Out now in e-book and paperback. Mysterious ice queens, hapless, vengeance-seeking muffin makers, chaotic book clubs, and stuffed penguins!
#lesbians
#love
@YlvaPublishing
My romantic comedy is at Amazon (), Ylva (), and beyond...
@YU1XAKII
@strengthtodream
Twitter does need an edit button that’s good for 30secs after you tweet: 30 secs is the exact time to realize you’ve left out a word/been autocorrected, and it’s the golden time window for dropped food too, so it’s clearly magic. 🤷🏼♀️
@jzux
@JenLRossman
I just don’t *get* those yellow marshmallow birds from the US. Peeps? A friend sent me some once + it was like gumming sweetened gritty rubber. U could use them to repair holes in the space shuttle. I don’t think my stomach acids have yet broken them down and it’s been 10 yrs. 👀
@camiscribbles
My mother had a certain distinctive *look* and spent her whole life confused as to why lesbian co-workers randomly fell in love with her over the years. But she also never asked me, her on-hand daughter and lesbian, to explain it, so just went through life very confused. 😂
@lesley_cheng
The uni is innocent this time! *This* is their ad. The mansplaining pic beside it is for a South Australian Government dept. The uni’s still pretty mad they copped worldwide abuse for this!
The best Christmas present I had today was my girlfriend proposing. I said yes. I mean it's been 21 years together, so we're a little past the rushing into things stage. 😁 Now for a pic of the little lady who brought us together....
@AUSXIPMaryD
@AITA_reddit
You know what I *need* an update on? The mother who destroyed her young son’s Minecraft project he’d worked on for a year as punishment for sleeping in. His howls at the loss and breach of trust haunt me. 😢
@AITA_reddit
Gf asks for a favor that costs him *absolutely nothing* in time or emotional investment. Bf refuses and then calls it manipulative. Wth? YTA.
Eight years! How time flies since I put "Lee Winter" on my first contract. Now I've written 11 books and scribbling lesfic is my full-time job. Amazing.
Thank you
@YlvaPublishing
and Astrid Ohletz. Signing with Ylva has been the best professional decision of my life! *mwah* 😘
Today marks the 25th anniversary of "meeting" my amazing girlfriend. She wrote me an email explaining the errors of my ways (hilariously written) on an online article I'd penned.
It was love at first type. 😍
@ask_aubry
Reminds me of a friend from years back who was a beautiful model. At a bar once, a guy asked her what she did, she said model. He said, “What, like a hand model?”
Pure negging 101.
She replied: “Why yes, that too.”
He didn’t know what to say after that so he buggered off.
It is written.
Draft one of my WIP is now just a W. 100,000 words.
Excuse me while I assume the fetal position.
Draft two begins Monday but for now...celebration snacks.
I'm honored to be named a 2023 winner of the Alice B Medal. ♥️
"This award is given to living writers who have careers distinguished by consistently well-written stories about lesbians." Congrats also to
@GeorgiaLBeers
and Abigail Padgett.
@YlvaPublishing
@AdrienneLaw
@ask_aubry
In this case, though, it wasn't his food. It was hers. She bought it. He never told her his intention to save the leftovers. So he's flipping out over not being able to have *her* food.
Legendary narrator Angela Dawe has responded to Abby Craden's reading of the phone book for EJ Noyes (
@zgrokit
) with this gripping rendition of How to Install an LG Dishwasher. Couldn't put it down. Five stars.
My protags just declared love for each other - in a roundabout way - and I, the actual author, had no idea it was coming. But I cannot stand in the way of love. So FINE. Whose book is this anyway???? ffs I can't with these two.
#amwriting
#wip
Today's the day! The end of my six-month writing break. I'm back to work on my next book, Vengeance Planning for Amateurs. This is a romantic comedy in which a baker and a crime bookstore owner team up to wreak vengeance on the exes who've done the baker wrong. Plus: 1 penguin 🐧
Today is day one of officially working on my next book. Working title is Number 4. The book features someone readers have met before. I wonder who it could be about... 🤔
We’re getting closer to cover reveal day for The Fixer and Chaos Agent. Have a tiny teaser.
My two books are out Jan and Feb next year.
#wlw
#redeemingthevillain
@ask_aubry
I'll never forget the Redditor who dealt with a male colleague who kept shouting at her by later telling her other colleagues in a soothing tone that he was a "little emotional" today. She did it so often, they started doing it too + the man stopped raging out of humiliation.
I'm excited to announce I have a release date for my next books! January 25, 2023, for The Fixer, and February 8, 2023 for Chaos Agent.
Read more here:
#wlw
#lesbianbooks
#sapphic
Today I officially finished Number Six, my 13th book, and sent it off to be edited. Excuse me while I melt into a puddle of relief.
I'm sure my ethically gray mature ex-spy Ottilie is side-eying me for telling her story. Monique Carson, of course, is strutting like a peacock.
Hearing from Angela Dawe that she’s finished narrating The Fixer and has moved on to Chaos Agent makes me so ridiculously excited for December. And Michelle is “extra frosty” she tells me. 😍
The audiobooks are out Dec 5 and 26.
@YlvaPublishing
#lesbianbooks
#icequeen
#villains
Excuse me while I squeal (and in the uncoolest way possible): Autostraddle just reviewed my book! I may never recover. 😮Check out their deep dive into The Fixer here:
Thank you
@C_GraceT
. ❤️
@YlvaPublishing
#wlw
#lesbianromance
@roramdin
When I was a court reporter, a young, thin uni student came in charged with stealing noodles and batteries: Food + means to light his torch while studying in a flat with no power. The magistrate looked at his bowed head, sighed, freed him then muttered society needed to do better
@noplaceforsheep
I saw a man carry on like a pork chop next to an exasperated woman wearing a mask. He was mocking her until she said: "I'm wearing this for you. I've just recovered from Covid." Never seen a man move so fast in my life. When he was gone she said: "That was bullshit. But funny."
Cover reveal day of my next book! Out on February 7, 2024! 📚🎉
My quirky lesbian rom-com is called "Vengeance Planning for Amateurs." 🐧💔🤣
Penguins, plotting, and payback – it's a wild ride! 🐧📖
#wlw
#lesbianbooks
#sapphic
#romcom
@YlvaPublishing
Today is Cover Reveal Day! Coming in January 2023 is The Fixer by
@LeeWinterOz
, book 1 in The Villains Series, a lesbian ice queen romance with intrigue, humor, and heart, where an activist is hired by a corporate villain.
#lesbianromance
#lesbianbooks
It is official: My reforming the villain WIP will be TWO books. They'll be out within weeks of each other so you won't have to wait long after finishing the 1st. When they're out is TBD.
Michelle Hastings apparently has a lot of atoning and a lot of falling in love ahead of her!
We have a date now! November 28. Thank you all for patiently waiting for Angela Dawe. Her health comes first. She inspired these books so it *had* to be her narrating. ❤️
@YlvaPublishing
Some 14,000 words into my WIP, Vengeance Planning for Amateurs, and finally this moment has happened: The two protags officially meet.
Despite multiple interactions in multiple places, only one of them had any clue who the other was.
Lord, I love smug ice queens...
Watch NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern pick apart this reporter's question during a joint press conference with Finnish PM Sanna Marin. He asked the pair 'are you two meeting because you're similar in age and got a lot of common stuff there?'
Read more:
Wow. Six years ago my 1st novel came out. It’s been such a wild ride. Thank so much, readers, for taking a chance on me. Thanks to
@astrid_ohletz
for discovering me.
And thanks to
@taramdscott
for naming The Red Files as best book for 2015 and bringing it to readers’ attention.❤️
It's cover reveal day! Coming in November: The Awkward Truth by Lee Winter (
@LeeWinterOz
). This funny opposites-attract lesbian romance digs up the awkward truth about what really matters in life and is set in the Brutal Truth universe
#ffromance
@terriblytrans
Reminds me of this primary school teacher ex who kept me up all hours on week nights. That woman ran me ragged (bear in mind she was 42 and I was in my mid 20s). Honestly, I don't know how *she* did it, but I legit hated being that tired. Does that make me a bad lesbian? 😂
This just happened on draft one of my villains WIP. Bear in mind I wrote two books but they're in the one document, hence the length! *Flops in a heap*
So this evening, after a 12-hour final read-through and last-gasp editing session, I sent my next book to the publisher. Cue flopping into a heap. Tis over. (Well, till my editor gets her red pen on it.) It’s out in November.
My WIP just hit 70,000 words which I guess makes it officially a book. Yay!
Of course quality may vary given I spent all day yesterday whispering to myself: "WHAT have you WRITTEN?" 👀
#writerslife
#groans
Okay. *cracks knuckles*. Day one of writing my next book. And... There's an ice queen. No, really. There is. That's all I'm saying for now. No jinxing!
@neilhimself
*All* I write is gay sex - I mean of the sex scenes I write - and this tweet makes me want to make them extra gay. More lesbian sprinkles! Lesbian lovers for everyone!
And just like that my Ottilie/Monique book, Number Six, is written. Well, draft one of it is at least. What an unusual woman Ottilie is. Under Pragmatic in the dictionary is her photo.
I will have to get onto draft 2 soon, but I just wanted to sag in relief here first!
Best Christmas gift ever! Signed copies of
@WritingRoslyn
’s books have landed! 😍
These books are special to me… I edited them all, worked with Roslyn through every page, laughed, cried (Cranli! 😭), and swooned. Now they’re out in the world and are loved by readers…incl me. ❤️
I love this! Narrator Angela Dawe (right) at a book-signing event for Elle Cosimano, whose books Angela narrates. A sapphic audiobook fan brought along The Brutal Truth (which Angela also narrates) for her to sign. Thanks to Jonna for letting me share this photo of them both.
Totally agree with this. Deadloch is great - and once you get past episode four, it goes from pretty fun to super compelling! Also,
#Deadloch
is the gayest town on TV. Just saying.
Look what’s landed! ❤️ My Goldies Award from 2021 for Hotel Queens. I think it took to scenic route to Australia! 😁 Thanks
@goldencrownls
and those behind the scenes who helped get it here today.
@jacesdill
Update!
Fri: Edits are over for my book, Vengeance Planning for Amateurs.😮💨
Today: My editing's done on THE coolest assassin book by
@jen_giacalone
. Think Mr and Mrs Smith but lesbians. Who are smart, cool + funny. 😍
Tomorrow: Back to writing Monique Carson's biography 😎🔥
My brief but weird reign on Audible as a straight romance writer is over. Audible has finally filed Hotel Queens under *LGBT* Romance.
I do have an unexpected career highlight now: Hotel Queens managed to chart in the top 50 of hetero romance. I'll never not find that funny. 🤣
Another year, another birthday (it’s already March 15 if you’re living in Australia, which Elena Bartell most certainly is). Happy birthday to my most popular ice queen! ❄️👑
#thebrutaltruth
#legend
@ask_aubry
In Australia, this would be a design fault and the builder would be forced to fix it.
I remember being so shocked by the gaps in loo doors in the US. Still scarred by saloon doors on the ladies stalls at one pub in the middle of nowhere. No woman had any dignity in there! 👀😬
@nmscoaching
Yeah. It’s been months and I can’t get it out of my head. He’ll never share anything with his mum that matters to him ever again. She just taught him to be secretive and trust no one. 😢
I hope Kate gets better. Memes or not, lots of people were getting very worried about her. None of it was against Kate.
This also remains true: It’s the worst way I’ve *ever* seen to handle a public figure being ill. Incl. blaming her for that fake photo, too? Why do that? 😑
Just finished my second draft of The Awkward Truth. Pretty happy with it - which is SO DAMNED RARE FOR ME at this stage. So I'm not sure what's going on here with the universe. Very confusing. 😯
Bottom line, it's at 98,000 words. A novella no more!
Amazon will close a loophole letting ppl return for a refund a *fully read* book. It costs authors $$ for each return. (This is not about KU books but regular book sales.) Instead of 100% read, it’ll be 10% read to decide on making a return.