Bywater News
Bywater Books in Provincetown
As regular readers will know, Bywater Books teamed up with Kate Clinton to host the first annual Laugh Out Loud panel, and the film is now up on the web.
Video: Bywater Books Booksigning at Womencrafts
A short clip of Bywater authors Cynn, Z, Marcia, Mari, Bett, and Marianne at a booksigning at Womecrafts in Provincetown.
Val McDermid on Open Book – Neglected Classics
Val McDermid appeared on Open Book on BBC Radio 4. The program invited 10 authors to champion a book they believe has been unfairly neglected. Listeners were invited to listen to all 10 nominations and then choose the book they feel deserves to be remembered; the...
Val McDermid’s “A Place of Execution” on PBS
An adaptation of Val’s thriller A Place of Execution was shown, in two parts, on PBS last November.
Marcia Finical Wins a Goldie
Many congratulations to Marcia Finical: with Last Chance at the Lost and Found, she won a “Goldie” for best General Dramatic Fiction from the Golden Crown Literary Society.
Dykewomon wins Duggins Award
Many congratulations to Elana Dykewomon: with Risk, her recently published novel, she won this year’s James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists’ Prize, awarded by the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival.
Review: Jill Malone | Jane and Jane
It is rare to find an author who knows how to write books that truly booby-trap her readers — books that start out feeling like a trip to the carnival on a sunny summer day, and take a left turn at the Tilt-a-Whirl and enter a dark place filled with oddly-shaped mirrors and distant, eerie peals of laughter.
BlogAsheville | Profile: Cynn Chadwick
Like any university professor, UNC-Asheville‘s Cynn Chadwick holds an advanced degree. But unlike most, she flunked out of college on her first try. “Instead of going to classes,” she says, “I used to go to the track and play the ponies with my college guidance counselor.
Stella Duffy Interview on AfterEllen.com
Growing up in a small town in New Zealand, out author Stella Duffy did not necessarily consider writing as a viable career choice. “It all sounds a little disingenuous,” she told AfterEllen.com, “but I promise I truly didn‘t know that it was possible for someone like me to be a writer.”
Dangerous Dykes at the Harrogate Crime Festival
Val McDermid sat alongside Stella on the Dangerous Dykes panel at Harrogate Crime Festival, to discuss how lesbian writers have come to dominate the world of crime fiction.