ABOUT THE AUTHORS

JACQUELINE APPLEBEE (writing-in-shadows.co.uk) breaks down barriers with smut. Jacqueline’s stories have appeared in various anthologies and websites, including Cleansheets, Best Women’s Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Where the Girls Are, and Girl Crazy.

 

M. CHRISTIAN has more than 300 stories in anthologies like Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica , and many other venues. He is the editor of twenty anthologies, and author of more than eight collections, including Dirty Words, The Bachelor Machine, Filthy, and the novels Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Me2, Brushes, and Painted Doll.

 

ELIZABETH COLDWELL lives and writes in London. Her stories have appeared in a number of Cleis Press anthologies including Bottoms Up, Spanked, and Please, Sir, as well as books by numerous other publishers. She can be found online at The (Really) Naughty Corner (elizabethcoldwell.wordpress.com).

 

MATT CONKLIN turns his perverted pursuits into erotic fiction whenever he has the chance. Look for his work in The Mile High Club, He’s on Top, and other books.

 

Often based on her own explorations in the world of D/s and BDSM, TESS DANESI looks into the darker side of erotica, writing with raw honesty about that shadowy area where pain becomes pleasure and pleasure pain. Tess has been published in several anthologies edited by Alison Tyler and Rachel Kramer Bussel as well as in Time Out New York. She blogs about life, death, and everything in between at Urban Gypsy ( nyc-urbangypsy.blogspot.com).

 

AMANDA EARL’s sexually explicit fiction has appeared in anthologies by Cleis Press, Alyson Books, Thunder’s Mouth Press, and Carroll and Graf. Online, you can find her stories at Unlikelystories. org and Lies With Occasional Truth (lwot.net). For further information, please visit amandaearl.com.

 

JUSTINE ELYOT has written stories, long and short, for Cleis Press, Black Lace, and Total E-Bound, among others. Her most recent full-length book, The Business of Pleasure, was published by Xcite Press in September 2010. She likes the lightly romantic and the darkly erotic and vice versa.

 

EMERALD’s erotic fiction has been published in anthologies edited by Violet Blue, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Jolie du Pre, and Alison Tyler as well as at various erotic websites. She lives in Maryland and serves as an activist for reproductive freedom and sex workers’ rights. Find her online at thegreenlightdistrict.org.

 

SHANNA GERMAIN finds the smallest things sexy: tiny scars, far-away stars, and specks of dust. Her work has appeared in Best American Erotica, Best Bondage Erotica, Best Gay Romance, Best Lesbian Erotica, Please, Sir, and more. Visit her at www.shannagermain.com.

 

ISABELLE GRAY’s writing appears in many anthologies.

 

NOELLE KEELY is the pseudonym of a widely-published writer of erotica and romance. She hopes the ancestors from whom she borrowed elements of her nom de plume are rolling over in their graves at her appearance in anthologies such as She’s on Top and this one.

 

FIONA LOCKE is a very kinky girl. She feels there’s simply nothing to compare with the warm glow of a smacked bottom. Her debut novel, Over the Knee, is a semi-autobiographical account of her fantasies and experiences in the spanking scene. The publisher even convinced her to pose for the cover.

 

LOLITA LOPEZ writes deliciously naughty romantic and erotic tales in various genres. When not writing, she’s hanging out with her kiddo, loving on her husband, or chasing after their big, blubbering Great Dane, Bosley. You can find Lo’s latest releases at lolitalopez.com.

 

GWEN MASTERS (gwenmasters.net) has seen hundreds of her short stories published in print and online, and her erotic novels have been translated into half a dozen different languages. When she’s not writing smut, she is exploring the world with a camera, researching interesting yet obscure topics, hopping a plane every few weeks, and masquerading as a serious news journalist.

 

CLANCY NACHT’squeezes writing in amongst her job, her husband, and three feral rescue cats. She has written erotic fiction since 2003 but did not delve into professional writing until 2009. Since then, she has been published by Cleis Press, Ravenous Romance, Noble Romance, and Dreamspinner Press.

 

Originally from England, TERRI PRAY (terripray.com) now lives in Minnesota with her husband and their two children. Her work ranges from the mild to the wild and spans eleven publishing companies, and 100 novels, novellas, and short stories in anthologies.

 

TERESA NOELLE ROBERTS writes romance for the horny and erotica for the romantic, with a special love for things kinky and/or paranormal. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Please Ma’am: Erotic Stories of Male Submission, The Mile High Club, and Passion: Erotic Romance for Women. She’s written several erotic romances for Samhain and Phaze.

 

THOMAS S. ROCHE’s short stories have appeared in more than 200 anthologies, including the Best American Erotica series, the Best New Erotica series, and many other best-of anthologies. Though primarily known as a writer of erotic stories, he also writes horror, crime fiction and nonfiction, and maintains a blog at thomasroche.com.

 

DOMINIC SANTI (dominicsanti@yahoo.com) is a former technical editor turned rogue whose stories have appeared in many dozens of publications, including Please, Ma’am; Caught Looking; Sex and Candy; Secret Slaves; and Red Hot Erotica. Future plans include more dirty short stories and an even dirtier historical novel.

 

DONNA GEORGE STOREY would still be in school if she’d met a professor like Dr. Perkins. She is the author of Amorous Woman, a steamy tale of an American woman’s love affair with Japan and has written too many stories about masterful men to list here, but stop by DonnaGeorgeStorey.com to read more.

 

ALISON TYLER’s twenty-five naughty novels and fifty erotic anthologies have won her the title of “Erotica’s Own Super Woman” (East Bay Literary Examiner). Her most recent anthology, Alison’s Wonderland, was published by Harlequin Spice in July 2010. She serves coffee and snark 24/7 at alisontyler. blogspot.com.