Yay for kinky smut: Surrender won the National Leather Association Samois Anthology Award!

My book Surrender: Erotic Tales of Female Pleasure and Submission won the Samois Anthology Award from the National Leather Association! I'm so honored.

Award nominations for my books!

Just got word of these nominations from the National Leather Association International!

Congratulations to all the nominees and especially our publisher Cleis Press. Looking ahead, and kindof a longshot, but I nominated some of my books for the Erotic and Sexuality categories for the IPPY Awards (Independent Publisher awards) so keep your fingers crossed for me on those too.

Speaking of erotica, I will have much more to say soon, by the weekend at the latest, about Greta Christina's piece about the state of the erotic fiction anthology.

Direct from an email from Steve Vakesh, NLA-I Awards Chair:

The finalists for the John Preston Short Fiction Award are:

Mike Kimera, "Toying With Lily " in Alison Tyler (ed.), Hurts So Good: Unrestrained Erotica (Cleis)

Jeff Mann, "Kidnapping Chris" in Richard Labonté (ed.), Best Gay Bondage Erotica (Cleis)

Thomas S. Roche, "Butterfly's Kiss" in Rachel Kramer Bussel (ed.),
Rubber Sex (Cleis)

Xan West, "First Time Since" in Alison Tyler (ed.), Hurts So Good: Unrestrained Erotica (Cleis)

The finalists for the Anthology Award are:

Rachel Kramer Bussel (ed.), Yes Sir: Erotic Stories of Female Submission (Cleis)

Rachel Kramer Bussel (ed.), Rubber Sex (Cleis)

Richard Labonté (ed.), Best Gay Bondage Erotica (Cleis)

Alison Tyler (ed.), Hurts So Good: Unrestrained Erotica (Cleis)



Read the introduction to Yes, Sir here.



Read the introduction to Rubber Sex here.