Link Round Up: March 1 – 13

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Danika Ellis

Drawn to Comics: Support the Fresh Romance Kickstarter for Cute, Sometimes Queer Romantic Comics
Lez Liberty Lit #92: Time For A Girl Power Zine Party
Drawn to Comics: Read an Exclusive Preview of Queer Paranormal Romance Comic “The Other Side”

Lambda Literary Awards posted 28th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced and New in March: Kaitlyn Greenidge, Saleem Haddad, Jim Downs, Sarah Schulman, and Augusten Burroughs.

Women and Words posted Hot off the Press, March 2016 and Coming Attractions, April 2016.

“Books I Wish I’d Read as an LGBTQ Teenager” was posted at Lit Hub.

A Little Bit of Spice by Georgia Beers was reviewed at Lesbian Reading Room.

Saving Alex by Alex Cooper with Joanna Brooks was reviewed at Omnivore Bibliosaur.

Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden was discussed in depth on Reading with Aspergers.

What We Left Behind by Robin Talley was reviewed at BCLA LGBTQ Interest Group.

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Link Round Up: December 22 – 28

Posted on December 28, 2014 by Danika Ellis

Afterwritten posted Keep It Queer: How My Love Affair with LGBTQ YA Started.

Autostraddle posted Liberty Lit #62: Snowing Pages.

Sarah Waters was interviewed at the hairpin.

The Sista Hood on the Mic by E-Fierce Twinja Book Reviews.

Under a Falling Star by Jae was reviewed at Lesbian Reading Room.

June Magee, R.N. Festival Nurse by Anne McMan, with Salem West and Barrett was reviewed at Lesbian Reading Room.

Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley was reviewed at Afterwritten.

Fighting Kudzu by Mystic Thompson was reviewed at Gay YA.

Link Round Up: December 16 – 21

Posted on December 21, 2014 by Danika Ellis

AfterEllen posted How to Have a Very Lesbian Christmas.

Babbling About Books posted Announcing the 2015 Lesbian Fiction Appreciation Event! (#LFAE2015).

GayYA posted

Women and Words has been celebrating their holiday hootenanny! (Giveaways every day!)

Ivan Coyote was written about at ZY.

Catherine Lundoff posted On LGBT Science Fiction and Fantasy 2000-2010 (Part 2).

Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

Primary Stein: Returning to the Writings of Gertrude Stein edited by Janet Boyd and Sharon J. Kirsch was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

Link Round Up: May 29 – June 3

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Danika Ellis

The Advocate posted 10 Great LGBT Summer Reads.

AfterEllen posted The AfterEllen Book Club: Choices for June.

Autostraddle posted Lez Liberty Lit #47: Filled With Poetry.

Bold Strokes Nottingham Festival is happening on June 7th and 8th! Authors who are attending have been posting on BSB blog.

LGBTQ Recs Month posted Posting Instructions.

The Rainbow Reader posted Forty Years On with Dykewomon and Jacobs.

Sistahs On the Shelf posted Books 2 Check Out – May 2014.

Tess Sharpe, author of Far From You, was interviewed at Bisexual Books.

Living as a Lesbian by Cheryl Clarke was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

That’s So Gay! Microagressions in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community by Kevin L. Nadal was reviewed at Bisexual Books.

Viral by Suzanne Parker was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

Playing My Love by Angela Peach was reviewed at Girl Guide London.

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Link Round Up: May 9 – 15

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Danika Ellis

Autostraddle posted More Than Words: Dyke Pt. 2 — Dyke Dynasty.

Bold Strokes Books posted Building Worlds: A Conversation Between Jane Fletcher and Nora Olsen.

Gay YA posted If Only There Were a Gay [or Lesbian] Version of…

Housequeer posted Queer Young Adult Fiction To Curl Up With.

The L Fest (The Lesbian Music Arts & Comedy Festival) is happening July 19-22nd 2013 in Staffordshire, England.

Queer Books Please posted Episode 17 – Time Travel & Nuns & Willa Cather.

Sistahs On the Shelf posted Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books Dealing With Tough Subjects.

Women and Words posted Cool Stuff Coming Up.

Sarah Diemer posted 125,000 WORDS: Project Unicorn’s Six-Month Anniversary and 125K of Lesbian YA Fiction FOR FREE (Plus Cover Reveal!) and The Mermaid Rib, a Free YA Short Story — Part of Project Unicorn (A Lesbian YA Extravaganza).

Malinda Lo posted Why there’s no HUNTRESS sequel.

Catherine Lundoff posted Bisexual Book Awards info (June 2).

Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post-Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side by Rayya Elias was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

The Very Thought of You by S Anne Gardner was reviewed at Lesfic Insomniac.

The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie was reviewed at Autostraddle and Lambda Literary.

I am Your Sister: Season 2 by Ericka K. F. Simpson was reviewed at Sistahs On the Shelf.

Relative Stranger by Barbara Treat Williams was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

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Link Round Up: April 3-9

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Danika Ellis

Autostraddle posted Poet and Activist, Andrea Gibson: The Autostraddle Interview and Liberty Lit #17: You Hate The Word “Moist” For A Reason.

ELIXHER posted Black Enterprise April Cover Features Lesbian Couple.

Lambda Literary posted Lammy Finalist Readings 2013.

Piercing Fiction posted It’s time to be more discriminating in [lesbian] books. (I loved this article. I think it’s really necessary.)

Queer Books Please posted Episode 12 – What Not To Read (when you’re first coming out) and An Informal Guide on Finding More Books to Read (without depending on Amazon or Goodreads) (This is another article I really recommend!).

Queer Women of Color Media Wire posted Nominate Your Favorite Queer Women, Gender Non-Conforming, and Trans POETS of Color.

Women and Words posted Alice In Rainbowland – My Venture and Adventure to the Rainbow Book Fair by Doreen Perrine.

“10 LGBT-Themed Novels That Every Student Should Read” was posted at Flavorwire.

The Rainbow Book Fair is happening April 13th in NYC.

The 10^th Anniversary of The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival takes place May 23-26 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Kelli Jae Baeli posted Lesbian Readers & Writers.

A video of Ivan Coyote and Rae Spoon performing Gender Failure was posted at BFI. Ivan was also reviewed at BC Bookworld.

Sarah Diemer posted Sneak Peek at TWIXT: First Chapter Download + Book Trailer! and a post about who can read lesbian books.

Malinda Lo posted I’m all over the internet this week and Diversity in 2012 Young Adult Bestsellers.

Slices of Life by Georgia Beers was reviewed at Piercing Fiction.

Waiting Up for the End of the World: Conspiracies by Elizabeth J. Colen was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

How Poetry Saved My Life by Amber Dawn was reviewed by Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian.

Snapshots of a Past by Julia Jay was reviewed at Lesfic Insomniac (plus interview!).

Second Chances by Eliza Lentzski was reviewed at Lesfic Insomniac (plus interview!).

Do You Dream in Color?: Insights from a Girl Without Sight by Laurie Rubin was discussed at Curve Magazine.

The End of San Francisco: a Memoir by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore was discussed at The Capitol Hill Times.

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Link Round Up: Oct 9-16

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Danika Ellis

Curve Magazine posted 24th Annual Lambda Literary Awards.

Lambda Literary posted Let’s Talk About Sex: Allison, Myles, and Woolf and Amanda Kyle Williams: Creating Kick-Ass Women.

The Outer Alliance posted OA Podcast #25: Live at Gaylaxicon!

“Queer Cogs: Steampunk, Gender Identity, and Sexuality” was posted at TOR.

“Keeping Up With the Gays of DC and Marvel” was posted at Out.

“Lee Lynch and Lori Lake on Lesbian Mystery, Police Raids, and Fairy Godmothers” was posted at The Advocate.

“Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite LGBTQ Authors” was posted at Bonjour, Cass!

Lisa Cohen was interviewed at The Hive.

Jeanne Cordova was interviewed at Ms Magazine.

Nann Dunne was interviewed by Q. Kelly.

KB Grant (aka KT Grant) posted Why We Need More Lesbian Romance and Fiction.

Malinda Lo posted Upcoming events in Portland and Palo Alto and was interviewed at TOR.

Sassafras Lowrey posted National Coming Out Day.

The Raven’s Heart by Jesse Blackadder was reviewed at Piercing Fiction and Lambda Literary.

Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

Landing by Emma Donoghue was reviewed by Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian.

People Who Disappear by Alex Leslie was reviewed by Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian.

Link Round Up: Oct 3-9

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Danika Ellis

AfterEllen posted Literary Lesbian Couples We Ship and The AfterEllen.com Huddle: Hot Covers.

Autostraddle posted

Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Alex Leslie’s “People Who Disappear”
Read Banned Books, Be The Revolution
Lez Liberty Lit #3: It Is So Quite New A Thing (I think I somehow didn’t link this when it was posted?!)
Lez Liberty Lit #4: I Kept Always Two Books In My Pocket
Autostraddle Book Club #6: We’re Reading “The Miseducation of Cameron Post”

Elisa posted

Lambda Literary posted

lesbian meets book nyc posted All We Know: “If you want the damn ball keep it, don’t throw it away.”*

The Outer Alliance posted Gaylatic Spectrum Awards for Best Novel of 2011.

Ivan E. Coyote was interviewed at Lambda Literary.

Mayra Lazara Dole was interviewed at Bitch.

Jae posted Sad news.

Malinda Lo posted September 2012 in Review: Photos.

Rae Spoon was interviewed at Media Mornings.

Golondrina Manga, Volume 1 by Est Em was reviewed at Okazu.

Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis by Alice Kaplan was interviewed at Lambda Literary.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson was discussed at Out on the Shelves Library and reviewed at Bonjour, Cass.