If You Like Fairy Tale Lust, You Will Like...

Fairy Tale Lust is my pretty, pretty book and I hope you will buy it, love it, hug it, squeeze it and call it George (and tell everyone you know to do the same). But Fairy Tale Lust is not the only book tapping into the eroticism of princesses in castles and beasts in the woods. In fact, erotic fairy tales are hot right now and there are several authors and editors putting their own spin on this sexy new sub-genre.

So, if you loved Fairy Tale Lust and are lusting for more naughty fairy tales, you might want to check out these other pretty, pretty books:




Alison Tyler has edited the wonderfully titled Alison's Wonderland, a veritable feast of 27 erotic fairy tales. I'm delighted to say that several of the authors in this collection also have stories in Fairy Tale Lust, including: Shanna Germain, Allison Wonderland, Janine Ashbless, A.D.R. Forte, Andrea Dale and Saskia Walker.










In Sleeping Beauty's Bed is a collection of erotic fairy tales by the talented Mitzi Szereto. Bonus for academics and fairy tale geeks: each story includes an introduction detailing its historic origins.









Enchanted is another single-author collection of erotic fairy tales. Nancy Madore followed up this wildly popular collection with Enchanted Again, a collection of erotic stories based on nursery rhymes and Enchanted Dreams, a collection of supernatural erotica. I can't wait to see what she enchants us with next.









Finally, if short stories only whet your appetite for something longer, you might want to take a look at Cathy Yardley's Enslave: The Taming of the Beast, a novel length erotic retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Ms. Yardley's previous erotic fairy tale novels include Crave: The Seduction of Snow White and Ravish: The Awakening of Sleeping Beauty.








Enjoy this banquet of fairy tale lust and please add your own erotic fairy tale recommendations in the comments!

Advance Press for Fairy Tale Lust

Fairy Tale Lust received some early press last fall in Louise Ridley's article Rise of the Fantasy and Fairy Tale for the London Evening Standard. Brenda Knight (associate editor at Cleis Press), Mitzi Szereto (author and Cleis Press anthologist) and myself, along with other industry professionals, were interviewed for the piece. Here is a snippet of the article:

Brenda Knight at Cleis Press, which is publishing In Sleeping Beauty's Bed, says that they are releasing the book with an eye on the world's financial crisis.

"We anticipated a longing for escape from the current reality of the bad global economy," she says.

"We also know true escapism involves fantasy, and there is nothing more fantastical than fairy tales."

Sex continues to sell in economic slumps; retailers say erotic fiction seems to be "recession-proof".

Statistics for the first half of this year show the sector is booming - up 17 per cent year on year when the book market as a whole is down.

US author Kristina Wright is the editor of Fairy Tale Lust, a collection of erotic stories which will hit the UK early next year.

"If the bookstores in London are any indication, the British aren't stuffy at all," she says.

"A preference for fairy tales may be because the canon of British literature is filled with myths and legends and there is a comfortable familiarity with the genre."

She feels that her collection of stories that "run the gamut from playful to intense" demonstrates the versatility of fairy tales.

Wright points out it's not surprising that money worries put us on the road to escapist fiction: "Nothing is more comforting than reading a favourite fairy tale, and nothing is more satisfying than indulging one's sexuality. There is a reason why there is a baby boom after every economic downturn."