Women of the Dark Streets
Page 37
Victoria Oldham (www.victoria-oldham.co.uk) is a consulting editor, and relocated to the U.K. with her partner from California several years ago. She explores the rich history all around her and molds it into stories, mostly of the dirty variety. Her latest publication is Girls Who Bite (Cleis Press, September 2011).
Winter Pennington (www.winterpennington.blogspot.com) is the author of Witch Wolf and Raven Mask, the Kassandra Lyall Preternatural Investigator series, and Darkness Embraced: A Rosso Lussuria Vampire Novel. She can be contacted at Winterpennington@gmail.com.
L.L. Raand is the author of the Midnight Hunters paranormal romance series (The Midnight Hunt, Blood Hunt, and Night Hunt). Writing as Radclyffe, she is the author of over thirty-five romance and romantic intrigue novels.
Merry Shannon (www.merryshannon.com) is the author of two Bold Strokes Books novels, Sword of the Guardian and Branded Ann. She is the recipient of two Golden Crown Literary Society awards and a ForeWord Review Book of the Year finalist.
Nell Stark directs the Writing Center at a small college in the SUNY system. Trinity Tam is a marketing executive in the music industry and an award-winning writer/producer of film and television. They live and write in New York City. Together they write the everafter series (www.everafterseries.com).
Shelley Thrasher has edited novels for BSB since 2004. Before then she was a college English professor and traveled the world every chance she got. Her short story “Paris Jazz” appeared in the Gay and Gray anthology in 2011, and BSB will publish her novel The Storm in late 2012.
Having grown up watching Grade A and Grade Z horror movies on Shock Theater, Yolanda Wallace has long been a fan of things that go bump in the night. This marks her first foray into paranormal fiction, but hopefully not her last. Her previous published works include In Medias Res, Rum Spring, and Lucky Loser. She can be reached at yolandawrites@gmail.com.
Karis Walsh (www.kariswalsh.com) is a horseback riding instructor who lives in Washington. She is the author of Harmony.
Rebekah Weatherspoon (letusseeshallwe.blogspot.com) is the author of Better Off Red, the first installment in the Vampire Sorority Sister Series. She lives in Southern California, but longs for the coasts of New Hampshire and Maine.
Sheri Lewis Wohl lives in northeast Washington state. She earned her BA from Eastern Washington University and MA from California State University, where her master’s thesis on the 1872 lesbian vampire story “Carmilla” was nominated for outstanding thesis of the year. When not working or writing, she trains for triathlons.
MJ Williamz has been writing professionally for almost ten years. She has over twenty-five short stories published, mostly lesbian erotica with a few horror stories and a couple of romances thrown in for good measure. Her most recent novels are Forbidden Passion (September 2011) and Initiation By Desire (January 2012).
About the Editors
Radclyffe has written over thirty-five romance and romantic intrigue novels, dozens of short stories, and, writing as L.L. Raand, has authored a paranormal romance series, The Midnight Hunters.
She is an eight-time Lambda Literary Award finalist in romance, mystery, and erotica—winning in both romance (Distant Shores, Silent Thunder) and erotica (Erotic Interludes 2: Stolen Moments edited with Stacia Seaman and In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip written with Karin Kallmaker). A member of the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame, she is also a 2010 RWA/FF&P Prism award winner for Secrets in the Stone. Her 2010 titles were finalists for the Benjamin Franklin award (Desire by Starlight), the ForeWord Review Book of the Year award (Trauma Alert and writing as LL Raand, The Midnight Hunt), and the RWA Passionate Plume award (The Midnight Hunt). She is also the president of Bold Strokes Books, one of the world’s largest independent LGBT publishing companies.
Stacia Seaman has edited numerous award-winning titles, and with co-editor Radclyffe won a Lambda Literary Award for Erotic Interludes 2: Stolen Moments; an Independent Publishers Awards silver medal and a Golden Crown Literary Award for Erotic Interludes 4: Extreme Passions; and an Independent Publishers Awards gold medal and a Golden Crown Literary award for Erotic Interludes 5: Road Games; and the 2010 RWA Rainbow Award of Excellence in the Short/Novella category for Romantic Interludes 2: Secrets. Most recently, she has essays in Visible: A Femmethology (Homofactus Press, 2009) and Second Person Queer (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009).
Books Available from Bold Strokes Books
Night Hunt by L.L. Raand. When dormant powers ignite, the wolf Were pack is thrown into violent upheaval, and Sylvan’s pregnant mate is at the center of the turmoil. A Midnight Hunters novel. (978-1-60282-647-2)
Demons are Forever by Kim Baldwin and Xenia Alexiou. Elite Operative Landis “Chase” Coolidge enlists the help of high-class call girl Heather Snyder to track down a kidnapped colleague embroiled in a global black market organ-harvesting ring. (978-1-60282-648-9)
Runaway by Anne Laughlin. When Jan Roberts is hired to find a teenager who has run away to live with a group of anti-government survivalists, she’s forced to return to the life she escaped when she was a teenager herself. (978-1-60282-649-6)
Street Dreams by Tama Wise. Tyson Rua has more than his fair share of problems growing up in New Zealand—he’s gay, he’s falling in love, and he’s run afoul of the local hip-hop crew leader just as he’s trying to make it as a graffiti artist. (978-1-60282-650-2)
Women of the Dark Streets: Lesbian Paranormal edited by Radclyffe and Stacia Seaman. Erotic tales of the supernatural—a world of vampires, werewolves, witches, ghosts, and demons—by the authors of Bold Strokes Books. (978-1-60282-651-9)
Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright by Justine Saracen. Love does not conquer all, but when all of Europe is on fire, it’s better than going to hell alone. (978-1-60282-652-6)
Wholehearted by Ronica Black. When therapist Madison Clark and attorney Grace Hollings are forced together to help Grace’s troubled nephew at Madison’s healing ranch, worlds and hearts collide. (978-1-60282-594-9)
Haunting Whispers by VK Powell. Detective Rae Butler faces two challenges: a serial attacker who targets attractive women, and Audrey Everhart, a compelling woman who knows too much about the case and offers too little—professionally and personally. (978-1-60282-593-2)
Fugitives of Love by Lisa Girolami. Artist Sinclair Grady has an unspeakable secret, but the only chance she has for love with gallery owner Brenna Wright is to reveal the secret and face the potentially devastating consequences. (978-1-60282-595-6)
Derrick Steele: Private Dick The Case of the Hollywood Hustler by Zavo. Derrick Steele, a hard-drinking, lusty private detective, is being framed for the murder of a hustler in downtown Los Angeles. When his best friend Daniel McAllister joins the investigation, their growing attraction might prove to be more explosive than the case. (978-1-60282-596-3)
Nice Butt: Gay Anal Eroticism by Shane Allison. From toys to teasing, spanking to sporting, some of the best gay erotic scribes celebrate the hottest and most creative in new erotica. (978-1-60282-635-9)
Initiation by Desire by MJ Williamz. Jaded Sue and innocent Tulley find forbidden love and passion within the inhibiting confines of a sorority house filled with nosy sisters. (978-1-60282-590-1)
Toughskins by William Masswa. John and Bret are two twenty-something athletes who find that love can begin in the most unlikely of places, including a “mom and pop shop” wrestling league. (978-1-60282-591-8)
me@you.com by K.E. Payne. Is it possible to fall in love with someone you’ve never met? Imogen Summers thinks so because it’s happened to her. (978-1-60282-592-5)
Bloody Claws by Winter Pennington. In the midst of aiding the police, Preternatural Private Investigator Kassandra Lyall finally finds herself at serious odds with Sheila Morris, the local werewolf pack’s Alpha female, when Sheila abuses someone Kassandra has sworn to protect. (978-1-60282-588-8)
Awake Unto Me by Kathleen Knowles. In turn of the century San Francisco, two young women fight for love in a world where women are often invi
sible and passion is the privilege of the powerful. (978-1-60282-589-5)