Historical Fiction
All Your Storms and Ships Called She
An aspiring journalist sets sail with a crew of female pirates to seek the source of a mysterious summons (F/F, Historical Fiction)
Cinder and the Smoke
It's nineteenth century New York, and there's a new female safe-cracker in the shadows (F/F, Historical)
Do Unto Others
In the summer of 1945, killing time between jobs in Albuquerque, women commit crimes.
Gunfire Echoes
Rose Skinner hopes to leave the pain of her old life behind when she rides into Paradise as their newest and only female bartender. (F/F, Western)
Levitate: A Spy Novel
In 1981, the Berlin Wall still stands, and spies still do their duty. (F/F)
Seasons of Change
Four novellas (and two epilogues) follow women struggling to find balance after they suffer world-shaking changes. (F/F, Short Stories)
Stag and Hound
Paris in Winter, 1943. The Loupin pack is a group of canidae operating as a cell in the French resistance. (F/F, M/M, Historical, Werewolves)
The Beast at the Door
Patience runs away to a mysterious house filled with clockwork monsters. (F/F, Steampunk)
The Virtuous Feats of the Indomitable Miss Trafalgar and the Erudite Lady Boone (Trafalgar & Boone #1)
Two women from vastly different lives team up for archaeological adventure (F/F, Steampunk)
Trafalgar & Boone and the Books of Breathing (Trafalgar & Boone #3)
With lives at risk and the future at stake, Trafalgar leads a group of reluctant allies from London to Egypt to stop an unspeakable power from falling into the wrong hands.(F/F, Steampunk)
Trafalgar & Boone and the Children of the Burnt Empire (Trafalgar & Boone #4)
Trafalgar & Boone go to the Amazon jungle in Book #4 (F/F)
Trafalgar & Boone at Magic's End (Trafalgar & Boone 6)
Trafalgar & Boone return in book 6! (Steampunk, F/F)
Wolf at the Door (Underdogs Prequel)
A 19th century soldier encounters a werewolf (F/F, Historical)
Zero City
Manhattan, 1984. Historical romance and a taxi cab driver. (F/F)
Historical fiction has moved from a side project at Supposed Crimes to a major influence in LGBTQ fiction. The 2017 Rainbow Awards recognized two Supposed Crimes titles:
Beast at the Door, by Althea Blue, a lesbian romance in a light steampunk / clockwork setting, where a runaway girl finds another girl in a mysterious house.
Third Place
Best Lesbian Debut Book
Supposed Crimes has been coaxing Althea Blue to publish her lesbian fiction for years, and the editor hopes that winning a major lesbian award will provide validation. Althea's got more historical lesbian fiction in the works, including a selkie story that isn't just a retelling of the same old legend. Lesbian mermaids and angst, yes!
Trafalgar and Boone and the Drowned Necropolis, by Geonn Cannon, a 1920s steampunk / ancient aliens yarn with magic and his own twist on a lesbian Indiana Jones.
Second Place
Best Lesbian Historical Fiction
Trafalgar and Boone has been the cornerstone of Supposed Crimes historical fiction since its inception, and has been repeatedly recognized as outstanding work by Kirkus, Publisher's Weekly, and now the Rainbow Awards. Trafalgar and Boone was the first lesbian historical romance at Supposed Crimes to sell translation rights.
What Everyone Deserves, by Dan Ackerman, is a gay vampire story that only earned Honorable Mention at the Rainbow Awards this year. A sensitive portrayal of gay and black life in the 1950s, with just a twist of urban fantasy--the protagonist, deeply loved by readers, is a fertility demon whose heart has been broken. It's still up for several other awards, so here's hoping its genius is recognized.