Writing

By Her Sword

A Sapphic Fantasy Romance Anthology

Short stories by Aoibh Wood, Jules Revel, Rose Goodwin, Erin Brance, Gwenhyver, Cassidy Percoco, Erin Casey, Susanne Selehy, Selina Rossman, Alyssa Jensen, Evelyn Shine, and Anna Burke

Release date: June 2025 from Sunset Wave Press

Coltswood

Professor Belinda Coltswood has made a name for herself. As the recent winner of a prestigious art prize, and the object of lingering rumors that nearly ended her career, Coltswood walks a fine line between celebrity and outcast. Though seemingly immune to both censure and accolades, Coltswood's capacity for cool indifference dissolves in a rip tide of memory when she finds herself face-to-face with a woman from her past. A woman she knew only as Wolf. While the Wolf in her office is hardly the same fierce young AIDS activist Coltswood remembers, this meeting has the potential to alter their lives in radical ways.

Release date: January 13, 2026 from Bywater Books

Oxbow

In 2001, a massive snowstorm results in a chance encounter between two childhood friends who haven’t spoken in years. Shawnee Hughes and Ginny Lee grew up together in the Oxbow Willows trailer park. Broke, but never broken, they dreamt of a future where they could leave the boredom, dust, and desperation of Oxbow, Iowa, behind them. Shawn aspired to win her way out with a scholarship, while Ginny planned to bide her time, using her razor-sharp memory to lull her devout family into believing that she was as dedicated as they were. Nothing goes as planned, but this is the story of how everything falls into place.

Forthcoming from Bywater Books