bella books Archives

July 30, 2010 8 min read

Three out gay writers are among the 13 “long list” nominees for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction: Brit...

New LGBT Books in July

July 9, 2010 1 min read

July brings a slew of new LGBT relevant titles including some steamy new erotica and romance titles from Thom Nickels...

5 Lambda Finalists Take the Windy City

Judith Markowitz

News

May 7, 2010 1 min read

On May 4, Chicago’s Gerber-Hart Library was filled with rapt listeners who heard readings from five excellent books that illustrate...

6 Sizzling New Romances

Andrea L.T. Peterson

Romance

April 26, 2010 3 min read

New books are rolling off the presses faster than we can read them! Independent, small presses and major publishing houses...

‘The Kiss That Counted’ by Karin Kallmaker

Cecilia Martin

Romance

July 21, 2009 1 min read

For years CJ Roshe has lived with the fear that “The Gathering” would find her and make her pay for...

Book Buzz July 2009

John Morgan Wilson

Book Buzz

July 1, 2009 3 min read

Hannah Free, starring Sharon Gless and based on Claudia Allen’s acclaimed stage play about the unabashed love of two women...

‘The Rainbow Cedar’ by Gerri Hill

Cheri Crystal

Romance

June 30, 2009 2 min read

What is true love? “Friendship is a necessity. Physical love will only take you so far. True, long-lasting love is...

Interview: Ellen Hart

Andrea L.T. Peterson

Interviews

May 27, 2009 13 min read

“Write what you know,” writers tell those who ask. With more than 20 books behind her, mystery writer Ellen Hart...

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

Teen Witches on the Move! Read Hannah Abigail Clarke’s The Scapegracers

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

Book Buzz: August 2010

New LGBT Books in July

5 Lambda Finalists Take the Windy City

6 Sizzling New Romances

‘The Kiss That Counted’ by Karin Kallmaker

Book Buzz July 2009

‘The Rainbow Cedar’ by Gerri Hill

Interview: Ellen Hart

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta