Hot damn! I am incredibly excited about this. One of my stories is included in the Best Lesbian Erotica 2013 anthology edited by Kathleen Warnock. It was a thrill to be selected by Jewelle Gomez for this collection. I got the news weeks ago and honestly, it’s taken time to sink in.
The book comes out December 1 and it’s available on Amazon here: Best Lesbian Erotica 2013
Truly, this is an honor. The quotes from Jewelle Gomez and Kathleen Warnock in the press release reminded me why I write in the first place:
“I tell the history so that we don’t forget how easily and self-righteously some would take away our right to speak these stories out loud; and so that the younger writers included in this anthology know they are part of a heroic tradition,” Jewelle Gomez said in her introduction.
“What we do: naming and owning our desires, our loves, our fears, our deepest secrets, is essential. Saying, ‘No, I am HERE, this is who I am,’ is crucial to living when scared, angry people try to erase us, deny us, legislate us out of existence, make us second-class citizens, third-class…nothing,” said series editor Kathleen Warnock in her foreword.
Yes. That. I believe in the importance of these stories, our stories, our visibility, our secrets, our desires, our fears, all of it. This is why I write.
Here are the stories included this year:
The Invitation by Maggie Veness
Nothing If It Fades by Nikki Adams
Cucumbers and Cream by Helen Sandler
Anonymous by BD Swain
Woman-Time by Rebecca Lynne Fullan
Kitty and the Cat by Amelia Thornton
She Never Wears Perfume Sid March
Amateur Night by Maggie Morton
Crave by Fiona Zedde
Stella Loves Bella by V.C.
Homecoming by Anamika
Pool Party by Zoe Amos
Daffodils by Sally Bellerose
Winner Take All by Andrea Dale
Lessons for Leona by Tenille Brown
Morning Commute by Penny Gyokeres
Aftermath by Valerie Alexander
I Have a Thing for Butches by Sonya Herzog
La Caída by Anna Meadows
The Horse and Hounds by Rachel Charman
Underskirts by Kirsty Logan