D. L. King lives somewhere between the Wonder Wheel at Coney Island and the Chrysler Building and spends an inordinate amount of time reading and writing smut in her apartment and postage stamp sized garden. She is a Lambda Literary Award winner (The Harder She Comes: Butch/Femme Erotica), three-time IPPY gold medalist (Unspeakably Erotic: Lesbian Kink, Carnal Machines: Steampunk Erotica and The Harder She Comes), three-time IPPY silver medalist (Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year: Volume 1, Under Her Thumb: Erotic Stories of Female Domination and The Big Book of Domination) and two-time Lambda finalist (Unspeakably Erotic: Lesbian Kink and Where the Girls Are: Urban Lesbian Erotica). Her short stories have also garnered awards, including the NLA-International John Preston Short Fiction Award. D. L. King is the editor of fifteen anthologies.

The author of over a hundred completely filthy short stories, her work can be found in various editions of Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Women's Erotica, Best Bondage Erotica, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica as well as anthologies such as Begging for It, Yes, Ma'am, Please, Ma'am, Luscious, Sweet Love, Fast Girls, Sex in the City: New York and Gotta Have It, among many others. She is the author of Her Wish is Your Command, a collection of stories of female domination and male submission and two novels of the same genre, The Melinoe Project and The Art of Melinoe as well as a few femdom and lesbian novellas.

Find out more about her at dlkingerotica.com and dlkingerotica.blogspot.com.

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Kathleen Warnock is a playwright and editor. She is the series editor for Best Lesbian Erotica (Cleis), and an editor for Frommer's Travel Guides. She also founded and hosts the reading series Drunken! Careening! Writers! at KGB Bar in New York City (since 2004).

Her plays have been produced in New York City, London, Dublin (Ireland and Georgia) and regionally. Several of them are published or in anthologies.

She is Playwrights Company manager for Emerging Artists Theatre, and curates the Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwrights Projects. She is Ambassador of Love for the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, and a member of The Dramatists Guild.

www.kathleenwarnock.com

R.G. Emanuelle is a New York City native currently based in Brooklyn. Her university degree in English and literature propelled her into publishing, where she spent 20 years as an editor, typesetter, and graphic designer. She expanded into freelance writing, and eventually published her first novel, "Twice Bitten," and novella, "Add Spice to Taste," in 2013. She is also co-editor of the Lambda Award finalist "All You Can Eat: A Buffet of Lesbian Romance and Erotica," as well as "Unwrap These Presents" and "Skulls & Crossbones: Tales of Women Pirates." Her short stories can be found in numerous anthologies. When she's not writing or editing, she can usually be found cooking or developing recipes, as she is also a culinary school graduate.

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I am:

a daughter

a sister

an aunt

a burlesque dancer

a model

a writer of erotica

a gym junkie

a book collector

a tattoo collector

an adventurer and explorer

a photographer

A review for my book, Mastering Her Thoughts: Confessions of a Good Girl, can be found at: www.spinecrackers.com