Category Archives: Erotica

Multiple Sales!

By Andrea Dale, Erotica, Sophie Mouette

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! For a good cause!

By Andrea Dale, Erotica, Sales

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!

Sale to Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica Vol. 8!

By Erotica, Sales, Sophie Mouette

And another sale! The Sophie story “Behind the Masque” will be in The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica Vol. 8! It first appeared in the Wicked Words anthology Sex With Strangers.

Oh, it was such a fun story to write. How can you go wrong with jewel thieves?

The Lucchese Star. Sixty carats of sapphire, as big as your fist. Makes your mouth water just looking at it. Makes you think of Caribbean seas, the summer you were ten, the eyes of the lover that got away.

Inside my turquoise doeskin gloves, my palms itched. They didn’t sweat, not a drop; I wasn’t nervous. It was all about the anticipation, baby. The lead-up. The foreplay.

Sale to Frenzy!

By Andrea Dale, Erotica, Sales

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.”

Rubber Sex

By Andrea Dale, Erotica

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!

By Andrea Dale, Erotica, Sales

Kama Sutra coverSale! 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!

Love on the Dark Side

By Erotica, Reviews

The latest Black Lace Wicked Words collection, Love on the Dark Side, is now out in the US! This one contains one of Teresa’s and my favorite stories, “Stranger to my Shores,” which was one of the first ones we wrote together. The book is chock-full of other fabulous paranormal romance/erotic stories.

There’s a review here at the Erotica Readers Association. Of “Stranger,” the reviewer says,

“Marine biologist Maris’ head is swimming when she gets just what she desires when a life-changing meeting with a sick merman requires her expertise, and love finds a way to survive, no matter what the penalty. ‘Stranger to my Shores’ by Sophie Mouette makes a splash with this sweet and tender romance where two very different people yearn to be together, against all odds.”

Stranger to My Shores

By Bibliography, Erotica, Reviews

Love on the Dark Side
Love on the Dark Side anthology (ISBN 978-0352341327), Black Lace Books, October 2007

“Marine biologist Maris’ head is swimming when she gets just what she desires when a life-changing meeting with a sick merman requires her expertise, and love finds a way to survive, no matter what the penalty. ‘Stranger to my Shores’ by Sophie Mouette makes a splash with this sweet and tender romance where two very different people yearn to be together, against all odds.”
— EroticaReaders.com