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A 2010 Lambda Literary Foundation fellow, Dario Dalla Lasta received a B.A. and J.D. from Pepperdine University. Previous work appears in anthologies for Go Deeper Press, The Round Up Writer’s Zine, ImageOut Write, NewTown Writers Chicago, and Best of PANIC. His erotically charged debut novel The Three Red Lines is included in the Lavender Library Archives & Cultural Exchange in his hometown of Sacramento, CA. Dario is also a DJ and model based in Brooklyn, NY. Find Dario online at dariodallalasta.com
Ella Dawson is a twenty-something feminist who cares too much about Friday Night Lights. She writes erotica for all genders, and her fiction can be found in New Smut Project’s Heart, Body Soul: Erotica With Character this fall. Her blog is home to book reviews, pop culture criticism through a feminist lens, and essays about sexuality and sexual health. Download her free erotic romance e-book Memory Foam right from her blog - ellacydawson.wordpress.com
Exhibit A is a British sex blogger and writer, based in North London. A 30-something graduate of Oxford University, he was very close to becoming a spy, but instead chose a career that didn’t bring with it any need for a reputable or conventional private life. He now makes a living in management consultancy, where he allows his professional veneer to slip only when he really, really wants to.
He started writing erotica because it was the only genre where the words seemed to come naturally, and where he could use his own experiences to cover the gaps whenever inspiration dried up. Sexually, he likes to keep his options open, identifying as straight, but always keeping an eye out for opportunities to turn his various M/M(/F) stories and fantasies into reality.
Ironically, he’s largely indifferent to chocolate - he prefers wine. This is his first published work. Find Exhibit A online at exhibitunadorned.com.
F. Leonora Solomon is an editor and writer. As an editor, she has edited several anthologies. Her latest anthology Tie Me Up, will be out soon with Riverdale Avenue Books.
As a writer, her short stories have been featured in several anthologies. She is happy to be included in this anthology - and for that matter, anything that includes chocolate.
Jacob Louder writes queer porn and really hopes you like it.
Jacob’s stories appear in Dirty Little Numbers, as well as the forthcoming Mammoth Book of Uniform Erotica and Best Women’s Erotica, using the pen name J. T. Louder. Jacob’s novella, First, was published by Go Deeper Press. The follow-up, titled M, will publish before the end of 2014. Find Jacob online at jtlouder.com.
Jade A. Waters once convinced a boyfriend that the sexiest form of foreplay was reading provocative synonyms from a thesaurus.
She’s been penning erotic tales ever since.
Her stories have appeared in Kiss Me Quick’s Podcast and in various anthologies including Best Women’s Erotica 2014, The Big Book of Orgasms: 69 Sexy Stories, Hungry for More, and the forthcoming Best Erotic Romance 2015. She is currently penning her second erotic novel. You can find Jade online at jadeawaters.com.
Author L. Maretta, a full time educator, has been carrying on a serious love affair with books for as long as she can remember, and her tastes vary from erotica to horror. Some of her favorite authors are Tess Gerritsen, Jerry Spinelli, Nicole Edwards, and J.K. Rowling. Classics will always have a place in her heart and she finds time to read To Kill a Mockingbird and Gone with the Wind at least once a year.
Her first novel, Whatever It Takes, the story of a couple trying to survive the husband’s infidelity, was published in June 2013. Her second novel, Falling from Disgrace, a narrative describing one girl’s struggle with prescription pill addiction, followed in August. She is currently working on her third novel, a somewhat spin-off of Falling, that follows a thirty-something-year-old woman rebuilding her life after the sudden death of her husband.
L. Maretta’s books are not only engaging romance novels, but they are also stories that people can relate to. These are not fantasy stories with billionaire playboys and sex goddesses. The content is real, centering on the true trials and tribulations of everyday life, making the reader feel much more connected to the characters.
In addition to reading and writing, Lauren is passionate about music and her taste in it is just as eclectic. While U2 probably takes up the most space in her MP3 player, you’ll find her singing along (though poorly but at the top of her lungs) to just about anything, while she cooks, cleans, drives, runs, or organizes her 937 pairs of shoes. If she isn’t at home or at work, she’s probably shopping for pretty things or red wine.
Malin James is a writer with a book fetish. Her work has appeared in anthologies for Cleis Press, Xcite Books and Coming Together, including The Mammoth Book of Urban Erotic Confessions, The Big Book of Orgasms: 69 Sexy Stories, Rose Caraway’s Dirty Thirty, Vol. 1 and Best Erotic Romance, 2015, (forthcoming). In addition to blogging about sex and culture, she is currently at work on her first erotic novel. You can find Malin online at malinjames.com.
Oleander Plume’s turn-ons include: hot naked men, romantic walks (to the fridge), writing erotic stories, vampire movies, and Batman.
Her turn-offs include: writing bios, finding typos, lame excuses, insincere apologies and broken promises. You can find Oleander online at poisonpendirtymind.com.
Tabitha Rayne has been told she is quirky, lovely and kinky - not necessarily in that order or by the same person. She writes erotic romance and as long as there’s a love scene, she will explore any genre.
Her short stories are included in anthologies from Cleis Press, Ravenous Romance, Harper Collins Mischief, Xcite, Oysters and Chocolate, Burning Books Press and House of Erotica. If apocalyptic erotic fantasy is your thing, you might like her Clockwork Butterfly* trilogy from Beachwalk Press.
*contains orgies and end of the world peril
You can find Tabitha online at tabitharayne.co.uk
Tamsin Flowers loves to write light-hearted erotica, often with a twist in the tail/tale and a sense of fun. In the words of one reviewer, ‘Ms Flowers has a way of describing sexual tension that forces itself upon your own body.’ She also exhibits a strange affinity for zombies…
Her stories have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies, for publishers including Cleis Press, Xcite Books, House of Erotica, Velvet Books and Go Deeper Press. She has also written novellas for Xcite Books, Secret Cravings Publishing and Totally Bound.
Honeytrap, a sizzling sexspionage novel, will be coming soon and her magnum opus, the Alchemy xii serial, is set for roll out from January 2015.
In the meantime, like most erotica writers, she finds herself working on at least ten stories at once: while she figures out whose leg belongs in which story. You can find Tamsin online at tamsinflowers.com.
Table of Contents
No one reads intros…but I’m writing one anyway.
Chemical (se)X
Oleander Plume
The Connection
Jade A. Waters
(du)X
Dario Dalla Lasta
Bittersweet
Malin James
The Dinner Guest
Tabitha Rayne
Thursday Threesome/Birthday Foursome
Jacob Louder
Chocolate Covered
F. Leonora Solomon
Flat Warming
Exhibit A
The Commute
C. E. Hansen
Dinner for Three
L Maretta
Friendly Neighborhood Drug Dealer
Ella Dawson
The Stranger
Tamsin Flowers
Coffee Break
Oleander Plume
The Alleged Savage
Annabeth Leong
About the Authors
Table of Contents
No one reads intros…but I’m writing one anyway.
Chemical (se)X
Oleander Plume
The Connection
Jade A. Waters
(du)X
Dario Dalla Lasta
Bittersweet
Malin Ja
mes
The Dinner Guest
Tabitha Rayne
Thursday Threesome/Birthday Foursome
Jacob Louder
Chocolate Covered
F. Leonora Solomon
Flat Warming
Exhibit A
The Commute
C. E. Hansen
Dinner for Three
L Maretta
Friendly Neighborhood Drug Dealer
Ella Dawson
The Stranger
Tamsin Flowers
Coffee Break
The Alleged Savage
Annabeth Leong
About the Authors