And thanks SonomaLass. While I’ve been dropping hints about how an ebook reader might be a good birthday present for me this year, I still love print, and for presents there’s nothing like it.

I too appreciate the review. I tried an anthology not that long ago of lesbian erotica and it was beyond painful – I think I maybe got a third of the way through it, and that was on the thought that it had to eventually get better. (It didn’t).

Ouch. And the main reason why I’m so leery of anthologies. But I don’t recall any misused foreign words in this one.

As an author, I was honoured to be part of it and to work with all the talent they’d amassed there. As a reader, I’m like you, sometimes ambivalent toward anthologies. But this one was a treat, all the way through. I found new authors, and new genres too, things I wouldn’t usually have read. That’s the *good* side to anthologies, I think. :)

Note to people wanting to throw in foreign words in your story – one, spell them right (one story had a Latina girl and a guy called her grandmother “abuella”). Two, make sure you picked the right word (previous mentioned story had the grandmother tell the guy to get all his sons together, when really it should have been brothers or homeboys or something different). Three, don’t do a cheesy misunderstanding, but if you are, at least make sure that you have the pronounciation right so it could be a misunderstanding (black belt instructor yells at the woman “Yame!” in Japanese and the woman yells back “I don’t eat sweet potatoes!” Beyond that being horribly corny, in Japanese the vowels are pronounced, so it wouldn’t sound like yam, it would be yah-may. Actually, it took me a second to get it because I was reading it correctly so I didn’t get why the hell the woman was bringing up sweet potatoes in an argument.)

Ugh. And that was only a small part of what was so bad about the anthology.

Anyway, so I wasn’t sure if it was an anthology thing or a not as high of standards for LGBT thing, so I would have stayed far away from this book. But now I’ll give it a look. :)

I have to say, and with the utmost sincerity, that this particular branch of romance/erotic romance represents some of the most talented writers I’ve come across. And that ain’t no blow.

I was impressed with all the entries. Some are fairly long. Others are very short – and, to me, writing short stories is truly an art. Some are hawt and some have no sex in them at all. But even though I believe they were all specially written for this anthology, I didn’t feel preached at.

I have to say, and with the utmost sincerity, that this particular branch of romance/erotic romance represents some of the most talented writers I’ve come across. And that ain’t no blow.

Thanks for the heads up!

Thanks, Jayne — I’m usually wary of anthologies for the same reason, and it is great to know that you found this collection strong overall.

All profits from this anthology will go to the Lambda Legal Fund,
http://www.lambdalegal.org/, to help them fight the cause of marriage
equality in the CA Supreme Court and beyond.

Edited to add that I should probably mention that it’s also available in print from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Thanks again!