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Welcome to our Legacy Project With the special 35th anniversary edition, of  The Latecomer by Sarah Aldridge, A&M Books, launches The Latecomer Legacy Project – gathering  the words of women who discovered this, or other early lesbian literature and who fondly reminisce about how those words paved the way to positive self images and rewarding lesbian lives. Anyda and Muriel loved nothing better than a sunny day, a glass of  Dewars scotch and friends on the front porch telling stories and talking about books. If Anyda and Muriel were with us today, they would love to hear all of our tales of what those first books about lesbians - the first ones that dared to have happy endings - meant to us all. Were you there in the 1970s or 1980s? Did you finally find literature that told you that you were not alone? Did you find writers who  told you there could be a happy ending for you? Tell us your story as part of the Latecomer Legacy Project. Send your comments to: aandmpublishers@aol.com Photos!

national 1997 Vice Versa Award for  2008 she won the National Federation of Press Women Award for  Non-fiction Book of the Year, Humor; She won the DThe Sarah Aldridge novels were a prototype that showed me a way to make novels of lesbian life myself and gave me permission to tell others what I knew about lesbian life.  - Lee Lynch The Latecomer was the first lesbian book I had ever purchased and the first work of lesbian fiction published by Naiad Press.  I still have that book and every other book written by Sarah Aldridge.  The Latecomer is a work of passion and longing and unapologetic desire, and here was a book that for the first time allowed me to see my hopes and desires and dreams in a positive light. -Radclyffe I feel a kinship with this book and with the readers who, maybe for the first time, felt that they were not alone in their love for women. -Cris Williamson