Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 4

by Sinclair Sexsmith (Editor)

Overview

A mysterious warrior at the Renaissance Faire.
An elder reunited with a lost love.
A bottom with chronic pain.
A new play party for a long-term couple.
A fantasy speed-dating night.
A dress-up doll.
A femme gangbang...

Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 4 has it all!

Written by a refreshing group of individuals of various genders and sexualities, this arousing anthology explores identities and stories beyond the usual lesbian erotica. A diverse group of multi-talented authors explore a myriad of erotic delights: from fruit to silk scarves to spanking to whips, from the cozy home to the leather dungeon to the wrong side of the tracks. Award-winning editor Sinclair Sexsmith has put together a collection of varied sensual textures and flavors, but they all explore what it feels like to step fully into one’s own power, and feel deeply into one’s own body.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781627782951
Publisher:	Start Publishing LLC
Publication date:	12/10/2019
Series:	Best Lesbian Erotica Series , #4
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Sinclair Sexsmith (they/them) is “the best-known butch erotica writer whose kinky, groundbreaking stories have turned on countless queers” (AfterEllen), who “is in all the books, wins all the awards, speaks at all the panels and readings, knows all the stuff, and writes for all the places” (Autostraddle). Their short story collection, Sweet & Rough: Queer Kink Erotica, was a 2016 finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, and they are the current editor of the Best Lesbian Erotica series. Find more of their work at sugarbutch.net

Editorial Reviews

01/06/2020

Sexsmith (editor of the Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica anthology) brings together 20 new and familiar voices in a wide-ranging celebration of Sapphic love and sexuality. Some of these tales are delightfully playful and rooted in reality, as with Avery Cassell’s “Pinked,” which features an elderly lesbian couple, one of whom finds a way to tease and torment her partner via her latest sewing project, and “Good Girls Do” by Marie Carlson, set in the tack room of a stable but featuring a different kind of riding. Others explore racier sexual fantasies, as with the anonymous encounter of “Gina, Across the Tracks” by Fallen Matthews and the steamy vacation sex of “Adventure in Palm Springs” by Dorothy Freed. Sweetly vanilla stories alternate with tales of couples delving into kink, from the relatively mild dom/sub dynamic of Olivia Dromen’s “All Dolled Up” to Xan West’s depictions of more intense sadism and masochism, including knife play and punching, in “Crave.” Though not every tale is as polished as one might expect from previous volumes, there is enough variety and spiciness to please most readers. (Dec.)

Publishers Weekly

"I enjoyed the diversity of characters - trans women, older women, non-binary characters, characters on the autistic spectrum... - and situations." - Not Me Anymore Book Blog-- "Not Me Anymore Book Blog"

"Stories so hot you cannot read them all at once...sizzling" - Phoebe's Rainbow World-- "Phoebe's Rainbow World"

"An eclectic and exciting series of encounters. Sexsmith thoughtfully curates these stories as a way for readers to recognize something often unseen - not just their tastes or desires, but themselves." - Blue Delliquanti, comic artist, writer of Miles & Honesty in SCFSX!
--Blue Delliquanti

From the Publisher

"An eclectic and exciting series of encounters. Sexsmith thoughtfully curates these stories as a way for readers to recognize something often unseen - not just their tastes or desires, but themselves." - Blue Delliquanti, comic artist, writer of Miles & Honesty in SCFSX!
 

Blue Delliquanti

"I enjoyed the diversity of characters – trans women, older women, non-binary characters, characters on the autistic spectrum… – and situations." - Not Me Anymore Book Blog

Not Me Anymore Book Blog

"Stories so hot you cannot read them all at once...sizzling" - Phoebe's Rainbow World

Phoebe's Rainbow World

11/01/2019

Edited by veteran erotica writer Sexsmith (sugarbutch.net), this steamy fourth installment in the "Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year" series offers 20 contemporary tales of sexual intimacy. The stories feature cis and trans women and nonbinary people, whose kaleidoscopic identities are shaped by class, race, disability, and other factors. The protagonists range in age from 18 to over 70 and take their pleasures in many relational contexts—from fleeting sexual encounters to coupled dating to established threesomes. They are found at sex clubs, brunch, in a tack room, a casino hotel, a partner's car, and even at a "folk/medieval/pagan festival." As Sexsmith writes in their introduction, absent widespread depiction of queer sexuality in mainstream media, many LGBTQ+ people have learned the language of their desires through encounters with narratives like these, which offer an alternative vocabulary for pleasure. VERDICT The stories in this volume have strong themes of explicitly negotiated kink, as well as more subtle forms of power play among partners; readers who enjoy erotica with these elements will likely find this latest in the long-running series especially delicious reading.—Anna J. Clutterbuck-Cook, Massachusetts Historical Soc., Boston

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