Well, semi-shameless promotion. My inner shy little girl always looks for skirts to hide behind when I do this, but it is time to tell you about the anthologies my short fiction appears in this summer.
I’m always pleased when my queer fiction sees print and I’m delighted to be part of a substantial anthology of lesbian fiction called The Good Parts: Pure Lesbian Fiction. Many of my favorite peers, colleagues, and friends are in this collection, too, and that promises to bring heat to the brew, as it were. Don’t let the seemingly slender size of this volume fool you — there’s a lot there.
The Berkley re-release of Master/slave, a Venus Book club anthology from a summer or two ago, was a real surprise. I accidentally discovered it doing an Amazon searchs a couple of month ago and wrote to its editor with a “how’d that happen?” glee. I love writing BDSM fiction and don’t have enough opportunity to produce more so I was delighted to see this volume released to the general public. Don’t let this big, thick work fool you — there’s tons of hot fiction in there.
What you might not know about me — the shy little girl’s screaming “No!” over this one — is that when I started writing erotic fiction, I really wanted to write predominantly BDSM fiction, particularly novels. The wave of the mid-90s, unfortunately, was already collapsing towards the beach and with mass access to the web and online porn, most markets for this fiction dried up. Slowly, things are changing and new opportunities are taking shape, but I’m quite thankful and satisfied to have a short story of in Best Bondage Erotica 2, compliments of editor Alison Tyler and Cleis Press. Tyler and Cleiss Press also do an extraodinary job presenting quality erotica in a fine package and BBE2 is no exception.
Remember, most of the publishers that print my fiction fall into the small press category. Unlike the big houses, they need consistently sound bottom lines to stay in business so if you have a few bucks after filling your gas tank and paying your electric bill, send some discretionary cash their way, won’t you? Your patronage keeps erotica fiction alive.
