Violet Blue is a six-time Independent Publisher Book Award winning investigative journalist on cybersecurity, privacy and digital rights, having bylined for outlets including O The Oprah Magazine, Engadget, Financial Times, CNN, CBS News, San Francisco Chronicle, Popular Science, Yahoo News, and many others. Guardian UK called Ms. Blue, "One of the leading figures in tech writing in the world." She is a member of the Internet Press Guild and Advisor to online legal privacy resource Without My Consent.

Her new book A Fish Has No Word For Water just won 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards GOLD and has been selected as National Indie Book Awards 2023 Finalist. KIRKUS calls it “Gripping.” BookLife/Publisher's Weekly describes it as a “Superb memoir” with "Sharp dialogue, incisive observations, and polished prose."

Ms. Blue's most notable book appearance was on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Her books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian.

Let the celebration begin! Amorous Woman is now available as an ebook, with a gorgeous cover (if you're interested in having this beautiful book to caress, contact my publisher about POD). This novel is my personal favorite of all my work (to date), and the most demanding and rewarding to write. If you like the free sample, dive in and take your own trip to a fascinating, exotic and erotic land. I'm also very excited to announce that a collection of six of my best short stories, "The Mammoth Book of Erotica Presents the Best of Donna George Storey: Picture Perfect" is now available on Kindle. Exhibitionism, cross-dressing, phone sex, Japanese erotic prints, there's lots to please everyone. All of the stories appeared in the Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica series.

And now, for my official bio:

I've always wanted to write fiction, but didn't have the time or the courage until my oldest son was born and I decided to leave my job teaching Japanese literature to be a full-time parent in 1997. From the start, I was drawn to erotic themes and although I resisted at first--erotica seemed too scandalous for a shy bookworm like me--I soon realized I had to write what I loved.

Fortunately, over the years the love has translated into over 150 publications in various venues, from literary magazines like Prairie Schooner and The Gettysburg Review to best-of erotica anthologies like Best American Erotica and The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica.

I'm a Princeton graduate with a Ph.D. in Japanese literature, which I mention not to impress--who really cares?--but to suggest how far I've wandered from the path of propriety. But I like to think my new aspirations are as lofty. I truly believe we need more writers willing to acknowledge that the sexual urge and the erotic imagination are as worthy of a complex literary treatment as anger, jealousy, ambition or love in its PG-rated form. That's what I try to do in my work, one story at a time.

My other interests include delicious food, hearty wine, reading about history and cultural studies, and long walks at dawn. My author photographs were taken by the wonderfully talented Laura Boyd (www.ownyoursexy.com) who can capture the inner beauty in everyone, especially if you're wearing a gorgeous custom-made corset. Thanks for stopping by.

Would you like to read I.G. Frederick's work? Visit http://eroticawriter.net/ and http://transgressivewriter.com/ to find where you can buy everything she has available. All books have been removed from Amazon, because it refuses to pay royalties. If you buy one of her books via Amazon, please be aware that she will not receive a penny for her work.

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I.G. Frederick trades words for cash, specializing in erotic fiction and poetry since 2001. Her erotic short stories appear in Hustler Fantasies, Forum, Foreplay, and Desire Presents, as well as electronic, audio, and print anthologies. Her novels receive high praise from readers, critics, and other authors.

A FemDom, Ms. Frederick owns the man she adores. Although dominant in the rest of his life, he demonstrates his love by serving as her submissive. Ms. Frederick writes about finding love in BDSM relationships from the authority of one enjoying that for almost a decade.

Read reviews of her work and find links to purchase her novels, poetry book, and individual short stories on her websites: http://eroticawriter.net/ and http://transgressivewriter.com/ (If you live in countries, such as the UK, that block http://eroticawriter.net, the site is mirrored at http://frederickbooks.com)

Emerald is an erotic fiction author interested in elevating discussion of and attention to authentic sexual experience. Her short fiction has been featured in more than thirty multi-author anthologies in the genre, and her latest book, Initiative: Tales of Erotic Boldness, was the winner in the Romance: Erotica category of the 2021 American Fiction Awards and the gold medalist for Erotica the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards. The author of three short story collections, she has also penned dozens of blog posts at her website, TheGreenLightDistrict.org, on topics ranging from sexuality and self-awareness to politics, sex work, and reproductive justice. The majority of her wardrobe incorporates glitter in some capacity.

Jan Darby is a lawyer and a storyteller, writing legal documents by day and erotic romps by night. Her stories have appeared in Cleis Press anthologies, at LiquidSilver.com, and the now-defunct Ruthie's Club website.

D. L. King lives somewhere between the Wonder Wheel at Coney Island and the Chrysler Building and spends an inordinate amount of time reading and writing smut in her apartment and postage stamp sized garden. She is a Lambda Literary Award winner (The Harder She Comes: Butch/Femme Erotica), three-time IPPY gold medalist (Unspeakably Erotic: Lesbian Kink, Carnal Machines: Steampunk Erotica and The Harder She Comes), three-time IPPY silver medalist (Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year: Volume 1, Under Her Thumb: Erotic Stories of Female Domination and The Big Book of Domination) and two-time Lambda finalist (Unspeakably Erotic: Lesbian Kink and Where the Girls Are: Urban Lesbian Erotica). Her short stories have also garnered awards, including the NLA-International John Preston Short Fiction Award. D. L. King is the editor of fifteen anthologies.

The author of over a hundred completely filthy short stories, her work can be found in various editions of Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Women's Erotica, Best Bondage Erotica, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica as well as anthologies such as Begging for It, Yes, Ma'am, Please, Ma'am, Luscious, Sweet Love, Fast Girls, Sex in the City: New York and Gotta Have It, among many others. She is the author of Her Wish is Your Command, a collection of stories of female domination and male submission and two novels of the same genre, The Melinoe Project and The Art of Melinoe as well as a few femdom and lesbian novellas.

Find out more about her at dlkingerotica.com and dlkingerotica.blogspot.com.

Abby is an erotica author living in the UK. She's the adventurous kind: don't come looking to her for tales of chaste romances. Her stories tend towards spare, first person narratives and are often less-than-vanilla, but she'll try anything once.

STOP PRESS! 'Stretched: Erotic Fiction that Fondles the Imagination' wins bronze at the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Congratulations to Editor Tinder James and all my fellow writers.