They ‘Ayes’ have it! We inquired a little while ago and you all said, AYE or YES or some semblance thereof, so we are adding the category to our lineup of categories offered here on our…

The Lesfic Bard Awards are known for their honest judging of all the books we receive.  Before this gets blown out of proportion, we are being transparent about an incident.  One of the winners of …

Fantasy Original Sin by TJ Dallas A sapphic erotica prequel series to the Cardinal Series. This book follows on from the events of Lilith: Book of Genesis (#0) Thousands of years ago, a woman was b…

Yes, we are open to books that are or will be published in 2026 to enter the awards on our website at www.lesficbardawards.com. It is open to all authors of Lesfic, Sapphic, and Women Loving Women …

No, this isn’t FB jail where I’m suspended for a month. This is them actively considering taking away my account with all the pages I have. This would include my author page and corresp…

Archeologist Dr. Cassandra Stillwell and her young assistant Ari Morgan first appeared in The Crystal’s Curse as they searched for the story of Hatshepsut, the most powerful female pharaoh in…

This year has seemingly flown by and it’s hard to believe but it’s coming to a close. You have until December 21, 2025 at 12pm CST to get your books entered in the Lesfic Bard Awards at…

The 2024 Lesfic Bard Awards were the most ‘challenging’ of all the years we have been holding the awards.  It’s been frustrating beyond belief, and I didn’t want to keep telling you of these d…

BIO: Rena Sapon-White and Ella Schaefer are the founders of Smokeshow, a queer media company creating genre-bending content across books, film, TV, stage, and podcasts. They met by cosmic accident …

Bio: Rae Theodore is the author of the poetry chapbook How to Sit Like a Lesbian and the memoir collections My Mother Says Drums Are for Boys: True Stories for Gender Rebels and Leaving Normal: Adv…

Where were you when you heard you had won the Lesfic Bard Award?It was a Sunday morning. I had just gotten up and fed Piper (the cutest Havanese ever) when I sat down in my recliner with a cup of c…

Cover 56-year-old Piper Fallon vacationed on the beautiful island of Kauai, Hawaii a year after burying Susan, her partner of twenty years. She booked herself into the same Princeville resort she a…

Action Adventure Running on caffeine and spite with nothing left to prove. GOLDEN GIRLS meets FIREFLY in this rollicking space opera adventure.Maryn Alessi retired from mercenary service after her …

Due to a higher than expected number of entries at the end of December, the judges are still reading them. We can’t tabulate the scores and choose winners until they have all been read, grade…

Where were you when you heard you had won the Lesfic Bard Award?On an Alaskan cruise What was your reaction?I was surprised…and pleased! Where were you born?Burlington, Vermont Where did you grow u…

Where were you when you heard you had won the Lesfic Bard Award? I was having lunch with a friend when she left the table for a moment, I checked my email, and I found congratulations emails and te…

Where was I when I heard about winning - I was on the eighth hole of Arrowhead Golf Course in Roxborough Park Colorado.  My reaction - was one of elation- the book took a large amount of  research and...

Where were you when you heard you had won the Lesfic Bard Award?  I was here at my desk. I knew that the awards announcements were imminent, so I was keeping a close eye on my emails. What was your re...

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We spread them out so that no inbox (for those who subscribe to the blog) gets inundated with all the interviews. Promoting them all at once would be detrimental to the awards as well as the authors b...

Where were you when you heard you had won the Lesfic Bard Award? I was sitting in the car with two women I’d met for the first time just the day before. We had carpooled from the airport to our medita...

Did you know we buy the books of each of the winners and runners-up from Amazon? This is so that we can leave a review for them because reviews are so important to authors. Even a small review can hel...

Action Adventure The Paris Contagion by CA Farlow Global terrorism, bioweapons, despots, and a deadly new virus all combine to make the world an unstable place, particularly for Samantha Michaels, an ...

Action-Adventure I’m Not Scared … You Are by Ocean Fifteen tales that delve into the unexplainable world of the mystical, paranormal, and supernatural~ Spiders ~ Cemeteries ~ Skulls ~ Haunted Houses ~...

Hey there, hope you are having a terrific spring wherever you may be in the world! We're coming along on the last of the books, boy there were a lot this year, and the judges are wrapping it up. We ar...

Wow, another year is in the books (don't pardon the pun). We will be judging all those last-minute entries for a while yet, but I'm so pleased with the things we put into place to make it more effic...

We have been on top of all the entries sent in this year (thank you for the wonderful response to our awards). If you haven't seen an email (to the one you provided in your application) with your le...

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