Jae reveals what makes her tick, as well as the mistakes and lessons learned on her way to being a best-selling author of lesbian romances. Please tell us five unusual or important things about yourself. Okay, let’s see… [...]
Humor is a subjective thing. So much so, that when I was a junior reporter, our cadet trainer warned us never to inject humor in stories. Not just, “Hey, maybe not till you’re older and more experienced”. Nope, like [...]
Today our senior editor Sandra Gerth talks about how she learned to be more productive, a topic that is not only of interest for authors. Most writers I know get a lot of e-mail—messages from beta readers, editors, publishers, [...]
Today is a very special day: We’re celebrating World Book Day in Germany, it’s four year since we’ve published the first (German) lesbian fiction paperback, and it’s my (the publisher’s) birthday, all rolled into one. As an avid reader, I always [...]
As a lesbian fiction publisher I spend most of my time at my desk. There is not a lot of contact with readers in my daily routine. I guess the same is true for authors. So, I was happy [...]
I find it interesting how much emphasis is put on coming out the first time, because really, as members of the LGBTQ community, we spend our entire lives coming out. We do it over and over again to each [...]
Popcorn love, that is. Exciting news: KL Hughes’s highly successful lesbian fiction romance Popcorn Love, which Ylva published this past September, will soon be available in the language of love – French! This marks the beginning of an exciting new [...]
Author Cheyenne Blue, a well-loved short story writer who can be found in countless lesfic anthologies (many of the erotic persuasion, might we add) in the past decade, published her first longer work with us just last month. Aren’t we lucky? [...]
For the New Year, we thought we’d bring back something we used to do in the past but haven’t done in a long while – a blog hop with Ylva authors. A blog hop is where a group [...]
Each year at Ylva around this time, we ask our authors to tell us about the cool and interesting gifts they received during the holiday season. This year, answers ranged from the humorous to the touching. We think you’ll find their [...]