Richard Labonté (ed.): Best Gay Romance 2012

USA 2012, 213 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Brains, muscle, tenderness, kink. Like the perfect lover, »Best Gay Romance 2012« captures the raw energy of man-on man desire like no other. Once again, award-winning editor Richard Labonté has gathered hot, heart-pounding, tent-raising, gorgeous stories of no-holds-barred sex between men that will grab your senses, and send you into the sweaty backrooms of your erotic imagination. Get ready to fall in love with love all over again. These stories create a world of sexy, in-love men who live out their fantasies with memorable results. Young love. Love, unexpected. Lost love. Love, interrupted. As varied as the unique and irreproducible experiences of falling in lust, Labonté’s collection celebrates the intensity and passion of gay love in all its glory.

Richard Labonté (ed.): Best Gay Erotica 2013

USA 2012, 237 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Every year Richard Labonté sets the bar impossibly high and writers leap to meet his standard, the highest in gay erotic writing. Rough yet romantic, racy yet a nice and slow one-handed read, is yet another gold star in the crown of Cleis Press gay erotica. A straight-acting Italian Stallion has a badly-kept secret in Davem Verne’s »The Pasta Closet«. Douglas A. Martin’s »Other Residences, Other Neighborhoods« follows a young newcomer from Brooklyn to Chelsea as he chases boys and something like love. A physics major gets the hazing of a lifetime at the frat hose in Geoffrey Knight’s »Fight Club«. From gay superheroes to not-so-innocent farm hands, burly bears and fuzzy cubs – a nice and slow one-handed read.

Richard Labonté (ed.): Best Gay Erotica 2012

USA 2012, 228 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Called »consistently outstanding« by the Lambda Book Review and cited for »glorious approaches to gay male sexual writing«, by the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Richard Labonte's Best Gay Erotica series sets and raises the bar in the 2012 volume. Gathering the hottest, freshest, and most literary fiction for the year, »Best Gay Erotica 2012« captures the tenderness and raw energy of man-on-man desire. From the innocent but oh-so-beautiful boy next door to the »seen it all« gritty street hustler, these provocative and potent short stories will grab your attention and your erotic imagination. Richard Labonté shares his tricks of the trade in this outstanding volume of craftsmanship and cocksmanship.

Kathleen Warnock (ed.): Best Lesbian Erotica 2012

USA 2012, 177 pp., brochure, € 14.69
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Cleis - Best Lesbian Erotica 2012
Give in to your every fantasy as you devour these explicit and sensual stories, fully loaded, literary and lustful. In »Best Lesbian Erotica 2012«, women are looking for a little bit of everything: love, lust, and that special someone who brings both to bed. Kiki DeLovely's »Heartfirst« follows a new couple who create their private, headlong universe in between the sheets. In »Skin Deep«, Anna Watson tells the story of a femme who gets to the bottom of her lover's disappearing acts. The editor and this year's guest judge have curated a collection that is waiting to lay bare your deepest desires. With each story, with each act of lust, with each dirty commandor submissive plea - you can rediscovered your own wanting.

Rachel Pepper (ed.): Transitions of the Heart

Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children. USA 2012, 204 pp., brochure, € 16.39
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This is the first collection to invite mothers of transgender and gender variant children to tell their own stories. Often »transitioning« socially and emotionally alongside their children, parents have their own parallel process to work through, and few resources to depend on. The editor has gathered voices of women from all walks of life, with children ranging in age from six to sixty, to share their experiences. These mothers have learned how to advocate for their children and themselves. By speaking out here, they are blazing a brave trail for others to follow. Whether you are a parent, educator, health-care professional, or just generally interested, be prepared for these stories to change your heart.

Radclyffe (ed.): Best Lesbian Romance 2012

USA 2012, 196 pp., brochure, € 13.79
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The 2012 installation in the »Best Lesbian Romance« series celebrates the dizzying sensation of falling in love - and the electrifying thrill of sexual passion. Romance maestra Radclyffe gathers irresistible stories of lesbian women in love to awaken your desire and send your imagination soaring. As Radclyffe writes, »within these pages are the reflections of our dreams, the memories of our precious moments, and the unique wonder of our special love stories.« Romance defies discrete classification - it is at once an emotion, a language, a poetry cadence, a fiction genre, a film type, and a narrative form. Romantic love can be abiding, intimate, intense, idealistic, infinite, soulful, and consuming. All of that, you'll find in these short stories in this book.

Richard Labonté (ed.): Hot Daddies

USA 2011, 210 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Cleis - Gay Erotic Stories
When experience meets innocence, sparks fly. From burly bears and hunky father figures to dominant leathermen, Richard Labonté's »Hot Daddies« captures the erotic dynamic between younger and older men: intense connections, consensual submission, and the toughness and tenderness of teaching and learning. In Jack Fritscher's muscular »Father and Son Tag Team«, a sexual romp with a summer camp counselor reveals an older man's mature power and a younger man's fresh appeal. The younger man has the power to seduce - and to instruct - in Randy Turk's »Professor Papi«. In Landon Dixon's arch »Men of the Open Road«, a young hitchhiker knows where he wants to go with older men - and it's not farther down the road. Whether sexually playful or masters of hardcore S/M, these »Hot Daddies« speak with the confidence that only sexual maturity imparts.

Shane Allison (ed.): Frat Boys

USA 2011, 219 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Cleis - Gay Erotic Stories
Paddlings, partying, hazing, wrestling at the frat house - these gorgeous undergrads know how to have fun, especially with one another. The stories in this book go right to the head of the class with page-turning, arousing action featuring hunky college boys getting it on. A pledge is put to the test in front of fellow classmates by a professor with dubious motives in Gavin Atlas's »The Laius League«. Hot action of every kind in the name of higher education ensues in Z. Ferguson's »Date Night at the Delta Tau Delta«. There's plenty of risk-taking romance between a b-baller and a frat boy in newcomer C.C. Williams's »The Pickup Game«. A student with a jockstrap-sniffing fetish goes wild in Jeff Funk's »Frat House Midnight Snack«. There's also stories by other top erotica writers like Jeff Mann, or Neil Plakcy.