Founded in 2019 as an imprint of @bywaterbooks; publishers of fiction and narrative non-fiction from LGBTQ+ writers, particular queer writers of color.
Joined February 2020
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🏳️🌈✈️🌏 He left his husband at the airport to chase his dreams—now both men must figure out what it really means to grow up, love hard, and start over.
🎧 Listen to Tom Pyun’s fierce, funny & unforgettable new audiobook today.
Available everywhere great audiobooks are sold!
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🎬 Hollywood, 1952: Fame is a killer.
Dan Root’s rise as Dexter Gaines is fueled by lust, lies & betrayal.
40 years later, the past explodes in a scandal with no cut scenes. 🌪️
Glamour clashes with secrets. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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What happens when happily-ever-after takes a detour at the departure gate?
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Find out in Tom Pyun’s unmissable Something Close to Nothing—preorder the audiobook today.
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Check out this great article by Amble Press Managing Editor Orlando Ortega-Media in Jane Friedman!
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🎬 Hollywood, 1952: Fame is a killer.
Dan Root’s rise as Dexter Gaines is fueled by lust, lies & betrayal.
40 years later, the past explodes in a scandal with no cut scenes. 🌪️
Glamour clashes into secrets. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
#ScandalAndStars @MarkBPerry #QueerLit #LGBTQBooks
Don’t miss this amazing Pride Month interview featuring Orlando Ortega-Medina and his incredible novel, Emerald Road, on the LA Public Library Blog!
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Experience the world through words at Amble Press.
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And Introducing Dexter Gaines: A Novel of Old Hollywood by Mark B. Perry.
Now available in audiobook & narrated by the velvet-voiced @DanielHenningLA
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Today is a banner day for Bywater Books & Amble Press!
Please join us in welcoming Macon Leigh & Mario ElÍas to our publishing family!
Macon's sapphic romance, Unspectacular Things & Mario’s gay novel, Beautiful Disciples, are scheduled for publication in the summer of 2026.
Look who showed up to celebrate the launch of And Introducing Dexter Gaines: A Novel of Old Hollywood with @MarkBPerry!
It's audiobook narrator @danielhenningla!
The audiobook pre-order link is live: loom.ly/Gq0W_w0
“In total, Ortega-Medina has vividly captured the feel of the expectant journey to the North. “Emerald Road,” as the name implies, is a road trip novel as fantastical and technicolor alive as “The Wizard of Oz.”” –Laura Moreno, Bay Area Reporter
Read more—loom.ly/S4Gl9lc
“A terrific read! Brings back the glamour of 50s Hollywood, but also the tragic repression that destroyed so many LGBTQ lives. I truly could not put it down. Highly recommend!” — E. Herman, Amazon Customer
Available everywhere.
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“This book was like Song of Achilles meets Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, and yes, I was SOBBING by the end.” —Lucy | Bookstagram (lucy_readsss)
Available everywhere on Tuesday, 05.08.25.
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Please join us in paying tribute to the generations of Asian and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America's history—we see you and value your contributions to literature.
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“Take me to Mark B. Perry’s Hollywood party! The one that opens his sensational new novel AND INTRODUCING DEXTER GAINES. Do you like a page-turner? You got it, sweetheart. Tell Zanuck I said so.” — Sam Staggs, All About All About Eve
Preorder today: loom.ly/1m9FmF8
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“This was one of the best books I’ve read in a long time and could quite possibly be a new favourite of mine! Old Hollywood comes to life in this gloriously vivid novel . . .”
—Natalie O. NetGalley Reviewer, 5 stars
“This book was like Song of Achilles meets Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, and yes, I was SOBBING by the end.” —Lucy | Bookstagram (lucy_readsss)
Available everywhere 05.08.25—preorder today.
#bookrecs #tbr #bookthoughts #bookreviews #arcread #arcreader #netgalley
“Take me to Mark B. Perry’s Hollywood party! The one that opens his sensational new novel AND INTRODUCING DEXTER GAINES. Do you like a page-turner? You got it, sweetheart. Tell Zanuck I said so.” — Sam Staggs, All About All About Eve
Preorder today: loom.ly/1m9FmF8
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“The freedoms you take for granted ...can be gone...when that happens...you’re no longer the person who closes the door in the face of immigrants...you’re appealing to the basic human decency of a stranger.” —Walter Rhein
Read the whole story here: loom.ly/qIkSakA
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This is Petal, and she is a highly prized Beta Reader.
Petal knows a cravable book when she gets her paws on it.
Be like Petal.
And introducing Dexter Gaines: A Novel of Old Hollywood by Mark B. Perry, available everywhere on 05.06.25.
#LGBTQ #ComingSoon #TBR
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