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Fay Jacobs is the author of two  hilarious memoirs about her beloved home  town Rehoboth Beach, DE.

Fay is Publisher and Managing Editor of A&M Books. She and Bonnie, her partner of 26 years, relocated to Rehoboth Beach, DE in 1999. They have two Miniature Schnauzers and a riding lawn mower.

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Anyda Marchant lived in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware with her partner of 57 years, Muriel Crawford. The women were founders of Naiad Press in 1973 and A&M Books in 1995.

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Fay Jacobs
a native New Yorker, spent 30 years in the Washington, DC area working in journalism, theater and public relations. She has contributed feature stories and columns to such publications as The Advocate, OutTraveler, The Baltimore Sun, Chesapeake Bay Magazine, The Washington Blade, The Wilmington News Journal, Delaware Beach Life and more.

Since 1995 she has been a regular columnist for Letters from CAMP Rehoboth, 

Awards 
Fay  won the national 1997 Vice Versa Award for excellence.
In 2008 she won the National Federation of Press Women Award for  Non-fiction Book of the Year, Humor; She won the Delaware Press Association Award in that category as well.

She was a 2008 finalist for the Golden Crown Literary Society Award for Non-fiction essays. 









Sarah Aldridge,
was the pen name of Anyda Marchant, attorney, publisher and novelist. Following her retirement from her legal career in 1972, Anyda wrote and published 14 Sarah Aldridge novels between 1973 and 2003 - the last novel, Oh Mistress Mine was released when the author was 92.
A literary icon in the world of lesbian/feminist publishing, Anyda provided some of the first novels to have both lesbian protagonists and happy endings. 
Anyda Marchant passed away in January 2006, two weeks short of her 95th birthday.