Link Round Up

The Avocate re-posted the winners of the Rainbow Awards and Get A Conversation with Eileen Myles All To Yourself.

AfterEllen posted “Batwoman #4” is the sexiest single issue of any comic book ever.

Autostraddle posted

• Holiday Shopping Guide: Gift a F*cking Book
• Batwoman #4: Smart, Feminist and Very Very Lesbosexy
• Another Top 10 Lesbian Romance Novels (Currently On My Kindle)

Bold Strokes Books Authors’ Blog posted Drawn to Disaster.

Books to Watch Out For posted Best of 2011 lists.

Elisa posted

• the winners of the Rainbow Awards!
• Persistent Voices: Barbara Smith
• Marguerite Yourcenar

F/F Fan Fiction Reader’s Corner posted All I Want for Christmas is…

Gay League posted Gay Previews 2/2012.

GLBT Promo Blog posted an excerpt from Having It All and More by Dalia Craig.

I’m Here. I’m Queer. What the Hell Do I Read? posted The “Publishing Queer” Panel at BentCon 2011.

Lambda Literary posted

• Young Adult: Under the Influence of Books
• Publishing Queer: Marketing and Creating Queer Comic Books And Graphic Novels
• a mini link round up
• Queer Spirituality: What Can Poetry Tell Us? A Conversation with Julie Enszer and Kevin Simmonds
• another mini link round up

Readings in Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Fiction posted 2011 Year In Review.

Women and Words posted Not Dunne Yet.

Alison Bechdel posted my everlasting process and return to the light (both videos of her writing process) and the musical based on her graphic memoir Fun Home was written about at AfterEllen.

Ivan Coyote posted a new article, Butches of Belfast, at Xtra!

Emma Donoghue was interviewed at Hindustantimes.

Ruth Gogoll posted Why I Write Lesbian Literature at Huffington Post.

Jae posted a link to a free anthology of holiday stories.

Malinda Lo posted

• Ash is on sale!
• A Year of Thinking About Diversity
• The Letter Q and other news

Irshad Manji received death threats for her book Allah, Liberty and Love. Discussed at Xtra!

Chris Paynter posted a link to an excerpt to her upcoming book Survived by Her Longtime Companion.

Amy Dawson Robertson posted A Compendium of Photos I Should Have Posted a LONG Time Ago.

“Booksellers’ picks of the year: LGBT” was posted at Quill & Quire.

“Atlanta’s gay-owned bookstores strive to stay open” was posted at the GA Voice.

“5 Books by Queer Women I’m Looking Forward to in 2012” by Cass of Bonjour, Cass! was posted at The Book Smugglers.

Reviews are under the cut.

The Last Nude by Ellis Avery was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

Promises, Promises by L-J Baker was reviewed at Good Lesbian Books.

Beebo Brinker  by Ann Bannon was reviewed at The Rainbow Reader.

Windy City Queer: LGBTQ Dispatches from the Third Coast edited by Kathie Bergquist was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

The Lesbian Fantastic: A Critical Study of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal and Gothic Writings by Phyllis M. Betz was reviewed at The SF Site and the feminist librarian.

Best Bondage Erotica 2012 edited by Rachel Kramer Busse was reviewed at Bibrary Book Lust.

Elena Undone by Nicole Conn was reviewed at C-Spot Reviews.

When We Were Outlaws by Jeanne Cordova was reviewed at the feminist librarian, Bilerico, and Out In Print Queer Book Review.

Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme edited by Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman was reviewed at Kissed By Venus.

The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue was reviewed at Postnoon.

The Gunfighter and the Gear Head by Cassandra Duffy was reviewed at Loving Venus – Loving Mars.

Let’s Get the Straight: The Ultimate Handbook for Youth with LGBTQ Parents by Tina Fakhrid-Deen was reviewed at Shelly’s LGBT Book Review Blog.

The Queer Art of Failure by Judith Jack Halberstam was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner edited by Claire Harman was reviewed at Queer Authors 50 Book Challenge.

Blind Leading the Blind by Susan Landis-Steward was reviewed at Shelly’s LGBT Book Review Blog.

Two On The Aisle by Robbi McCoy was reviewed at C-Spot Reviews.

me@you.com by KE Payne was reviewed at QueerYA.

Piper’s Someday by Ruth Perkinson was reviewed at The Rainbow Reader.

Clara’s Story by Dorreen Perrine was reviewed at Good Lesbian Books.

Tripping to Somewhere by Kristopher Reisz was reviewed by Malinda Lo.

Little White Lie (Amigas y Amor #1) by Lea Santos was reviewed at C-Spot Reviews.

The Horizontal Poet by Jan Steckel was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

Oh The Things Mommies Do!: What Could Be Better Than Having Two? by Crystal Tompkins was reviewed at Shelly’s LGBT Book Review Blog.

Hellebore & Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic edited by Joselle Vanderhooft and Catherine Lundoff was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters was reviewed at What Book to Read.

First Taste by Violet Williams was reviewed at Bibrary Book Lust.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson was reviewed at The Age and 1ABC Local.