their worlds clash. Ellie would love to be part of Teresa’s family, but they both know that will never happen. Sooner or later, Teresa will have to choose between the two halves of her heart—Ellie or her family.
Set in 1980, the beginning of the Reagan era and the decline of Pittsburgh’s steel empire, Cast Me Gently is a classic lesbian romance.
All the Little Moments
G Benson
ISBN: 978-3-95533-342-3 (mobi), 978-3-95533-343-0 (epub)
Length: 132,000 words (350 pages)
A successful anaesthetist, Anna is focused on herself, her career, and her girlfriend. Everything changes abruptly when her brother’s and sister-in-law’s deaths devastate her and her family. Left responsible for her young niece and nephew, Anna finds herself dumped and alone in Melbourne, a city she doesn’t even like. She tries to navigate the shock of looking after two children battling with their grief while managing her own.
Filled with self-doubt, Anna feels as if she’s making a mess of the entire thing, especially when she collides with a long-legged stranger. Anna barely has time to brush her t
eeth in the morning, let alone to date a woman—least of all one who has no idea about the two kids under her care.
Just when Anna finally starts to feel as if she’s getting some control of the situation, the biggest fight begins and Anna really has to step up once and for all.
Tales of the Grimoire – Book 1
Edited by Astrid Ohletz & Gill McKnight
ISBN: 978-3-95533-425-3 (mobi), 978-3-95533-426-0 (epub)
Length: 93,000 words
On a dark and stormy night a coven of writers gathers to spellcheck under a hallowed moon. The result is a bubbling cauldron of fear, suspense, and absolute sexiness.
From the ghostly seduction of a Victorian governess, to vampires in the substance abuse clinic, with witchery in the coffee house, and cannibalism in the kitchen, this selection of stories is dark, damning, and terrifyingly erotic.
To be read by candlelight, and never alone!
COMING FROM YLVA PUBLISHING IN WINTER 2015/2016
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The Bureau of Holiday Affairs
Andi Marquette
Corporate executive Robin Preston didn’t get where she is by being nice. That’s why the Bureau of Holiday Affairs has scheduled an intervention for her that’ll take her to her past, present, and future in hopes she’ll be able to change her ways and open her heart to the one woman Robin thought she’d left in her past. Will the Bureau’s agents succeed in their mission? Or is Robin a lost cause?
Just Physical
Jae
After being diagnosed with MS, actress Jill takes herself off the romantic market. On the set of a disaster movie, she meets stunt woman Crash, whose easy smile makes her wish things were different.
Despite their growing feelings, Jill is determined to let Crash into her bed, but not her heart. As they start to play with fire on and off camera, will they be able to keep things just physical?
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Do You Feel What I Feel. A Holiday Anthology
© by Jae & Fletcher DeLancey
ISBN (mobi): 978-3-95533-546-5
ISBN (epub): 978-3-95533-547-2
Also available as paperback.
Published by Ylva Publishing, legal entity of Ylva Verlag, e.Kfr.
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Owner: Astrid Ohletz
Am Kirschgarten 2
65830 Kriftel
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First edition: October 2015
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to locales, events, business establishments, or actual persons—living or dead—is entirely coincidental.
Credits
Edited by Sandra Gerth, Fletcher DeLancey, Sheri Milburn, and Michelle Aguilar
Cover Design by Streetlight Graphics
“S. Claus” © Blythe Rippon 2015
“This Thing” © Jove Belle 2015
“Red Suits and Second Chances” © Eve Francis 2015
“A Gift of Words” © Patricia Penn 2015
“Snow, With a Chance of Love” © B.A. Caldwell 2015
“Crossroads” © Ruth F. Simon 2015
“More Than a Holiday Romance” © Chris Zett 2015
“We Wish You a Merry Christmas” © Lyn Thorne-Alder 2015
“Sadie and Rosa” © Alison Ruth Solomon 2015
“Kicker’s Christmas” © Lois Cloarec Hart 2015
“Just a Normal Christmas” © Caren J. Werlinger 2015
“Chatting With Charlie” © Catherine Lane 2015
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