Lustfully Ever After (27 page)

A.D.R FORTE
(
adrforte.com
) is the author of erotic short fiction that appears in numerous anthologies, including
Fairy Tale Lust
and
Dream Lover
, also edited by Kristina Wright. Her tales of erotic fantasy can be found in collections from Cleis Press and Circlet Press.

 

SHANNA GERMAIN (
shannagermain.com
) grew up with flowering clover fields, handsome fence-fixers and wild, wild horses. She still dreams of riding a bucking bronco. Her work has appeared in
Best American Erotica, Best Bondage Erotica, Best Gay Romance, Best Lesbian Erotica, Dream Lover, Fairy Tale Lust
, and more.

 

SACCHI GREEN
’s stories have appeared in a hip-high stack of publications with erotically inspirational covers, and she’s edited or co-edited seven volumes of erotica, including
Girl Crazy
,
Lesbian Cowboys
(winner of the 2010 Lambda Literary Award for lesbian erotica),
Lesbian Lust
, and
Lesbian Cops
, all from Cleis Press
.

 

After brief, unsatisfying careers in advertising, teaching, computers, and homemaking,
JEANETTE GREY
has returned to her two first loves: romance and writing. When she isn’t writing, Jeanette enjoys making pottery, playing board games, and spending time with her husband and her pet frog (who, thankfully, has yet to turn into a prince).

 

MICHAEL M. JONES
(
michaelmjones.com/wordpress
) is a writer, editor, and book reviewer. He lives in southwest Virginia with way too many books, a pride of cats, and a delightfully tolerant wife. His stories have appeared in
Like a God’s Kiss
,
Like a Queen
, and
Rumpled Silk Sheets
, among others. He is
the editor of the forthcoming
Like a Cunning Plan
.

 

KRISTINA LLOYD
(
kristinalloyd.wordpress.com
) is the author of three erotic novels, including the controversial Black Lace bestseller,
Asking for Trouble
. Her short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, and her novels have been translated into German, Dutch, and Japanese. She has a master’s degree in twentieth-century literature and has been described as “a fresh literary talent” who “writes sex with a formidable force.”

 

ANNA MEADOWS
is a current Lambda Literary Foundation fellow in fiction. Her work appears in five Cleis Press anthologies, including
Steamlust: Steampunk Erotic Romance
. She lives and writes in northern California.

 

EVAN MORA
’s stories of love, lust, and other demons have appeared in
Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Lesbian Romance, Best Bondage Erotica, The Sweetest Kiss: Ravishing Vampire Erotica, Bound by Lust,
and
Red Velvet and Absinthe
:
Paranormal Erotic Romance.
She lives in Toronto.

 

After living a checkered past, and despite an avowed disinterest in domesticity, multi-published author
ANYA RICHARDS
(
anyarichards.com
) settled in Ontario, Canada, with her husband, kids, and two cats who plot world domination, one food bowl at a time.

 

LISABET SARAI
has published six erotic novels, three short story collections, and dozens of individual tales. She also edits the single-author charity series “Coming Together Presents” and reviews erotica for Erotica Readers and Writers Association and Erotica Revealed. Visit Lisabet online at Lisabet’s Fantasy
Factory (
lisabetsarai.com
) and Beyond Romance (lisabetsarai.
blogspot.com
).

 

CHARLOTTE STEIN
(
themightycharlottestein.blogspot.com
) has published a number of stories in various erotic anthologies, including
Sexy Little Numbers
. She is also the author of the short story collection,
The Things That Make Me Give In,
and a novella,
Waiting In Vain
.

 

DONNA GEORGE STOREY
(
DonnaGeorgeStorey.com
) is the author of
Amorous Woman,
a steamy novel about an American woman’s love affair with Japan. Her short stories have been published in more than a hundred journals and anthologies, including
Obsessed, Passion: Erotic Romance for Women, Best Women’s Erotica, Penthouse
, and
Nice Girls, Naughty Sex
.

 

LYNN TOWNSEND
is a displaced Yankee, a mother, a writer, a dreamer, and quite possibly the proud owner of a small black hole residing under her desk that tends to eat kittens, odd socks, staplers, car keys, and that book she was reading and had almost finished.

Described by
The Romance Reader
as “a budding force to be reckoned with,”
KRISTINA WRIGHT
(
kristinawright.com
) is an author, editor, and college instructor. She has edited the Cleis Press anthologies
Fairy Tale Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women
;
Dream Lover: Paranormal Tales of Erotic Romance
;
Steamlust: Steampunk Erotic Romance,
and
Best Erotic Romance
. Her forthcoming anthologies include
Duty and Desire: Military Erotic Romance
and
Best Erotic Romance 2013
. Her first anthology,
Fairy Tale Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women,
was nominated for a Reviewers’ Choice Award by
RT Book Reviews
and was a featured alternate of the Doubleday Book Club. Kristina’s erotica and erotic romance fiction has appeared in more than eighty-five print anthologies, and she received the Golden Heart Award for Romantic Suspense from Romance Writers of America for her first novel
Dangerous Curves
. Her work has also been featured in the nonfiction guide
The Many Joys of Sex Toys
and magazines and ezines such as
Clean Sheets
,
Good Vibes Magazine
,
Libida
,
The Fiction Writer
,
The Literary Times
,
Scarlet Letters
,
The Sun,
and
The Quill
. Her nonfiction essay “The Last Letter” is included in the epistolary anthology
P.S. What I Didn’t Say: Unsent Letters to Our Female Friends,
and her articles, interviews, and book reviews have appeared in numerous publications, both print and online. She is a member of Romance Writers of America (RWA) as well as the RWA special interest chapters, Passionate Ink and Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal. She is a book reviewer for the Erotica Readers and Writers Association (
erotica-readers.com
) and the book club moderator for
SexIs
magazine’s Naked Reader Book Club (
nakedreaderbookclub.com
). She holds degrees in English and humanities and has taught English composition and world mythology at the community college level. Originally from South Florida, Kristina has lived up and down the East Coast with her husband, Jay, a lieutenant commander in the Navy. They live in Virginia with their two young sons.

Copyright © 2012 by Kristina Wright.

 

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Published in the United States by Cleis Press, Inc.,
2246 Sixth Street, Berkeley, California 94710.

 

 

eISBN : 978-1-573-44800-0