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Award-winning author ANGELA CAPERTON writes eclectic erotica that challenges genre conventions. Look for her stories published with Black Lace and eBury Publishing, Circlet, Cleis Press (including Best Women’s Erotica 2010), Drollerie, eXtasy, Renaissance, Side Real Press, Xcite Books, and in the indie magazine Out of the Gutter. Visit her at blog.angelacaperton.com.
HEIDI CHAMPA has been published in numerous anthologies, including Best Women’s Erotica 2010, Playing with Fire, Frenzy, and Ultimate Curves. She has also steamed up the pages of Bust magazine. If you prefer your erotica in electronic form, she can be found at Clean Sheets, Ravenous Romance, Oysters and Chocolate, and The Erotic Woman. Find her online at heidi-champa. blogspot.com.
On her own and with coauthors, ANDREA DALE (www.cyvarwydd.com) has sold two novels to Virgin Books UK and approximately one hundred stories to Harlequin Spice, Avon Red, and Cleis Press, among others. A romantic at heart, she’s a firm believer in second glances and second chances.
SYLVIA DAY is the national bestselling, award-winning author of more than a dozen novels and numerous short stories. Her work has been translated into several languages, and she’s been honored with the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award and multiple finalist nominations for Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA® Award of Excellence.
DELILAH DEVLIN (DelilahDevlin.com) is an author of erotic romance and has a rapidly expanding reputation for writing deliciously edgy stories with complex characters. Whether creating dark, erotically charged paranormal worlds or richly descriptive westerns that ring with authenticity, Delilah Devlin “pens in uncharted territory that will leave the readers breathless and hungering for more.…”
KATE DOMINIC is a former technical writer who now writes about much more interesting ways to put a Tab A into Slot B (or C or D). She is the author of more than three hundred short stories and is currently researching hot new settings for stories.
JUSTINE ELYOT is a multipublished author of erotica and erotic romance whose work has been published by Black Lace, Cleis Press, Xcite Books, Total E-Bound, Noble Romance, and Carina Press. Her titles include On Demand, The Business of Pleasure, and Erotic Amusements, and her fourth erotic novel, Meeting Her Match will be published in early 2012. She lives on the south coast of England.
EMERALD’s erotic fiction has been published in anthologies edited by Violet Blue, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Jolie du Pre, and Alison Tyler. She is an advocate for sexual freedom, reproductive choice, and sex worker rights, all topics she blogs about on her website, www.thegreenlightdistrict.org. Honey is one of her favorite foods.
EROBINTICA is the sex-obsessed persona of writer and poet Robin Elizabeth Sampson. She’s had stories included in Coming Together: Al Fresco and in Eat Me: Seven Stories of Gluttony. Her poetry made the 2010 Seattle Erotic Art Festival and she has read at Philadelphia’s Erotic Literary Salon. Her blog is erobintica. blogspot.com.
SHANNA GERMAIN grew up with clover, fence fixers, and wild horses. She still dreams of riding a bucking bronco. Visit her at www.shannagermain.com.
NIKKI MAGENNIS is a Scottish author and artist. She loves loud music, but only when she’s in charge of the volume control. Find her short fiction in more than twenty anthologies from Cleis Press, Harlequin Spice, and others. Her erotic novels are published by Virgin Black Lace. Read more at nikkimagennis. blogspot.com.
KATE PEARCE graduated from the University College of Wales with an honors degree in history. She is a member of Romance Writers of America and is published by Kensington Aphrodisia, NAL Signet Eclipse, Ellora’s Cave, Cleis Press, and Virgin Black Lace/Cheek.
CRAIG J. SORENSEN’s erotic stories have appeared in collections and periodicals worldwide. He currently resides in Pennsylvania, where he writes computer code by day and stories by night and early morning. Visit him at just-craig.blogspot.com.
DONNA GEORGE STOREY is the author of Amorous Woman, a steamy novel about an American woman’s love affair with Japan. Her short fiction has appeared in Passion: Erotic Romance for Women, Alison’s Wonderland, and Best Women’s Erotica. Read more of her work at DonnaGeorgeStorey.com.
SASKIA WALKER is a British author whose erotica appears in more than seventy anthologies. Her novels include Rampant, Inescapable, and The Harlot. Saskia lives with her real-life hero, Mark, and a houseful of stray felines in the north of England, where she spends her days happily spinning yarns.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Described by The Romance Reader as “a budding force to be reckoned with,” KRISTINA WRIGHT (www.kristinawright.com. ) is an author, editor, and college instructor. She has edited the Cleis Press anthologies Fairy Tale Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women; Dream Lover: Paranormal Tales of Erotic Romance; Steamlust: Steampunk Erotic Romance, and her forthcoming anthologies include Lustfully Ever After: Fairy Tale Erotic Romance and Duty and Desire: Military Erotic Romance for Women. Her first anthology, Fairy Tale Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women, was nominated for a Reviewers’ Choice Award by RT Book Reviews and was a featured alternate of the Doubleday Book Club. Kristina’s erotica and erotic romance fiction has appeared in more than eighty-five print anthologies, including With This Ring, I Thee Bed; Bedding Down: A Collection of Winter Erotica; Nice Girls, Naughty Sex; three editions of Best Women’s Erotica; four editions of Best Lesbian Erotica; six editions of the Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, and the erotic romance collections Seduction, Liaisons, and Sexy Little Numbers. She received the Golden Heart Award for Romantic Suspense from Romance Writers of America for her first novel Dangerous Curves. Her work has also been featured in the nonfiction guide The Many Joys of Sex Toys and magazines and ezines such as Clean Sheets, Good Vibes, Libida, The Fiction Writer, The Literary Times, Scarlet Letters, The Sun, and The Quill. Her nonfiction essay “The Last Letter” is included in the epistolary anthology P.S. What I Didn’t Say: Unsent Letters to Our Female Friends, and her articles, interviews, and book reviews have appeared in numerous publications, both print and online. She is a member of Romance Writers of America as well as the RWA special interest chapters, Passionate Ink and Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal. She is a book reviewer for the Erotica Readers and Writers Association (erotica-readers. com) and the book club moderator for SexIs magazine’s Naked Reader Book Club (nakedreaderbookclub.com). She holds degrees in English and humanities and teaches English composition and world mythology at the community college level. Originally from South Florida, Kristina has lived up and down the east coast with her husband, Jay, a lieutenant commander in the Navy. They welcomed the addition of their sons Patrick in December 2009 and Lucas in September 2011.
Copyright © 2011 by Kristina Wright
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