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MAGGIE KINSELLA ’s erotica has previously appeared in multiple editions of Best Women’s Erotica, Mammoth Best New Erotica, Best Lesbian Love Stories, and in Best Lesbian Romance 2007; Best Lesbian Love Stories: Summer Flings; Foreign Affairs: Erotic Travel Tales; Rode Hard, Put Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica; After Midnight: True Lesbian Erotic Confessions; Erotic Interludes 3: Lessons in Love; and many others.
CATHERINE LUNDOFF’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in more than sixty publications including So Fey: Queer Faery Stories; Time Well Bent: GLBT Alternate History; Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures; Farragos Wainscot; Khimairal Ink; The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 6; Stirring Up a Storm; Garden of the Perverse; Sex and Candy; Amazons; and Best Lesbian Erotica 2008. She is the author of two collections of lesbian erotica: Crave: Tales of Lust, Love, and Longing (Lethe Press) and Night’s Kiss (Torquere Press), and editor of the fantasy and horror anthology Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories (Lethe Press). Her website can be found at visi.com/~clundoff.
EVAN MORA is a recovering corporate banker living in Toronto who’s thrilled to put pen to paper after years of daydreaming in boardrooms. When not writing erotica, she’s busy penning her first novel.
ELSPETH POTTER’s upcoming publications include “Poppies Are Not the Only Flower” (Lipstick on Her Collar) and “Silver Skin” (Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures). Her work has previously appeared in Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Women’s Erotica, and The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. Her erotic romance, The Duchess, Her Maid, the Groom, and Their Lover, will be published by Harlequin Spice under the name Victoria Janssen.
Born into a bevy of brothers, OLIVIA PRESLEY comes naturally to the part of cat amongst the pigeons. She traveled far and wide throughout her twenties, relishing jobs as diverse as dominatrix and fraud analyst. On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, tired of new places and faces, Olivia returned to Australia to study writing. She now dreams of living in a sailboat off Turkey.
TERESA NOELLE ROBERTS’s erotica has appeared or is forthcoming in Best Women’s Erotica 2004, 2005, and 2007; Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2007; Lipstick on Her Collar; Fishnetmag. com; The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Erotica; and many other publications.
KI THOMPSON resides in the Washington, DC area with her partner and two very spoiled but much loved cats. Her novels include House of Clouds, a romantic saga set during the Civil War; and the romances Heart of the Matter and Cooper’s Deale, all from Bold Strokes Books. She has short stories in the Erotic Interludes series, Best Lesbian Romance 2007, and Fantasy: Untrue Stories of Lesbian Passion.
Called a “trollop with a laptop” by East Bay Express and a “literary siren” by Good Vibrations, ALISON TYLER is naughty and she knows it. Her sultry short stories have appeared in more than eighty anthologies including Rubber Sex, Dirty Girls, and Sex for America (Harper Perennial). She is the author of more than twenty-five erotic novels, most recently With or Without You (Virgin), and the editor of more than forty-five explicit anthologies, including J Is for Jealousy (Cleis), Naughty Fairy Tales from A to Z (Plume), and Naked Erotica (Pretty Things Press). Please visit alisontyler.com for more information or myspace.com/alisontyler if you want to be her friend.
RAKELLE VALENCIA, when not cowboyin’, has co-edited four erotic anthologies including Lambda Literary Award finalist Rode Hard, Put Away Wet. She has published many erotic short stories, which can be found on the bookshelves of the most excellent bookstores. Her nonfiction, technical articles on natural horsemanship, have been printed in the most discriminating rags. Her photos and freelance artwork have appeared on puzzles, advertisements, and logos. This year’s motto is to “always keep the hairy side up.”
ALLISON WONDERLAND has a B.A. in women’s studies, a weakness for lollipops, and a fondness for rubber ducks. Her favorite sound is Fran Drescher’s voice, and her cocktail of choice is a Shirley Temple. Allison’s writing has been published at FortheGirls.com and is anthologized in Wetter, Island Girls, The Longest Kiss, Hurts So Good, and Visible: A Femmethology. See what she’s up to at aisforallison.blogspot.com.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
RADCLYFFE is the author of numerous lesbian novels and anthologies including the Lambda Literary Award winners Erotic Interludes 2 and Distant Shores, Silent Thunder. She has selections in A Is for Amour; H Is for Hardcore; L Is for Leather; Rubber Sex; Hide and Seek: Erotic Stories; The Taste of Him: Oral Sex; and Best Lesbian Erotica 2006, 2007, and 2008, among others. She is the president of Bold Strokes Books, an independent LGBT publishing company.
Copyright © 2009 by Radclyffe.
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“Christmas Blizzard” © Teresa Noelle Roberts appeared in Naughty or Nice: Christmas Erotica (Cleis Press, 2007); “Finding My Feet” © Shanna Germain appeared in Wetter (Alyson Publications, 2008); “In Flight” © Andrea Dale “Sand Castle Queen” © Rachel Kramer Bussel appeared in Best Lesbian Love Stories: Summer Fling (Alyson Publications, 2007); “Hide” © Alison Tyler appeared in L Is for Leather (Cleis Press, 2008); “Sugar on Snow” © Sacchi Green appeared in Sex and Candy (Pretty Things Press, 2008); “Music on the Wind” © Radclyffe appeared in In Deep Waters, Vol. 1, (BellaBooks, 2007).
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