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  RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL (www.rachelkramerbussel.com) is a New York–based author, editor, and blogger. Her anthologies include Fast Girls, Orgasmic, Gotta Have It, Passion, Bottoms Up, Spanked, Crossdressing, The Mile High Club, and others. She is senior editor at Penthouse Variations and writes a sex column for SexisMagazine.com.

  SIOBHAN COLMAN’s (www.siobhancolman.com) work has appeared in literary journals, anthologies and erotic magazines. Her stories “Sweet Treats at the CWA” and “The Emancipation of Elanora Pickle” have won the Mardi Gras Short Story Competition.

  SHEREE L. GREER has been published in the Story Week Reader, Hair Trigger, the Windy City Times, Reservoir, and Fictionary Magazine. She is a recipient of a Union League of Chicago Civic and Arts Foundation Award.

  THEDA HUDSON’s work has appeared in Best Lesbian Erotica 2011, Best Lesbian Romance 2011, Renaissance E Books, and Best S/M III.

  GENEVA KING (www.genevaking.com) has stories appearing in over a dozen anthologies including: Best Women’s Erotica 2006, Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2009, Ultimate Undies, Caramel Flava, Peep Show, and Travelrotica for Lesbians 1 & 2.

  D. JACKSON LEIGH (www.djacksonleigh.com) has written three romances for Bold Strokes Books: Bareback, Long Shot, and Call Me Softly.

  LEE LYNCH has written Beggar of Love and Sweet Creek for Bold Strokes Books and many others, including The Swashbuckler. She writes a syndicated column, “The Amazon Trail.” Lynch is the recipient of the GCLS Trailblazer Award, an Alice B. Readers’ Award, and the James Duggins Mid-Career Author Award.

  ANNA MEADOWS is a part-time executive assistant, part-time lesbian housewife. Her work appears in Best Lesbian Romance 2010 and 2011, and Girls Who Bite.

  JL MERROW (www.jlmerrow.com) has published over thirty short stories and novellas and is currently plotting murder and mayhem on the Isle of Wight for the purposes of her second novel.

  EVAN MORA’s stories of love, lust and other demons have appeared in places like Best Lesbian Erotica ‘09, Best Lesbian Romance ‘09 and ‘10, Where the Girls Are, Girl Crush, Gotta Have It: 69 Stories of Sudden Sex, Lesbian Cops, and Red Velvet and Absinthe: Paranormal Erotic Romance.

  CATHERINE PAULSSEN works by day as a freelancer; at night, she writes erotica.

  Eroticist GISELLE RENARDE (www.wix.com/gisellerenarde/erotica) is a queer Canadian contributor to dozens of short story anthologies, an avid volunteer, and author of numerous electronic and print books.

  LISABET SARAI (www.lisabetsarai.com) has published six erotic novels, two short story collections, and dozens of individual tales. She also edits the single-author charity series “Coming Together Presents” and reviews erotica for Erotica Readers and Writers Association and Erotica Revealed.

  ANGELA VITALE is an artist in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared on Clean Sheets.

  ANNA WATSON is an old-school femme who married the butch of her dreams in the summer of 2010. She has selections in Sometimes She Lets Me, Femmethology v.I, Girl Crazy, and Take Me There.

  ABOUT THE EDITOR

  RADCLYFFE has written over thirty-five romance and romantic intrigue novels, dozens of short stories, and, as L.L. Raand, 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 and erotica. A member of the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame, she is also a 2010 RWA/FF&P Prism Award Winner, an Independent Publisher’s award winner (IPPY), an Alice B. Readers’ Award winner, and a 2011 finalist for the Benjamin Franklin, ForeWord Review Book of the Year, and the RWA Passionate Plume awards.

  Copyright © 2012 by Radclyffe.

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  eISBN : 978-1-573-44770-6

  “Blazing June” © JL Merrow appeared in Lesbian Cops: Erotic Investigations, Cleis Press, 2011; “Clean Slate” © Lisabet Sarai appeared in Smooth, Cleis Press, 2010.