Want to read some free fiction by Teresa and me (writing as Sophie Mouette)? Well, here’s your chance! Our story “Pow! Bash! Yes, Yes!” is part of Circlet Press’s Erotic Advent this year!
But hurry, because our story is up for one day only! If you miss it, the only place you can read the story is in the e-anthology Like a Mask Removed: Erotic Tales of Supervillains!
Wooh! Just got word that Best Bondage Erotica 2011, which contains a reprint of my story “How the Little Mermaid Got Her Tail Back,” is now available for purchase! Go forth, ya’ll, and buy!
I mean, look at this lineup of amazing authors!
The Long Way Home, Elizabeth Coldwell
His Little Apprentice, Jacqueline Applebee
Foreign Exchange, Evan Mora
The Ingénue, Janine Ashbless
Reasoning, Tenille Brown
Subdue, Dusty Horn
Relative Anonymity, Emerald
Closeted, Emily Bingham
Vegas Treat, Rachel Kramer Bussel
The Cartographer, Angela Caperton
The Apiary, Megan Butcher
Wired, Lisabet Sarai
How the Little Mermaid Got Her Tail Back, Andrea Dale
The Lady or the Tiger, Bill Kte’pi
Sealed for Freshness, Jennifer Peters
Stocks and Bonds, Rita Winchester
Helen Lay Bound, Suzanne V. Slate
The Rainmaker, Elizabeth Daniels
Do You See What I Feel? Teresa Noelle Roberts
Truss Issues, Lux Zakari
And this cover!
Smokin’!
I’m delighted to announce a new sale: “Charity and Splendor” will appear in Lesbian Cops: Erotic Investigations, edited by Sacchi Green and to appear from Cleis Press in April 2011!
My story “Wasn’t It Good?” inspired by the musical Chess, will appear in Rachel Kramer Bussel’s Gotta Have It: 69 Stories of Sudden Sex (Cleis Press)!
The best part of all? There’s a cat on the cover!
Portland-area friends! I’m doing a book signing and reading in your neck of the woods next month! (Actually, probably two signings, but I’m still hammering out the details of one, so stay tuned for that.)
Where? She Bop, a female-friendly sex toy boutique, 909 N. Beech St., Portland, 503-473-8018
When? Saturday, October 16, 8:30 p.m.
Why? To promote Fairy Tale Lust and Alison’s Wonderland, two fairy tale erotica anthologies
With Whom? Author Shanna Germain and Fairy Tale Lust editor/author Kristina Wright
What Should I Wear? I’m so glad you asked! If you’re so inclined, wear fairy tale or fa
iry-themed clothing/accoutrements, for there will be a contest! (Not required, of course, but how can that not be fun?!)
More Deets? Check out She Bop’s website and events page.
Hope to see you there!
This question has come up in different forms: Why do I have so many pseudonyms? How do I find your non-erotic stuff/how do I tell the difference between your erotica vs non-erotic works?
Here’s a handy reference guide!
I have different pseudonyms because I write in different genres. It’s to help my readers easily find what they’re interested in. I also try very hard to be clear when I’m promoting something, what genre it’s in. If I say fantasy, I mean fantasy, not erotica. And so forth.
Dayle A. Dermatis – fantasy, science fiction, occasional non-fiction. I did sell one short, sweet romance story under this name, but it appeared in small presses a long time ago. When I put it up for sale as an e-book soon, I’ll use my sweet romance pseudonym (and if anyone is confused and buys the story and then realizes they’ve already read it, I’ll happily refund their money because if they’ve been a fan of mine for that long, they totally deserve it!).
Andrea Dale – erotica and erotic romance
Sophie Mouette – erotica and erotic romance co-authored with Teresa Noelle Roberts
Sarah Dale – spicy romance co-authored by with Sarah J. Husch
Kendra Wayne – erotica and erotic romance. An alternate name for Andrea Dale, really, for when I’m going to have two stories in the same anthology. Also the name I write under for Custom Erotica Source.
Andrea Loewen – romance, some with paranormal elements. There may be some sexual scenes, but if there are, they’re not full-on erotic. I haven’t yet sold anything under this name, but I have several things making the rounds.
All of my publications are listed on my Bibliography page, divided up by pseudonym with the genre noted.
Questions? Comments? Fire away!
Book View Café has launched their benefit anthology, Breaking Waves. All proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Relief Fund of the Greater New Orleans Foundation.
The collection features over thirty stories by a wide range of best-selling and award-winning authors, including a previously-unpublished poem from Nebula and Hugo award-winner Ursula K. Le Guin, as well as a chapter from Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking book The Sea Around Us. Authors contributing stories of environmental rescue and recovery include Vonda N. McIntyre, Judith Tarr, Deborah Ross, Sarah Monette, David D. Levine, David Gessner, and Lyda Morehouse, among others. Tiffany Trent and Phyllis Irene Radford edited the collection.
The book is available in epub, pdf, mobi, and prc formats in the Book View Café bookstore and will be coming to the Kindle store soon.
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Okay, so why am I mentioning this here? Well, obviously, it’s a benefit I believe in, and obviously, there are some major names in this book, so you know it’s gotta be good.
But there’s another thing.
I’m in it.
Wait. Because I’m still reeling in shock, I have to repeat that. I have stories in this anthology, too.
HolycrapI’minananthologywithUrsulaK.LeGuinandVondaN.McIntyreandJudithTarrandKristineKathrynRuschandIamsoooonotworthy!
Not only that, but I sent them two stories, figuring they’d pick the one they preferred…and they took both of them. I think I’m the only person with two stories in there: A reprint of “The Power to Change the Shape of the Land” (originally in Sword & Sorceress XVI) and a new (older) story called “I Sing a Song of Mourning.” (Also known as, the two stories with the longest titles I’ve come up with.) Both are fantasy, for those of you who eschew the steamier side of fiction.
Please buy a copy, folks. If not for my stories, then for all the other amazing ones in there (look at that TOC!), and for the Gulf. Thanks!
For those of you who mutter about the fact that all my stories have sex in them, I’m delighted to report that you can now order Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia, which contains my fantasy (not erotica, fantasy) story “The Devil Went Down to the Sunset Strip.”
It’s funny. It’s about hair metal bands. What’s not to love?
There are times in your writing career when you feel unworthy. You’ve been plodding along, things are slowly moving forward, and then someone includes in you in a list of “legendary erotica heavy-hitters” and you look around wondering who behind you they’re pointing at.
I’m having another one of those moments.
I’ve been invited to be an instructor on a writing cruise!
(That sentence really needs about a bazillion exclamation points!)
It took me about zero point two seconds to say yes. After I picked my jaw up off the ground.
So, in October 2011, I’ll be hopping on a cruise ship to Mexico and teaching writing (I’m doing a two-hour session on romance and erotica and whatever else folks want to hear me ramble about) along with Kris and Dean (the Kris & Dean Show is worth the price of admission!) and Chris and Steve York (not sure what they’ll be teaching yet) and Michael Bellomo (nonfiction).
The details I already have are below, in case you might be interested. Seriously, the cost is less than RWA (yes, it’s shorter than RWA and has fewer classes, but you’ll be on a cruise ship!)—if I weren’t teaching, I might be tempted to go just because it’s such an amazing deal!
Hmm…time to start working out so I can look hot in a bikini!
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Scribes at Sea
Cruise: Long Beach, CA, to Ensenada, Mexico
Dates: October 28–31*, 2011
Cost–Cruise: starts at $327 per person (includes port fees, tax, food, lodging, shows), based on double occupancy. At least one person per cabin must be signed up for the workshops. (So bring your spouse! Or not your spouse! Heehee.)
Cost–Workshops: $400 for four workshops
Ship: The Carnival Paradise (That’s right, Styx fans: I’m cruising on the Paradise—because that isn’t deliciously ironic, is it?!)
Cruise Booking: Contact Loreene Orgoralini, Can I Go Too? Travel, loreene@canigotoo.com. Reference “Scribes at Sea.” $100 per person deposit is due at booking; the rest isn’t due until June 2011.
Workshop Booking: Contact Dottie Papin, dpapin9421@gmail.com. $50 due at registration. Payment plans available with final payment due June 2011.
More info as I get it!
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*It is also not lost on me that the last day is Halloween. I may have to bring my pirate costume.
Alison’s Wonderland, containing my story “The Broken Fiddle,” received 4 stars from Romantic Times!
I hope this is the first of many of my stories to appear in Harlequin Spice anthologies!