Best Lesbian Romance 2010 for the win!

Sale! I opened up my e-mail this morning to find a contract from Best Lesbian Romance 2010 for “Queen’s Up”! The story will first appear in Lesbian Cowboys: Erotic Adventures from Cleis Press in August.

Plus there was an e-mail from another editor saying she should have final approval on the table of contents for another anthology by mid-July. What often happens is that an editor will select the stories, and sometimes even send the contract, but the publisher has the final say on the selections. I’m keeping my fingers crossed, because this is a very exciting potential publication!

(The same caveat applies to Best Lesbian Romance 2010, but I’m being positive because it’s also being published by Cleis, and they’ve never nixed one of my stories as far as I can remember.)

Today is starting out quite nicely!

And another sale!

My vampire story “Devouring Heart” will be published in The Sweetest Kiss: Ravishing Vampire Erotica on October 1, 2009, also by Cleis Press and edited by D.L. King (also edited Where the Girls Are… It’s all one big pyjama party, really!).

Midnight at Sheremetyevo by Remittance Girl
Wait Until Dark, Montresor by Thomas S. Roche
The Temptation of Mlle. Marielle Doucette by Anna Black
Kiss and Make Up by Lisette Ashton
The Student by Sommer Marsden
Red By Any Other Name by Kathleen Bradean
Enlightenment by Amber Hipple
Blood and Bootleg by Teresa Noelle Roberts
Fair Play by G. B. Kensington
Advantage by Ciara Finn
The Communion of Blood and Semen by Maxim Jakubowski
Nightlife by Madeleine Oh
Takeout or Delivery? by Evan Mora
Devouring Heart by Andrea Dale
Wicked Kisses by Michelle Belanger
Fourth World by Lisabet Sarai
Turn by Nikki Magennis
Cutter by Kristina Wright
Once An Addict… by A.D.R. Forte

Sale to Peep Show!

A new sale! My story “Now You See Her” will appear in Peep Show: Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists, coming in November 2009 from Cleis Press, edited by the yummy Rachel Kramer Bussel!

“Now You See Her” is a companion story to “Come to My Window” in Where the Girls Are, due out July 1, 2009, also from Cleis Press. I hadn’t planned on writing a related story when I wrote “Come to My Window,” but the theme of Peep Show spoke to a related, very cool idea…

Anyway. Peep Show is available on amazon for pre-order already, and here’s the full table of contents!

Introduction: Hungry Eyes and Sensual Show-Offs
Showtime by Susan St. Aubin
Clean and Pretty by Donna George Storey
Superior by Monica Shores
People in Glass Hotels by Jennifer Peters
Indecent by Lolita Lopez
Ownership by Craig J. Sorensen
Audience Participation by Elizabeth Coldwell
Now You See Her by Andrea Dale
Watcher in the Shadows by Cheyenne Blue
Glass by Nobilis Reed
Sleeping Beauty by Malcolm Ross
The Theory of Orchids by L. A. Mistral
Missing Michael by M. March
Busted by Kissa Starling
Satisfaction Guaranteed by Sommer Marsden
Rosse Buurt by Geneva King
I’ve Only Got Eyes for You by Rachel Kramer Bussel
Calendar Girl by Angela Caperton

Bottoms Up!

Sale! I just got confirmation that Rachel Kramer Bussel has accepted my story “Stuffing the Ballot Box” for her anthology Bottoms Up: Spanking Good Stories! It’s already available for presale; just click that there link to check it out.

I like to tweak my bio with every story—I update it to include the most recent sales, of course, but I also like to add a sentence that somehow relates to the story. For this one, I said “If there were more stories like ‘Stuffing the Ballot Box,’ she might be more interested in politics.”

🙂

Sale! Lesbian Cowboys anthology

Sale! My story “Queen’s Up” has been accepted for the Lesbian Cowboys anthology. What a yummy cover, too. I’ll post again when it’s available for sale.

I had a lot of fun with this story. Set in an undefined time in the Old West, it’s got a poker-playing cross-dresser, her sozzled daddy, their threatened ranch, and an almost-mustache twirling villain. And a sexy saloon girl. What would be the point without a sexy saloon girl?

Sale! For a good cause!

I’m delighted to announce that my story “Always a Bridesmaid” has been accepted into the charity anthology Coming Together: Against the Odds, a collection of erotic fiction with mystery themes.

Of course, “sale” is something of a misnomer, because all proceeds go to support the charity Autism Speaks. That’s a good thing, though!

But it’s another publication, and a story I’m quite fond of. Come to think of it, the story really has been a “bridesmaid” for a long time—it’s one of those that gets accepted and then the anthology folds, or doesn’t quiiiiite make the cut, or whatever, even though everyone says nice things about it.

I see Teresa has a story in this one, too, so you’ll get both halves of Sophie.

So, for lots of reason, yay!