by Cecilia Tan
Argus Marks is the pseudonym of a reclusive novelist living in Florida.
Cody Nelson says, "I live in the middle of nowhere with lots of cats and goldfish and a very large oak tree. When I'm not hanging out on the homestead chopping wood or fixing the pipes, I work at the local library and occasionally write some fiction."
Joe Nobel splits his time between a parallel universe just outside Boston, Massachusetts and an even stranger one in Budapest, Hungary. He has always enjoyed science fiction, fantasy, and erotica. He blends all three genres in his writing where he explores the darkest recesses of carnal desire. When returning to reality he finds himself working as a computer consultant for fun and profit,cycling to burn off the fat, and listening to music from around the world just for the heck of it.
Corbie Petulengro is one of the many pseudonyms of a prolific erotica and nonfiction writer, whose ebook publications include Slave Girls of Lesbos and Slippery: Bad Girl Erotica. She is bi-butch-identified and a lover of many transgendered people—that's lover in the hands-on sense, not the theoretical kind. Among other things, she has been published in Zaftig and Best Transgender Erotica.
Jean Roberta teaches in a Canadian prairie university, and writes in several genres. Her erotic stories have appeared in over fifty current and forthcoming anthologies, plus websites and magazines. Her fantasy erotica has appeared in Cthulhu Sex and Problem Child magazines, and in Closet Desire IV: Flights of Fantasy (Author's Choice, 2003), Monsters (Torquere Press, 2004), and Trans Figures (Haworth 2006).
Thomas S. Roche Thomas Roche has been writing professionally since age 19. He sold his first novel, a fine 200-page opus entitled All the Way in the Hay, to a shady New York publisher during the glory days of onehanded publishing. Since then, Roche has sold over 400 stories under various names, around 3/4 of them in the erotica field and the remainder in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror, dark fantasy, and crime-noir, often with erotic elements. He maintains a website at www.skidroche.com and dueling blogs at http://thomasroche.livejournal.com and http://pulpfriction.typepad.com .
Jason Rubis lives in Washington, DC. His erotic fiction has appeared in many anthologies, including Sacred Exchange, Erotic Fantastic, Blood Surrender, The Best of Both Worlds, Confessions, Amazons, and Leather, Lace and Lust. He is also retained as a writer by Custom Erotica Source (www.customeroticasource.com).
Fauna Sara teaches by day and writes by night at a Virginia university. She has an MFA in Creative Writing and several publications in nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. She promises that no unicorns (or people!) were harmed in the writing of this story.
Cecilia Tan is the editor and founder of Circlet Press. Susie Bright says "she has prodigious talents as a writer in any vein, but it was her revolutionary, genre-breaking efforts that brought science fiction, fantasy, and erotic communities into the same literary room together.." She has edited over forty anthologies for Circlet Press and for other publishers as well including Thunder's Mouth Press, Blue Moon Books, and Masquerade Books. Her next collection of her own short stories is entitled White Flames and is forthcoming from Running Press.
Carolyn and Steve Vakesh wrote regularly for the Sandmutopian Guardian in the 1990s, and have published articles in a variety of venues under a variety of names. Steve just published his first book with a major university press. This is their first published work of erotic fiction.
Connie Wilkins lives in Western Massachusetts, where, along with her alter ego Sacchi Green, she has written for multiple volumes of Best Lesbian Erotica and Best Women's Erotica, as well as a thigh-high stack of other publications including Best Transgender Erotica and Penthouse. She is also coeditor of Lambda Award Finalist Rode Hard, Put AwayWet (Suspect Thoughts Press), and Hard Rode, Easy Riding (Haworth Press). New anthologies Lipstick on Her Collar (Pretty Things Press) and Time Well Bent appeared in July of 2005, and two more are on the way.
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