Best Lesbian Erotica 2014

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It’s been half a decade since Tristan Taormino and Cleis handed the curating duties of this series on to me. Half a decade, and I’ve read well over five hundred stories, worked with six different judges, corresponded with writers whose work has been chosen (and not) from all over the globe, and spent many a late night line-editing, negotiating changes and sitting with the chosen stories before me like a jigsaw puzzle, fitting them into an order that makes sense, has an energy, an arc to it, and finishing up all the housekeeping tasks: assembling bios, noting which pieces have been published before, collecting contracts and turning it all in. And then I’m done… until it’s time to look at the proof files, then the dummies (as we used to call them in publishing), and set up the first reading, and start visiting my PO box to collect next year’s submissions.

I’m not complaining, mind you. I’m delineating the parts that make the whole. Sometimes, when I tell people that I edit lesbian erotica, they say: “Well that must be fun!” And I usually respond: “Well, when the stories are good, it is.”

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