I’m Going to Have a Book of My Own!!
I have been honored and unspeakably excited over the last several years (good lord, almost 10 now) to have a number of short stories published in various editors’ anthologies and at online magazines. I have not, however, ever published a book of my own.
That will change at the end of this month. In literally one of the most exciting things I have experienced in this lifetime, my single-author erotic romance short story collection, titled If…Then, will be published by 1001 Nights Press in late September—ideally just in time for Hot Mojave Knights!
AND THIS is the cover. I don’t know that I could have even conceived of one more beautiful or with which I would be more thrilled.
I feel so much appreciation right now for the myriad ways so many people (so very many) have helped and supported me in the context of writing and multiple other ways. Thank you to Rachel Kramer Bussel, Alison Tyler, Violet Blue, Jolie du Pre, and Kristina Wright for choosing my work for your anthologies. Thank you to Cleis Press, Logical-Lust, Sensorotika, Mischief, Ravenous Romance, Excessica, and Sweetmeats Press (that one’s forthcoming!) for publishing those and other anthologies in which I appeared. Thank you to The Erotic Woman, the Good Vibrations blog, Erotica for All, and the now-defunct Oysters & Chocolate erotic and Ruthie’s Club for publishing my work online and to Susana Mayer and Monica Day for inviting me to be featured readers at their events. Thank you enormously to 1001 Nights Press for publishing my collected work in a book that has my name on the cover :) , and thank you to Marketing for Romance Writers (MFRW) for teaching me so much about marketing and offering access to so many resources I will now be needing to use (haha). And a heartfelt thanks definitely goes out to the many, many dear colleagues and friends (often the same thing) I have met in the erotica-writing community over the last near-decade. I appreciate you all so much.
I don’t have an exact release date and will post updates, undoubtedly, for…well, the indefinite future! ;)
Love,
Emerald
“‘Cause everybody has a dream, something they can barely see, and though my heart will break, there’s more that I could take, I could never let it be…”
-Weezer “Photograph”
