Hart and Malone picked as Summer Reads

For Liberty Press’s Bookends, Cassie Lehnherr picked books by two Bywater authors: Ellen Hart and Wynn Malone. “For the first review of the summer, I had a difficult time choosing which books I wanted to avoid the heat with. I’ve been in need of something...

Reviews for Georgia Beers

Olive Oil & White Bread is the new novel from Georgia Beers. It’s a romance that starts with the moment where other romances usually end: the moment when two women decide that they want to be together. For C-Spot Reviews, Sunny and Corey welcome a story...

Hilary Sloin accepts the ALA award

The Stonewall Book Awards are sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table of the American Library Association (ALA). The awards have been presented since 1971, and we’re delighted that the winner of the 2014 Barbara Gittings Literature Award...

SILVER IndieFab for Jill Malone

The 2013 IndieFab Awards were established fifteen years ago by Foreword Reviews to recognize the best in independent publishing, and the judges are drawn from a panel of more than 100 librarians and booksellers. The winners for this year’s Indie Fab Awards have...

A Decade of Bywater Books

Bywater Books is 10 years old! In that time, we’ve published 20 titles that have won awards — or, to put it another way, two-thirds of the new fiction we’ve published has been recognized by organisations as diverse as the American Library...

Celebrating 10 Great Years

On April 1, 2014 Bywater Books, the award-winning publisher of quality lesbian writing, celebrated a decade in the book industry and the receipt of its 20th prize for literary merit. Bywater publishes approximately six books per year, both literary and commercial...