
I am proud and honored to be able to publish the many fine authors at Bold Strokes Books and to contribute in some small way to the words that celebrate the LGBTQ experience.”

Our literature provides support and validation and very often, a lifeline, for members of our community throughout the world. That book and others like it convinced me that I was not alone, that there were other women who felt like I did. She states, “I began reading lesbian fiction at the age of twelve when I found a copy of Ann Bannon’s Beebo Brinker. In 2004, she founded Bold Strokes Books, an independent LGBTQ publishing company, and in 2013, she founded the Flax Mill Creek Writers Retreat offering writing workshops to authors in all stages of their careers. James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist award from the Lambda Literary Foundation. A member of the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame, she is also an RWA Prism, Lories, Beanpot, Aspen Gold, and Laurel Wreath winner in multiple mainstream romance categories. She is an eight-time Lambda Literary Award finalist in romance, mystery, and erotica-winning in both romance and erotica. She has also edited Best Lesbian Romance 2009 through 2015 as well as multiple other anthologies. Raand, has authored a paranormal romance series, The Midnight Hunters.

Radclyffe has written over forty-five romance and romantic intrigue novels, dozens of short stories, and, writing as L.L.
