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Forthcoming Books and Stuff:

• "White Flames"--the "sequel" to "Black Feathers," that is, my next collection of erotic short stories--is slated for publication! It'll be out in early May 2008 from Running Press.

• Bombers Broadside 2008 will be out in February 2008. I edited this annual look at all things New York Yankees last year and am back to do it again. This year's publication will have a complete preview of the 2008 roster, profiles of Joe Girardi and Joba Chamberlain, analysis of the Yankees' free agent strategies over the years, and analysis of what to expect from the Steinbrenner Sons who now run the team.

• "The Spark" was set to be in the Periphery anthology edited by Lynne Jamneck for Alice Street Editions. Alice Street's owner, Haworth Press, got bought and the fiction imprints dropped! Feh. Lynne is trying to resell the book elsewhere.

• "The Lady In Black" was slated to be in "Dark Sins and Desires Unveiled," an anthology that was coming from Underground Publishing, then it fell through somehow, then the editor thought it was to be revived, but ultimately no. So the story remains unpublished.

  Stuff that's still looking for a home:
  The novel "Bambino Road" (my fantasy novel about "reversing the curse") is still looking for a home. "The Book of Want" (an erotic novel mosaic told in short-shorts) is stalled until further notice. "Edge Plays" (the erotic ebook I did for the Erotica Authors Association) had its limited run for the EAA and now needs to go somewhere.

• The 50 Greatest Yankee Games

  First published in hardcover in 2004, then paperback in 2005, from John Wiley & Sons. I wrote it as a unique history of the New York Yankees, from the perspective of recounting the action of 50 of the greatest games in Yankees' history. Regular season, World Series, heartbreakers, history-makers. The book got unbelievably great reviews, too--people really enjoyed the way I made the reader feel like "they were there."

• The 50 Greatest Red Sox Games

  Co-written with my good friend Bill Nowlin, who has written a lot of books on Ted Williams and the Red Sox himself. Like the book on the Yankees, it recounts 50 great games from Red Sox history. Ironically, while we were working on the book, the Sox won the World Series in 2004, and we had to revamp our list of great games! All of a sudden our book had a "happy ending!"

• The Velderet

  The long-awaited erotic science fiction SM adventure novel is in print with Circlet Press. Visit the Velderet web site to read excerpts and cool background stuff about the book. I started writing this as a serial for "Taste of Latex" but after 6 chapters, the magazine folded. I eventually finished the novel for myself and had a fun time mixing the science fiction space opera with the S/M erotica. You can buy the eBook version of it direct from Circlet, buy the printed version there, or get it from Amazon (by clicking the main title above).

• Black Feathers: Erotic Dreams

  Twenty three of the erotic stories mentioned below all collected into one nice trade paperback from HarperCollins Publishers. Went out of print in 2007 after nine years in print. The only way to get copies now is through Ebay and used resellers on Amazon (click the title above to go to the Amazon page).
  

• Telepaths Don't Need Safewords

  This tiny little chapbook of three stories is still a defining moment in my career and my development as an adult human being, not to mention the catalyst which launched Circlet Press and the sea change in the sf/f genre toward higher erotic and romantic content. As of February 2004 it went out of print after ten years in print. I may yet reprint it through Circlet Press, we'll see.

This is a list of most of my erotica and science fiction/fantasy short stories. Various stories have 250 words samples. I'd like to digitize myself reading them aloud as MP3s or something, too. Maybe someday.

Oh, one thing. If you find on this list that there is a work of my fiction not listed, or an appearance of one not listed that should be, let me know and I'll give you a free book! I know there are things I forget. Think of it as motivational for the two of us. I don't guarantee what book I'll send you though.

Roughly Reverse Chronological

"Just Tell Me The Rules" appeared in Aqua Erotica 2, from Melcher Media in December 2005. Now, I know what you are thinking, there already was a sequel to Aqua Erotica, called Wet: More Aqua Erotica, but it didn't sell anywhere near as well as the first volume did. So now Melcher, the packager who sold the first book, is doing another waterproof book, this time under their own name, and calling it Aqua Erotica 2 (distributed by Andrews McMeel). The weird part is that this time they didn't insist on every story having a water theme, though, and instead went for a kind of nebulous theme about "crossing boundaries." I ended up writing an erotic homage to Clive Owen. Go figure. "Seduction" and "The Magician's Assistant" appeared in Best American Erotica 2005, edited by Susie Bright. They originally appeared in Five Minute Erotica, edited by Carol Queen (Running Press). BAE 2005 arrived in March 2005.
• "Halloween" and "Master Mind"--for N. T. Morley's MASTER/slave anthologies for the Venus Book Club. These came out in 2004/2005 through the Venus Book club, and then was re-released by Berkley as a trade paperback. It's two books in one! One which is all stories from the submissive women's point of view, and one which is all from the male dominant's point of view.

• "The Little Mermaid" appeared in the Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, in one of the volumes that didn't have a number so it's hard to describe which one. The story was also a selection of RandomHouse Audio for their web site Audible.com--you can hear it online! Buy the audio download here.

• "Bodies of Water" later appeared in The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, volume 4, edited by Maxim Jakubowski (Carroll & Graf).

• "Bodies of Water"--a fever-dream story I wrote after waking up from a nap in Century City, CA, after channel flipping between a DIscovery Channel show on deepsea archaeology and promos for Disney's Atlantis... appeared in Marilyn Jaye Lewis' Venus Big Book of Hot Women's Erotica in 2003 (bookclub ed. only) and then the book was reprinted as the Blue Moon Books edition Hot Women's Erotica.

  "Touch Pain," which was originally in Asimov's, was reprinted in the U.K. in Necrologue: The Diva Book of the Dead and the Undead, edited by Helen Sandler, Diva Books/MPG. Fall 2003.

  Two short-short pieces, "Seduction" and "The Magician's Assistant" appeared in Five Minute Erotica, edited by Carol Queen and published by Running Press. Book arrived in November 2003 or so.

• "Lip Service" -- a piece I wrote for the MOB chapbook "Edgewords" (which is available now as a book from @TheEdge publishers) is now in "Best S/M Erotica" edited by M. Christian, from Black Books. Came out toward the end of 2003.

• "Dragon's Daughter" is appearing on an audio-tape/CD of sf/fantasy short stories available from Nova Audio/SI Images. Christmas 2002. Was originally in Firebrand Books' "To Be Continued"

• "Thought So"--erotic story appeared in Best Women's Erotica 2003, edited by Marcy Sheiner, from Cleis Press. Book arrived December 2002.

• October 2002--"Rough, Trade" appeared in Venus Bookclub anthology "Sex Machine" edited by M. Christian. Was originally in M. Christian's "Eros Ex Machina."

• June 2002 -- "Rite of Spring" short story in Wet: More Aqua Erotica, from Crown Books -- another waterproof book and the sequel to Aqua Erotica. Just got my contributors copies at the end of the month.

• April 2002 -- "Crooked Kwan" reprinted in the anthology DESIRES, which was done in a very short run by AmirMira Press a few years ago, now being resurrected by the Venus Bookclub by editor Adrienne Hendricks.

• December 2001--"La Money Girl" is in the anthology Hot & Bothered 3, ed. Karen X. Tulchinsky, Arsenal Pulp Press. Just came in the mail today.

• December 2001--"Touch Pain" is in the Asimov's (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine) I just got in the mail. Yay! I think that means it will be on newsstands any day now, too.

• "Tune In"--an excerpt from The Book of Want, appeared at Nerve.com, along with an autobiographical essay about being the maven of erotic science fiction, "Double Fantasy." (Thanks, Scott!)

• "Baseball Fever" -- a story about a certain baseball player, for an anthology of erotica about famous people entitled "Starf*cker", edited by the fabulous Shar Rednour and published by Alyson Publications, arrived in Feb. 2001.

• "The Little Mermaid"--in Aqua Erotica, edited by Mary Anne Mohanraj, a very intriguing and neat-sounding anthology of erotic stories involving water... published by Crown in September 2000. The book is waterproof, too!

• "Penetration"-- appeared in the omnibus "Best of the Best of Best Lesian Erotica" (Cleis Press) and an Italian-language anthology in Italy, called "LATEX" from Mondadori, in summer 2000.

• Two sudden fictions, "La Money Girl" and "Tune In" excerpted from my novel-mosaic-in-progress (The Book of Want), were in the inaugural issue of literary arts journal BLUE FOOD. July 2000.

• "In Silver A" a futuristic cyberpunk story appeared in Absolute Magnitude magazine in April 2000. Hey, and although it has sex in it, it's not primarily erotica.

• "Bullseye" in "The Academy: Tales from the Marketplace" anthology, edited by Laura Antoniou (aka Sara Adamson) where each story takes place in the universe of The Marketplace, the BDSM underground world she created. Published in March 2000 by Mystic Rose Books.

• "The Hard Sell" -- a short erotic story about a women in the ad biz and her unique way of processing relationships, is now up on the Fatbrain.com EMATTER site. There are some great stories by M. Christian, Hanne Blank, and Thomas S. Roche there as well.

• "Always" -- a story that was originally in Herotica 6, now in Best Lesbian Erotica 2000, edited by Tristan Taormino and published by Cleis Press. Book came out in January 2000.

• "Now" -- a slightly experiemental, erotic science fiction story, in the anthology VISCERA, published by good smut web site Venus Or Vixen. Edited by Cara Bruce. The book appeared in January 2000.

• "Drumbeat/Esprit de Corps"--a lesbian marching band uniform fetish story, in On Our Backs magazine. Just got the issue in the mail in December 1999. It also came out in the anthology UNIFORM SEX ed. by Linnea Due (Alyson Publications) in Fall 2000.

• "The Darling"--a short story, appeared on/at the webzine gothic.net in September 99.

• "Ziggy Stardust" in STARPHKR, the way cool zine of celebrity lust edited by the fab Shar Rednour. Shar is also working on a book version for the zine with Alyson, and the story may appear there, too.

• "Lip Service"--a short story, in a chapbook/zine called EDGEWORDS, put together by the M.O.B. (all women's BDSM community group in New England, the Massachusetts Orgasmic Bitches). Appeared July 1999. A New trade paperback edition from "@ The Edge Publishing" appeared in Fall 2000. For more info email EdgeEditor@aol.com.

• The sequel to "Dragon's Daughter," which I entitled "Hall of Mirrors" but which appears just as called "Dragon's Daughter" will be in To Be Continued 2, edited by Karen X. Tulchinsky and Michele Karlsberg (Firebrand Books). Since all the stories in Volume 1 of TBC were cliffhangers, now they'll publish all the sequels! I got my copies of the book at the end of April 99 so you should be able to find it now. I've now got ideas in my head for additional stories featuring these characters...

• "Always" is in Herotica 6, edited by Marcy Sheiner. (Down There Press.) It's one of the only stories I've written about procreative sex... and polyamory, no less. Appeared about Feb. 99, I think.

• "Balancing Act," a fiction story, appeared in the Winter 1999 issue of Blithe House Quarterly, the online journal of gay/lesbian literature. Follow the link to get to their site.

• "Penetration" appeared in BEST AMERICAN EROTICA 1999, which showed up in bookstores in late January 1999. The story was previously in BEST LESBIAN EROTICA 1997.

• "Three of Cups" in BEST LESBIAN EROTICA 1999, selected by Chrystos, series edited by Tristan Taormino. Book arrived in the mail January 1999 and looks luscious.

• "Juno" in CROSSING THE BORDER, ed. by Lisa Tuttle for the Indigo/Gollancz imprint in the U.K. Subtitled "Tales of Erotic Ambiguity," each story has some kind of gender twist or bend in it. No word yet on whether the anthology with be published in the USA, but I'm just thrilled to be in a book with Neil Gaiman and Angela Carter.

• "Three of Cups" in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF NEW EROTICA, edited by Maxim Jakubowski, Carroll & Graf/Robinson publishers. This is the first story I wrote using Tarot cards to determine character and conflict. The book appeared in the UK first, and hit shelves in July 1998 in the US. Two page sample available...

• "Rough, Trade" in EROS EX MACHINA, mechanical erotica, edited by M. Christian, Masquerade Books. I just got the book in March 1998 and it looks nice. Two paragraph sample available...

• "Love's Year" in HOT & BOTHERED, lesbian erotic short short stories, edited by Karen X. Tulchinsky, published by Arsenal Pulp Press. The book appeared in February 1998 and we had a nice launch reading at OutWrite.

• "Penetration" in BEST LESBIAN EROTICA 1997, edited this year by Jewelle Gomez, series editor Tristan Taormino, published by Cleis Press. Two paragraph sample available...

• "Pearl Diver" in the story's third appearance in print, in BEST AMERICAN EROTICA 1996, edited by Susie Bright and published by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster.

• "Porn Flicks" in Herotica 4 edited by Marcy Sheiner and came out in 1996 from NAL/Plume. I've also sold the story "Dragon Cat Flower" to Herotica 5, and a Quality Paperback Books edition compacting Heroticas 1-3 into one volume just became available through QPB. (1996)

• "The Nightingale" in Once Upon A Time: Fairy Tales for Women, edited by Michael Ford, appeared in October 1996. (Masquerade Books) Two paragraph sample available... The story I wrote was given honorable mention in the 1996 "Year's Best Fantasy and Horror."

• "Rock Steady" mid-1996 in an anthology of erotic fiction with a rock and roll theme entitled Backstage Passes edited by Amelia G for Masquerade Books. Appeared 10/96. Two paragraph sample available...

• "Daydreaming" in Switch Hitters, edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel, Cleis Press. This anthology is unique: gay men writing lesbian smut and lesbians writing gay male smut. (and some sundry bisexuals like myself in the mix, writing about the opposite gender) Got my copy in the mail in 1996 and it's a strong collection.

• "Wonder Woman" in Porn Free "The Magazine Dedicated to Getting You Off For Nuthin'" It's a humorous story starring Wonder Woman and a satirical commentary on anti-s/m lesbians. Appeared in May 1996.

• "Crooked Kwan" March 1996 in an anthology of noir-ish erotic fiction entitled Noirotica edited by Thomas S. Roche for Masquerade Books. Two paragraph sample available...

• "The Velderet: Part Two" chapter 2 of a cybersex novel being serialized in Taste of Latex. Issue #11 just arrived the first week of July 1995 with Chapter 2 in it. #12 will have part 3, etc. This got up through chapter 6 before the magazine went on hiatus. Circlet published the entire book, all 12 chapters, in summer 2001.

• "The Tale of Christina" October '95 in Dark Angels an anthology of lesbian vampire fiction edited by Pam Keesey for Cleis Press.

• "Pearl Diver" Summer '95 in On A Bed Of Rice: An Asian American Erotic Feast an anthology edited by Geraldine Kudaka for Anchor Books. The story also appeared in Ms. Magzine's "sex" issue in Nov/Dec 1995, and will be included in Best American Erotica 1996 edited by Susie Bright.

• "The Velderet" part 1 of a cybersex novel in the now defunct Taste of Latex magazine, Issue #10. (Taste of Latex issues 10 through 15 (?) were published by DM International, publishers of Bitches with Whips and Kinky People, Places and Things.) But they decided to stop publication and try to sell the magazine after several issues. As such, only half of the twelve chapters of The Velderet ever saw print. Circlet Press published The Velderet as a book in June 2001.

• "Whipmaster" in Looking for Mr. Preston a hardcover anthology in tribute to John Preston edited by Laura Antoniou for Masquerade Books. 1995.

• "Heart's Desire" in By Her Subdued an anthology of erotic fiction about dominant women edited by Laura Antoniou for Masquerade Books. 1995?

• "The Game" in No Other Tribute an anthology of erotic fiction about submissive women edited by Laura Antoniou for Masquerade Books. 1995?

• "A True Story" in Herotica 3 an anthology of women's erotic fiction edited by Susie Bright for Plume Books.

• "Jean-Michel and Juno" in the now moribund Paramour magazine vol 2 #1. Here's a two paragraph sample.

• "Career Track" in Penthouse magazine July 1994 issue. Here's a two paragraph sample.

• "The First Whip" in SandMUtopia Guardian magazine issue 17. Editor Pat Califia published it as fiction, but it's more of an essay on my true life experience of getting whipped for the first time.

• "Summoning" in SexMagick an anthology of erotic science fiction from Circlet Press.

• "Pitchers and Catchers Report"--a literary short story about a catcher in the Red Sox minor league system in the 1990s and the unique experience he gains at his first Spring Training. The protagonist is Kirby Wilcox, who later (in his life) appears in my as-yet-unpublished novel "Bambino Road." Story appeared in "Further Fenway Fiction," edited by Adam Pachter and published by Rounder Books.

  "Lexicon," a literary short-short I wrote in grad school, appeared in Other Magazine, Issue #3. "The magazine for people who defy categories." January 2003.

• "In Silver A" was in the Mammoth Bookof Future Cops, edited by M. Christian and Maxim Jakubowski, Fall 2003. It originally appeared in Asimov's.

• "Eyes Open And Closed"--a short story, in the newsletter/zine of Borderlands Books in San Francisco, "Dispatches from the Border." This very cool sf/f/h bookstore is worth a visit if you are in the city by the bay. The story also appeared in January 2001 in the sf/f web magazine "Strange Horizons" under another title "With Eyes Open." (We changed it because of the Kubrick movie.) Later, it appeared in the Lethe Press anthology of the Best of Strange Horizons Year One.

• "Dragon's Daughter" in To Be Continued, an anthology of lesbian fiction edited by Karen X. Tulchinsky and Michele Karlsberg, forthcoming from Firebrand Books. The stories in the book all end in cliff-hangers of some sort! The story is sexy but understated, with no graphic sex, which is, I know, different for me. Hit shelves in October 1998. Two paragraph sample available...

• "Larceny" a literary short-short appeared in Queer View Mirror, an anthology of gay and lesbian short-shorts edited by James Johnstone and Karen X. Tulchinsky... launched in February 1996 at OutWrite. From Arsenal Pulp Press of Canada.

These being mostly about sex, writing, or myself, or all three...

(FYI, Some of my older political essays are available to read on line if you visit my Rants Page. )

• Couple of autobiographical sexuality and erotica essays came out in late 2001/early 2002, in That Takes Ovaries! (Ed. Rivka Solomon, Three Rivers Press), and The Burning Pen (Ed. M. Christian, Alyson Publications)... You can read my essay in The Burning Pen on the site of The Erotic Authors Association.

• August 2001 -- I wrote the "Writers Bite Back" column for the San Francisco Bay Guardian ranting about how you can fight the right and censorship, but you can't really fight the indifference of the corporate bookselling chains (Boredoms and Barnes Ignoble)--which may have the same result for fringe writers like me.

• "On The Altar" -- an essay about my alternative sexual lifestyle(s) appears in Sex & Single Girls, edited by Lee Damsky (Seal Press). November 2000.

• "Picture This"--an autobiographical "coming out" essay, in A Woman Like That (Avon Books), edited by Joan Larkin, which is the women's companion book to Patrick Merla's BOYS LIKE US, which was all the coming out stories of prominent gay male writers. Mine tracks the parallels between my coming out as bisexual and coming out as an erotica writer. Appeared October 99.

• Several essays appeared in 1999 in Sandmutopian Guardian magazine, on S/M & Spirituality, on Self-Preservation and Accountability for Bottoms and Subs, and on the Difference Between Service, Submission, and Slavery.

• "Vampire Chic" an essay in issue #7 (Sept 1998) of Blue Blood magazine. Blue Blood used to be in glossy print, but nowadays is only online. The web site is at www.blueblood.net//

• "Chicken Rice Stew" a recipe in the benefit cookbook FOOD FOR LIFE, edited by Lawrence Schimel, published by Cleis Press. This is one of the most amusing, funnest cookbooks I've ever seen, with anecdotes and photos of various gay and lesbian celebrities and writers (Tony Kushner, Martina Navratilova, Pat Califia, etc...) Proceeds from the book got to organizations providing food to people with AIDS. I think I'll be giving a lot of copies of it for the holidays.

• "Why Smut Is Important to My Liberation (And Yours)" in SOJOURNER Women's Forum, an essay on why writing about sex and sexuality and expressing eroticism through words is central to the tenets of feminism, not against them. November 1996, Vol. 22, #3. Read the complete essay on-line here

• "Self-Tattoo How-To" in Blue Blood #6, appeared late summer 1996. This is actually a how-to I wrote on doing your own jailhouse tattoo, with photos of me tattooing myself on a special occasion. In a future issue of Blue Blood there is an erotic photospread of me and corwin doing our thing, too.

• "First" in Virgin Territory 2 edited by Shar Rednour. The second anthology of women's sexual "firsts" of various kinds from their real lives. Mine is about the first really vivid fantasies I used to have about the first girl I had a tremendous crush on. It's not fictional, but it is erotica. Came out in February 1997.

• "A Ronin's Journal" excerpt in The Servants Quarters zine Issue #3. The Servants Quarters is a zine dedicated to the fine art of submission and is produced by and for submissives. For more info, write to favea@aol.com.

• "Bi Sex" essay in Black Sheets magazine Issue #7, special issue on bisexuality. Black Sheets is the hip and irreverent sex magazine put out by the same folks who compile and publish The Black Book annual "yellow pages" style directory of leather/SM goods and services. For more info, write to bb@blackbooks.com. You can read the text of the essay online.

• "The Bi Switch Revolution" Summer '95 an essay in Bisexual Politics a collection of essays edited by Naomi Tucker for The Haworth Press. You can read the text of the essay on-line.

• "Open Letter From a Masochist to a Feminist" an essay in Some Women, an anthology of essays by women into SM edited by Laura Antoniou from Masquerade Books. You can read the text of this essay here.

• "Bisexuality and Polyamory" an essay in BiWomen the news letter of BBWN (Boston Bisexual Women's Network).

These are, of course, those published in places other than (or in addition to) my online baseball periodical, "Why I Like Baseball".

• Starting in 2006, I began covering the Yankees beat for Gotham Baseball magazine. I write feature stories, columns for the online site, and the like. In 2007 I wrote a weekly team report, stuff like that.

• "The Duel"--my piece on the Pedro/Clemens face off in 2000 on Memorial Day Weekend appeared in Harvey Frommer's book on the Yankees/Red Sox rivalry, "Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry" (Sports Publishing).

• "Why I Never Played Ball"--essay appeared in the Dec. 21st 2002 issue of Slow Trains, the online literary journal. It's the second baseball piece they have taken.

• September 2002--"Fan At Work" baseball essay appeared in "Slow Trains" The title is a take-off on George Will's "Men At Work."

• Article on the career of utility infielder Luis Sojo in Yankees Magazine appeared in May 2002. That's "Yankees," as in the baseball team's official magazine, not "Yankee" which is some quaint New England publication.

• April 2002-- I have two articles in Yankees Magazine, one on 1962 World Series hero Ralph Terry, and one on spring training instructors.