Best Lesbian Erotica 2007

by Tristan Taormino

  SUKI BISHOP lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. She has most recently been published in Painted Bride Quarterly and Blithe House Quarterly. Her story, “Where the Story Lies,” has been nominated for the 2006 Rauxa Prize for erotic fiction.

  RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL (rachelkramerbussel.com) is senior editor at Penthouse Variations, writes the “Lusty Lady” column for The Village Voice and hosts In the Flesh Erotic Reading Series. Her books include Up All Night, First-Timers , Glamour Girls, Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z, Ultimate Undies, Sexiest Soles, Secret Slaves, and Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists. Her writing has been published in over sixty anthologies, including Best American Erotica (2004 and 2006) and Best Lesbian Erotica (2001, 2004, and 2005), and in AVN, Bust, Gothamist, Mediabistro, New York Post, On Our Backs, Velvetpark and others.

  JOLIE DU PRÉ (glbtpromo.com) is a writer of lesbian erotica. Her work has appeared on the Internet, in e-books and in Hot & Bothered 4, Best Bondage Erotica 2, Luscious, and other print anthologies. She is also the founder of GLBT Promo, a promotional group for GLBT erotica and erotic romance.

  SACCHI GREEN writes in western Massachusetts and the mountains of New Hampshire. Her work has appeared in Best of Best Lesbian Erotica 2, Best of Best Women’s Erotica, Penthouse, Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z, and a thigh-high stack of other anthologies with inspirational covers. She coedited Rode Hard, Put Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica with Rakelle Valencia, and their second and third anthologies, Hard Road, Easy Riding: Lesbian Biker Erotica and Lipstick on Her Collar, are due for release in fall of 2006.

  LYNNE JAMNECK (lynne-jamneck.blogspot.com) is a naughty girl who doesn’t look it. She’s also a complete geek, a “Battlestar Galactica” fan and a biter of hypocrites. Her dirty little secret is that she’s a fool of a romantic at heart. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous markets including Best Lesbian Erotica (2003, 2006), Sex in The System: Stories of Erotic Futures, Technological Stimulation, and the Sensual Life of Machines and Hot Lesbian Erotica.

  SKIAN MCGUIRE is a working-class Quaker who lives in the wilds of western Massachusetts. Skian’s fiction has appeared in many anthologies, webzines, and print periodicals. He is the founder and editor of The Shadow Sacrament, an online journal of sex and spirituality; the current issue and a call for submissions may be found at shadowsacrament.com He is currently in the process of transition from F to M.

  ZAEDRYN MEADE is a queer self-defined sugarbutch whose erotica has been published in Penitalia: Collegiate Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica 2006, and Secret Slaves: Erotic Stories of Bondage. Originally born in Alaska, she now lives in New York City.

  ANDREA MILLER’s writing has been published in various anthologies including Best Women’s Erotica 2005, Lessons in Love: Erotic Interludes 3, Tales of Travelrotica for Lesbians: Erotic Travel Adventures and three previous editions of the Best Lesbian Erotica series. Yes, with her sun in Sagittarius and her moon in Scorpio, she was born to write smut.

  PEGGY MUNSON (peggymunson.com) is the author of Origami Striptease and the editor of Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She has published in Best American Erotica (2006 and 2007), Best Lesbian Erotica (1998-2005), Best American Poetry 2003, Tough Girls, On Our Backs, Blithe House Quarterly, Lodestar Quarterly, Literature and Medicine, San Francisco Bay Guardian, and many other publications.

  JOY PARKS writes articles, interviews and book reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle, The Advocate and many other GLBT and mainstream publications. Her book column “Sacred Ground” appears regularly in a number of websites and in print. She began writing fiction as a fortieth birthday present to herself and her short stories appear in Back to Basics, Hot & Bothered 4 and Call of the Dark. She lives in Ottawa, Canada.

  RADCLYFFE is the author of over twenty lesbian novels and anthologies including the 2005 Lambda Literary Award winners Erotic Interludes 2, edited with Stacia Seaman, and Distant Shores, Silent Thunder. She has selections in multiple anthologies including Call of the Dark, The Perfect Valentine, Best Lesbian Erotica 2006, First-Timers, Ultimate Undies, Naughty Spanking Stories 2, and Sex and Candy. She is president of Bold Strokes Books, a lesbian publishing company.

  CYNTHIA RAYNE’s first erotic book was written when she was thirteen. The most risqué thing that happened in the book was a chaste kiss, but it was the talk of her middle school! Since then, she has had quite a few of her short stories and novellas e-published. She lives in Ohio where she is currently working on a novel.

  JEAN ROBERTA teaches English in a Canadian prairie university. Her erotic stories have appeared in numerous places, including Best Lesbian Erotica (2000, 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2006). She sings with Prairie Pride Chorus, which has recently released its first CD, Watershed Stories, two suites of songs about GLBT life recorded by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

  KYLE WALKER has had a notorious and checkered career, including appearances onstage in Ed Valentine’s Women Behind the Bush with En Avant Playwrights, as a karaoke-singing biker in a promo for PBS, and as a contributor to Best Lesbian Erotica (2003-2006), Best of the Best Lesbian Erotica 2, A Woman’s Touch and Friction 7. Kyle is forever working on an erotic novel, What People Want.

  ANNA WATSON is an old-school femme living in the Boston area. She is in a long-distance relationship with her butch Beau, which gives her lots of time for daydreaming about naughty things. Her work has appeared in The Tokyo Journal, Common Lives, Lesbian Lives, Mothering, Unsupervised Existence, and the anthology Shaking the Tree among others. When she’s not writing smut, she can be found on butch-femme. com chitchatting and having a gay old time.

  FIONA ZEDDE (fionazedde.com) is a transplanted Jamaican lesbian currently living and working in Atlanta, Georgia. She spends half her days as a starving artist in the city’s fabulous feminist bookstore, Charis Books and More, and the other half chained to her computer working on her novels and on an endless collection of dark and dirty stories that she hopes to get published some day. If you see her, please don’t make jokes about her getting a life. She might bite. Those starving artist types tend to do that.

  ABOUT THE EDITORS

  Born in Dublin in 1969, EMMA DONOGHUE (emmadonoghue.com) is a novelist, play-wright and literary historian. She is best known for her contemporary and historical novels, which include Stirfry, Hood (winner of the American Library Association’s Gay and Lesbian Book Award), Life Mask, and the best-selling Slammerkin, which won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. Her books of short stories are Kissing the Witch, The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits , and Touchy Subjects. She has also edited the anthologies Poems Between Women and The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories and published two works of lesbian literary history, Passions Between Women and We Are Michael Field. She lives in Canada with her lover and their son.

  TRISTAN TAORMINO (puckerup.com) is too busy for her own good. She is the author of three books: True Lust: Adventures in Sex, Porn and Perversion, Down and Dirty Sex Secrets, and The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, a new, revised edition of which was published in 2006. She is currently at work on a book about polyamory. She has won two Lambda Literary Awards for the Best Lesbian Erotica anthology series. She runs Smart Ass Productions, a porn production company, and recently signed on as an exclusive director for Vivid Entertainment; her first video for Vivid, Chemistry, Volume 1, was released in September 2006. She is the sex columnist for The Village Voice and Taboo, and the former editor of On Our Backs. She has been featured in over two-hundred publications and has appeared on dozens of radio and television shows including HBO’s “Real Sex,” “The Howard Stern Show,” “Ricki Lake,” and The Discovery Channel. She teaches workshops at colleges and universities, and sex and leather conferences. In addition, she coproduces the semiannual national sex event Dark Odyssey. Along with her partner and their three dogs, Tristan splits her time between New York City and Upstate New York.

  Copyright © 2007 by Tristan Taormino. Introduction copyright
© 2007 by Emma Donoghue.

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  eISBN : 978-1-573-44446-0

  “On Fire” © 2006 by Rachel Kramer Bussel first appeared in Extreme Passions: Erotic Interludes 4 edited by Radclyffe and Stacia Seaman (Bold Strokes Books, 2006); “Kiki” © 2006 by Jolie du Pré was originally published in Cream: The Best of The Erotica Readers and Writers Association edited by Lisabet Sarai (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006); “Sweet Thing” © 2006 by Joy Parks was originally published in The Perfect Valentine edited by Therese Szymanski and Barbara Johnson (Bella Books, 2006); “Bingo, Baby” © 2005 by Radclyffe first appeared in Erotic Interludes 2: Stolen Moments edited by Radclyffe and Stacia Seaman (Bold Strokes Books, 2005); “Public Pet” © 2006 by Cynthia Rayne first appeared in Lessons in Love: Erotic Interludes 3 edited by Radclyffe and Stacia Seaman (Bold Strokes Books, 2006); “The World Turned Upside Down” © 2005 by Jean Roberta first appeared on RuthiesClub.com (February 14, 2005); “A Taste of Sin” © 2006 by Fiona Zedde is an excerpt from A Taste of Sin by Fiona Zedde (Kensington Books, 2006).