Peter Baltensperger is a Canadian writer of Swiss origin and the author of ten books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. He began writing at an early age and has been writing ever since. He has also worked extensively as editor of various publications and anthologies and had his own literary press. He holds a B.Sc. from Switzerland as well as an honours B.A. in English Literature and a Specialist Teaching Certificate from Canadian universities. While teaching high school English, he received a Hilroy Fellowship Award for Innovative Teaching in Creative Writing. He now devotes his time to his retirement project of writing erotica. His short stories, poems, literary essays, photo features, periodical and newspaper articles have appeared in several hundred publications around the world. His erotic stories and essays have been published in The International Journal of Erotica, The Mammoth Book of Erotic Confessions, In the Buff, Erotic Tales, Dark Gothic Magazine, and Sinister Tales, and appear on-line in Clean Sheets, Oysters and Chocolate, The Erotic Woman, and Black Heart Magazine, among others. He makes his home in London, Canada, with his wife Viki and their two cats and a tortoise.
Toni Sands was born in the beautiful Vale of Glamorgan. At school she daydreamed about exotic places. In the real world, jobs in hotels and aviation claimed her, until love grounded her in Wiltshire. She and her husband converted a former Victorian school into a guesthouse but she found time to write short stories, which she broadcast on local radio. After becoming suddenly single, she began her first novel.
A move back to Wales and more time to write brought more published stories and articles. She enjoys mixing with other creative people who favour the quiet life but equally delights in the buzz of London when she can get away with it! Toni enjoys membership of a proactive group called Hookers’ Pen– seven female writers who critique and support each other towards publication. As well as running her own creative writing workshops, she’s constantly learning from other authors.
What sparked the interest in erotica? A friend detected a sensual quality within her prose. Toni relished the challenge and is convinced that editors in this genre are extra-supportive and passionate about quality of writing.
Her stories appear in two Black Lace (Virgin Books) collections and in a previous Accent Press anthology. For further details and to read an extract from her first published romantic comedy, please visit www.tonisands.co.uk
Michael Hemmingson wrote the independent film, The Watermelon, and has a few other movies in the works, including the film version of his 2002 novel, The Dress, which was also published in truncated form in Maxim Jakubowski’s 1998 groundbreaking The Mammoth Book of New Erotica. Recent books include a collection, Sexy Strumpets and Troublesome Trollops (Wildside Press) and a crime noir, The Trouble with Tramps (Black Mask Books).
Savannah Lee’s fiction has appeared in Clean Sheets, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 8, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 9, Blue Earth Review and Neo-opsis.
While in high school, she collaborated as one of the authors of Mountain Sweet Talk, a storytelling play which ran for several years at the Folk Art Center in Asheville, North Carolina. She then took a lengthy writing hiatus to earn a PhD in art history. On the other side of the brush, she has exhibited paintings at Atticus Bookstore and Whole Foods Market, and was included in Spaightwood Galleries’ Womanshow 2000 exhibit. She currently works as a stay-at-home mom and freelance writer.
Savannah lives in the American Midwest, where she is taking teacher training in Alignment Yoga but despairs of ever achieving Chaturanga. Her essay ‘The Other Side of the Story: Elia Kazan As Director of Female Pain’ appears in the forthcoming anthology Kazan Revisited.
Maxim Jakubowski is a twice award-winning British writer, editor, critic, lecturer, ex-publisher and ex-bookshop owner. He shares his time between the wonderfully dubious shores of erotica and the perilous beaches of crime and mystery fiction. He is responsible for the Mammoth Book of Erotica series and the Mammoth Book of Best British Crime series, is editor of over 75 anthologies and counting, as well as being the author of two handfuls of novels and short story collections. He was crime reviewer for Time Out London and then the Guardian for nearly twenty years, and also makes regular appearances on radio and television. He also co-directs Crime Scene, London’s annual crime and mystery film and literature festival, and runs the MaXcrime imprint. I Was Waiting For You is his latest novel.
Though based in London, he has been known to travel and frequent hotel rooms with depressing regularity, which no doubt inspired his London Noir, Paris Noir and Rome Noir collections, as well as the Sex in the City series. He has lived in, or regularly visited, every city featured in the Sex in the City titles published so far. When not writing, he collects books, CDs and DVDs with alarming haste.
EllaRegina writes erotic fiction. Her short stories appear in the anthologies Best Women’s Erotica 2008, edited by Violet Blue (Cleis Press); The Mammoth Book of the Kama Sutra, edited by Maxim Jakubowski (Constable and Robinson/Running Press); Frenzy: 60 Stories of Sudden Sex, edited by Alison Tyler (Cleis Press); The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 8, edited by Maxim Jakubowski (Constable and Robinson/Running Press); Coming Together: Against the Odds, edited by Alessia Brio (Phaze Books); Sexy Little Numbers Volume 1 | Best Women’s Erotica from Black Lace, [two stories], edited by Lindsay Gordon (Virgin/Black Lace | Random House); and The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 9, edited by Maxim Jakubowski (Constable and Robinson/Running Press). Her work has also been featured online at Sliptongue, Cleansheets, the Erotica Readers & Writers Association and Literotica. EllaRegina’s story, ‘The Lonely Onanista,’ was shortlisted for the 2007 Rauxa Prize for Erotic Writing. When not sniffing naughty words in the dictionary, the author can be found in her city or country online drawing rooms, making dirty pictures out of virtual lint, using a pair of tweezers: ellaregina.blogspot.com or myspace.com/ellaregina Contact: [email protected]. She will always have Paris.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Front Matter
Title Page
Publisher Information
Part 1
Introduction
A Seduction of Vanity
Belleville Blue
The Window-Dresser
Unexpected Emotion
Sunday
Part 2
Hill of Martyrs
Gargoyles and Sidewalk Cafés
Some Virgins Learn Quickly
Paris Passion Patsy
The Poetry of Pigalle
An Unreliable Guide to Paris Hotel Rooms
The Red Brassiere
Author Biographies
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