One of the trademarks, the unwritten rules, of lesbian pulp fiction back in the '50s and '60s was that the stories often ended unhappily. This was just one of the rules, however, that Julie Ellis insisted on breaking when she began writing and publishing in the genre.

A single mother living in New York City, Ellis forged ahead and built a successful writing career that supported her family. Although a heterosexual woman, Ellis was dedicated to social causes and made the decision to write and publish lesbian fiction… perhaps because such characters were still under-represented in paperback fiction at the time.  (more…)