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...

Jill Malone wins Grand Prize

Jill Malone has just published her third novel, Giraffe People. Her second novel, A Field Guide to Deception, won a Lambda Literary Award and was a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Literary Award. And recently it was awarded the Grand Prize from the Great Northwest Book...
Benjamin Franklin Book Awards 2013

Benjamin Franklin Book Awards 2013

Congratulations to Hilary Sloin and Jesse Blackadder! Both have been nominated for Benjamin Franklin Awards from the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA). Hilary has been nominated for Art on Fire in the LGBT category, and Jesse has been nominated for The...