Ellen Hart Honored

Ellen Hart is to be presented with the Jeanine C. Rae Award for the Advancement of Women’s Culture at the 2013 National Women’s Music Festival, taking place July 4 thru 7. Linda Wilson, President of the Board of Directors of Women In The Arts and the Production...
More Great Reviews for Giraffe People

More Great Reviews for Giraffe People

Giraffe People, the third novel by Jill Malone has been winning great reviews. For Jerry Wheeler, writing on the blog Out in Print, “Malone’s first-person prose captures the tumult of fifteen with a precise clarity that puts us right inside Cole’s heart....

Ellen Hart’s Must-Read

Advocate.com featured Ellen Hart’s Rest for the Wicked in a round-up of 20 Must-Read Books We Missed Last Year. Here’s what they said: Lambda and Minnesota Book Award–winning author Ellen Hart, a top author in the gay mystery genre, is out with a new novel...

Liberty Press rates Leap and The Escape Artist

In the June 2103 edition of Liberty Press, two of Bywater’s spring titles picked up praise: Judith Katz’s The Escape Artist is “a brilliant work of historical fiction . . . fast-paced and gorgeously written novel”. Leap by Z Egloff is “a...

Goldie Finalists 2013

Congratulations to Jesse Blackadder and Hilary Sloin! The Golden Crown Literary Society has just announced the 2013 Finalists. Jesse has been nominated in the Dramatic/General Fiction category for The Raven’s Heart. And Hilary Sloin has been nominated for Art on...

ForeWord Book Awards

The finalists have been announced for the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards 2012. And congratulations are due to both Hilary Sloin and Jesse Blackadder: Hilary’s debut novel Art on Fire has been nominated alongside Jesse’s The Raven’s Heart. ForeWord...