Sapphic Slow-burn romances
This week’s Sapphic Reading Challenge features romance novels in which the characters never intended to become involved in a long-term relationship with each other. The romance starts with a one-night stand, a fling, or a friends-with-benefits arrangement.
This week’s F/F Fiction Crossword Puzzle features WLW & lesbian romantic suspense novels. A romantic suspense novel combines a romance between the main characters with a mystery or intrigue plot in which the characters solve a crime or face danger together. If that sounds like your kind of book, sharpen your pencil and take a crack at the romantic suspense puzzle! You can still solve previous puzzles & win ebooks! If you haven’t solved all the previous puzzles yet, you can still do so! For every solution you send in, you get an entry into the drawing for …
After Ylva Publishing and Bold Strokes Books got puzzles of their own, it’s time for another publisher’s edition. Today’s F/F Fiction Crossword Puzzle features another one of the big publishers of WLW & lesbian fiction: Bella Books. Bella Books has published their first lesbian book in 2001 and took over the backstock of Naiad Press in 2003. Since then, they have published popular authors such as Karin Kallmaker, E.J. Noyes, Katherine V. Forrest, KG MacGregor, Gerri Hill, Tracey Richardson, Heather Rose Jones, and many more. Read up on the rules If you are discovering the F/F Fiction Crossword …
I hope you are having fun with the F/F Fiction Crossword Challenge! For our fourth puzzle, I picked one of my favorite tropes: wlw and lesbian slow-burn romance novels. Slow-burn romances are novels in which the romance develops gradually. Instead of falling in love or jumping into bed in chapter 1, the characters take the time to really get to know each other, forming a deeper connection, and that’s what I like about this kind of romance novels. A big shout-out to my helpers! Before I give you the clues, though, I’d like to thank all the people …
If you follow my blog, you know I’m doing a series of author interviews, each one with a giveaway or a free book for readers to enjoy. This week’s interviewee is veteran lesbian fiction author Gerri Hill, who just published her 35th lesbian novel, Moonlight Avenue. Gerri is giving away several e-book and audiobook copies of her lesbian romances, so don’t miss the giveaway at the end of this post! Please tell us a little about your newest release, Moonlight Avenue. It’s about an ex-cop turned private investigator (Finley Knight) who gets mixed up in a murder investigation. There’s …
Way back when I first started reading lesbian fiction, one of the first books I read was one of Gerri Hill’s romances. Some of her novels such as Artist’s Dream, Gulf Breeze, and Sierra City, are still on my all-time-favorite list. Since she has 25 novels published and more on the way, I was sure that Gerri had been writing full time for a long time, but it turned out that she gave up her day job and became a full-time writer around the same time I did–at the beginning of this year. Gerri took the time out of her …