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It’s another snowy weekend at IHS headquarters, meaning it’s the perfect time to curl up with a book!
Saturdays are when we round up all the sapphic book news from the previous week into one convenient location. Think of it as your personal lesfic directory! After all, we know the weekend is when so many of us are able to unwind for a minute and want to get lost in a good women loving women book. What could be better?
This week TB & Miranda hit the road to celebrate sending a book off to the editor and for A Woman in Hiding hitting number 1 on the Amazon charts just long enough for TB to snap a screenshot. To toast making their writing deadline and to recharge their batteries, they had a delightful lunch at a winery. See the photos below.
If you don’t know which lesbian fiction (or nonfiction or memoir!) book to dig into this weekend, check out the BookFinder.
We launched the BookFinder back in October with a mission to be as inclusive as possible. Today, the database contains more than 3,150 sapphic books! Odds are we have something you haven’t read yet. Or just amuse yourself by entering wacky combinations to see if anyone has written the book.
Without further ado, let’s get to all the sapphic book news from this past week!
Family drama, second chances and love of a lifetime
Lovely Abby Hart lives in the town of Ludbury, England, where Maggie Goodman is like another mother to her. But Abby has a secret. Best friend Jude, Maggie’s daughter, is the love of her life, and very, very straight. But secrets always come out.
Charlie is brokenhearted after her girlfriend leaves her for a man — and she vows to only date women who completely identify as lesbian in the future. But all bets are off when Charlie meets gorgeous, bisexual Ava…
Together, Gigi and Lyndsey learn that skating on air and being in love will require them to be more honest with those around them than they have ever been before.
It’s lust at first sight for both women when they share that instant connection, and Brooke starts to feel like maybe everything will turn out alright. That is until Monday morning when the interview panel includes Catherine.
Much to Brooke’s utter heartbreak, Catherine declines to take the relationship further now they’re working together. And she transforms from hot sexy lover, to an ice queen overnight. Adamant, that Brooke must forget it.
Can Lucy and Jaz’s relationship deal with Lucy’s boredom and wandering eye?
Lucy believed living the country life with Jaz could solve all of her problems, but Jaz was always at work and Lucy was disillusioned and bored. Lucy’s trip to Canada and flirtatious nature cause problems with her and Jaz’s relationship. Will they be able to resolve their issues and rekindle their love?
You are the voice for those who have none. You are the heartbeat of a million dreams.
Mars has a shadow, a mirror world torn from the chaos of an eons-old rivalry between gods and titans. An elite few protect this secret to preserve the peace. But when a girl comes along with the power to reunite Mars, worlds collide in cosmic war.
Despite Lizzie's attempts to hide from her family, circumstances pull her even deeper into the complicated Petrie web.
After a disastrous family Christmas, Lizzie’s friends and family seek her counsel, dragging Lizzie back into their orbit. With a brother facing prison time, a family feud, the possibility of raising her niece, and the desire to have another child, Lizzie’s one step from constructing a moat to block out the world.
Will Lizzie crack or dig deep to prevent the collapse of the family?
Lizzie is starting to figure out life, right when fate decides to destroy every facet of her world.
After the birth of her son and adopting a daughter, Lizzie learns her latest book deal is toast. But that’s not all. External forces are out to ruin Lizzie’s career and reputation, threatening her ability to support and protect her wife and four children. But who is behind the attacks? And why?
Lizzie Petrie doesn’t know how to handle life in the best of times.
When COVID-19 strikes, flipping her entire world upside down, she deals with it in true disastrous Lizzie fashion.
Unbeknownst to Lizzie, her wife invites family to move into their home for the lockdown, making it difficult for Lizzie to find breathing room, and to give her brain space to put the pandemic into terms she can understand.
Lizzie Petrie thought she’d gotten her life under control, but everything seems to be unravelling right before her eyes.
As COVID-19 starts to recede, Lizzie has new battles to fight in epic Lizzie fashion.
Whether it involves getting the twins ready for kindergarten, the threat to the planet, or starting a new media company, Lizzie is being pulled in so many directions she doesn’t know which way is up.
There’s one fear in particular that’s threatening to upend her world as she knows it.
While one couple prepares for a baby, another explores if they have more in common than tattoos.
Officer Jackie Dupuis is eccentric. She finds deciphering living people exhausting. Newcomer Angie Stolmeijer, a musician and cosmetologist, might be an odd match for a ghost hunting cop.
As Amy and Molly await their baby, Molly‘s family history haunts her. When a body is found, the rumors gain traction.
For someone so laidback, Glory is surprised she can't seem to resist the uptight, feisty, and very sexy neighbor who has just moved in.
Small town life for Glory Eiben has always been her ideal. With her rare congenital heart defect, keeping family and friends close by preserves her easygoing attitude. When Lena Coleridge moves in next door, life becomes anything but easy.
TB loves exploring places near and far, so we’ve created a weekly game where TB goes on an adventure, snaps some photos, and then lets you guess her location.
To answer last week’s mystery, 67% of you were right. Miranda and I visited the Concord Colonial Inn. Also, 25% of you guessed my own shadow scared me because I thought it was a ghost. It’s possible that’s correct and I’m often scared by my own shadow. It’s never where I think it should be, really.
Now for this week’s guessing game.
Miranda and TB finished their latest cowrite and shipped it off to the editor. Also, TB just published the latest Lizzie book. They were in the celebrating mood, so they headed to one of their favorite spots for lunch and wine.
Here are some facts about the winery.
1. The place is Massachusetts’s leading fruit wine producer and the nation’s pioneering “winery orchard.”
2. The winery has over 100 national and international medals to its credit.
3. Jack Partridge, one of the founders, believed winemakers could ferment fruits other than grapes and he teamed up with Larry Ames, a Brown University graduate, and probably the first commercial winemaker in Massachusetts.
4. The winery produces 37 different wines and over 13000 cases per year.
5. In 1995, there was a new team at the winery, who wanted to bring west coast concepts to an east coast farm. “A visit had to become an experience; a place where people gather to experience open land and dirty hands.”
6. The place has a restaurant with delicious food.
7. Miranda dragged TB there when researching owning a winery for Miranda’s Accidental Honeymoon, and TB spent an afternoon picking grapes, griping the entire time. It’s backbreaking work, but TB got a nice meal and wine out of the deal.
For this week’s Sapphic Books in the wild, we took Off the Menu by Alaina Erdell, which stars a chef and releases on Amazon this Tuesday. If you can’t wait, you can get buy it direct from Bold Strokes Books.
Here are the photos of the winery (from this visit and previous ones to see it in different seasons), including some shots of Off the Menu.
Time to vote on the name of the winery in Bolton, Massachusetts!
Polls are open until March 16 and the answer will be revealed on Saturday, March 18.
