I’m delighted to announce that Best Lesbian Romance 2009 is now available for sale! It contains a reprint of my story “In Flight,” a sweet erotic romance about learning to trust again, with bonus! birds of prey.
Plus there are so many other fabulous authors in this one: my frequent coauthor Teresa, Shanna Germain, Alison Tyler, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Catherine Lundoff, Sacchi Green…
I’ve got several sales to announce, so I’ll just squee about them all in one post!
I sold “Come to My Window” to the anthology Where the Girls Are: Urban Lesbian Erotica, and Teresa and I (as Sophie, natch) also sold “On Display” to the same anthology! We wrote “On Display” back in 2004, and there’s always an added sweetness to a sale for a story we’ve stubbornly kept in the mail, sure it’ll find the perfect market.
Also, I just got word that my story “Mirror Mirror” will appear in the Do Not Disturb: Hotel Sex Stories anthology, which will be out in March 2009.
Sale! “Breakfast in Bed” will appear in Afternoon Delight: Erotica for Lovers, another gorgeous anthology edited by the ever-amazing Alison Tyler.
It’s a reprint sale*, but still one to be delighted about! “Just Be” will appear in the Phaze Books charity anthology Coming Together: At Last. All proceeds of the Coming Together anthologies go to a charity or relief fund, including breast cancer research, the 2007 Southern California wildfires, HIV/AIDS, and more. Coming Together: At Last is a collection of interracial erotic fiction and will benefit Amnesty International. I’m proud to be a part of it!
The anthology will be out in 2009; I’ll post ordering information when I have it.
* “Sale” is something of a misnomer, as I will only receive some comp copies. Normally I don’t write for no pay, but this was for a really good cause!
The ever-wonderful editor Alison Tyler called me a “clever author” in her e-mail to let me know my story “The Heist” will appear in her anthology Frenzy (formerly titled Flash Fucking), from Cleis Press this autumn.
“The Heist” is a personal favorite of mine so I’m especially chuffed. It was inspired in part by Kate Bush and the lyric “With a kiss/I’d pass the key/And feel your tongue/Teasing and receiving.”
I was delighted to arrive home from the trip and find comp copies of Rubber Sex, containing my story “Bathing Beauty,” in my pile of mail.You know, it’s funny how easy it is to forget what I’ve written. I kicked back and read a couple of the stories, then flipped to mine. I remembered the basics (heck, part of the inspiration was a Penthouse Variations letter I read in the 1980s that somehow stuck with me), but I was surprised at what a sweet story it is. Pretty damn romantic—which most of my stories are, actually.
Another funny note: My mother actually did own the bathing cap described in the story. I had a different reaction to it, though…especially when I was once forced to wear the hideous thing!
Anyway, the anthology was edited by the cupcake-cute Rachel Kramer Bussel and I’m in fine company, as there are stories by Teresa, Shanna Germain, and Alison Tyler, among many others. Rachel has set up a blog for the anthology as well—if you’re interested, check it out!
Sale! Just got confirmation that my story “Tigress” will appear in The Mammoth Book of the Kama Sutra, edited by the inestimable Maxim Jakubowski. It’ll be out in September!
This one was a strangely fun story to write. Authors had to pick a position from the Kama Sutra and write a sexy “origin story” that explained why the position came to be known by that name.
From the book’s description, it sounds like the volume is going to be utterly gorgeous!