Call for Submissions

Here's a call for submissions from Joan Price, publishing with Seal Press.  

Senior Erotica
Editor: Joan Price
Publisher: Seal Press 
Deadline: February 1, 2012 (earlier submissions preferred)
Payment: $100 on acceptance and 2 copies of the book on publication

Joan Price is seeking erotic stories and memoir essays of high literary quality from writers over age 50, featuring steamy characters also over age 50, for a senior erotica anthology to be published Spring 2013 by Seal Press.

Will this be your typical erotica anthology with a few wrinkles? No, the truth is that we seniors don't respond to the sopping-wet panties and rock-hard erections that are the hallmark of traditional, youth-oriented erotica. Instead, we want erotica that we can relate to, that encompasses the changes and adaptations of age, that acknowledges how we like to be stimulated. Age is accepted, celebrated, and sensually enjoyed. Characters may be having spicy sex with partners they love and have loved for decades; or with new loves or casual encounters; or solo with hands, vibrators, memories, and fantasies.  Although I admit my bias towards erotica that is tender and loving, I’m also looking for edgy and kinky stories for a balanced collection.

Seal Press and I will choose submissions of high literary quality, not just good, explicit sex scenes. Arouse us with a sexy, well-crafted plot we haven't read before, characters who entice us and feel real to us, language that describes sex in a new way. I welcome diversity of all kinds, including race, ethnic background, gender identification, sexual orientation, disability, and every other kind of diversity.

Word length: 1,500-3,000 words, previously unpublished preferred.

Payment: $100 on acceptance and 2 copies of the book on publication.

Submission deadline: February 1, 2012 (earlier submissions preferred). Please submit Word document, double-spaced, Times or Times New Roman font. Authors may submit up to 2 contributions.

Before you submit (right now would be good!), please email me at SeniorErotica@gmail.com with the header “senior erotica submission” and include your 75-100-word bio written in the third person and complete contact information: legal name, pseudonym if applicable, mailing address, email address, and phone. Please include your age, also (which won't be public unless you want it to be). I’ll put you in my database of potential contributors and update you as the project progresses.

Joan Price, Editor
seniorerotica@gmail.com
Author of Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex and Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex After Sixty
http://www.joanprice.com/
Award-winning blog about sex & aging: http://www.NakedAtOurAge.com

The Harder She Comes

Here's some exciting news:  The Harder She Comes: Butch Femme Erotica has a cover and a final table of contents.  You may remember the call for submissions for Daddy's Little Girl?  It's been renamed The Harder She Comes, which is a much hotter title.  And check out this juicy cover!

Check out this amazing line up.  I'm thrilled with this book and know you will be too.

Speakeasy by Evan Mora

Winner Take All by Andrea Dale

It's So Peaceful Out Here by Elaine Miller

Manchester, 2000 by Stella Sandberg

Good Girl, Bad Girl by Sinclair Sexsmith

The Bucket List by Charlotte Dare

Happy Ending by Rachel Kramer Bussel

Tamales by Kathleen Bradean

Valentine by River Light

Birthday Butch by Teresa Noelle Roberts

Born to Ride by Beth Wylde

Channeling Charles Bukowski by Aimee Herman

Tits Down, Ass Up by Crystal Barela

Pound by Shanna Germain

Farmhand by Miel Rose

A Date With Sharon Tate by Valerie Alexander

Bienvenido by Anna Watson

This is What I Want by C S Clark

And, just to annoy you; you'll have to wait -- it won't be released until March, 2012.

Oh, yeah, The Harder She Comes: Butch Femme Erotica is from Cleis Press and edited by yours truly. Pre-order your copy here.

The Wild O Podcast or I Am Interviewed

I had too much fun talking with Dagni Rose of The Wild O Podcast a while back.  No, really, I had too much fun.  We talked for hours, that's right, hours and she had to edit all my drivel down to about 30 minutes of scintillating literary discussion.  And fun: did I mention fun?  I've decided I laugh far too much.  I really need to rein it in.

However, she was up to the task, even after her software crashed and she had to find something new and better to allow her to do the hours and hours of editing.  So, while you may be interested in hearing what D. L. King actually sounds like, you actually owe it to Dagni Rose to listen to the interview that took days, possibly even years off her life to produce!

I talk about Carnal Machines and my other anthologies, as well as the fabulous authors in those books.  I also manage to mention my novels and short stories.  So, check it out, if you're so inclined.  Let me know what you think.

The Carter/Johnson Leather Library

I was surprised and thrilled when I was asked to read in the Carter/Johnson Leather Library when I was at Leather Pride Night this year.   I mentioned to Vi Johnson that I was going to be at TES Fest for the book signing and she asked me if I could stop by and do a reading in the library.

For those of you who don’t know, the Carter/Johnson Leather Library travels around the country to various leather and fetish events.  Their motto is: Never again landfill. Never again flames.  Their mission is to protect, archive and share the history of media depicting the history and heritage of leather, fetish and S/M erotica.  It’s an amazing archive and growing all the time.

On Saturday, July 2, I drove out to New Jersey to TES’s 40^th anniversary TES Fest for the book signing and to read in the library.  The signing went really well and I sold and signed more books then ever before at TES Fest.  Other authors at the signing were Laura Antoniou, Susan Wright, Cassandra Park and Kasi Alexander. 

A woman whom I’d previously met at the NELA Fetish Fair Flea stopped by, just as everyone started packing up, to buy a book I’d sold out of at NELA.  She was nice enough to help me pack everything and then even help me bring everything over to the library, since I was about to be late!  (Thanks Aurora!)

When I got to the library, they were setting up cameras to record my reading, how cool!  Vi came in and said she wanted to interview me first because she had lots of questions to which she needed answers.  I had no idea I’d be interviewed first and was completely humbled that she would be interested in hearing anything other than bits and pieces of my fiction.  We had a great conversation and then I read “The Uninitiated Bottom,” from Power Play (Xcite, August 2011).  It was the first time reading the story in public and I very happy to say it went over really well.  (Vi needed to take a break.)  Then I read a chapter from The Marrying Kind, which everyone liked.  At some point, all the footage will be edited and put on the library’s website.  You can’t believe how excited I am about that and I can’t wait to see it.  (Sure hope I don’t look like an idiot!) 

I gave Vi a signed copy of each of the books I’ve edited, as well as each of my novels.  She totally blew me away when she told me that Where the Girls Are: Urban Lesbian Erotica was the most requested title.  I’m totally in awe of all the authors in the anthology.  And for those of you who aren’t in the book, or haven’t read it, you should pick it up.

Call for Submissions!

Seductress: Succubi Erotica

Edited by D. L. King

To be published by Cleis Press

Deadline: October 1, 2011

Payment: $50 and 2 copies of the anthology

D. L. King is looking for stories hot enough to ignite the fires of hell.

She’s beautiful.  She’s enchanting.  She’s mysterious and unfathomable. She’s your fondest dream and your worst nightmare.  She’s sweet and sublimely submissive.  She’s dark and fully in charge.  She’s flirty and she’s vulgar.  She promises safety in her arms but there’s danger in her eyes.  One look, one scent, one taste, one sigh and you’re rock hard or dripping wet.  She’s sex incarnate.

Succubi: sexual vampires, women who steal the life force from their victims—oh, but what a way to go. Some say succubi visit their victims in dreams; others say they seduce them in the flesh.  Whether your succubus is a shape shifter, has permanent bat wings or wears a mini skirt and has legs that go all the way up to her armpits; whether her victims are taken unawares, follow her with glee or scream bloody murder as they come, make your stories hot. (You know what I like, and if you don’t, have a look at The Sweetest Kiss or Carnal Machines for a clue.) As always, I’m relying on you to make me wet!

This anthology is primarily heterosexual, but I’ll consider lesbian stories.  Stories should be between 1,500 and 3,000 words, double-spaced, 12 pt Times New Roman. Please indent the first line of each paragraph one-half inch and do not include extra lines between paragraphs.  Put your legal name, pen name, mailing address and email address on the first page. Put the word count under the title.  No fancy formatting and do NOT include a cover page. You may submit up to two stories.

Very Important:  If you are using a new PC which saves your document as a .docx, please save your story as a 97-2003 Word Document or I will be unable to open it.  If absolutely necessary, you may send your story as an rtf.  Please send your story to succubusantho@gmail.com.  Subject line should read:  Submission: TITLE.

Original stories only.  If your story has been previously published, please include the title, date and publisher.  You must own the rights to any reprints. Please include a 50-word bio and direct any questions to the above address.

The photo above, by dumbelek is shared pursuant to the Creative Commons License.  You can find the terms here.

Lobster Roll Rumble

Luke's Lobster

I asked my best friend if he’d like to go to the Lobster Roll Rumble as his birthday gift.  I was pretty sure I knew the answer.  You see, we’re both big fans of lobster rolls, well, of a particular lobster roll, to be exact.

What’s a Lobster Roll Rumble, you ask?  It’s a contest to see who makes the best lobster roll.  This year’s rumble was the second, I think.  At any rate, the first time I heard about it was last year and by the time I saw it advertised, it was already sold out.  This year, the day the tickets went on sale I texted my friend and asked if he wanted to go.  We got tickets a month, or so, in advance (yay!) and the event sold out a few days later.

So, what do you do at a lobster roll rumble?  Well, you eat lobster rolls.  Now, let me be the first to tell you, I LOVE lobster.  As far as I’ve been concerned, there can’t be too much lobster.  I can easily eat two Main lobsters for dinner—and look for more.  So, as you might expect, I was psyched!

There were 18 chefs in contention for the prize, which was to be decided by a celebrity panel of judges:  Donatella Arpaia, Harold Dieterle and Katie Lee.  But the crowd would award the Fan Favorite award.  Last year, our favorite lobster roll maker won: Lukes Lobster, here in New York City.  I couldn’t imagine anyone beating Luke for best lobster roll.  All you have to do is taste it and you’ll know why I say that… But more about that later.  Who were the contenders?   A lot of them came from New York but several were from out of town.—places like Boston, Chicago, Maine, San Francisco, Los Angeles  (I was really interested to see what an Angelino knew about the ultimate New England treat.).

So we got there, in the pouring rain, and once they let us in, we made our way to one of the chefs’ tables somewhere in the middle, to beat the rush at the beginning.  Now, I’ve been to wine tastings before.  You take a sip—and if you’re really serious, you spit it out—you don’t drink the whole glass.  So, we each get a lobster roll (and let me tell you, they were the size of a half-roll, not a mere bite) and my friend eats the whole thing.  Not to be outdone, I do the same.  It was okay (Jaded New Yorker, here: how is lobster ever merely okay?) but nothing to write home about.  We moved on to the next table and did it again.  I have to say, I was quite impressed, as was my friend, by the second roll.  It was made by B&G Oysters from Boston.  Well, figures, Bostonians should know how to make a lobster roll.  It was damn fine, but it wasn’t Lukes.  I’m just sayin’…

It was at this point that my sense of self preservation kicked in.  I only ate about half of the third roll.  And from then on, I took a couple of bites, maybe three at the most, occasionally just one, before deciding whether it would get my vote.  I took a break after the fourth table for a Main Root Sarsaparilla, then another break after the sixth table for a glass of wine.  You gotta pace yourself. 

I’d heard a lot about Red Hook Lobster Pound, from Brooklyn, and gave them a try.  I liked them (not as much a Lukes) but I think I was allergic to something in their roll as shortly after I had my three bites I began to itch like crazy.  I took a water break and waited for the itching to subside.  It did. 

By this time I was pretty done in.  I think I made it through 11 different lobster rolls before I just couldn’t eat any more.  My friend was still able to take a taste and I had him tell me if any that he tasted, after I whimped out, were worth my forcing myself.  None were.  I’m not sure how many he had, but he didn’t get through all 18 either. 

We cast our votes for Lukes, amid a flurry of other voters doing the same and I actually got to meet Luke!  Very nice guy.  I told him my location of choice was the original Lower East Side place.  

I took a sparkling wine break.  

My friend actually wanted to taste the desserts.  I told him I was happy to drink and watch him taste desserts.  Seriously?  I had no idea how he was doing that! Yes, I can eat a ridiculous amount of lobster, but even I can’t eat it forever.  I found my limit in lobster.

I saw him the next night at another party and asked him how he was.  He said he wasn’t really hungry.  I told him I woke up wanting a Lukes Lobster roll.  I think he said something about waking up, wanting to die... nah!  He loved his birthday present.

Did Luke’s win?  He did win the Fan Favorite Award.  The celebrity judges awarded Mary’s Fish Camp their award.  Too much mayo, if you ask me. 

Had Luke’s not been competing, I would have given my voting chit to B&G.  Next time I’m in Boston, I’ll have to go there…

Here's something from Cecilia Tan, over at Circlet Press


For Immediate Release

NO BETTER TIME THAN THE PRESENT? 
End of the World Erotica Anticipates the Rapture

(Cambridge, MA) -- According to some religious sects purchasing billboard advertising across the country, this Saturday is Judgement Day.

In case the end of the world really does come on May 21st, Circlet Press has put their anthology of end-of-the-world erotic science fiction, APOCALYPSE SEX, on sale for one cent.

APOCALYPSE SEX features four stories of sudden sex in the face of doomsday. With their own demise staring them in the face, the characters in the book all come to the same conclusion: it's time to have the best sex of their lives. Inhibitions are cast aside and fantasies are fulfilled as the doomed chase down their deepest desires. The book includes stories by J. Daniel Sawyer, Elizabeth Coldwell, Elizabeth Schechter, Beverly Langland, and David Hubbard.

The one cent offer is available through midnight Eastern time on May 21st only on circlet.com. If the world is still around after that, or to console those of us left behind, the book will then be 99 cents for another week before reverting to its normal $4.99 price. Read a sample or download the book here. 


I'd say, buy it and read it fast, before it's all over!