Connie Wilkins

Fifteen writers share their take on the phenomenon of Cowboys — a calling, a vocation, and a status that has nothing to do with gender. Whether in the old west or the Australian outback, New England or the Great Plains, these girls and their horses work hard, play hard, and love hard. Contributors Radclyffe and Jove Bell depict the rough and tumble world of female rodeo riders, while Cheyenne Blue explores cattle ranching and the new environmentalism, and Delilah Devlin writes about a “Hired Hand” who may be a woman, but is more than a match for any man. Sexy, steamy, and crackling with the energy of a wild filly, these stories represent the cutting edge of lesbian cowboy fiction.

Cleis Press' most lauded editor, Sacchi Green assumes the helm of one the most-heralded and best-selling series, Best Lesbian Erotica. This match made in book publishing heaven is also a fan fave whose readers range from 18 to 80 and who can't get enough of the Lambda Award-winning Sacchi Green's scorching hot stories of lesbian sex. From lust-at-first sight quickies to long-time companions, this voracious volume is the stuff of every woman's fantasy. With secret desires, coming-out, and coming-of-age stories and deeper explorations of what Green describes as "the fiercer shores of sex," Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 1 aims to please and leave you satisfied.

There are the fabled urban myths of lesbians who fill up a U-Haul on the second date and lead sweetly romantic lives of cocoa and comfy slippers. Safe and sound. A lot of cozy and not much crazy. These are NOT those stories- these are wild women with dirty minds, untamed tongues, and even the occasional cuff or clamp. A lotta crazy and no cozy slippers to be seen. These Wild Girls tell stories of their own Wild Nights (and days), memories too hot to keep undercover. Real women with real needs and overwhelming desires find the courage to reveal intimate, unrestrained details of their sex lives, the need to share their stories second only to the urgent impulses that drove the action in the first place. There are first times, life-long commitments, and fleeting encounters to savor for a lifetime. Tenderness merges with edge-play; scenes shift from Caribbean islands to desert battlefields to the ultimate privacy of home; and the writers range from well-known names to newcomers driven to share fresh memories they ll never forget. In Evan Mora's The Insatiable Travel Itch, repression in public drives her wild. Transported, transplanted, we are transgressors. And it makes me fucking wet. Angel Propps struggles to face her deepest desires. The word Daddy had a familiar shape on my tongue, but not in my head, and for one second I was sure I was going to Helland then I came. She'd found, of course, The Daddy I Didn t Know I Needed. Anna Watson, in Tamago, gives a poignant and sizzling view of being a lesbian femme who loves butches. I know being femme is what makes the breath blow out of me when she calls and says, Babe, I just wanted you to know that I was driving along here, thinking about your breasts. Reality doesn t have to be prosaic. Real sex can be wet, messy, frenzied, sometimes even awkward, but never boring. With these writers and seventeen more, Wild Girls, Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories is the proof of that. Read less

Verdant virgins and lush lotharios await readers in this anthology of strange yet sensual stories about men and vegetation. Fantastical fronds cannot resist caressing warm flesh. Sylvan creatures of myth protecting the forest; botanical laboratory experiments run amok; a veteran of the Mexican-American war finds himself entranced by an aesthete's poisonous garden; and an alien paying our planet a visit to sample the greenery.... These fourteen stories promise readers a most tantalizing bedding in this Lambda Literary Award-winning erotica collection!

viii, 211 pages ; 21 cm

What is it about lesbian cops that push all the right buttons? Sure, there's the uniform with handcuffs, gun, and billy club, and the confidence, authority, and sense of danger. But there's something more that gives these uncompromising women their commanding, overwhelming sexuality. The top-flight fiction writers tapped by Lambda Award winning editor Sacchi Green in Women with Handcuffs capture that irresistible force and channel it into fiercely erotic stories. Delilah Devlin's cops play their "Only Game in Town" in a Southern city that's small without being small-minded. Elizabeth Coldwell's handcuffed stripper in "Torn Off a Strip" meets her match, while Lynn Mixon's witness protection marshal finds (and gives) a "Healing Hand." If you like your policewomen on the case and under the sheets, the hotly subversive stories in Women with Handcuffs are for you.

For all those new graduates with a little time on their hands, here's a chance to attend a prom that is beyond your wildest dreams! From an elf who can only stay in the mortal realm if he can get a date for the prom...to a young man who finds out that forbidden acts sometimes depend on your perspective...to a girl who gives a whole new slant to the legend of "Pygmalion", here are 22 evenings to remember -- and be thankful that none of these people were in your class! Edited by Nancy Springer, with contributions by many authors.