Facing public restrooms and toilets becomes a challenge when you don’t look like a feminine woman. French lesbian blogger and activist Élisabeth Chevillet flushes out some painful experiences queer people face when trying to mind their pees and queues. [...]
Charlotte Loudermilt, beta reader, lesbian fiction lover, and sex scene expert offers her insights into intimate moments in wlw books. Let’s talk about sex scenes in books. Authors usually hate writing them, and readers usually love reading them. And [...]
Ylva has invited French lesbian blogger and activist Élisabeth Chevillet to write the occasional fun and insightful blog on what’s happening in her world. In her first offering she introduces herself to us along with her entertainment loves. [...]
A new year, new lesbian books, and a new reading challenge! Here at Ylva, we love a challenge—and we love great women-loving women books, so we are jumping into the Sapphic Book Bingo, created by our best-selling author Jae. [...]
Best-selling author Jae has had a busy nine years since she joined Ylva. She reflects on the changing world of publishing, her writing journey, and her popular lesbian historical book Backwards to Oregon, which is celebrating an anniversary of [...]
In honor of “Celebrate Bisexuality Day”, September 23, Ylva Publishing is delighted to go truly international and chat with Sarita KC, a bisexual LGBT+ campaigner from Nepal. Welcome Sarita. What was your coming out experience like in [...]
Why do so many readers love enemies to lovers in lesbian romance? Why does the idea of “enemies to lovers” capture our imaginations and our hearts? Let’s be honest: in real life, it’s not the most likely scenario. People [...]
This Book Lovers Day, August 9, Ylva Publishing’s Lee Winter pays tribute to author and poet Murasaki Shikibu, the woman credited with writing the first full-length novel. Murasaki created her ground-breaking manuscript at a time in Japan when only [...]
Lesbian Workplace Romances? Remember work? Remember offices? Remember going to work in offices (and other places)? It really has been a long year, hasn’t it? Now as some countries take steps back to “normal”, our thoughts can turn to [...]
We love a good lesbian book at Ylva, so we’re cheering on the Sapphic Reading Challenge 2021, dreamed up by our best-selling author, Jae, by tossing in some Ylva titles of our own. To participate in this fun challenge [...]