finally got my new cover and updated formatted files for Relentlessly Hers uploaded to Amazon... and Amazon is down. Why must you betray me in new ways every day, capitalism??
anyway, if you're interested, you can read an ARC and review on BookSprout: booksprout.co/reviewer/rev...
The illustrated cover of Relentlessly Hers by Ivy L. James features two competitive women wielding tennis rackets. Yelena is a slim, muscular white woman with strawberry-blonde hair in a white tennis uniform. Embry is a more muscular Black woman with two long braids, in a blue tennis uniform.
New cover who dis!
Relentlessly Hers is a spicy sapphic "petty gym rivals to begrudging teammates to lovers" contemporary romance set in a small town. It's book 2 in my Hearts in Hartsville series 🩵
Preorder: books2read.com/RelentlesslyHers
#lesfic #sapphic 🌈📚 #writingcommunity #sapphfic 💙📚
Alysa Liu skating peacefully and joyfully
POV: I started writing for myself again this year 💙
Unfortunately, due to extenuating circumstances, the release date for Relentlessly Hers has been pushed to 31 March 2026.
I want to ensure I'm giving readers the best possible version of this book, so expect a little surprise soon!
Alysa Liu skating joyfully
Me when my manuscript is finalized, formatted, and submitted to Amazon!
(Relentlessly Hers, my "petty gym rivals to begrudging teammates to friends to lovers" contemporary sapphic romance, comes out 1 March 2026!)
books2read.com/RelentlesslyHers
#lesfic
Relentlessly Hers ARCs are up! "Petty gym rivals to begrudging teammates to friends to lovers" is available to 25 people 💜
booksprout.co/reviewer/rev...
#indie #author #lesfic #sapphic #romance 🌈📚 #writingcommunity #sapphfic 💙📚
Relentlessly Hers is with the formatter! It's on track for the 1 March 2026 release, and I'm SO excited to share this sexy sapphic romance with you all!!
Preorder here: books2read.com/Relentlessly...
Anyway, this book is a BLAST! In its updated form, it's now Relentlessly Hers, and it comes out in ebook and paperback on 1 March 2026!
Preorder here: books2read.com/RelentlesslyHers
Well, I meant to portion out my Winner reread/update over a few days to a week, but instead I ended up binge-reading the whole thing yesterday bc I was having a good time.
It was totally fine -- enjoyable, fun, sexy. We're our own worst critics.
You may know that I am revamping and republishing my small press books on my own, making the novels all the same series.
In its orinal drafting and publishing phase, I HATED Winner. I was miserable writing it, and I thought it was terrible.
I'm so grateful for my new clients on Reedsy!
I was nervous about getting started there, but I'm really enjoying all the wonderful manuscripts I have the honor of working on. So many fresh ideas and lovely stories!
(reedsy.com/james-ivy-l)
SAVE THE DATE! #SmallPitch comes back for another indie/small press-focused pitch event on January 19-25, 2026 🌊
This time, it will be open to all underrepresented authors from the #WritingCommunity, agented and unagented alike.
Check our website for more details ⬇️
I'd love to build a writers' group in Arizona! (Especially northern AZ if we want to get together in person. I'm in Sedona.) It could be in-person or virtual over Zoom, whatever's preferred.
If you're around and you'd like to meet up, let me know below!
My editing services are now available on Reedsy!
As always, I offer line edits, copyedits, and proofreading. I love getting a manuscript clear, concise, and consistent while maintaining the author's voice.
My 2026 editing wish list:
- queer stories, especially sapphic!
- retellings (mythology, fairy tales, etc.)
- cozy omegaverse
- any romance
- any romantasy
- commercial fiction
I offer line edits, copy edits, and proofreading for fiction manuscripts.
authorivyljames.com/editing-services
My contemporary lesbian holiday romance novella, Make the Yuletide Gay, is OUT NOW!
Enjoy as an ebook, paperback, or audiobook, or read for FREE on KU!
books2read.com/GayYuletide
#indie #author #lesfic #sapphic #romance 🌈📚 #writingcommunity #sapphfic 💙📚
I'm so fine and normal about @SmoochPit results being revealed tomorrow...
The coziest romance is the one where two women fall in love over hot chocolate 🍵💕
books2read.com/GayYuletide
Sapphic romance is joy, softness, and belonging 🌈
What does queer love mean to you?
Conveniently Hers: out now! Features internet friends to lovers, marriage of convenience, a fictional European kingdom, slow burn with spice, and sapphic romance (bi x demi women). Find it at books2read.com/ConvenientlyHers
it's my birthday 💙
some things you can do for me for my birthday:
- buy my book! or request it for your local library
- read book
- tell me nice things about book
- leave a review with the nice things
- tell other people about my book
- make fanart of book
Girls will be like "I needed that" and it's getting railed by your best friend, who married you for a green card and fell for you in the day-to-day of the sapphic fake relationship
books2read.com/ConvenientlyHers
#indie #author #lesfic #sapphic #romance 🌈📚 #writingcommunity #sapphfic 💙📚
The cover of Learning to Bleed by Cat Rector, the sequel to Coal Gets In Your Veins. The cover is in the style of a classical painting, with a blush-grey background. In the foreground are two characters locked in a dipping embrace. Spencer, a pale man in a dark blue turtleneck sweater and jeans, with blonde bed-head hair, is holding up another character as she loses control and seems to be falling. His expression is lost and loving as he looks down at her. Laurel is leaning back in his arms, her long brown hair in waves over her back, her face up to the sky as her expression of uncontrolled rage stares upward. Her eyes are red and her mouth is wide open, showing her vampire fangs. A pool of blood soaks into the shoulder of Spencer’s sweater, coming from Laurel’s hand as it hangs above his shoulder. Laurel wears a tank top and red and black plaid. A red mist obscures their legs, making room for the title and author text. The cover artist is Scherville.
Learning to Bleed comes out March 18th and artist @scherville.com is so deeply talented I can hardly believe it!
This book is the 2nd in a trilogy that explores queerness and trauma through vampire lore, all against the backdrop of an impoverished rural community that has its own monsters 👀
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One month until Make the Yuletide Gay is out!
This contemporary holiday lesbian romance novella is full of all the seasonal tropes we love, plus a little spice for good measure.
books2read.com/GayYuletide
#sapphfic
Goodreads review highlight for CONVENIENTLY HERS:
"I am a simple reader: I see marriage of convenience and I pick up the book. But what keeps me reading are the characters. And Mariana and Silvina captured my heart from the start."
books2read.com/Conveniently...
#lesfic 🌈📚 #sapphfic 💙📚
I'm now on Patreon!
patreon.com/authorivylja...
#indie #author #lesfic #sapphic #romance 🌈📚 #writingcommunity #sapphfic 💙📚
my brain is just making the dialup noise today...
Sometimes sapphic love stories are quiet. Sometimes they’re fireworks. I like to write both. ✨
Goodreads review highlight for CONVENIENTLY HERS:
"There are so many little moments of affection, humor, and feelings these two have for each other while doing everyday activities, it just made me smile every time I went to pick up the book.
books2read.com/ConvenientlyHers
🌈📚 #lesfic 💙📚
My exvangelical poetry chapbook, COAL HEARTED, is in edits! I can't wait to share it with you all!
Since I haven't been able to buckle down on 75 hard/medium, I'm thinking about trying a shorter-term challenge instead.
Specifically, I'm eyeballing the #3Day30K challenge by AK Mulford.
Has anyone here tried that one before? Or do you have another one to recommend?
