by Alison Tyler
Tenille Brown’s writing is featured online and in several print anthologies including Caught Looking, Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2007, Iridescence, A Is for Amour, D Is for Dress-Up, and The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers. She obsessively shops for shoes, hats, and purses and keeps a daily blog on her website, www.tenillebrown.com.
Rachel Kramer Bussel (www.rachelkramerbussel.com) is the editor or co-editor of over a dozen anthologies, including Caught Looking, Hide and Seek, He’s on Top, She’s on Top, Cross-dressing, Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 1 and 2, and the nonfiction collection Best Sex Writing 2008. Yes, Sir and Yes, Ma’am will be published in early 2008. Her own erotica has been published in over a hundred anthologies, including Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006, and she’s written for Bust, Cosmo UK, Mediabistro, New York Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. She hosts and curates In The Flesh Erotic Reading Series and wrote the popular “Lusty Lady” column for The Village Voice.
T.C. Calligari lives on the West Coast in British Columbia, Canada. T.C. has written in many genres and published fiction, poetry, and articles in such publications as Descant, Amazing, ON Spec,Talebones, Chizine,Twilight Tales,Vestal Review, Northern Frights4, Opulence Magazine, and Dreams of Decadence. Previous erotica has been published in the Guilty Pleasures, Erotic Fantasy anthologies, and the Cleis books B Is for Bondage and E Is for Exotic. An erotic novel is also in the works.
Andrea Dale’s stories have appeared in Got a Minute?, C Is for Coeds, and Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2007, and on Fishnetmag. com. With co-authors, she has sold novels to Cheek Books (A Little Night Music, Sarah Dale) and Black Lace Books (Cat Scratch Fever, Sophie Mouette). She lives in Southern California within scent of the ocean and can sometimes be persuaded to bake at Christmas. Her website is at www.cyvarwydd.com.
Shanna Germain has to admit she has never sat on Santa’s lap, although she’d sure like to someday—she has a feeling he knows how to deliver the goods! Shanna’s work has been widely published in places like Best American Erotica, Best Bondage Erotica, Caught Looking, Cowboy Lover, F Is for Fetish, and Salon. You can learn more about her (and see what she’s asking Santa for this year) at www.shannagermain.com.
Michelle Houston has been writing erotica since 1995 and has had stories published in many anthologies, including D Is For Dress-Up, Naughty Stories from A to Z vol. 4, Three-way, Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z vol. 2,The Happy Birthday Book of Erotica, C Is For Coeds, and Slave to Love. In addition to her print publications, she also has several of her own e-books and stories in a couple other e-books.You can find out more about her and her writings on her personal website,The Erotic Pen (www.eroticpen.net).
Michael Hemmingson is a Zen Buddhist who lives near the beach in San Diego, California, and has written many Blue Moon Books, like House of Dreams and Las Vegas Quartet. His first indie film, The Watermelon, is in postproduction.
Joel A. Nichols was born and raised in Vermont. His stories will appear in Distant Horizons, Sex by the Book: Gay Men’s Tales of Lit and Lust,Travelrotica 2, and Second Skin, and have appeared in C is for Coeds, Dorm Porn 2, Full Body Contact, Just the Sex, Ultimate Undies, and Sexiest Soles. An excerpt from his novel in progress won second place in the Brown Foundation Short Fiction Prize 2005. In 2002, he was a Fulbright Fellow in Berlin. Joel studied German at Wesleyan University and has a Creative Writing M.A. from Temple University. He lives in Philadelphia with his boyfriend, works at an Internet video company, and teaches college English. Visit www.joelanichols.com.
Jean Roberta teaches English in a university in the heart of Canada where the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have their headquarters. Over fifty of her erotic stories have appeared in print anthologies such as the annual Best Lesbian Erotica (2000-01 and every year since 2004), Merry XXXmas, and The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 6. Her stories and reviews also appear on websites such as Ruthie’s Club, Clean Sheets, The Dominant’s View, The Shadow Sacrament, Girlphoria, and TCM Reviews.
Teresa Noelle Roberts’s erotica has appeared or is forthcoming in B Is for Bondage; E Is for Exotic; F Is for Fetish; H Is for Hardcore; Chocolate Flava 2; Best Women’s Erotica 2004, 2005, and 2007; The Good Parts; Lipstick on Her Collar; Fishnetmag. com; and many other publications. She is also half of the erotica-writing team called Sophie Mouette, author of Cat Scratch Fever.
Thomas S. Roche’s relationship with Christmas has been a rocky one for some years; intermittently, he hosts the not-quite-annual Christmas Sucks reading series in San Francisco, where horrible and wonderful things happen to Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, and various elves and reindeer. Between these occurrences, he hosts Dr. Sketchy’s Barbary Coast, the mid-Left Coast incarnation of the national burlesque figure-drawing salon, Dr. Sketchy’s Anti Art School. He also writes short stories, articles, and the occasional novel, teaches with San Francisco Sex Information (www.sfsi.org) and edits biweekly events, news, and reviews network Eros Zine (www.eroszine.com). Information about his events, articles, stories, and educational work can be found at www.thomasroche.com.
Dominic Santi is a former technical editor turned rogue whose stories have appeared in many dozens of anthologies and magazines, including the recent His Underwear, Caught Looking, Bi Guys, Best Gay Erotica 2007, and Best of the Best Gay Erotica 2. Santi’s latest book is the German collection Buddy Action. Future plans include more dirty short stories and an even dirtier historical novel.
Savannah Stephens Smith lives and writes on Vancouver Island. Her current projects include taming a wild garden, training a willful dog, and writing a novel. She is currently stuck on the blackberry bushes, “sit,” and chapter seven. Her previous fiction has appeared both online and in print. She’s an alto who’s been caught singing into her hairbrush, and rumor has it she laughs in her sleep. The only thing she likes more than writing is reading.
Brooke Stern is a Jew who goes to movies and writes books on Christmas. These books include Suffering the Consequences and Bad Girls. Stern has also written many stories, which have appeared in collections like Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z volume 2, A Is for Amour, C Is for Coeds, Got a Minute, and Love at First Sting and on websites like Salon.com and Cleansheets.com. The original Victorian erotica that inspired “Everything You Need on Christmas” can be found in Stern’s The Collector’s Edition of Victorian Erotic Discipline.
Donna George Storey likes to indulge herself in all sorts of special solstice pleasures when the nights are longest. Her erotic fiction has appeared in She’s on Top, He’s on Top, E Is for Exotic, Love at First Sting, Garden of the Perverse, Taboo, Best American Erotica 2006, Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 4, 5, and 6, and Best Women’s Erotica 2005, 2006, and 2007. Her novel set in Japan, Amorous Woman, is part of Orion’s Neon erotica series. Read more of her work at www.DonnaGeorgeStorey.com.
Saskia Walker’s erotic fiction appears in over forty anthologies, including Caught Looking, She’s on Top, Slave to Love, Secrets volume 15,The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica volume 5, Stirring Up a Storm, and Kink. She is the author of several novellas as well as the erotic novels Along for the Ride, Double Dare, and Reckless. Please visit www.saskiawalker.co.uk for more information.
Sharon Wachsler lives in rural New England with her partner and service dog. Her work has appeared in dozens of periodicals and books, including Best American Erotica 2004 and 2005. In 2006, the Astraea Foundation named Sharon an “Emerging Lesbian Writer” in fiction. Recent anthology credits include Periphery, Bed, and Lipstick on Her Collar. She is the founder, editor, and humor columnist of Breath & Shadow (abilitymaine.org/breath) and is compiling her Sick Humor essays and cartoons into a book, Sick Humor: Full-Frontal Disability. To get on her mailing list, email [email protected] or visit her at sharonwachsler.com or sickhumorpostcards.com.
About the Editor
Called “a trollop with a laptop” by East Bay Express, and a “literary siren” by Good Vibrations, Alison Tyler is naughty and she knows it. (And so does
Santa.) Ms.Tyler is the author of more than twenty-five explicit novels, including Learning to Love It, Strictly Confidential, Sweet Thing, Sticky Fingers, Something About Workmen, Rumors, Tiffany Twisted, and With or Without You (Cheek). Her short stories have appeared in more than seventy anthologies and have been translated into Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Greek, and Dutch.
She is the editor of thirty-five anthologies, including Batteries Not Included (Diva) and Naughty Fairy Tales from A to Z (Plume) as well as the Naughty Stories from A to Z series, the Down & Dirty series, Naked Erotica, and Juicy Erotica (all from Pretty Things Press). Please visit www.prettythingspress.com.
Ms.Tyler is loyal to coffee (black), lipstick (red), and tequila (straight). She has tattoos but no piercings, a wicked tongue but a quick smile, and bittersweet memories but no regrets. She believes it won’t rain if she doesn’t bring an umbrella, prefers hot and dry to cold and wet, and loves to spout her favorite motto: “You can sleep when you’re dead.” She chooses Led Zeppelin over the Beatles, the Cure over the Smiths, and the Stones over everyone—yet although she appreciates good rock, she has a pitiful weakness for eighties hair bands.
In all things important, she remains faithful to her partner of over a decade, but she still can’t choose just one perfume.
Copyright © 2007 by Alison Tyler.
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eISBN : 978-1-573-44494-1
“Mulled Wine” by Dominic Santi was originally published in Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z, vol. 2, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel.
