Emily Waters
Emily Waters is a fiction writer. Her debut novel, Honey in the Marrow, was released by Ylva Publishing in October 2022.
Besides writing, Emily is a full time librarian. She holds a BA in English Literature from Chapman University and earned a Masters of Library Science at Indiana University.
Emily lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and likes coffee, puttering around her backyard garden, staying home, and binge watching old TV shows starring strong-willed female leads with pretty hair.
You can find Emily on social media at @emilyraywaters or contact her by email at emilyraywaters@gmail.com.
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Liz Arncliffe
Liz Arncliffe has been telling stories big and small since she was a child, spinning yarns about imaginary critters in the Appalachian foothills where she grew up. She’s only ever lived in the southeastern United States, though she constantly threatens her wife and family with packing up and moving to parts far and wide.
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Liz has spent much of her adult life either studying or teaching history, religion, and historic theologies. She loves to travel, grow things, read, and write. She watches far too much tennis and spends any remaining time cursing at the woodpeckers in her backyard as they refuse to respect her boundaries. -
Anne E. Terpstra
Anne E. Terpstra (she/her) writes heartfelt, sex-positive fiction that is grounded in realism and centers LGBTQ+ characters. Her debut novel, Beyond Any Experience, will be published in May 2022 with Ninestar Press.
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Anne graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia and has degrees in journalism and technical theater. She has worked as a copy editor/proofreader, and she is a member of the Chicago Writers Association. In addition to being an author, Anne is a potter and photographer. In all of her pursuits, she enjoys exploring the unexpected angle or unappreciated detail.
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Ruby Landers
Ruby Landers lives in Meanjin (Brisbane) Australia. As you’re reading this she is either typing a million daydreamy words a minute, giving someone a thousand-yard stare while secretly working out a plot twist, having a deep conversation with anyone four-legged, bargaining with an expert toddler negotiator, or dreaming of quitting her day job. Either way, there’ll be coffee.
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Eada Friesian
Eada Friesian is an author of snarky sapphic women who fall in love hard. She loves all the characters and relationships she gets to play with and the best friends she makes with each new book she writes. She fell in love with the genre years ago and could never leave it. Who would? Now that she’s authoring her own books, she hopes to bring a fresh flair to the sapphic book world.
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Eada lives in the mountains, camping her life away with her partner and horde of animals. She has her family right by her side as she strives to live her best life authentically as an author, a parent, a spouse, and weird person. She loves the smell of campfire, the taste of a completely charred marshmallow for a s’more, and living off the land with very little peo -
Robin Clairvaux
Robin Clairvaux spends their time dreaming up soft-hearted sapphic stories, and sometimes...they even write them down! When they aren't daydreaming, Robin loves reading, especially sapphic romance and old school whodunnits, watching classic movies, and singing along with their vintage jazz playlist while commuting to their day job as a technical editor.
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Robin grew up all over the (mostly southern) United States then went to college in New York City, but their roots are deep in the red dirt of Oklahoma, where they now live, work, and play.
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Emily Banting
Emily Banting is an award-winning and bestselling author of contemporary sapphic romance featuring LGBTQ+ characters and plenty of British humour. History obsessed, she throws her sapphic leading ladies into historic buildings and environments at every opportunity, and believes strongly in representing women over forty in literature.
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Broken Beyond Repair received the following awards:
GOLDIE WINNER 2024: AUDIOBOOK NARRATOR (ANGELA DAWE)
GOLDIE WINNER 2023: THE ANN BANNON POPULAR CHOICE BRONZE AWARD
WINNER OF THE LESFIC BARD AWARD 2022: ROMANCE
WINNER OF THE LESFIC BARD AWARD 2022: COVER DESIGN
WINNER OF THE QUEER INDIE AWARDS 2022: CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
And a 2023 GCLS Goldie finalist in
CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE LONG NOVEL
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Rachael Sommers
Rachael Sommers was born and raised in the North-West of England, where she began writing at the age of thirteen, and has been unable to stop since. A biology graduate, she currently works in education and constantly dreams of travelling the world. In her spare time, she enjoys horse riding, board games, escape rooms and, of, course, reading.
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Milena McKay
Milena McKay is a Lambda Literary and Golden Crown Literary Society award-winning sapphic fiction author.
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She is a cat whisperer who wears four-inch heels for work while secretly dreaming of her extensive Converse collection. Would live on blueberries and lattes if she could.
Milena can recite certain episodes of The West Wing by heart and quote “Pride and Prejudice” in her sleep. Her love for Cate Blanchett's Carol Aird knows no bounds.
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J.J. Arias
Hello! And thank you for finding me!
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I am an independent author writing about fictional lesbians of all varieties.
My writing journey began with fan faction, and as much as I LOVED being part of a community of super fans, I got tired of working with other people’s characters to tell my stories. I started asking myself: Why should we string together pieces of subtext when our community deserves well-developed main-text about LBGT people and those who love them! So, that is what I aim to deliver.
If you want to know a little more about me personally, J.J. Arias is my pen name. I do have a day job, and due to the industry I’m in, I can’t write under my given name. Although who knows, maybe one day I can write full-time and come out of the … off -
Monica McCallan
Monica McCallan was an enthusiastic fan of romance novels before she began writing them.
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Writing is her passion project, and she currently lives in Philadelphia, working at a startup which gives her lots of great inspiration for the settings and storylines of her contemporary romance novels.
She lives with her partner and two tiny dogs, cannot parallel park to save her life, enjoys playing pool a few times a week, and has enjoyed every second of the craft beer explosion these last few years.
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Erin Zak
Erin Zak is a sapphic contemporary romance writer who loves older women, imperfect people, and beautiful places. She’s a bit dorky and quirky and tries to make sure every single one of her characters has those same qualities. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram at @erinzakwrites. You can also listen to her podcast, The Weekly Wine Down, where she gets tipsy with her best friends while discussing any and everything.
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Carrie Byrd
Carrie Byrd is a California native and college professor who lives just outside Philadelphia. She loves hiking and kayaking, burritos, video games, Old Hollywood, Eagles football and Phillies baseball, teaching poetry, talking a mile a minute, and traveling around the world with her wife.
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An extrovert who thrives on a stage, Carrie once won first place by crowd vote for her improvised lip sync of “Jessie’s Girl” at a packed drag brunch. She considers it one of her life’s greatest accomplishments.
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Lee Winter
Lee Winter is an award-winning veteran newspaper journalist who has covered courts, crime, news, features and humor writing for almost three decades around Australia. Now a full-time author and part-time editor at Ylva, Lee is also a two-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and a multiple Golden Crown Literary Award winner.
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Adrian J. Smith
Adrian J. Smith has been publishing since 2013 but has been writing nearly her entire life. With a focus on women loving women fiction, AJ jumps genres from action-packed police procedurals to the seedier life of vampires and witches to sweet romances with a May-December twist. She loves writing and reading about women in the midst of the ordinariness of life. Two of her novels, For by Grace and Memoir in the Making, received honorable mentions with the Rainbow Awards.
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AJ currently lives in Cheyenne, WY, although she moves often and has lived all over the United States. She loves to travel to different countries and places. She currently plays the roles of author, wife, and mother to two rambunctious kids, occasional handy-woman. Connect wi -
Clare Ashton
Clare Ashton loves writing sapphic stories. Whether it’s a romcom or mystery, there’s always a queer woman about. With gorgeous settings, from the hills of Wales to college halls of Oxford, every book is a travel destination from the comfort of an armchair. Best known for her award-winning, sunny romance, Poppy Jenkins, and rollercoaster family drama, The Goodmans, Clare has a new series that captures the best of both and more, with Meeting Millie kicking off The Oxford Romance series.
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Cheyenne Blue
G’day and welcome. I’m Cheyenne Blue. I write big-hearted sapphic romance with strong women, mainly set in Australia.
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My fifteenth romance, Sometimes We Fly is out April 2025. A closeted celebrity, a furious neighbour, and a whole lot of sexual tension charge this late-in-life coming-out lesbian romance set in rural Sydney.
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Jaime Clevenger
Jaime Clevenger lives with family in Colorado. Most days are spent working as a veterinarian. Writing is a side gig but also a true love. Hobbies include swimming, karate, dreaming about beach vacations, and convincing random strangers to share their life story. Bonus points are given if they include a good romance—whether or not there’s a happy ending.
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Quinn Ivins
Quinn Ivins has been addicted to reading romance since she was a teenager, when she stayed up late on school nights to read more X-Files fanfiction. After romance novels, her top vices include sugar, booze, cable news, and country music.
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Quinn lives in the southern United States with her wife, their young son, and their adorable cat. When she isn’t working her day job, writing fiction, or chasing her toddler, she gets as much sleep as she can.
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Quinn Ivins war schon als Jugendliche süchtig nach Liebesromanen und blieb oft die halbe Nacht wach, um Akte X-Fanfiction zu lesen.
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Cheyenne Blue
G’day and welcome. I’m Cheyenne Blue. I write big-hearted sapphic romance with strong women, mainly set in Australia.
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My fifteenth romance, Sometimes We Fly is out April 2025. A closeted celebrity, a furious neighbour, and a whole lot of sexual tension charge this late-in-life coming-out lesbian romance set in rural Sydney.
I hope you enjoy all of my sapphic romances featuring strong women finding love.
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Macon Leigh
Macon Leigh is a romance evangelist, writer, and person who is usually reading.
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She lives in Arkansas (in the good part - yes, there is a good part), where she runs a summer camp when she isn’t reading, writing, or playing outside. Macon writes queer love stories with hopes of wrangling one into a romance novel one day. You can find her on Twitter, Substack, and Instagram - probably (okay, definitely) talking about books she thinks you’ll like. Say hi. -
Melissa Lenhardt
Melissa Lenhardt writes women’s fiction, historical fiction, and mysteries. The New York Times called HERESY an “unapologetically badass western” and “an all-out women-driven, queer, transgender, multiracial takeover of the Old West.” Heresy also won the 2022 Audie Award for Best Multi-Voiced Performance. Her debut women’s fiction novel, THE SECRET OF YOU AND ME, was the first LGBTQ+ novel published by Mills and Boon in the UK. A lifelong Texan, Melissa is currently traveling the world as a digital nomad.
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Catherine Friend
Catherine Friend had what she calls a "boring" childhood, but she says that boring was just fine -- because it gave her more time to read. She read so much her parents had to set a "no-reading-at-the dinner-table" rule. She was slightly shy as a child, but enjoyed playing Beauty Parlor with her sister, taking family trips, and watching STAR TREK and TIME TUNNEL.
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She studied Economics, but because of her love for books and stories, she eventually found herself drawn to writing. Since then, the author has written six children's books, including THE PERFECT NEST, a hilarious read-aloud illustrated by John Manders; and two books in Candlewick’s Brand New Readers series. She is also the author of the acclaimed adult memoir, HIT BY A FARM: HOW I -
Erinne Bates
Erinne writes stories about lesbians and women who simply fall in love with other women. She enjoys illustrating inner transformations in the characters she creates and leading the reader on a journey they can't predict. She doesn't always create heroes of her leading women, because sometimes good women want to do bad things too.
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While she loves to write about two women falling in love, she doesn't consider herself a romance writer, but more of a contemporary lesbian fiction writer. -
Lois Cloarec Hart
From the publisher's website: Born and raised in British Columbia, Canada, Lois Cloarec Hart grew up as an avid reader but didn’t begin writing until much later in life. Several years after joining the Canadian Armed Forces, she received a degree in Honours History from Royal Military College and on graduation switched occupations from air traffic control to military intelligence. Having married a CAF fighter pilot while in college, Lois went on to spend another five years as an Intelligence Officer before leaving the military to care for her husband, who was ill with chronic progressive Multiple Sclerosis and passed away in 2001. She began writing while caring for her husband in his final years and had her first book, Coming Home, publishe
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Jeannie Levig
Jeannie Levig is an award-winning author of lesbian fiction and a proud and happy member of the Bold Strokes Books family. Her debut novel,Threads of the Heart, won the 2016 Golden Crown Literary Society(Goldie) Award in the Debut Author category and was a finalist in the 2015 Rainbow Awards. Her second novel, Embracing the Dawn, won a 2016 Rainbow Award in the Traditional Contemporary Romance category, and her third, a romantic intrigue entitled Into Thin Air, was released in January of 2017.
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She is currently working on her forth novel, a contemporary romance entitled A Heart to Call Home.
Jeannie loves writing, reading, movies, her dog Dexter and lives in Central California.
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Kat Jackson
Kat is a thirty-something-year-old high school English teacher who has been buried in and under books for thirty-some years. Kat is a lifelong learner, and currently has two masters degrees: one in English Literature, and another in Clinical & Counseling Psychology. She puts far too much stock into words, so what better thing to do than become a writer? (Truth is, she’s been writing since she was twelve years old.)
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Kat lives in Pennsylvania with her cliched three cats, a whole lot of books, and some houseplants that she tries very hard to keep alive…but honestly, they’re all dead except for one. Running preserves most of Kat’s sanity, and in her “spare time” she also works as a mental health therapist.
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Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator, critic, and professor of English.
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Her books of poetry include Presentation Piece (1974), which won the National Book Award, Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986), and Going Back to the River (1990). In 2009, Hacker won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne, which also garnered the first Robert Fagles Translation Prize from the National Poetry Series. In 2010, she received the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. She was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for her translation of Tales of A Severed Head by Rachida Madani. -
Elena Graf
Award-winning novelist Elena Graf has been scribbling stories since high school. Her first novel, Occasions of Sin was published in 2012. She considers herself primarily a historical novelist, but she is probably best known for the contemporary Hobbs series, featuring a group of middle-aged women living in a small town in Maine.
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The novels in the Passing Rites series are set in Europe in the early 20th century and show how a noble family dealt with the momentous changes of the period. Two volumes in the series won both Golden Crown Literary Society and Rainbow Awards for historical fiction.
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Olivia Janae
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Olivia Janae has been a life long writer. Growing up in California, it was always her dream to one day see her name on the cover of a book ever since she scribbled down her first story in a notebook at the age of eleven. To this day, she can’t believe that her dream has come true.
Now, Olivia is living outside of Chicago with her son, and three cats.
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Elizabeth Andre
Elizabeth Andre writes lesbian romance and cozy paranormal mysteries. She is a lesbian in an interracial same-sex marriage living in the Midwest. She hopes you enjoy her stories. She certainly loves writing them.
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Kat Jackson
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Laury A. Egan
Laury A. Egan is the author of fifteen novels: "Fair Haven," "Jack & I," "The Black Leopard's Kiss & The Writer Remembers," "The Psychologist's Shadow," "The Firefly," "Once, Upon an Island," "The Outcast Oracle," "The Swimmer," "Wave in D Minor," "Doublecrossed," "Turnabout," "A Bittersweet Tale," "The Ungodly Hour," "Jenny Kidd," "Fabulous! An Opera Buffa," and two collections, "Contrary: Stories and a Play" and "Fog and Other Stories." Four poetry books have been issued in limited edition: "Snow, Shadows, a Stranger;" "Beneath the Lion's Paw;" "The Sea & Beyond;" and "Presence & Absence." Her work has appeared in over 90 literary journals and anthologies.
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Victoria Avilan
Award winning author Victoria Avilan was born in Israel, where she learned art from her mother, and cared for sick NICU babies as a military nurse. She studied creative writing at UCLA with Australian author Claire McNab. She lives in Southern California with her wife and their Cocker Spaniels.
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Morgan Lee Miller
Morgan Lee Miller started writing at the age of 5 in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. Since there is absolutely nothing to do there, she entertained herself by writing her first few novels by hand.
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She currently resides in Washington, D.C. with her two feline children, Milo and Elsa. She has a serious problem with oversharing pictures of her cats on Instagram and promises never to apologize for it.