“What Dragons Prefer” podcast! I’m delighted to announce my very first podcast publication! Not only that, but it’s a resale (can’t call it a reprint, can I?) of my first professionally published story. “What Dragons Prefer” is a short fantasy tale with a wicked twist at the end. It first appeared in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine in 1996. You can listen to “What Dragons Prefer” here or download it for future audio pleasure on your computer or iPod. Because, that’s right, it’s free! So go forth and enjoy!

Fabulous Whitby is finally here! Great news! The anthology Fabulous Whitby, which contains my story “Proof of Devotion” (which I wrote all the way back in 2002 at the Oregon Coast Writers Master Class!), is finally available! ::squee bouncity:: Right now, amazon doesn’t seem to be supporting it well: amazon.com doesn’t list it at all, and amazon.co.uk and amazon.ca are listing it as out of stock or whatnot. The good news is, you can order it from a place called York Publishing Services out of the UK. The better news is, they charge only $3.99 to deliver to the US, which is the same as what they charge to deliver in the UK (using the current exchange rate). That’s right—international shipping is the same as UK shipping! Click on the link above to go to the Fabulous Whitby order page. I’m soooo excited about this one. I’m in an anthology with Liz Williams and Esther Friesner and Cherith Baldry and Jay Lake andandand…!

Haunted Hearths review! Haunted Hearts and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories just got a fantastic review from Rainbow Reviews! Mine was one of the four stories specifically mentioned; the reviewer called it “the unexpectedly romantic heart-wrenching ‘Some Old Lover’s Ghost.’” ::beam::

Some Old Lover’s Ghost Haunted Hearts and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories is now available to order at amazon and will be released on May 15! This one contains “Some Old Lover’s Ghost,” a story I just had a blast writing. (Plus it’s so nice to be listing some new spec fic sales and releases along with all the erotica and romance, if only for variety!)

Sale to DAW Books! I’m delighted to report that my story “If the Shoe Fits” will appear in the DAW anthology The Trouble With Heroes, edited by the incredible Denise Little. I wrote the story at an anthology workshop in Oregon that she co-ran with Dean Wesley Smith (with able assistance from Kristine Kathryn Rusch).

The Sultan’s Sons Clash of Steel: Assassin, Carnifex Press, December 2005 “I was particularly struck by the little gem, ‘Sultan’s Sons’ by Dayle A Dermatis. This was, in my opinion, the shortest and 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

Proof of Devotion Fabulous Whitby anthology, Shrew Press (UK).

Hell’s Belles DeathGrip: Exit Laughing, HellBound Book, November 2006