Permalink click cover for larger image	The Flight of the Black Swan: A Bawdy Novella by Jean Roberta “Imagine an upperclass English girl kidnapped by pirates when she was eleven, and eventually returned to her family. If this sounds familiar, you’ve probably either read the classic book A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes, or seen the movie. Whatever you may imagine, Jean Roberta has taken the grown-up Emily far beyond your—or the younger Emily’s—wildest speculations. “This is, indeed, a ‘Bawdy Novella,’ but there’s more to it than that. Emily is a smart and spirited heroine, adventurous enough to see the bright side of the unspoken (and unfounded) assumption that she must be ‘damaged goods.’ If her best friend at their elite girls’ school ‘believed that I carried unspeakable knowledge like hidden treasure under my clothes,’ all the better for getting, and sharing, such treasure. When the friend ultimately lacks the courage for a permanent relationship, Emily tosses off the constraints of 19th-century English society and returns to the sea on a more-or-less pirate ship manned by gay fugitives from the British Navy. “The adventures that follow would be fun even without the sex, but sex does flow with more intoxicating effect than sailors’ grog or pirates’ rum. While Emily does find female companionship, she is not too set in her ways to sample other couplings—or triplings, or more—and neither are her shipmates. The main characters are not only multi-talented as to sex, but multi-dimensional people. The historical setting, from England to the West Indies during the American Civil War, is convincing, and if the sex occasionally reaches into the realms of fantasy, what could be better for a decidedly Bawdy Novella?” —Sacchi Green, author of A Ride to Remember, editor of Girl Fever Purchase and download PDF now! Pay through AmazonPayments Digital edition priced at $4.99 Why choose PDF or ePub? Purchase and download EPUB now! Pay through AmazonPayment Digital edition priced at $4.99	Lethe Press 142 pages, 40000 words 5.5x8.5 trade paperback 978-1-59021-417-6 1-59021-417-X eISBN 978-1-59021-384-1 Buy from Giovanni's Room the gay & lesbian community bookstore in Philadelphia Buy from TLA gay books & videos
Permalink click cover for larger image	Fatal Women: The Esther Garber Novellas Tanith Lee “The language can be lush, and the passions do flame… Elements of fantasy make their way into these tales as allusion, echoes of old myths and fables: Rherlotte as the hunter’s goddess Diana in mortal form, the household of women in ‘Virgile’ like some elaborately metaphoric medieval verse about an uncanny court…” —Faren Miller, Locus Magazine World Fantasy Award winner Tanith Lee channels the allusive Esther Garber to tell these dark, erotic tales of lesbian ardor and obsession. The “fatal women” found within these pages lead exotic lives and adventures and have grim secrets. From fin de sicle Paris to Egypt of the 1930s and contemporary England, the Garber novellas create feverish dreams of danger, scandal, and sensuality. This new edition includes the novella “Femme Fatale,” never before in print, as well as an essay by Mavis Haut, author of The Hidden Library of Tanith Lee, about the eminence of this collection within Lee’s body of work. Purchase and download PDF now! Pay through AmazonPayments Digital edition priced at $9.99	Lethe Press 330 pages, 98000 words 5.5x8.5 trade paperback 978-1-59021-310-0 1-59021-310-6 eISBN 978-1-59021-073-4 Buy from Giovanni's Room the gay & lesbian community bookstore in Philadelphia Buy from TLA gay books & videos
Permalink click cover for larger image	Heiresses of Russ 2012: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction Connie Wilkins & Steve Berman, editors “Several of the fantasy selections use the witch as a classic symbol of female mystery and power, but the stories have a good breadth of setting, and each has a distinctive voice. Showcasing a mix of authors, from superstars like Nalo Hopkinson to promising newcomers like S.L. Knapp, this solid, well-chosen collection will be enjoyed by genre fans of all genders and orientations.” —Publishers Weekly   “Our worthy mission was to highlight the breadth and quality of lesbian speculative fiction published during the past year, but our even higher purpose has been to provide a book that any readers with a taste for quality science fiction, fantasy, horror, and all their permutations will enjoy.” —from the Introduction by Lambda Literary Award-winning co-editor Connie Wilkins   An unexplained astronomical phenomenon brings a woman and her grandfather closer while she questions the meaning of faith. African villagers in need of aid are sent automatons rather than human relief workers. Mermaids devour men drawn by their song, but what will happen to a steampunk submersible piloted by a woman? Two teenage girls discover that memories are held in the fine aromas of perfumes. A family of sisters in Mexico discovers a fallen angel. These are tales of the strange, the wondrous, the eerie, but all are richly told stories of women facing the unknown and how they are changed by their experiences. Good review at Tor.com Review at The Future Fire Purchase and download PDF now! Pay through AmazonPayments Digital edition priced at $8.99	Lethe Press 302 pages, 96000 words 6x9 trade paperback 978-1-59021-159-5 1-59021-159-6 eISBN 978-1-59021-426-8 Buy from Giovanni's Room the gay & lesbian community bookstore in Philadelphia Buy from TLA gay books & videos Also available in hardcover library edition 9781590211588 1590211588
Permalink click cover for larger image	Shades of Gray K.A. Kron   Gray Edwards is finally back on duty, this time assigned to a Training Unit that does a lot more than training.  This high tech virtual world tests the boundaries of reality.  Gray finds herself flying once again with Dani Brown, and on the Fourth of July they are under attack during what is supposed to be a routine training exercise on downrange Fort Carson.   Edwards struggles, with a little help from old friends and new, to save the survivors, while staying one step ahead of the authorities who are investigating, and out of the hands of whoever is responsible.  The shocking truth about what really happened is something Gray never imagined. Purchase and download PDF now! Pay through AmazonPayments Digital edition priced at $6.99	Lethe Press 250 pages, 90000 words 5.5x8.5 trade paperback 978-1-59021-327-8 1-59021-327-0 eISBN 978-1-59021-411-4 Buy from Giovanni's Room the gay & lesbian community bookstore in Philadelphia Buy from TLA gay books & videos
Permalink click cover for larger image	Over the Rainbow list nominee Silver Moon: A Women of Wolf's Point Novel Catherine Lundoff From Golden Crown Literary Award-winning author Catherine Lundoff comes a supernatural novel that will thrill readers. Becca Thornton, divorced, middle-aged, and barely out of the closet discovers that life can still hold some strange surprises, when she discovers that her body is changing; menopause turns her into a werewolf. Apparently she is not the only one, as a number of women in her town of Wolf's Point seem to have had the same experience. As the newest member of the pack, Becca learns her nights are not spent only protecting the town and running through the woods howling at the moon. There are werewolf hunters in town and they've got Becca in their sights. "Deft humor, hints of romance, and well-constructed suspense leaven the occasional sturdy earnestness, while the rejection of toned hotties as the embodiment of supernatural power in favor of women whose lives have prepared them with the wisdom for their new role is refreshing."      -- Publishers Weekly …read the full review Article: For the big idea in her novel Silver Moon, author Catherine Lundoff looks at lycanthropy in the context of a “coming of age” story. What makes it unusual? Which age the protagonist of the story is coming into. Terrific review in Out in Print Review in Lambda Literary Good review at She-Wolf blog Interview with Catherine on roxannebland Book Excerpt on Shewired Interview with Catherine Lundoff on Outlook Columbus Purchase and download PDF now! Pay through AmazonPayments Digital edition priced at $6.99	Lethe Press 218 pages, 82000 words 6x9 trade paperback 978-1-59021-379-7 1-59021-379-3 eISBN 978-1-59021-407-7 Buy from Giovanni's Room the gay & lesbian community bookstore in Philadelphia Buy from TLA gay books & videos
Permalink click cover for larger image	GOLDIE Award Finalist click here Over the Rainbow list nominee Heiresses of Russ 2011: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft & Steve Berman Welcome to a new annual anthology created in honor of the late Joanna Russ, American writer, academic, and feminist whose work shone brightly in the male-dominated field of speculative fiction of the latter part of the twentieth century. Heiresses of Russ offers readers in one volume the best lesbian-themed tales of the fantastical and otherworldly published during the prior year. Editors JoSelle Vanderhooft and Steve Berman read countless books, periodicals, and webzines to collect a range of tales—from new voices as well as award-winning authors—that celebrate the spirit of Russ’s fiction:  stories of sorceresses and spectral women, lost daughters and sisters of myth. The transformative power of the written word becomes magic and tests the boundaries of gender, identity, and a woman’s dreams. Stories by: Georgina Bruce, Jewelle Gomez, Michelle Labb, Steve Berman, Rachel Swirsky, Ellen Kushner, Zen Cho, Csilla Kleinheincz, Catherine Lundoff, Nora Olsen, N. K. Jemisin Purchase and download PDF now! Pay through AmazonPayments Digital edition priced at $8.99	Lethe Press 286 pages, 92000 words 6x9trade paperback 978-1-59021-396-4 1-59021-396-3 Buy from Giovanni's Room the gay & lesbian community bookstore in Philadelphia Also available in hardcover library edition 9781590213957 1590213957
Permalink click cover for larger image	Over the Rainbow list nominee A Day at the Inn, a Night at the Palace and Other Stories by Catherine Lundoff A Day at the Inn, A Night at the Palace, the short and fantastical fiction collection by two-time Golden Crown Literary Award winner Catherine Lundoff, features engaging stories about swashbuckling female pirates, opera singers and mercenaries. Follow Shakespeare’s sister, Judith, and solve the question of who really authored the plays. Consort with highwaymen (who are more than what they seem), private eyes, bards, spies and even the fey Queen of Air and Darkness. Thrilling adventures await in these ten previously uncollected stories about magic, laughter, love, loss and second chances. “There are writers of passion and writers of wry ventures and standing among both their companies is Catherine Lundoff. Her stories offer memorable characters that I would seek out in dark alleys during desperate times because only they can save the reader from the perils ahead.” —Steve Berman, author of Vintage: A Ghost Story Catherine Lundoff talks about this new book on The OuterAlliance Catherine reads from A Day at the Inn in a podcast "Cocktail Hour" Purchase and download PDF now! Pay through AmazonPayments Digital edition priced at $6.99	Lethe Press 220 pages, 67000 words 5x8trade paperback 978-1-59021-378-0 1-59021-378-5 Buy from Giovanni's Room the gay & lesbian community bookstore in Philadelphia
Permalink	Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award: Mark Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award Honor Book a+e 4EVER - a graphic novel by ilike merey Asher Machnik is a teenage boy cursed with a beautiful androgynous face. Guys punch him, girls slag him and by high school he's developed an intense fear of being t