July 10th reading at KGB Bar

One of the very few readings I'm doing this year. Probably no more save for August 25th book party for Obsessed, Drunken! Careening! Writers November 17th and Chat Lounge December 15th, in NYC anyway. I'm talking about doing something in Las Vegas when I'm there for the Erotic Authors Association conference in September but I'll let you know. I'm really trying to wean myself off of readings because they kindof make me way too stressed and nervous at a point in my life when I am already stressed and nervous. Maybe in 2012 I can think about doing my burlesque/trivia/reading/music/film/comedy sexy event I had dreamed about, but not anytime soon.

Can you say burnt out? Um, that would be me, bigtime. It's all can do to write tiny bits of words here and there these days, which is sad to me, but I'm hoping I can get back to a more normal output - I certainly need the money, but even more, the sanity I get from writing. Without it, I turn into a girl who does not nice things to herself.

That being said, this should be a fun reading (I have a pregnancy erotica story in Lesbian Lust. Had started this crazy pot story for Lesbian Cops and never finished it - hope to someday resurrect it, if only because I love the title.)

Time: Sunday, July 10, 7pm-9pm

Place:

KGB Bar

85 E 4th St (between Bowery and Second Ave) East Village

(212) 505-3360

kgbbar.com

Subway: F to Lower East Side–Second Ave, 6 to Astor Pl

"Bespectacled lit chicks outnumber apparatchiks in this former Ukrainian social club. The dim parlor-style bar nestled in the second floor of a walk-up has Cold War decor, cheap Baltika beer, whiskey on the rocks and free readings—all of which lure New York’s literary underground, including stars like Kathleen Warnock and Ellen Datlow

Title:

Lesbian Erotica from Cleis Press, with Sacchi Green & Friends

Description:

Readings from Cleis Press anthologies Lesbian Cops, Lesbian Lust, and Girl Crazy.

Hosted by editor Sacchi Green, with writers Rachel Kramer Bussel, D.L. King, Evan Mora, and R.G. Emanuelle

Sacchi Green is a Lambda award-winning writer and editor of erotica and other stimulating genres. Her stories have appeared in scores of publications, including seven volumes of Best Lesbian Erotica, four of Best Women’s Erotica, and three of Best Lesbian Romance. In recent years she’s taken to wielding the editorial whip, editing or co-editing seven lesbian erotica anthologies, most recently A Ride to Remember (Lethe Press) and Lesbian Cowboys, Girl Crazy, Lesbian Lust, and Lesbian Cops, all from Cleis Press. Lesbian Cowboys, co-edited with Rakelle Valencia, won the Lambda Literary Award in 2010.

She can be found online at sacchi-green.blogspot.com and FaceBook (Sacchi Green)

Rachel Kramer Bussel lives in New York City. She has edited or co-edited over 25 anthologies, including Bottoms Up, Spanked, The Mile High Club, Do Not Disturb: Hotel Sex Stories, Tasting Him, Tasting Her, Dirty Girls, Rubber Sex, Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 1 and 2, Sex and Candy, Yes, Sir, Yes, Ma’am, He's on Top, She's on Top, Caught Looking, Hide and Seek, Crossdressing, Ultimate Undies, Sexiest Soles, First-Timers, Lambda Literary Award finalists Up All Night and Glamour Girls: Femme/Femme Erotica, and Best Sex Writing 2008, 2009 and 2010, for which she is Series Editor.

Some call it erotica and some call it porn. D. L. King calls it a good time. D. L. King is a smut writing-and-editing New Yorker who lives somewhere between the Wonder Wheel at Coney Island and the Chrysler Building. The editor of the Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Where the Girls Are: Urban Lesbian Erotica, The Sweetest Kiss: Ravishing Vampire Erotica, Spank!, Carnal Machines: Steampunk Erotica and the upcoming Daddy’s Little Girl: Butch/Femme Erotica, she is also a prolific writer of smut. Her short stories can be found in anthologies such as Best Women’s Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Girl Crazy, Fast Girls, Please Ma’am and Sweet Love among many more. She is the publisher and editor of the erotica review site, Erotica Revealed (http://www.eroticarevealed.com.) Find out more about D. L. King at http://dlkingerotica.blogspot.com.

Evan Mora is a recovering corporate banker living in Toronto who’s thrilled to put pen to paper after years of daydreaming in boardrooms. Her works can be found in Best Lesbian Erotica ’09, Best Lesbian Romance ’09 & ’10, Where the Girls Are, The Sweetest Kiss: Ravishing Vampire Erotica, Girl Crush, Please, Sir: Erotic Stories of Female Submission, Spank!, Lesbian Cops, and Best Bondage Erotica ’11.

R.G. Emanuelle is a writer and editor living in New York City. She co-edited Skulls and Crossbones, an anthology of female pirate stories, and her short stories can be found in Best Lesbian Erotica 2010, Khimairal Ink, Women in Uniform, Read These Lips 4Play, Lesbian Lust, Lesbian Cops, and the online collection Oysters & Chocolate.

Lesbian pregnancy erotica story "Swollen" in Lesbian Lust

I've been busy and not really sure what to say here, but you can see photos on Flickr, my daily Tweets and my Tumblr for updates. I'm focused on packing Happy Ending Lounge more than I ever have for the countdown to the end of In The Flesh and the (shhh) best one you'll see all year next Thursday for Media Sex Night. You should of course come to all six that are left, but do kick yourself if you miss next week's. Two and a half hours of nonstop free snacks and writing superstars, including New York Times-bestselling author Jillian Lauren.

I'm thrilled that my lesbian pregnancy vacation erotica story "Swollen" was published in the just-released Lesbian Lust: Erotic Stories, edited by Sacchi Green.



Official book description:

For readers who crave stories of uninhibited, unrepentant sex between women, Lesbian Lust delivers. This is real lesbian sex: sensual, inventive, and nothing less than breathtaking. Butches abound, baby dykes learn important life lessons, femmes and fatales bring each other to the brink. In "The Office Grind," by R. G. Emanuelle, a stressed-out businesswoman loses herself and her heart in the startling green eyes of a sleek butch in a bar. Gill McKnight's "Beach Moth" tells the tale of a tall, dark, and handsome stranger who offers her hand to a femme abandoned on vacation. The ultimate in eroticism, the relentless, raw stories of Lesbian Lust leave no fantasy is unfulfilled.

And excerpt from my story "Swollen:"

She could tell just what she was doing to me, and we both knew it. “Relax, Bea, relax,” she urged me. I hadn’t realized I’d been at all tense, at all uncertain, until she said it. Of course I’d thought I was relaxed as I lay naked on the bed, my pregnant belly rising upward, somehow no longer heavy and uncomfortable, as a beautiful woman coaxed me halfway toward orgasm. But when I let out a breath and sank deeper into the luxurious sheets, becoming one with the bed, I realized I had been holding out, some small part of me perhaps thinking it unseemly or improper for me to be here with Katherine, so blatantly reveling in sex when I had more important things on my mind. But could there be anything more important than a woman’s touch forcing me to get in touch with my body, my desires?
I let out a moan, a cry, an exclamation not in English or any other language as her mouth made its way lower, taking me farther from the realities of life and deeper into the world of pleasure. Her tongue traced its way over the hardness of my stomach, kissing and licking alternately before she reached my pubic hair. I hoped she wouldn’t mind how unruly it had become, but she seemed to delight in it, running her fingers through my fuzz, tugging at a few of the hairs before she breathed against my sex, her lips so close, promising me their kiss. And Katherine was a woman who kept her promises. I felt like I was floating as she ran her tongue along my lower lips. She wasn’t aggressive like some of the women I’d been with, and her gentleness seemed to imply that there was more passion lurking just beneath the surface. “You are heavenly,” she said, her words music to my ears. I’d been growing steadily, feeling out of control, filled with something new and exciting yet also terrifying. Katherine’s mouth told me everything would be okay. Her tongue taught me that my pussy was still my own, that I could still bring a woman that special ecstasy that comes from partaking of another woman’s juices. Her lips told me that she couldn’t imagine a more sensuous delight than exploring my every nook and cranny.

I soon got over feeling selfish and simply enjoyed the gift she was giving me. I could still feel the baby, but she was, momentarily, secondary. It was me and Katherine, and soon her fingers began exploring me as her tongue rested against my clit, hinting at its heat but simply staying there, as if she’d pressed the pause button. “You’re so wet for me,” she observed, and I smiled. All my pent-up pleasure, my juices that had had seemingly nowhere to go, my longing that I’d poured into decorating and preparing, all came out in this exotic place, with a woman I still wasn’t sure was real. It was as if she’d been sent to answer my prayers, one stroke at a time.

Read an excerpt from "Reunion at St. Mary's" by Catherine Lundoff at PGW. Buy Lesbian Lust from Amazon or Cleis Press.

Last day in Seattle, cupcake meetup tonight 5-7

It's sunny in Seattle - I haven't posted nearly everything I've been up to, but follow TwitterFoursquareFacebookTumblr for some photos as they're easier to upload than here. I fly back tomorrow, teach erotica at Shag Saturday, fly to Minneapolis Sunday morning. NOT recommended in any way and I'm bummed that I booked it that way, but will survive.

I'll have a new call for submissions to announce soon and will need LOTS of stories very fast (they are going to be short so it'll be easy and I'm all about the rolling submissions to reward the smart early birds) so stay tuned for that hopefully next week. The sooner they're done, the better is my new motto so a reminder again: Passionate final deadline is March 15th but it's filling up fast.



My lesbian pregnancy erotica story "Swollen," another one that was a loser a few times, just got accepted to the Sacchi Green anthology Lesbian Lust, out this summer. Yesterday I ate so much I very much wanted to come back to my hotel and puke, but I lay down instead. Not recommended, but the food at Barrio and the cupcakes at New York Cupcakes and Cupcake Royale definitely are!

And tonight if you're in Seattle, join us at Trophy Cupcakes! The cupcakes won't have my face on them like the gorgeous, one-of-a-kind beautiful ones they made for me for free on Tuesday for the Elliott Bay reading, but there will be some freebies. 5-7, Trophy Cupcakes (Wallingford), 1815 NW 45th Street, Suite 209. Can't wait!


my Anya Garrett photo cupcakes by Trophy Cupcakes!

the display at Elliott Bay


pre-eating (I am kicking myself for not shooting video of the process)