Wowsa! The inestimable Violet Blue just released her “Best Sex Books 2009” list, and I have stories in three of the anthologies!

(Note: The above link is to SF Gate, the online version of The San Francisco Chronicle, so it’s safe for work in terms of no nudity, etc.. But this is still a list of fiction and nonfiction about sex.)

1. Playing With Fire: Taboo Erotica

“‘Devouring Heart’ is the only lesbian tale in the book and Andrea Dale presents a heartbreaking tale of love and how far a lover will go to keep a partner. There is a good use of metaphor between the title and the relationship and this is one of the few tales that ends sadly, yet I have a tender place for this as one of my favorites for evoking that aching sense of love and love lost.”

And this about “If the Shoe Fits…” in The Trouble With Heroes:

“And 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.”

Thank you, kind reviewers. You’ve made my week!

I recently mentioned a sale to Coming Together: Against the Odds, and wanted to remind my faithful readers that I also have a story in the charity anthology Coming Together: At Last, which benefits Amnesty International.

If you’d like to see a gorgeous promo video for Coming Together: At Last, you can check it out at any one of these links:

YouTube / MySpace / Facebook

(It’s provocative, but safe for work unless you have an exceptionally prudish boss.)

And here’s a link to my post of the press release.

I’m delighted to announce that Best Lesbian Romance 2009 is now available for sale! It contains a reprint of my story “In Flight,” a sweet erotic romance about learning to trust again, with bonus! birds of prey.

Plus there are so many other fabulous authors in this one: my frequent coauthor Teresa, Shanna Germain, Alison Tyler, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Catherine Lundoff, Sacchi Green…

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!

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…!

As an author in the Iridescence: Sensuous Shades of Lesbian Erotica anthology, I’m participating in the author blog tour this month. You can read my interview at my online journal (or click on “Enchantments” above) or in my MySpace blog.

Enjoy!

I’m in the newspaper! My friend Lohr interviewed me for the Plattsburgh Press-Republican when I was in NY recently. You can read the article here.

Lovesromancesandmore.com says of our novel: “Cat Scratch Fever is an erotic romance that starts with a bang and keeps pumping and grinding until the end…. The plot was intriguing and filled with enough sex to keep readers panting.”