When I wrote up the submission guidelines for this anthology, I specifically forbade reprints.
I didn’t want any this time. This was a tough decision to make. If it’s been printed before, it’s frequently a really good story and might add something really nice to my anthology. However, I’ve found it a little uncomfortable to read reviews where the reviewer points out that they’ve read the stories before.
Writers who are new to the craft sometimes don’t understand plot as much as one would like. That is the only way to explain the prevalence of the plot which is not: “they meet, they fuck, the end.”
Real plots have two things that the example doesn’t have: complications and a resolution.
As many of you know, I’m reading for a new anthology. A few of the manuscripts for the anth were solicited; I talked to a couple of authors I know, and they sent me some manuscripts, and I accepted them. The slush pile used to be where editors stacked all the unsolicited manuscripts. Now the slush pile is notional, even virtual, but it is still a place that combines horror and wonder in equal measures.
As I said, I can’t read the submissions yet, but I did get them logged.
Dear Sir,
You appear to have sent me this story by mistake. I am only reading for one anthology right now, and your story does not resemble the call for submissions in any way.
I have an anthology where the reading period starts April 1. I set it that far out (originally) to maintain some sanity during a busy period in my life.
I don’t actually care much what length people send me, so I put in a standard length range and tell people to query me for longer or shorter. Mostly, I want to avoid reading 10,000 word submissions with not enough sex in them.
Kneel to Me
Edited by Lauren P. Burka
ISBN: 978-1-885865-54-0
Word Count: 44,770
List Price: $6.99
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Circlet Press brings you seven erotic stories of dominance and submission that will return you to the moment when a master, mistress, or slave first stepped out of a story and made you theirs.
The submissives, slaves, and bottoms you will meet here are tough and competent. No passive orifices, they are beautifully-realized individuals with the spark that makes them recognizably human. In “KATT,” the slave is a beautiful android who fights to hold on to the precious scrap of her life after a disaster. The servant in “Lord of Misrule” knows that his relationship with his master requires something other than obedience. The slave in “Raiders from the Stars” learns that much more is at stake than his personal gratification. In “Personal Benefits,” the highly-trained contract slave offers the pleasure of perfect obedience to the powerful woman who owns her.
Nor are their tops the well-endowed ciphers who “train” Cindi. They have needs and aspirations. Pleasure may be an important part of their lives, even the most important part of their lives, but they are also seeking love, acceptance and a future for themselves and their slaves in a hard world. The master in “Raiders from the Stars” knows that the safety that humanity takes for granted is rooted in obedience. In “Romans,” the master forges a new sort of domestic tranquility for his new slaves. The bureaucrat of a repressive government in “Exceptional Acts” discovers that pleasure is the most powerful form of rebellion.
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We got a review from Out in Print.
Call for Submissions for Up For Grabs 2: the Third Gender by Circlet Press
Up for Grabs 2: the Third Gender is the working title of the sequel to Up for Grabs, which has received a lot of attention in reviews. While UFG had a focus on changing from one gender to another, I would like to see stories about people in between. Gender is not binary. These stories will explore modern and future expressions of third genders. Some ideas I would like to see examined are:
* Protagonists using mechanical, surgical, magical, or VR to express a gender other than the standard two.
* Coming of age stories
* Stories about protagonists who may not be young and gorgeous, but who have age and experience.
* Stories where third genders are normal, even common.
* Descriptions of new ways to have sex beyond the traditional.
Originals only, no reprints. We purchase first rights for inclusion in the ebook anthology for $25, with the additional rights to a print edition later which would also be paid $25 if a print edition happens. Authors retain the rights to the individual stories; Circlet exercises rights to the anthology as a whole.
Submission Guidelines:
The Erotica Readers and Writers Association has a nice review of Wired Hard 4.
Kneel to Me
Mate: And More Stories from the Erotic Edge of SF/Fantasy
The Memorial Garden
Up for Grabs
Wired Hard 4
Wishbone