Sale to Lesbian Cops!
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!
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Wasn't It Good (for you)?
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!
Breaking Waves charity anthology
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features over thirty stories by a wide range of best-selling and award-winning authors, including a previously-unpublished poem from Nebula and Hugo award-winner Ursula K. Le Guin, as well as a chapter from Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking book The Sea Around Us.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!
Fast Girls: Erotica for Women
Fast Girls: Erotica for Women, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel, Cleis Press, July 2010
Temptation Kayla Perrin
Waxing Eloquent Donna George Storey
Five-minute Porn Star Jacqueline Applebee
Winter, Summer Tristan Taormino
Playing the Market Angela Caperton
Panther Suzanne V. Slate
Communal Saskia Walker
Fireworks Lolita Lopez
Flash! Andrea Dale
Waiting for Beethoven Susie Hara
Confessions of a Kinky Shopaholic Jen Peters
Let’s Dance D.L. King
That Girl by Cherry Bomb
Oz Isabelle Gray
Married Life Charlotte Stein
Princess by Elizabeth Coldwell
Chasing Danger by Kristina Wright
Whore Complex Rachel Kramer Bussel
Lessons, Slow and Painful Tess Danesi
Speed Bumps Tenille Brown
Sale to Circlet Press's Erotic Advent!
I’m delighted to be a part of Circlet Press‘s Erotic Advent again this year. Each day in December, they’ll run a new story on their blog—the catch is, you have to read it that day, because the next day it’ll be replaced with a new one.
My story “Santa Claus is Comin'” will be the Christmas Eve story!
Sale! to Fairy Tale Lust
I’m delighted to have my story “How the Little Mermaid Got Her Tail Back” included in the forthcoming Fairy Tale Lust anthology, edited by the delightful Kristina Wright and published by Cleis Press. When I have a publication date, I’ll announce it here!
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!).
I wrote “Devouring Heart” five years ago, so I’m especially chuffed it found such a wonderful home!
And Teresa‘s got a story in this one, too!
The TOC:
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.”
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