L.A. Fields is an author of literary, historical, and gay fiction, including two Lambda Literary Award finalists, five YA books, two short story collections, and two works of scholarship. She has an MFA, a job in legal marketing, and a calico cat.

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Good news! I am quoted at length in this NBC article by Travel and Culture journalist Dan Allen: "Bayard Rustin’s connection to queer history may have started with his very name."It's on the subject of LGBT activist Bayard Rustin's namesake, travel writer Bayard Taylor - fellow Pennsylvanian and author of America's (possibly) first gay novel, ( Read more... )

[Originally published in 2020 on the ​Studious Scarlets website, a society for women authors of Sherlockiana.]

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L.A. Fields, author of My Dear Watson (2013) and Mrs. Watson: Untold Stories (2021), and Michelle Birkby, author of The House at Baker Street (2016) and The Women of Baker Street (2017), sit down to talk Sherlock and more.

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In honor of National Crime Junkie Day, here's a curated list by L.A. Fields of the best books about queer love and murder.


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Check out five books that inspired or aptly reflect Riot Son at Shepherd.com and get motivated to fight the good fight:
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On the eve of Fourth of July weekend and the release of Riot Son, I spoke with Robert Kesten, executive director and CEO of the Stonewall National Museum, Archives, & Library, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida ( Read more... )

This past weekend I put the finishing touches on a new author website for the works of L.A. Fields: https://lafields.webflow.io/

What started as some web design practice has become a useful accomplishment. After 15 years of publishing, it's nice to have all my novels, short stories, interviews, awards, and reviews in one convenient place!

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My first publications came in 2008, meaning 2023 marks 15 years of publishing under L.A. Fields. Here’s how it’s going:
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Confidence
I’m working with genres and subject matters I never imagined I’d be able to handle competently as a teen that I’m now perfectly confident in tackling. Historical fiction, actual history, political fiction, and characters ( Read more... )

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I was interviewed about storytelling by a pair of comedians! The topic: Fiction Writing Around Real People. Highlights include:

• Gay Sherlock Holmes, gay Abraham Lincoln, gay everybody (with citations)
• Creating sympathies for murderers by following the example of Mr. Clarence Darrow in the Leopold and Loeb case
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