Bywater Ebooks in April

April is an ebook bonanza for Bywater! We will be releasing ebooks throughout the month. You’ll find ebooks by Kate Clinton, Val McDermid, Mari SanGiovanni and Joan Opyr. We’ll be sending out updates as the ebooks become available so if you are not on our...

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...

Spotlight: The Lindsay Gordon Series by Val McDermid

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...