Please welcome Kristina Wright
“Once upon a time…” Four little words that set out
imaginations racing as we are immersed into a fantasy world of good and evil,
mythical creatures and timeless love. For the romantics among us, they are the
words that inspire us to believe in magic. And who doesn’t want to believe in
magic?
Lustfully Ever After:
Fairy Tale Erotic Romance is a tantalizing collection of seventeen fairy
tales sure to spark your lustful imagination. From fairy tale to contemporary
settings, these stories of lust and longing reimagine the classics. From the
stories we know by heart, such as Rapunzel (reinterpreted here by Lisabet Sarai
in “Shorn”) to less familiar stories such as “The Boots of Buffalo Leather”
(given a wildly imaginative update by Michael M. Jones in “The Long Night of
Tanya McCray”) every story captures the spirit of the original fairy tales and
gives them a deliciously erotic twist.
From the introduction:
Some
of the stories in Lustfully Ever After
are the tales that you know by heart but likely never dreamed of quite this
way. Others, while still based on
classic stories, will be less familiar but hopefully just as entertaining. Among the stories you will recognize
immediately are Anya Richards’s “Rosa Redford,” a delicious reinterpretation of
“Snow White and Rose Red,” and Lisabet Sarai’s reimagined Rapunzel in
“Shorn.” Emerald gives us a corporate
“Beauty and the Beast” in “The Beast Within” while Shanna Germain shows
sympathy for—and the passionate, Sapphic side of-- Snow White’s evil stepmother
in “Mirror, Mirror.”
Some
less easily recognized tales include Charlotte Stein’s “You,” an imaginative
retelling of “The Three Billy Goats Gruff,” and Michael M. Jones’s retelling of
the somewhat obscure “The Boots of Buffalo Leather” in his adventurous and sexy
“The Long Night of Tanya McCray.” Andrea
Dale delivers a contemporary version of “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” in her
poignantly erotic “Steadfast,” Anna Meadows has written “Matches,” a passionate
(and happier) blend of “The Little Match Girl” and Mexican folklore and Sacchi
Green dreams of a different kind of pussycat in “Kit in Boots.”
Michelle
Augello-Page has penned a romantically charged BDSM version of “Little Red
Riding Hood” in her tale “Wolf Moon” while Jeanette Grey tackles “Hansel and
Gretel” (or at least Gretel’s story) in “Gretel’s Lament.” Contrary to the
title, Lynn Townsend’s “Garden Variety” is no typical “Jack and the Beanstalk”
tale, nor is Evan Mora’s “Real Boy” anything you’ve ever imagined about
“Pinocchio.” Other classic fairy tales
make appearances, including “Twelve Dancing Princesses” in Kristina Lloyd’s
erotic threesome fairy tale “The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces” and “The
Princess and the Pea” in Donna George Storey’s creative “Sensitive
Artist.” My own story, “A Sea Change,”
is “The Little Mermaid” revisited in reverse and A.D.R. Forte’s “Name” is an
ambitious and passionate retelling of one of my favorite fairy tales, “Rumpelstiltskin.”
I invite you to read Lustfully
Ever After and rediscover the magic of fairy tales—for adults!
Lustfully Ever After
is the second fairy tale erotic romance anthology I have edited for Cleis Press
(cleispress.com). The first, Fairy Tale
Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women, includes both original and retold fairy
tales. One lucky reader will get a double dose of Lust—a hardcover copy of Fairy
Tale Lust and a copy of the newly released Lustfully Ever After. Just leave a comment below telling me what
your favorite fairy tale is for a chance to win.
About the editor:
Described by The Romance Reader as “a budding force to be
reckoned with,” Kristina Wright
(kristinawright.com) is a full-time writer and the
editor of the bestselling Fairy Tale
Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women, as well as other Cleis Press anthologies
including Dream Lover: Paranormal Tales
of Erotic Romance; Steamlust:
Steampunk Erotic Romance; Lustfully
Ever After: Fairy Tale Erotic Romance; and the Best Erotic Romance series. Kristina’s erotica and erotic romance
fiction has appeared in over one hundred anthologies and her articles,
interviews and book reviews have appeared in numerous publications, both print
and online. She received the Golden Heart Award for Romantic Suspense from
Romance Writers of America for her first novel Dangerous Curves and she is a member of RWA as well as the special
interest chapters Passionate Ink and Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal. She is
a book reviewer for the Erotica Readers and Writers Association
(erotica-readers.com) and blogs regularly at the multi-author blog Oh Get a
Grip! (ohgetagrip.blogspot.com). She holds degrees in English and Humanities
and has taught College Composition and World Mythology at the community college
level. Her forthcoming anthologies
include Duty and Desire: Military Erotic
Romance in September and xoxo: Sweet
and Sexy Erotic Romance next spring (edited for Cleis Press) and Seduce Me Tonight, her solo collection
of erotic romance for HarperCollins Mischief (November 2012). Originally from
South Florida, Kristina is living happily ever after in Virginia with her
husband Jay and their two little boys.
You can purchase Lustfully Ever After (and Kristina’s other
anthologies) directly from Cleis Press (cleispress.com) or on Amazon
(http://www.amazon.com/Lustfully-Ever-After-Erotic-Romance/dp/1573447870/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1341250738&sr=1-11&keywords=kristina+wright).
Find Kristina online:
Website: kristinawright.com
Facebook: facebook.com/kristinacw
Twitter: twitter.com/kristinawright
Cleis Press: http://www.cleispress.com/gosearch.php?textfield=wright%2C+kristina&search_type=AUTHOR
Oh, boy! I'll have to think about this. I was always kind of disturbed by most fairy tales as a girl...that's why I always enjoyed it when the Muppets rejiggered them, or when my mom used to show me "Fractured Fairy Tales" on the Bullwinkle cartoons. Right now, I really enjoy an m/m story by Kailin Morgan called "Forever After," about a mild-mannered librarian in a storybook kingdom who falls for his fabulous fairy godperson. (By the way, Kristina, I was thinking that we still need Erotica Cover Watch and its like...I went to see the movie MAGIC MIKE last week, and they STILL had to throw in some breasts to appease any threatened straight men. Sheesh!)
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I LOLed at your Magic Mike reference. At least they were nice boobs? *silence*
ReplyDeleteAnywho, I just love your blog and all of the books that you (positively) review are either on my to-read shelf or already on my book shelf. I adore you, and that's why I'm awarding you the Versatile Blogger Award. It is for bloggers who are awesome, unique and, well, versatile. ;) And I think you are all three and more. I hope that you accept and can't wait to read what you review next!
xo.
Fairy tales aren't just for little girls..at least not these kind. Hehehe.
ReplyDeleteI am such a sucker for fairy tales, all of them. Though my favorite has always been Beauty and the Beast. Something about how The Beast has to learn how to love, and of course his dangerous animal side. I am very curious to see if there is a Beauty and the Beast version in this erotic collection...oh the ideas running through my mind!
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