And I just got a message through Facebook. Someone in SWITZERLAND picked the book up after Laura Antoniou mentioned it on Facebook this morning.
She finished it just a few minutes ago. And had to tell me how much she loved it, and that she was starting it over again.
No Safewords released today as an ebook.
I saw the cover copy for the first time about ten minutes ago. And I’m looking for someone to poke me and wake me up…
“Ten stories of BDSM, submission, and service set in the secret world of Laura Antoniou’s Marketplace. The Marketplace has fans all over the world, and Antoniou invited them to come play in her fictional sandbox/dungeon. Numbered among those fans happen to be some of the top erotica and alternative sexuality writers in the world, including D.L. King, Sassafras Lowrey, and Elizabeth Schechter.”
One of the top erotic writers in the world? ME????
On second thought, DON’T WAKE ME UP!!!!
I found out when I opened my email this morning that Princes of Air has finaled in the Passionate Plume contest — the published contest of the Passionate Ink chapter of the Romance Writers of America!
Oh… me…
This is a big deal for me. Not only is this contest judging the best of published erotica in the RWA… but Princes didn’t even make the cut last year, when I entered it as an unpublished manuscript in the Stroke of Midnight (the Passionate Ink unpublished contest).
Do I care if I win? I don’t think so. Finalling is a big enough deal for me! I’ll find out the end of July, though. (Now I really do wish I could go to Nationals! Can’t afford the trip to Anaheim, though.)
Circlet Press released the titles of the nineteen stories that made the cut for the upcoming FANTASTIC EROTICA: The Best of Circlet Press 2008-2012.
A Vision In X-Ray And Visible Light by Nobilis Reed
A Woman of Uncommon Accomplishment by Elizabeth Reeve
At The Crossroads by Monique Poirier
Catch And Release by Sunny Moraine
Devil’s Masquerade by Michael M. Jones
Enslaved by Kierstin Cherry
Fences by David Hubbard
Ink by Bernie Mojzes
Lawman by Angela Caperton
Mirror by Clarice Clique
Navigator by Kathleen Tudor
Ota Discovers Fire by Vinnie Tesla
Rescue Wounds by Kal Cobalt
The Beauty of Broken Glass by Frances Selkirk
The Dancer’s War by N.K. Jemisin
The Many Little Deaths of Cicilia Long by Shanna Germain
The Pirate From The Sky by Sacchi Green
The Succubus by Elizabeth Schechter
Wood by David Sklar
I am so pleased and proud to be a part of this elite group! Thank you all for voting!
(I just realized I’m sharing a TOC with a Hugo Nominee!!! How cool is THAT???)
>http://thecollectivereview.com/penelope-friday/cecilia-tan-ownereditor-of-circlet-press.html
I have to admit, I’m floored. The flabber is completely ghasted. I’m going to be in a state of bemused SHOCK for the rest of the night. Because in that article, Cecilia Tan (owner of Circlet Press and my publisher) names me as one of the writers she looks forward to seeing in the slush pile.
Wow….