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Rattling Good Yarns Press publishes LGBTQ+ fiction, memoir, and history — books that speak to lives that have been overlooked, underrepresented, and worth every page.
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Our Stories, Our Lives
The true breadth of queer life was never going to fit the standard categories. So we built our own: six curated collections carrying everything from overlooked history and personal memoir to the wit, whimsy, and darker turns of our community — organized by the people who lived them, not the market that discovered them.
The record they'd have preferred stayed buried. The pioneers, the rebels, the presses and movements that built our communities before anyone was willing to sell to us — gathered here so the next generation inherits the whole story, not the sanitized one.
Books about getting by, and living the world on your own terms. These are the voices the industry overlooks in its rush toward the next new thing — stories of endurance and self-determination that we publish precisely because someone decided they no longer mattered. They do.
Queer love told by the people who've lived it. Modern romances and reimagined classics that trace desire, connection, and heartbreak from the inside — no sympathetic outsiders, no borrowed souls, just the real pulse of it.
A collection that refuses to treat lesbian and queer women as a footnote. Fiction and nonfiction alike, holding the voices, histories, and visions that both the mainstream and our own community too often overlook.
The heart of the house. Memoir and testimony in our community's own words — the lives that were hidden to survive, told now without translation, apology, or anyone else's permission.
Because survival always kept its sense of humor — and its edge. Sharp comedy and camp alongside shadowy thrillers and darker turns, from a culture that learned to laugh in the dark and isn't done yet
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Queer stories, queer authors. Our writers are part of our community, with rich, lived experiences that sit at the heart of every history, memoir, and story we publish. From legendary voices to emerging talents, meet the writers shaping the Rattling Good Yarns Press landscape.
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Stories Beyond Books
Writing the Lesbian Novel Infraction—without the Word Lesbian
Editor’s note: Sadly, Iconic acclaimed author, poet, columnist and massage therapist Yvonne Zipter died Feb. 10 due to complications from ovarian cancer. She was 71.
