Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Call for Submissions: Best Lesbian Erotica Volume 7

Shared with permission from the editor, here you'll find the call for submissions for the anthology Best Lesbian Erotica Volume 7:

Editor: Sinclair Sexsmith
Publisher: Cleis Press
Deadline: October 31, 2021
Payment: $50 and 1 copy of the book within 90 days of publication
Rights: non-exclusive right to publish the story in this anthology in print, ebook, and audiobook form. Authors will retain copyright to their stories.

Stories should be between 2000-4000 words.

Please submit your work through this Google form: https://forms.gle/rKpFPU1tE4URMdMUA

DETAILS:

Sinclair Sexsmith is editing the next volume of Best Lesbian Erotica, and is looking for your best sexy stories about queer women.

“Queer women” is intended to be in the broadest sense of the word, including, but not limited to: trans women, women of all kinds of gender expressions, cis women, and nonbinary folks who are rooted in lesbian and queer culture are all welcome. Neopronouns can be used.

Representations of queer women, non-binary people, and trans women’s sexuality that are not as frequently seen — with ability, race, ethnicity, class, neurodiversity, ace-spectrum, size/fat, age, religion, or other social justice politic viewpoint — are particularly of interest.

Writers who have not previously published are encouraged.
Writers of color are encouraged.
Trans women writers are encouraged.

The anthology is not limited to certain kinds of sex acts. “Vanilla,” BDSM, fetish, ace, and all kinds of sensual and sexual expression are welcome. I look for a wide variety of sexual identities: mommy, mistress, sir, puppy, girl, servant, etc.

I will consider reprints of stories published in 2021, but prefer unpublished stories. No simultaneous submissions. Up to two submissions per author. No poetry or speculative fiction. Stories should be between 2000-4000 words.

Submissions in English required; American English not required, but we will edit it to be in American English for final publication. If there are cultural specifics, we’ll work on how to translate them into American English during the editing process.

Characters must be a minimum of 18. All stories have to be within legal guidelines [consult Sinclair's site https://sugarbutch.net/2021/08/cfs-ble7/ for details.] 

Queries are welcome; contact sinclair@sugarbutch.net.

FORMATTING:

Submit your story in a Word document or .doc file (you can export to .doc from Pages, Google Docs, and other word processing programs).

Name your file “Full Name – Story Title – BLE7.doc”, where “full name” is the name you wish to be published under.

Please use standard book publishing formatting:
— single space after the end of a sentence
– legible, standard font (times, arial) in a typical size (12ish)
– no underlines or bold, use italics for emphasis
– indents at the beginning of paragraphs and double space after paragraphs

Please submit your work through this Google form: https://forms.gle/rKpFPU1tE4URMdMUA

If it does not work to submit your story via this form, please contact Sinclair directly at sinclair@sugarbutch.net with the subject line “Best Lesbian Erotica submission” and include your story as an attachment in .doc, .docx or .rtf format (not a PDF). Include the story title, your legal name, pseudonym (if applicable), 150-word bio, previous publication information for the story, and mailing address. Submissions that do not have all of this information included will be considered incomplete and will not be considered.

Friday, October 22, 2021

Mindfulness Music for a New Age


I'm presenting you with another album I recorded. This one was released last year, but I chose to put it out under a made-up keyword-y name in hopes that people would stumble upon it. That didn't happen. At all! So I updated the metadata and Mindfulness Music for a New Age is now a Giselle Renarde production.

Be on the look-out (listen-out?) for my featured guest: the air conditioner I spent way too much money on that doesn't even work very well.  It was so loud that I chose to make a recording of it, distort that recording, and then loop it on a couple tracks.  It doesn't sound much like an air conditioner on this album--more like Hypnotoad from Futurama.

Listen Now: https://open.spotify.com/album/4uNztoB8tdezxOc6EY4XVZ

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Heaven's Diary: A Succubus Story from The Lesbian Diaries Series


Heaven’s Diary
A Succubus Story
Series: The Lesbian Diaries
Book: 9
Word Count: 48,000



What will Heaven do when her dream house turns into a nightmare?

As a young trans woman working in a soup kitchen, Heaven never imagined she'd be able to buy her own home. With the help of her girlfriend and best friend, she's finally able to achieve this goal. But from the moment Heaven, Terra and Elle move in, strange things happen in the house.

Why is Heaven the only one seeing ghosts and sensing a sexual presence in her bed? Terra and Elle tell her she's hallucinating, but is that really true? Is Heaven imagining the haunting or is a succubus stealing her soul?

Read the chilling tale in Heaven's Diary, lesbian fiction from award-winning queer Canadian author Giselle Renarde.

Buy Now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09H8R58L8?tag=dondes-20
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=5d5FEAAAQBAJ
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1107098?ref=GiselleRenardeErotica

Apple: https://books.apple.com/ca/book/heavens-diary-a-succubus-story/id1588667050
BN: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/heavens-diary-giselle-renarde/1140275910
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/heaven-s-diary-a-succubus-story

Universal Book Link: https://books2read.com/u/3GwJJK