Cyvarwydd. The online home of author Dayle A. Dermatis / Sophie Mouette / Andrea Dale / Andrea Loewen / Sarah Dale. kuh-VAR-ooith. Welsh, meaning storyteller. (Modern spelling: cyfarwydd)

Novels

  • A Little Night Music, an erotic romance novel written as Sarah Dale (with Sarah Husch), Cheek Books, 2007
  • Cat Scratch Fever, an erotica novel written as Sophie Mouette (with Teresa Noelle Roberts), Black Lace Books, 2006

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Fantasy/SF

As Dayle A. Dermatis

  • “Matchmaker,” More Scary Kisses, Ticonderoga Publications, 2011
  • “I Sing a Song of Mourning,” Breaking Waves: An Anthology for Gulf Coast Relief charity anthology, Book View Café, 2010
  • “The Devil Went Down to the Sunset Strip,” Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia, Raven Electrick Ink, 2010
  • “If the Shoe Fits,” The Trouble With Heroes, DAW Books, 2009

    “Dayle A. Dermatis’s ‘If the Shoe Fits’ is a funny (and rather ingenious) semi-modern twist on Cinderella, in which we find out why that shoe was really so important to everyone.”
    Errant Dreams Reviews

  • “Proof of Devotion,” Fabulous Whitby, Shrew Press (UK), 2008
  • “Some Old Lover’s Ghost,” Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories, Lethe Press, 2008
  • “…unexpectedly romantic [and] heart-wrenching”
    Rainbow Reviews

  • “Hell’s Belles,” DeathGrip: Exit Laughing, HellBound Books, 2006
  • “The Sultan’s Sons,” Clash of Steel: Assassin, Carnifex Press, 2005

    “I was particularly struck by the little gem, ‘Sultan’s Sons’ by Dayle A Dermatis. This was, in my opinion, the…strongest story in the entire collection.”
    – www.horrorreader.com

    “You want something new and something fresh and I think I got that when I accepted [a story] from…Dayle Dermatis. I’d like to think that someday these…writers will be at the forefront of the new age in Fantasy and I can say that I helped them in my own small way.”
    – Armand Rosamilia, Editor of Clash of Steel

  • “Stitch in Time,” BattleCorps.com, 2005

    “Dayle Dermatis weaves us a tale of ‘shear’ bravery and bravado.”
    – www.classicbattletech.com

  • “Pledges of Allegience,” BattleCorps.com, 2005
  • “Feline Design,” The Ghostbreakers: New Horrors, Rage Machine Books, 2005
  • “Mirage,” BattleCorps.com, 2005
  • “A Matter of Perspective,” Scheherezade, Autumn 2004 (Iss. 27)
  • “What the Tales Never Mentioned Was That She Had a Daughter,” Wicked Little Girls, Allegra Press, 2003
  • “Blood & Promises,” Glyph, October 2002
  • “Return,” Raven Electrick, March 2002

    “Another awesome flash piece is, ‘The Return’ by Dayle A. Dermatis. This coming of age flash blends ancestor worship and lunar travel through a poetically inventive conceit of ‘speaking trees’. This piece is a flash SF triumph, recommended for both theme and technique.”
    –sfreader.com

  • “…Of Human Sacrifice and Parents’ Tears,” The Witching Hour, Silver Lake Publishing, 2001
  • “Creative Arsenal,” Jackhammer e-zine, Oct–Dec 2000

    Preditors & Editors Poll 2000
    Author, ranked 34; Story, ranked 24

  • “The Power to Change the Shape of the Land,” Sword & Sorceress XVI, 1999, ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley
    reprinted in Breaking Waves: An Anthology for Gulf Coast Relief, Book View Café, 2010
  • “Bane, She,” Haunts, January 1996 (Issue 30)
    reprinted in Vermont Voices III, 2000
  • “What Dragons Prefer,” Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Fall 1994 (Iss. 25)
    reprinted in Dragons: A Celebration of the Greatest of Mythical Creatures anthology (ISBN 0962703044), 1996
    “reprinted” (kind of!) as a podcast at Podcastle, 2008

    Cauldron Award, third place,
    Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine

  • “Riding Into Faerie,” Lost Worlds, August 1994 (Vol. 6, No. 10)
  • “Accidental Victim,” Vermont Voices II, 1994
  • “Snowblind,” Lost Worlds, January 1993 (Vol. 5, No. 4)

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Short Erotica

As Andrea Dale

As Kendra Wayne

As Sophie Mouette, written with Teresa Noelle Roberts

As Sarah Dale, written with Sarah J. Husch

Romance

  • “In Her Hands,” a romantic erotica novella, was a finalist in Lori Foster’s Brava Novella Contest 2004
  • “The Best Catch,” What’s Love, May 1996 (Vol. 2, No. 5)
    reprinted in The Breathless Moment e-zine, April – May 2000

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Contact Information

Email: cyvarwydd at mac dot com