Books
Songs from Devil Lake
Daniel is a man in limbo, separated from a wife he loves and drifting alone, looking for a partner who will help him explore his masochistic sexual tendencies. He heads north to his ex-lover Jude’s remote cottage. Over glasses of wine, back patio jam sessions, and long, sweat-drenched nights, Jude and his wife help usher Daniel into a new world where he can ask for what he wants: patience, understanding, and someone who will force him to give up control.
Category: m/m/f
Publisher: Storm Moon Press
10,700 words, 25 pages
Portrait of a Crossroads
Since finding her father’s body at the bottom of the basement stairs, Annette’s been drifting through her days, watching cars pass down the rural Ontario crossroads beside her house. Her brothers have no great ambitions, but Annette remembers a time when she did. She just can’t remember what they are.
Then she meets her neighbour, Sadie, a tattooed, world-weary, newly single portrait artist. Something about Sadie awakens something in Annette — the essence she captures in her subjects, perhaps, or the way the old familiar crossroads seem so fresh and promising from the view out Sadie’s window.
Annette begins to help Sadie, cleaning brushes and filing invoices between long lazy afternoons of conversations and shared silences. Soon, though, Annette wants more from her enigmatic neighbor, and their slowly heating friendship melts into passionate nights. Somewhere along the way, Annette discovers that her lover has illuminated for her, as with the people Sadie paints, not just her essence but her own endless worlds of possibilities.
Length: About 10,200 words, 40 pages
Category: f/f
Cover Art: Amber Shah
Love Lessons
College student Danny Davis has dedicated his life to singing and dancing. That commitment lands him a spot in a boy band heading to Europe to pursue a life of pop stardom. There’s just one thing he wants to do before he goes—so he places an ad in the campus paper stating that he’s looking for his first sexual experience with another man.
Danny begins a correspondence with a secret admirer who turns out to be his roommate, Kirk. Eventually they embark on an emotional and sexual relationship so intense that Danny considers not going on tour. Then a phone call from Kirk changes everything. Believing Kirk never loved him, Danny leaves to take Europe by storm. Six years later, he learns the truth…
Length: About 15,000 words, 74 pages
Category: m/m
Cover Art: Adrian Nicholas
Buy it from Dreamspinner Press
Pearl
Edith sleepwalks through a life so normal as to be boring. She lives with her mother, works a mundane job to support them, and makes no waves among the ladies of her sleepy 1920’s Canadian town. Secretly, though, she watches the flappers and so-called “loose women” with envy, dreaming of what glamorous lives they must have. And that’s before Clark walks into her life.
Clark embodies the world that Edith wishes she could be a part of. He’s slick and dangerous and sexy in a way Edith has never experienced. So when Clark offers her a window into his world, she dives through without thinking. On the other side, though, her black and white world explodes into shades of gray, challenging Edith in ways she never imagined.
Length: 9,600 words, 24 pages
Category: Trans*
Cover Art: Dare Empire eMedia
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Anthologies
xoxo: Sweet Sexy Romance
Sexy, sweet, and short, this collection of erotic romance is a box of Valentine conversation hearts, filled with fun surprises and unusual twists. With over 30 authors in the anthology and stories from Sommer Marsden, Kathleen Tudor, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Elizabeth Coldwell, Saskia Walker, and Cheyenne Blue, XOXO is a Whitman’s sampler of decadent delights and the perfect introduction to erotic romance.
Category: m/f
Publisher: Cleis Press
Editor: Kristina Wright
The Big Book of Orgasms
What happens when you bring together 69 authors sharing their hottest orgasm stories? If you have top notch erotica editor Rachel Kramer Bussel, you get The Big Book of Orgasms! This climactic collection captures top erotica writers serving up steamy scenarios all focused on The Big O.
Go “Under the Table” with Elizabeth Coldwell and cheer for “The Pink Team” by Kelly Rand. Discover the thrill of hot wax and even hotter sex; these short stories bring the heat on every page!
Category: m/f
Publisher: Cleis Press
Legal Briefs
Description:
All net proceeds from the sale of this anthology will be donated directly to Lambda Legal!
We at Storm Moon Press are aware of the legal struggles many within the QUILTBAG face, and we know the valuable service Lambda Legal provides. With that in mind, we collaborated with six of our favorite authors (actually, all of our authors are our favorite!) who graciously agreed to donate their time and creative ability to help us create this anthology of legal-themed short stories specifically to help benefit such an excellent organization.
In Honest Lawyers, court reporter Luna is flattered by law student Craig’s attentions, but the fear of rejection makes her nervous about opening up to him about her status as a trans woman.
Category: m/m, f/f, trans*
Also features: Salome Wilde, Stella Harris, Gryvon, Cari Z, Blaine D. Arden
Torn in Two
It is often said that bisexual men are ‘torn in two’ by the opposing expectations from society. They are often accused of being confused or riding the proverbial fence between gay and straight. To many others, their attraction to men makes them ‘not straight’, while their attraction to women makes them ‘not gay’. It is this conflict that sets them apart and often ostracizes them from both communities. Torn In Two is a collection of short stories highlighting bisexual men, including their relationships with both men and women.
On the rebound from an ended relationship, Daniel visits his old friend Jude looking for some direction in his life. Jude and his wife Celeste offer him solace in their arms, and the comfort of Songs from Devil Lake.
Category: m/f/m
Including:
“Songs From Devil Lake” by Kelly Rand
“Syncopation” by G. S. Wiley
“An Ass Out of You and Me” by Lee Cairney
Going For Gold
It’s not hard to see the outward appeal of the Olympic Games: watching the fittest and most-accomplished athletes in the world compete—generally with fairly skimpy uniforms. Voyeurism aside, there’s nothing sexier than a beautiful body running, jumping, swimming, rowing, and a couple dozen other activities. Who wouldn’t take the chance to enjoy the spectacle?
But the Olympics are more than just a chance to watch athletes at the peak of physical perfection. Every competitor at the Games has a story behind why they run or jump or swim, and why they compete. How they got to the Games, and what they sacrificed along the way to make the cut. To spectators, they may perform superhuman feats, but each and every one is human in the same way we all are.
In this collection of stories, you’ll find there’s a lot more to competing at Olympic level than being the best in one’s field. Expectations and pressures from family, friends, coaches and country add up, and sometimes it’s only the love of the right man who can make the effort worth it. And sometimes, love is more important than going for gold.
Category: m/m
Including:
Hot Shots by Mike Bruno
Into the Deep by Nico Jaye
The Quad by Kelly Rand
Lightning in a Bottle by Sarah Madison
Swimming the Distance by Annabeth Albert
Shoot for the Gold by Whitley Gray
An Olympic Goal by K-lee Klein
Tumbling Dreams by Kaje Harper
Kelly Rand 