September 2010

We love good books, just like you do September 2010 Welcome to Bywater Books Dear Readers, It's not Labor Day yet, which means it's still summer. Fall will have to bide her time.In the meantime, we're profiling Elana Dykewomon. Maybe you're already a...

Jill Malone Wins Lambda Literary Award

Jill Malone has won the 2010 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction for her second novel A Field Guide to Deception. Established in 1989, the “Lammys” have become the most prestigious literary award offered specifically to LGBT authors. The Lambda Literary...

August 2010

We love good books, just like you do August 2010 Welcome to Bywater Books Dear Readers, It's been a year since we relaunched the Bywater newsletter. Since then, our authors have been nominated for awards–and won them. We've published two first-time...

Marianne K. Martin on Romance

Romance is not the obvious place to explore the difficulties faced by gay teachers and students. All the more reason, says Marianne K. Martin, to do so. After all, “fictional characters, like real people, need to react to plausible, relevant life situations … I base...

Lisa Gitlin New Release and Cleveland Book Signings

Bywater Books is happy to announce the June 15th release of Lisa Gitlin’s first novel, I Came Out for THIS?, the hilarious coming out adventure of a Cleveland woman who moves to DC in pursuit of love. Lisa will be signing her book at the following Cleveland...