EIGHT YEARS IN THE MAKING

The literary anthology the bi community deserves!

Circlet Press is proud to announce a new Kickstarter campaign for the book “Best Bi Short Stories: An Anthology of Bisexual Literary Fiction”.  Compiled and edited by bisexual visibility activist and writer Sheela Lambert, “Best Bi Short Stories” is a 23-author anthology of bisexual fiction, including contributions from Katherine V. Forrest, Ann Herendeen, Jane Rule, James Williams, and Jan Steckel. Find the tale behind the book — and why the effort has culminated in a Kickstarter campaign — here, with details of what you’ll get for supporting their efforts to both publish and pay the authors a reasonable wage for their work.

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Like a Trip Through the Mirror: Lesbian Love in Alternate Realities
edited by Kathleen Tudor
$4.99 ebook • ISBN 978-1-61390-101-4
68 pages, 22,000 words

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Five lesbian erotic love stories of magic and mystery. What will you find on the other side of the mirror? Love? Passion? A world upside down? Step up to the mirror, look deep into your own eyes (or those of your secret, mirror-world lover) and prepare to have your worldview completely shifted. The grass really is greener on the other side—and the sex is hotter, too.

For as long as humans have known to look for their own reflections, they have pondered the magical question: What would you find if you step past your own reflection and into the mirror world? In these five stories, the answer is passion and fire. Five women step up to the mirror and come out the other side in the midst of their hottest erotic fantasies, whether that involves reviving the dying embers of a love affair, seducing a beloved old friend… or perhaps just finding out for sure what some women have long suspected: that sex really is better with yourself for a partner! These heroines take risks, brave it all, and step into the unknown, between dimensions, between worlds, to lay claim to the love and heat that they both deserve and crave.

Includes:
The Universe Where Katie Lived by Annabeth Leong

So Quite New a Thing by R. Ann Sawyer

Reflections by Kate Dominic

Into Tipera by Kathleen Tudor

Game Fae by Vivien Jackson

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Helen Bell laid sheets of wax paper out on her kitchen table, weighing down the corners with small lumps of crystal. She got her dictionary down from where she kept it on top of the refrigerator and rested it on the seat of one of her kitchen chairs. The dictionary had swelled to about twice its original size, full of inserted paper towels and flowers pressed between.

She sighed. She wouldn’t normally be working on a Saturday afternoon, but sales of her custom soaps had been way down this month since supply problems for her leather scent had forced her to discontinue “Bad Girl Comes Clean,” her best-selling line. She needed to come up with a replacement that her customers would like just as much.

Helen opened the dictionary to “M,” where she kept purples. The secret of the “Bad Girl” soaps had been the mix of violets with leather. Violets smell like heaven, but they flood and desensitize nasal receptors, meaning a person will perceive the smell as cutting in and out. The effect on “Bad Girl” soaps had been a changing aroma, sometimes naughtier and sometimes nicer.

She found two stained paper towels nestled between “meadow” and “mea culpa.” Separating them with a delicate first finger, she revealed a thick mass of pressed violets, their colors ranging from a deepness that was nearly blue to lighter, pinker blooms. She traced a brittle petal and considered. What could she do with violets that would be new?

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The Stars Change
by Mary Anne Mohanraj
With illustrations by Jack Kotz
$6.99 ebook
$12.00 paperback
ISBN 978-1-61390-085-7 (ebook)/ISBN 978-1-61390-084-0
Pages: 164
Word Count: 40,543

*** A LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST IN LGBT SCIENCE FICTION ***

On the brink of interstellar war, life (and sex) continues. Humans, aliens, and modified humans gather at the University of All Worlds in search of knowledge… and self-knowledge… but the first bomb has fallen and the fate of this multicultural, multispecies mecca is in question. A thought-provoking work on sexuality and the connections between people–whether male or female, human or alien–The Stars Change is part space opera, part literary mosaic of story, poem, and art.

See below for more information and to read the first chapter of the book!

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Things Invisible to See: Lesbian and Gay Tales of Magic Realism
edited by Lawrence Schimel
ISBN: 978-1-61390-083-3
Word Count: 61,000
List Price: $6.99

Circlet Press digital titles are also available at the Amazon Kindle Store, B&N.com, Smashwords, Kobo, Apple’s iBookstore, Scribd, and many independent booksellers via Google ebooks, as well as specialty ebookstores like All Romance eBooks and Rainbow eBooks, to name just a few! (Please let us know if your favorite source for digital books does not carry this title and you want them to.)

This Circlet title from 1998, part of the Ultra Violet Library imprint for queer fantasy and science fiction, is now available in digital format for the first time.Top contemporary authors bring us these stories of the realms of spirit that underlie the mundane world. Comic situations, such as a lesbian who wakes up one morning to find that she has a penis or a gay man who finds an angel tangled in his laundry line, alternate with poignant tales of loss and love. These stories are about looking for–or inadvertently finding–something more than life as we know it.

This book contains stories by Lawrence Schimel, Laura Antoniou, Michelle Sagara West, Leslea Newman, Nancy Springer, Martha Soukup, Sarah Schulman, Rand B. Lee, Kerry Bashford, and Brian Thomsen.

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Things Invisible to See: Lesbian and Gay Tales of Magic Realism
edited by Lawrence Schimel
ISBN: 978-1-61390-072-7
Word Count: 61,000
List Price: $6.99

Circlet Press digital titles are also available at the Amazon Kindle Store, B&N.com, Smashwords, Kobo, Apple’s iBookstore, Scribd, and many independent booksellers via Google ebooks, as well as specialty ebookstores like All Romance eBooks and Rainbow eBooks, to name just a few! (Please let us know if your favorite source for digital books does not carry this title and you want them to.)

This Circlet title from 1998, part of the Ultra Violet Library imprint for queer fantasy and science fiction, is now available in digital format for the first time.Top contemporary authors bring us these stories of the realms of spirit that underlie the mundane world. Comic situations, such as a lesbian who wakes up one morning to find that she has a penis or a gay man who finds an angel tangled in his laundry line, alternate with poignant tales of loss and love. These stories are about looking for–or inadvertently finding–something more than life as we know it.

This book contains stories by Lawrence Schimel, Laura Antoniou, Michelle Sagara West, Leslea Newman, Nancy Springer, Martha Soukup, Sarah Schulman, Rand B. Lee, Kerry Bashford, and Brian Thomsen.

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Stocking Stuffers
edited by David Laurents
$5.99, 40,900 words
ISBN 978-1-61390-067-3

Dyke the Halls
edited by Linda Alvarez
$5.99, 36,000 words
ISBN 978-1-61390-068-0

Circlet Press digital titles are also available at the Amazon Kindle Store, B&N.com, Smashwords, Kobo, Apple’s iBookstore, and many independent booksellers via Google ebooks, as well as specialty ebookstores like All Romance eBooks, and Weightless Ebooks, to name just a few! (Please let us know if your favorite source for digital books does not carry this title and you want them to.)

About the Book:

Ten years after their original publication, these two Circlet classics are finally available in digital form–just in time for the holidays!

Who can resist a smorgasbord of delicious holiday treats? Stocking Stuffers is the first ever anthology of gay erotic Christmas stories, filled with hot stories sure to heat up the coldest of winter nights. Meanwhile, Dyke the Halls is full of sexy stories for women both naughty and nice–much better than any mistletoe.

Stocking Stuffers contains stories by Tom Caffrey, M. Christian, Jameson Currier, Lars Eighner, Christopher Marconni, Felice Picano, Matthew Rettenmund, Leigh Rutledge, Lawrence Schimel, and Simon Sheppard. Dyke the Halls contains stories by Susan St. Aubin, Kate Dominic, Lori Selke, Sage Vivant, Andrea Dale, Anya Levin, M. Christian, Shari J. Berman, Karin Kallmaker, Clio Knight, and Zonna.

Both books are on sale for $4.99 until January 1st, 2013!

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One Saved to the Sea
by Catt Kingsgrave
ISBN: 978-1-61390-056-7
Word Count: 29,000
List Price: $3.99

Circlet Press digital titles are also available at the Amazon Kindle Store, B&N.com, Smashwords, Kobo, Apple’s iBookstore, and many independent booksellers via Google ebooks, as well as specialty ebookstores like All Romance eBooks, and Weightless Ebooks, to name just a few! (Please let us know if your favorite source for digital books does not carry this title and you want them to.)

About the Book:

In the Orkney Islands, mothers tell their children of the selkies, seals who can shed their skins and dance on land. They also tell that whoever holds a selkie girl’s skin can trap her for a wife. From the lighthouse where she was raised, Mairead has watched the selkie girls secretly since she was small. She longs to leave the home that has never really been hers and join them. She could never have guessed that a limping selkie girl has been watching her too, nor what wildness the shapeshifter would draw her into. Their paths collide when most of the men including Mairead’s brothers have been called to war, the village idiot decides to catch himself a wife, and Mairead is the only one who can stop him.

Drawing on myth and history, Catt Kingsgrave writes a tale of the clash of the modern age with magic, of loss and searching, a tale that will sweep you away to a past that never was, and into a sapphic love story just this side of impossible.

About the Author:

Catt Kingsgrave has been writing fiction and verse since the early eighties, and despite everything, has not yet seen fit to desist. With works ranging from Urban and Mythic Fantasy through Horror, Erotica, and a decided taste for the Gothic and macabre, she takes delight in making all her works as difficult to classify as humanly possible.  She lives with her partner, five cats, and two snakes in an upstate New York home that was built a century or so before the state in which she was born was made a part of the Union. When not writing, she has been known to indulge in random bouts of theater, songwriting, dance, painting, home repair, volunteer rape crisis counseling, and folk music. Her interests are zombie outbreak preparedness, criminal profiling, gardening, and full-contact applied mythology. She does not make jam.

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Today our feature interview and “free reads” short story here on Circlet.com is from Beth Wylde, the author of “Women Gone Wylde” and numerous other erotic works. After the interview, keep reading a steamy lesbian science fiction encounter, “Tiger by the Tail.”

In person, Beth is a bubbly powerhouse of energy. Her writing reveals a powerfully erotic imagination. Her official bio reads: “Erotica author/editor Beth Wylde writes what she likes to read; which includes a little bit of everything under the rainbow and beyond. Her stories span the spectrum in both genre and pairing. Her muse is a well-rounded smut bunny that believes everyone, no matter their kink, color, gender, or orientation is entitled to love, acceptance and scalding HOT SEX!” Does she sound like my kind of gal, or what?

Cecilia Tan: So, Beth Wylde, welcome to Circlet.com! How did you get started writing erotic fiction?

Beth Wylde: I actually didn’t sit down to write anything erotic at all. I was going for a nice mushy mainstream romance where the love-making took place behind closed doors. It sooo did not turn out the way I planned.

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The Drag Queen of Elfland and Other Stories
by Lawrence Schimel
ISBN: 978-1-61390-051-2
Word Count: 47,500
List Price: $5.99

Circlet Press digital titles are also available at the Amazon Kindle Store, B&N.com, Smashwords, Kobo, Apple’s iBookstore, Fictionwise, and many independent booksellers via Google ebooks, as well as specialty ebookstores like All Romance eBooks, Weightless Ebooks, Trapezium, and Rainbow eBooks, to name just a few! (Please let us know if your favorite source for digital books does not carry this title and you want them to.)

This Circlet title from 1997, part of the Ultra Violet Library imprint for queer fantasy and science fiction, is now available in digital format for the first time. The Drag Queen of Elfland is a collection of fantastical stories imbued with a refreshingly queer sensibility. These seventeen stories feature a lesbian werewolf taking back the night, a gay vampire discovering the perils of going to the gym (too many mirrors, for starters), a young lord’s son undertaking a quest to obtain a magical sword and win the heart of the boy he loves, and much more. Sometimes funny, sometimes moving, sometimes sexy, and always imaginative, these stories show readers the secret worlds that lurk beneath the surface of our own.

Lawrence Schimel has published over 100 books as author or anthologist, including The Future is Queer (Arsenal Pulp), Things Invisible to See: Lesbian and Gay Tales of Magic Realism (Circlet), Two Boys in Love (Seventh Window), and Fairy Tales for Writers (A Midsummer Night’s Press). He has twice won the Lambda Literary Award, for First Person Queer (Arsenal Pulp) and PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality (Cleis), and has also won the Spectrum, the Independent Publisher Book Award, the Rhysling, and other awards. He lives in Madrid, Spain, where he works as a Spanish->English translator.

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