Write for Coming Together!

Coming Together's Alessia Brio recently sent out a note about upcoming anthology calls -- a lot of neat stuff here!

Coming Together: Arm in Arm in Arm... (tentacle theme, benefits Oceana)
http://www.eroticanthology.com/tentacle.htm
Nobilis Reed, editor
Closes 6/30/12; Releases 9/xx/12

Coming Together: In Vein (vampire theme, benefits Doctors Without Borders)
http://www.eroticanthology.com/invein.htm
Lisabet Sarai, editor
Closes 8/1/12; Releases 12/25/12

Coming Together: Hungry for Love (zombies theme, benefits American Diabetes Assoc)
http://www.eroticanthology.com/zombies.htm
Sommer Marsden, editor
Closes 7/31/12; Releases 10/31/12

Coming Together: Triumphantly (healing/recovery theme, benefits Nat'l Women's Health Network)
http://www.eroticanthology.com/triumphantly.htm
Dorla Moorehouse, editor (Dorla is new to Coming Together, so she'll have a co-editor this time)
Closes 11/30/12; Releases 2/14/13

The Submissions page is here: http://www.eroticanthology.com/submissions.htm

The Share the Love Blog Bash Begins!

Alessia Brio kicks things off with a moving description of why Coming Together matters to her:

I'm doing things I believe in with every fiber of my being. Not only do I believe in the rightness and the power of charity, I also believe in the rightness and the power of sex. Writing about sex, whether to educate or to arouse, brings it into the light where it belongs. Sex needs to be celebrated for the joyous, life-affirming, rowdy primal romp that it is. It is only when relegated to dark, forbidden places that sex becomes something shameful. Something that others—media, religion, politics, retail—can use to manipulate and control us.

For those not in the know, Coming Together publishes erotic books and donates all proceeds to charity. She's also posted an excerpt of one of her stories, "Butterfly," which is an amazing example of the healing power of erotica, and appeared quite appropriately in an anthology benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

I'm proud to be part of Coming Together's stable of authors, and my own blog bash post will be up on Feb. 24. Keep an eye out!

Share the Love Blog Bash

There's an awesome blog event going on the whole month of February. Coming Together Presents editor Lisabet Sarai will be hosting a blog bash at Beyond Romance, featuring daily excerpts and posts from contributors to the Coming Together line.

Coming Together has the most awesome tagline: "Doing Good While Being Bad." Proceeds from erotic books in the line go to various charities. My work was in Coming Together: As One, an anthology of menage erotica that benefits ONE, the campaign to end global poverty.

My book, The Six Swans, which will be coming out soon, is part of Coming Together's Neat line. The proceeds from that go to Kiva, which offers microloans to entrepreneurs around the world.

This is awesome stuff, and the editors have an amazing lineup of writers. I'll be participating in the blog bash -- my date is February 24. But stop by all month. There are some awesome prizes, including a Kindle Fire and $50 at All Romance E-books!