Download or read book Self Publishing Lesbian Fiction written by Elizabeth Andre and published by TulaBellaRuby Press. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step guide for successfully writing and self-publishing lesbian, Sapphic, WLW, queer, and other fun fiction! Write and self-publish your novel in e-book, print, and audiobook formats. I can show you how. I’m an award-winning bestselling lesbian fiction author, and I’ve been writing and self-publishing fiction since 2014. I’ve learned a lot on this journey, and I’ve put it all in this book including: *Publishing your book for little or no money *How to make money from your novel *Why self-publishing is a great option for those who write lesbian, Sapphic, WLW, or queer fiction *Tips for completing your novel and becoming a better writer *How to work with editors and cover designers *Formatting your book and getting it ready to publish *Mastering marketing even if you hate it *Navigating the growing list of publishing platforms available for self-published authors *How to get your book into bookstores I have been self-publishing lesbian fiction since 2014. I write cozy paranormal mystery, lesbian romance, science fiction, and young adult stories. Before turning my hand to fiction, I was a newspaper reporter for many years, and I have the paper cuts to prove it. I have won many writing awards including a Goldie from the Golden Crown Literary Society for fiction and a Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club for journalism. I am a lesbian in an interracial same-sex marriage living in the Midwest. Topics: Creativity self help, authorship/business aspects, LGBTQ+ studies, lesbian studies, authorship, writing lesbian fiction, marketing lesbian fiction, making money from writing, making money from publishing, editing revising, e-book formatting, paperback formatting, hardcover formatting, feminism, lesfic, sapphic, sapphlit, wlw, gay fiction, lesbian novels, queer books, lesbian, LGBTQ+, queer, bisexual, transgender, pride, cover design, pull marketing, push marketing, publishing platforms, pride, romance fiction, genre fiction

Download or read book Highland Fling written by Anna Larner and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eve Eddison describes her ideal woman to her best friend, Roxanne, over pints in their local pub a few days before she travels to the Scottish Highlands. There she falls head over heels for an enigmatic local, Moira Burns, and the usually reticent Eve wants more than a holiday romance. Forestry officer Moira Burns has no intention of letting go—either of past pain or for present pleasure. If that means she misses out on her chance at happiness, so be it. Convinced Eve is headed for heartbreak, Roxanne advises her to let Moira go…but has Eve found her ideal woman at last? From the breathtaking Highlands of Scotland to the buzz of a Leicester gay bar, family and friendship are tested to breaking point, as letting go proves painfully hard.

Download or read book Highland Whirl written by Anna Larner and published by Bold Strokes Books. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When city girl about town Roxanne Barns reluctantly accepts a holiday invite to her best friend Eve's birthday party in the Scottish Highlands, the last thing she expects is to fall for the very person she's been dreading seeing again-the feisty Highlander, Alice Campbell. The moment Alice learns that Roxanne is visiting her home hamlet of Newland, she couldn't be more suspicious or defensive. A warm welcome is certainly not the plan, let alone falling in love. Despite Eve's warnings that Roxanne is not relationship material, Alice can't ignore her growing attraction. She absolutely trusts Eve's judgment, but taking her advice just might break Alice's heart. Highland Whirl reunites readers with the characters and landscape of Highland Fling in an emotionally enthralling story of trust, friendship, family, and love.

Download or read book The Latecomer written by Sarah Aldridge and published by Bywater Books. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latecomer by Sarah Aldridge was the first book published by the legendary Naiad Press and one of the first known novels to grant a happy ending to its lesbian main characters. Coming home from a summer spent in research in Europe, Philippa unexpectedly shares her stateroom with Kay, a stranger. Philippa, nearing forty, reserved, inexperienced in close human relationships, and Kay, eight years younger, lively, gregarious, agonizing over a frustrated love affair, spend five days during their stormy Atlantic crossing learning the key to each other’s natures. Philippa and Kay believe their arrival in New York harbor will end their brief friendship, but circumstance intervenes. They meet again in Washington, D.C., where Kay's lover's career has led to possible catastrophe for all involved. It is Philippa who must act as a mediator for Kay—hiding her growing feelings to protect Kay's best interests. The Latecomer invites you into the world of Philippa and Kay, strangers who meet aboard a cruise ship and, despite very different lives and aspirations, find a surprising bond. Through political and romantic intrigue, they uncover the truth about themselves.

Download or read book Curious Wine written by Katherine V. Forrest and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intimacy of a cabin at Lake Tahoe provides the combustible circumstances that bring Diana Holland and Lane Christianson together in this passionate novel of first discovery. Originally published by Naiad Press in 1983, Bella Books is proud to bring the bestselling romantic lesbian novel of all time back to print. With multiple printings and translations worldwide, Curious Wine is an enduring classic and on everyone's list of the very best in our literature.

Download or read book Truly Wilde written by Joan Schenkar and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the niece of Oscar Wilde reveals a talented but troubled woman who destroyed a promising literary career through substance abuse and a series of distracting affairs. 15,000 first printing.

Download or read book Patience and Sarah written by Isabel Miller and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, an educated painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming c...

Download or read book Guapa written by Saleem Haddad and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut novel that tells the story of Rasa, a young gay man coming of age in the Middle East Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval. Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. One night Rasa's grandmother — the woman who raised him — catches them in bed together. The following day Rasa is consumed by the search for his best friend Maj, a fiery activist and drag queen star of the underground bar, Guapa, who has been arrested by the police. Ashamed to go home and face his grandmother, and reeling from the potential loss of the three most important people in his life, Rasa roams the city’s slums and prisons, the lavish weddings of the country’s elite, and the bars where outcasts and intellectuals drink to a long-lost revolution. Each new encounter leads him closer to confronting his own identity, as he revisits his childhood and probes the secrets that haunt his family. As Rasa confronts the simultaneous collapse of political hope and his closest personal relationships, he is forced to discover the roots of his alienation and try to re-emerge into a society that may never accept him.

Download or read book All I Want For Spring written by Clare Lydon and published by Custard Books. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never mind spring: will their relationship survive the weekend? All Tori & Holly want for spring is a romantic break in sunny Rome. But what happens when they don’t spell romance the same way? What happens when their long-held beliefs are challenged? Welcome back to the world of London’s No.1 lesbians as they jet off on their first holiday together. Will Tori & Holly come back from their weekend away stronger than ever, or bruised by love? If you love lesbian romance with humour & soul, the third book in the All I Want series is a must-read. Cosy up with Tori & Holly and grab your copy today!

Download or read book Adorno Foucault and the Critique of the West written by Deborah Cook and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The alliance of critical theory between Frankfurt and Paris Adorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West argues that critical theory continues to offer valuable resources for critique and contestation during this turbulent period. To assess these resources, it examines the work of two of the twentieth century's more prominent social theorists: Theodor W. Adorno and Michel Foucault. Although Adorno was situated squarely in the Marxist tradition that Foucault would occasionally challenge, Deborah Cook demonstrates that their critiques of our current predicament are complementary in important respects. Among other things, these critiques converge in their focus on the historical conditions-economic in Adorno and political in Foucault-that gave rise to the racist and authoritarian tendencies that continue to blight the West. Cook also shows that, when Adorno and Foucault plumb the economic and political forces that have shaped our identities, they offer remarkably similar answers to the perennial question: What is to be done?

Download or read book You re My Kind written by Clare Lydon and published by Custard Books. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you give your first love a second chance? Justine Thomas and Maddie Kind met at university and were the couple most likely. Everybody said so. That is, until Maddie left without saying goodbye. Ten years later the pair are reunited at a friend’s funeral, and now Justine can’t shake Maddie from her life. But why is she back? Why did she disappear? And more importantly, is she interested in the whole cake, or just one last slice of Justine? Strap in for a novel that deals with life’s big topics: love, death & cake. Clare Lydon is the queen of British romantic comedy, and this stellar lesbian romance is guaranteed to give you all the feels. Quite simply, it’s unputdownable.

Download or read book Southern Gothic Coming of Age written by Alessandro Paolo Perucci and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in THE POLITICAL UNREST of 1957 in Alabama, it is the ENDEARING, HEARTFELT, AND TENDER story of a rebellious young southern girl named Roberta Ann Ericson who has made life for her mother difficult. She is an eight year old tomboy who has chased away her previous housekeepers. Mrs. Ericson a prim southern belle is astounded by a mysterious black woman from New York who is unlike anyone the town has ever seen. She is friendly, knowledgeable, and has a profound secret which has brought her to the old fashioned small town called Old Southern Hospitality. It is the hot summer of 1957 where adventure will follow Bobbi, and to protect her and keep her safe will be Mary who will not only become her confidant, but her one true friend. Mary keeps a careful eye out for the young girl. And ends up inspiring an amazed Bobbi. And she tells Bobbi prophetically, "Miss Bobbi and I will get along just fine. I know young girls. She will do right by her family. She may blossom into fragile yet poignant womanhood." One spirited Southern girl will make the heartbreaking Friendship of a Lifetime.This is the unforgettable classic American literature of SOUTHERN GOTHIC COMING OF AGE.

Download or read book Who I Was with Her written by Nita Tyndall and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A beautiful, poised, and thought-provoking debut about love, loss, coming out, and discovering living life on your own terms." —New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Glasgow There are two things that Corinne Parker knows to be true: that she is in love with Maggie Bailey, the captain of the rival high school's cross-country team and her secret girlfriend of a year, and that she isn't ready for anyone to know she's bisexual. But then Maggie dies, and Corinne quickly learns that the only thing worse than losing Maggie is being left heartbroken over a relationship no one knows existed. And to make things even more complicated, the only person she can turn to is Elissa—Maggie's ex, and the single person who understands how Corinne is feeling. As Corinne struggles to make sense of her grief and what she truly wants out of life, she begins to have feelings for the last person she should fall for. But to move forward after losing Maggie, Corinne will have to learn to be honest with the people in her life...starting with herself.

Download or read book That Certain Something written by Clare Ashton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love or money? Follow the head or heart? Pia and Cate seem to be flip sides of a coin. But when they meet they definitely have that certain something, and these questions aren't so simple after a night like theirs. Pia Benitez-Smith has her head in the clouds of ideals and romance. She's a photojournalist out to prove herself with her compassionate eye and although not exactly accident prone, most days trouble seems to find her. On one such day, she literally falls into the arms of the beautiful Cate. Elegant, intriguing and classy, Cate is Pia's polar opposite. When the two dispute the importance of love versus money, Cate is adamant that her perfect night will always be an expensive one. Working class Pia can't resist the challenge and with the assistance of a beguiling summer night in London, she begins to enchant her new friend. An irresistible couple, a charismatic city, a priceless supporting cast - That Certain Something is a sparkling romcom from Goldie award winner Clare Ashton.

Download or read book The Long Weekend written by Clare Lydon and published by Custard Books. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets. Lies. Romance. Wine. Take seven lesbians and two gay men, then drop them into a gorgeous Devon house over the Easter break. You’ve been on this weekend, haven’t you? Do you remember what happens next? Stir together laughs, high drama and flowing booze, then leave to simmer. Nine friends + four nights = one hell of a long weekend… Praise for The Long Weekend… “Funny, thoughtful and plays out like a movie in your head.” – Joanne Hand “This second offering from Clare Lydon is her best. Like a fine wine, she just gets better.” – Scott Campbell “Fantastic book that harks back to the feeling and atmosphere of Peter's Friends.” – Angela Hudson-Price Buy The Long Weekend and get your fix of lesbian romance & drama today!

Download or read book All the Little Moments written by G Benson and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 teeth 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.

Download or read book London Calling written by Clare Lydon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When the plane took off, I wondered what Karen was doing, if she was happy, knew I was leaving or wanted me back. Whatever, it was too late now. I was gone..." Jess Sharp is at a crossroads - back in London, living in her parents' spare room, jobless and single. Not quite the irresistible package she was aiming for at age 32. One night things take an upward turn when she meets someone who could be a game-changer. But everything in her riotously chaotic life seems to get in the way, including her best friend's wedding, far too much tequila and the ghosts of girlfriends past. The course of true love has never been so injury-prone. Will Jess eventually overcome her romantic ineptitude and find her happy ever after? Or will she continue to trip over her own feet in the race for romance? A cracking debut novel from a new UK talent that zips along with sparkling dialogue and believable, yet original characters.