ABOUT THE AUTHORS

NIKKI ADAMS lives amid the quiet fields of southern New Jersey. Her work has also appeared in Best Lesbian Erotica 2013.

 

VALERIE ALEXANDER lives in Arizona. Her work has been previously published in Best of Best Women’s Erotica, Best Bondage Erotica and other anthologies.

 

LAURA ANTONIOU (lantoniou.com) has been writing erotica for over twenty years. Best known for her Marketplace series, she has also lectured at over 100 events worldwide. Her most recent novel, The Killer Wore Leather, is a comedy murder mystery set within the leather/BDSM world.

 

LAILA BLAKE (lailablake.com) is a linguist, currently working as a writer and translator in her hometown of Cologne, Germany. She has yet to find a genre to settle down with, but is most dedicated to romance and erotica. Her first novel By the Light of the Moon was released in April 2013.

 

Author and award-winning editor ELIZABETH COLDWELL lives and works in London. Her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies including four previous volumes of the Best Women’s Erotica series. She can be found at The (Really) Naughty Corner, elizabethcoldwell.wordpress.com.

 

LUCY DEBUSSY lives in Edinburgh, where she writes vintage-style smut and sailor porn from a garret in the center of the city. Her writing has previously appeared in Erotic Review. She loves circus, dance, sailing, food, silk clothing and good unwholesome erotica.

 

ROSE DE FER’s story “Snowlight, Moonlight” appears in Red Velvet & Absinthe. She has published a novella, Lust Ever After (Mischief Books) and stories in the anthologies Underworlds, Submission and Forever Bound. Rose lives in England with her husband, who keeps the chains tight when the moon is full.

 

As a thoroughly bad girl on a journey of self-discovery as an erotic writer, TAMSIN FLOWERS (tamsinflowers.com) is as keen to entertain her readers as she is to explore every aspect of female and male sexuality. She is published by Cleis Press, Go Deeper Press, Xcite Books and House of Erotica.

 

ERRICA LIEKOS finally realized she could write whatever filthy things she wanted so long as she used a pseudonym. Don’t tell her kids. She occasionally Tweets @_Errica and blogs at cumis-notaverb. blogspot.com.

 

INGRID LUNA is a painter, musician and writer who lives in a little cottage covered with flowers, art and dirty dishes. She loves her kinky husband, the smell of old books, conversations that keep you up all night and hosting parties where everyone gets naked.

 

SOMMER MARSDEN’s been called “…one of the top storytellers in the erotica genre” (Violet Blue) and “Unapologetic” (Alison Tyler). Her erotic novels include Restless Spirit, Boys Next Door, Learning to Drown and the Zombie Exterminator series. Current addictions include strong coffee, sweet wine, yoga and things that give her goose bumps. Visit her at sommer-marsden. blogspot.com.

 

CATHERINE PAULSSEN’s (catherinepaulssen.com) stories have appeared in Best Lesbian Romance 2012 and 2013, Best Erotic Romance 2013, Girl Fever, Duty and Desire (all published by Cleis Press), in Silver Publishing’s Dreaming of a White Christmas series and in anthologies by Ravenous Romance and Constable & Robinson.

 

OLEANDER PLUME recently made the transition from writing conventional fiction to erotica, and hasn’t looked back. She was recently surprised and delighted to find out that one of her creations has been accepted into a collection of gay erotic short stories, which will be published later in the year.

 

RUBY RYDER pursues her passion for pegging on her site Pegging Paradise. She lives in Southern California, teaches pegging classes to interested couples and is immersed in exploring dominance and submission in conjunction with pegging. She watches porn on the Internet to get in the mood to write her stories.

 

ALYSSA TURNER (alyssaturnerwrites.blogspot.com) writes erotica and erotic romance in all lengths, having previously been featured in Best Women’s Erotica, edited by Violet Blue, and several anthologies from Rachel Kramer Bussel. Alyssa has several full-length novels under her belt and no two of her stories are the same.

 

ALISON TYLER (alisontyler.blogspot.com), the “Trollop with a Laptop,” has written twenty-five erotic novels and edited more than sixty erotic anthologies including Twisted, Torn and Smart Ass. In all things important, she remains faithful to her partner of seventeen years, but she still can’t choose just one perfume.

 

JADE A. WATERS (jadeawaters.com) began her literary naughtiness when she convinced a boyfriend that the sexiest form of foreplay was reading provocative synonyms from a thesaurus. She’s been penning erotic tales in Northern California ever since. Her latest piece, “The Flogger,” can be found in The Big Book of Orgasms from Cleis Press.