Reading: Z Egloff

by | Dec 13, 2009 | Event Archive

Z Egloff will read from her first novel, Verge, at Copperfield’s Books in Santa Rosa on December 9 at 7 p.m. 2316 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa, CA 95405.

Spotlight: The Lindsay Gordon Series by Val McDermid

by | Dec 13, 2009 | Featured

Before Lindsay Gordon, there were sleuths who liked whiskey. And sleuths who liked cigarettes. And of course there were sleuths who liked women. The thing is, they were all men. Lindsay Gordon was the first lesbian. Out from the start, she strode fearlessly across the...

Kelly Smith

by | Dec 8, 2009 | Publishers

Kelly Smith is the editor-in-chief of Bywater Books, a role that marks the culmination of many years in the book business. In 1992, she co-founded A Woman’s Prerogative, a lesbian bookstore in Detroit. Seven years later, she founded Bella Books and worked there for...
Mari SanGiovanni

Mari SanGiovanni

by | Dec 8, 2009 | Bywater Authors

Mari SanGiovanni published her first book with Bywater Books after entering a writing contest back in 2007. Her first novel Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer is a romantic comedy that short-listed for a Lambda Literary Award and was re-released for a book...
Joan Opyr

Joan Opyr

by | Dec 8, 2009 | Bywater Authors

Joan Opyr was born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, the daughter of a professional ballerina and a damn yankee. She has a BA and MA from North Carolina State, finished the course work for a PhD at Ohio State, and is finishing a BS in Nursing at Lewis-Clark State...