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Guest Blog: Alison Tyler

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Name Your Poison

The Delicious TormentWords never fail me. I trust them completely. I trace them with my fingertips on my upper thigh when I’m nervous. I draw them on my skin using a black BiC pen while stuck in traffic.

Words are my friends.

When I listen to the radio, I note any unusual words found in rock songs. Sting uses terms like “luster.” I drive and roll the word in my mouth—luster. In “I Will Buy You a New Life,” Everclear repeats words. I speak the lines like a mantra as the road unwinds in front of me.

But Jack used words against me. While I can write from one dark sky to the next, speaking those words out loud is a hardship. My tongue trips over the hurdles. I sprawl on the asphalt, knees scraped, palms raw….

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Call for Submissions: Rachel Kramer Bussel

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Call for Submissions: Sex Toy Erotica anthology, April 1 deadline
To be published by Cleis Press

Erotica editor Rachel Kramer Bussel is looking for your hottest sex toy erotica stories. Sex toys can include items such as vibrators, dildos, butt plugs, as well as items like handcuffs and other restraints, nipple clamps, paddles, cock rings, whips and canes, sex furniture, etc., but feel free to get as creative as you can with the definition of “sex toy” and its use in your stories. The story can focus on the sex toy or simply incorporate the use of a sex toy into the narrative. Sex toys should be given context and description, but shouldn’t read like catalog copy. Let the story you’re telling drive the detail used to convey exactly what the sex toy/s is/are and their purpose within the story.

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Guest Blog: Alison Tyler

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Dark Secret LoveThe Definition of Sexy By Alison Tyler

I took great pleasure in the fact that Byron hated Connor, that he called him dumb, clearly intimidated because Connor was so handsome—and this is the funny thing. I’ve never been into handsome. I’m much more of a Billy Bob Thornton than a Brad Pitt sort of girl. But Connor was a modern James Dean, blonde and blue-eyed and almost angelic, the kind of stunning that turns heads. I didn’t want him for those reasons. I craved him because he saw something in me, even at my most beaten down, and he went after me. I have a photo of him following a night of no sleep. He’s wearing black jeans and no shirt under an open blazer, and he’s smoking a cigarette, but barely, the butt dangling from his lower lip. He has that insolent fuck you look that has always made me wet in a heartbeat.—Dark Secret Love

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Book Review: Morning, Noon and Night, edited by Alison Tyler

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Morning, Noon and NightThe premise of Morning, Noon and Night is excellent. There’s a story for every hour of the day, beginning at 4 a.m., and also a bonus story called 24/7. So this is a book packed full of twenty-five unique stories taking place throughout the day. Yummy. Authors contributing include Aisling Weaver, Heidi Champa, Justine Elyot, Donna George Storey, Jeremy Edwards, Kristina Lloyd, Sommer Marsden, Ashley Lister, Alison Tyler, of course, and many more.

There’s action in beds, coffee shops, kitchens, offices, in cars… the list goes on. I loved how the hour of the day was integral to each naughty tale, how some stories were just about sex, others more romantic, some risky sex, some not. The variety was what made this anthology most interesting, and, of course, the quality. With authors like the ones I mentioned above involved, this was always going to be a top-notch anthology.

Particular favourites were Five a.m. Walk of Shame by Dante Davidson, which is supremely hot and has a nice twist. Nine a.m. Office Briefing, by Justine Elyot, is a luscious office-based tale which will pique the interest of anyone that works in an office, or who has ever worked in that setting. Serious fantasy fodder. One p.m. Test Drive by Angell Brooks had another interesting setting, and one that I suspect is a common fantasy, and one that more people than they perhaps care to admit have indulged in!

Overall, this is an anthology I’d definitely recommend erotica and erotic romance fans to check out. As I said before, the variety is great, the quality is high, and there’s definitely something in here to scratch everyone’s itch. A lot of imagination has gone into this book, and I commend Alison Tyler for coming up with the idea. Hot stuff!

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Book Review: Best Lesbian Erotica 2013 edited by Kathleen Warnock

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Article first published as Book Review: Best Lesbian Erotica 2013 edited by Kathleen Warnock on Blogcritics.

Best Lesbian Erotica 2013Best Lesbian Erotica 2013 is a popular series edited by Kathleen Warnock and contains the year’s hottest and best lesbian erotica. The 2013 edition has stories from such names as Amelia Thornton, Maggie Morton, Andrea Dale, Tenille Brown, Valerie Alexander and many more.

As with all anthologies, some stories are better than others. There isn’t a bad one amongst this set, it’s just that I preferred some of them to others – it’s a personal thing. Needless to say, though, nestling between this book is some serious hot Sapphic action. The stories are different, quirky, exciting and sensual. I like the fact that the women are different ages, colours and shapes. A couple of my particular favourite stories from this collection are Cucumbers and Cream and Winner Take All.

A varied anthology with stellar writing examples, Best Lesbian Erotica 2013 is a must buy for those looking for some hot f/f fiction – there’s something for everyone in here.

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Guest Blog: Kristina Wright

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Bound by Lust… and Love

Kristina Wright (http://www.kristinawright.com)

I don’t get a chance to write for too many calls for submissions anymore. Between editing my own anthologies for Cleis Press (http://www.cleispress.com/book_page.php?book_id=463),working on a dozen different projects at once and taking care of a couple of kiddos, I miss a lot of deadlines for terrific anthologies. Months later, when I see the covers of all those books, I kick myself for not squeezing in the time to write a story. Sigh… such are the lamentations of a busy writer-editor-mama.

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