We've got competition!
I have a contract to write an erotic series of stories for "Erotasy," a
new online salon of erotic writing. I will be writing twelve interlocking
stories over the next year, and my monthly story will be serialized each
week and will be the "free" story upfront for the entire site. The better
to entice folks to come on in and then pay for the many other wonderful
stories available on a pay-per-story basis.
I hope: )
The site will be open on March 1 at www.
erotasy.com.
There is an open call for submission of erotic stories, which I am posting
below, because I suspect there are many wonderful writers of erotic tales
in every corner of the Well.. These are good people and an exciting new
venture.
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Erotasy - Writers Guidelines
"Erotasy"-a new on-line salon has been announced by WeAm Press,
a San Francisco publisher of erotic literature, and is soliciting
submissions from writers.
***Erotasy is scheduled for launch at
www.erotasy.com -on March 1, 1998***
We need excellent unpublished short stories (1500-5,000 words), for a
collection to be marketed online, as well as in print. This is NOT the
stereotypical slam-bang porno-for-pinheads that is free (and worth it) all
over the 'net.
This is literature that recognizes our sexuality as full of mystery,
suspense, longing and taboo, as well as humor and excitement. Straight,
Gay, Casual & Committed- stories will be accepted. NO non-consensual or
under-age stories. NO sleazy porn.
Erotasy looks for erotic stories as smooth as silk, intriguing from the
start, stimulating and provocative, without beating us over the head.
Give your characters some depth, no-one is all-good, all-bad and rarely
all-night. New writers must read some of the listed examples, there are
many kinds of erotica, from "one-handed" letters-to-Penthouse to cerebral
tomes that never mention a body part. Choosing neither extreme, we seek the
category of provocative literature.
Compensation will be a small upfront payment of $25.00 AND royalties on
the sale of each and every copy of the story on-line. WeAm will ask for
exclusive rights to market the stories on-line for one year. A
collection of the most popular stories may be print-published, with a
separate publishing contract and compensation.
A few examples of the kind of literature we will publish follows:
+In the book by Anais Nin titled "Delta of Venus", the stories
"Linda" and "The Basque and Bijou"
+In Susie Bright's - "Best American Erotica '94" the stories
"C is for Closet, Crevice and Colossus" by Marianna Beck, and
"Better Safe" by Michael Lowenthal
+In Isabel Allende's - "Stories of Eva Luna"
the story "Simple Maria"
+In Lonnie Barbach's "The Erotic Edge" collection, the stories
"Waiting for Claire" by B. Zimmerman and "Other Men" by
E. Buskirk
From this list, you can get an idea of the style and quality we are
looking for. Send us your best, we promise to give it a good read.
Send submissions by *snail mail* only, please.
Include a SASE for our reply. Unaccepted originals will be recycled.
We Am Press
3145 Geary Blvd., Ste. 17
San Francisco, CA 94118
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