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...

Saints and Sinners 2013

The 10th Anniversary of the Saints and Sinners Festival will take place May 2013. Val McDermid, multiple award-winning author and publisher, will be a keynote speaker. Also attending will be our award-winning authors Jill Malone, Sally Bellerose, Elana Dykewomon, and...

Art on Fire in the Press

It’s only recently been published, but Art on Fire is already picking up mentions in the press. Check out the December issue of Marie Claire, now available at newsstands, to see a mention of Hilary Sloin’s first novel. It’s the story of Francesca...
Upcoming Releases

Upcoming Releases

We are pleased to announce our forthcoming titles from Bywater Books. In February we will be publishing Leap, the second novel from Z Egloff, whose first novel won this “talented writer” considerable praise. In March, we will republish The Escape Artist, a...

Two New Ebooks from Bywater

Two more titles are now available as ebooks. Paula Martinac’s Out of Time was the winner of the first Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. Elana Dykewomon won the James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist’s Prize for Risk awarded by the...