For us at Ylva HQ, 2016 was a hoot. We published over fifty English novels, novellas, anthologies, and short stories. Some of them were shortlisted for awards, some of them even won awards, a lot sold in the thousands [...]
New Year’s resolutions. Oh, how I hate them. Wait, should I start a blog post like that? Ah, well. I can’t help it. I think we all know we make these well-intentioned statements, resolved and a little liquored up [...]
The votes are in, and oh-so many of you voted. But there can only be one winner for Ylva’s Book of The Year 2016, and that was…drumroll, please…Four Steps by Wendy Hudson, for her romantic suspense novel with heartache, [...]
I never used to think much about dawdling. Or pottering, meandering, sauntering, strolling or lolling about. That’s what retirees did. Or my brother-in-law’s surfer mates. Or little kids. But not me. Hell, no. I had no time for such [...]
From vampires, assassins, thieves, cooks, heiresses, detectives and doctors to swashbuckling alien sword masters, Ylva has had a richly diverse publishing year. The biggest-selling e-book this year for us was Blurred Lines by K.D. Williamson, ahead of Wounded Souls [...]
For me, the end of the year is always a special time, not just because I get to eat way too many Christmas cookies and spend time with family and friends. It’s also a time for reflection and resolutions—taking [...]
Ylva author Lee Winter finds a few of the western world’s Christmas traditions more than a little head scratching. Here, she rails at all the silly things we do at this time of year that make absolutely no sense [...]
In Manhattan, where I live, Chinese restaurants are mobbed on December 25th. This is because in days past these were the only restaurants open on Christmas. The other establishments open that day were movie theaters. And so it became [...]
When Ylva’s publisher Astrid Ohletz asked me early in November if I would be willing to contribute a holiday blog, I eagerly said yes. After all, I love the holidays. When I think back, it’s not that they’ve always [...]
I admit it; this list could change at any moment. A long-forgotten and much loved novel could pop into my head and push someone else off the end of the plank. It’s a cut-throat world, this favorites game. But [...]