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News! Two New Book Publications
I am the editor of two new erotica anthologies! Best Lesbian Erotica 2012, published in December 2011 by Cleis Press, is available now from all major booksellers, including Amazon, and Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica is available for preorder and will be released in April 2012 by Cleis Press. Find out more at saypleasebook.wordpress.com, follow @saypleasebook on Twitter, or like Say Please on Facebook.
Greetings!
SINCLAIR SEXSMITH writes the award-winning personal online project Sugarbutch Chronicles: The Sex, Gender, and Relationship Adventures of a Kinky Queer Butch Top at www.sugarbutch.net. With works published in various anthologies, including Best Lesbian Erotica 2011, 2009, 2007, and 2006 collections, Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch/Femme Erotica, Visible: A Femmethology Volume II, Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, and more, she is a columnist for SexIs, CarnalNation, and AfterEllen; and the lesbian erotica editor for the Lambda Literary Foundation. She is the guest editor of Best Lesbian Erotica 2012, and her first full-length anthology, Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica was published by Cleis Press in Spring 2012. She is on the board of the Lesbian Sex Mafia in New York City and serves the Body Electric School as a coordinator, with whom she has studied for nearly ten years.
Mr. Sexsmith holds degrees in both creative writing and gender studies, studied at Bent Queer Writing Institute in Seattle, and currently teaches community and academic workshops and classes around the US on gender, sexuality, healing, communication, and getting the sex life you want. She co-produced Sideshow: The Queer Literary Carnival reading series for more than a year and still produces many readings in New York and beyond. She goes by the pronouns she/her and prefers the masculine honorific of “Mr.” In her spare time, she likes to cook, read, swing dance, sip whiskey, and look at the stars.
“Sinclair Sexsmith writes with such rare clarity and passion that she is one of the best reminders we have that sex and gender are not abstractions of theory, but essential to our everyday humanity.” —Chris Hall, Editor, CarnalNation.com
“To begin with, Sinclair Sexsmith is a really good editor with a great imagination. Then she’s fearless and compassionate, which means she finds stories that go to all kinds of places, that make you think, and stay with you after you’ve finished.” — Kathleen Warnock, editor of Best Lesbian Erotica 2012
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