http://cyvarwydd.com The online home of author Dayle A. Dermatis / Sophie Mouette / Andrea Dayle / Andrea Loewen / Sarah Dayle Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:01:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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, ... http://cyvarwydd.com/2008/07/18/fabulous-whitby-is-finally-here/ 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:: http://cyvarwydd.com/2008/07/15/haunted-hearths-review/ Teresa and I have sold "Food for Thought," a delectable romance involving girls and food, to Best Lesbian Love Stories 2009! We wrote this story about four years ago and we're thrilled it's found such an illustrious home. http://cyvarwydd.com/2008/07/15/sale-to-best-lesbian-love-stories-2009/ And another sale! The Sophie story "Behind the Masque" will be in The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica Vol. 8! It first appeared in the Wicked Words anthology Sex With Strangers. Oh, it was such a fun story to write. How can you go wrong with jewel thieves? The Lucchese Star. ... http://cyvarwydd.com/2008/06/26/sale-to-mammoth-book-of-best-new-erotica-vol-8/ The ever-wonderful editor Alison Tyler called me a "clever author" in her e-mail to let me know my story "The Heist" will appear in her anthology Frenzy (formerly titled Flash Fucking), from Cleis Press this autumn. "The Heist" is a personal favorite of mine so I'm especially chuffed. It was inspired ... http://cyvarwydd.com/2008/06/23/sale-to-frenzy/ I was delighted to arrive home from the trip and find comp copies of Rubber Sex, containing my story "Bathing Beauty," in my pile of mail.You know, it's funny how easy it is to forget what I've written. I kicked back and read a couple of the stories, then flipped ... http://cyvarwydd.com/2008/05/31/rubber-sex/ Sale! Just got confirmation that my story "Tigress" will appear in The Mammoth Book of the Kama Sutra, edited by the inestimable Maxim Jakubowski. It'll be out in September! This one was a strangely fun story to write. Authors had to pick a position from the Kama Sutra and write a ... http://cyvarwydd.com/2008/05/20/sale-4/ 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 ... http://cyvarwydd.com/2008/04/09/some-old-lovers-ghost/ 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 ... http://cyvarwydd.com/2008/04/07/sale-to-daw-books/ The latest Black Lace Wicked Words collection, Love on the Dark Side, is now out in the US! This one contains one of Teresa's and my favorite stories, "Stranger to my Shores," which was one of the first ones we wrote together. The book is chock-full of other fabulous paranormal ... http://cyvarwydd.com/2007/11/04/love-on-the-dark-side/