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Like a Veil: Erotic Tales of the Arabian Nights
edited by Michelle Labbé and Cecilia Tan
$3.99, 20,575 words
ISBN 978-1-885865-94-6

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A wanderer seeks access to a legendary forbidden city–but not before she convinces the mysterious gatekeeper of her worth. A Sultan gets more than he bargained for when a djinn offers him a night of pleasure unlike any other. Like a Veil: Tales of Arabian Nights is Circlet Press’s latest erotica anthology, inspired by the storytelling arts and erotic visions of Sharazad.

Editors Michelle Labbé and Cecilia Tan present four tantalizing stories that take readers into the sensual, rich and strange world of the Arabian Nights. Just as Sharazad wove stories as rich as damask to captivate the sultan and preserve her life, the stories in Like a Veil promise to entice readers with pleasure far beyond a thousand and one nights.

Stories included:

• Her Way by Anya Levin
• Blue-Eyed Djinn by Angela Goldsberry
• Catch and Release by Sunny Moraine
• The Eater of Stories by Sophia Deri-Bowen

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Only In The City: Erotic Tales of City Life
edited by Nico Vreeland and Cecilia Tan
$5.99, 35,906 words
ISBN 978-1-885865-99-1

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Six erotic short stories from Eric Del Carlo, Elizabeth Coldwell, Shanna Germain, Renatto Garcia, Elizabeth Hyder, and Kaysee Renee Robichaud.

City life is cluttered and high-density but anonymous. The characters in Only in the City are surrounded by strangers, anxious about making a connection with another person, physically crowded but emotionally isolated, even from themselves.

And so, when they find that connection–emotional, romantic, sexual–it’s explosive. Add a dose of the fantastic–sometimes even the supernatural–and you get the stories in this anthology: powerful and electric in the way of desperate connections, but also unique to their settings. Some of these cities are ancient and magical, others are gritty and futuristic, while still others are familiar to us in the here and now. Each city pulses with life, but it is that constant beat that wears down our protagonists. These characters have been hardened, cracked, and sometimes broken, and it’s often not until they’re presented with something they’ve never dreamed of that they realize what they’ve been missing.

In “As Far as I Can See,” a New Orleans man has discovered exactly how easy it is to slide into anonymity and loneliness in the city. He passes through his surroundings solitary and unseen, but what happens when he meets someone who is, literally, unseen?
In “Camille/Leon,” a prostitute has a unique talent: she can shift genders at will. This has allowed her to make a terrific living, but it’s forced her to split herself in two. Can she ever realize the whole of herself in a society that tears people apart?

Drug cartels, sentient forests, dueling mages, and earthbound angels: each of these stories reaches for the fantastic, even as it stays grounded in the familiar feel of urban life.

All the protagonists of these stories have lost something of themselves in the erosion of city life, but each of them will find something unexpected or precious through the erotic connections they make, whether fleeting or forever, that could only happen in the city.

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Some news and notes for today:

THE MARKETPLACE by Laura Antoniou is now available as both a paperback and as an ebook! This means you can walk into your favorite bookstore and order a printed copy, or get it from places like Barnes & Noble.com and Amazon.

Laura will be signing and we will be selling copies at Floating World in Edison, NJ this coming weekend. If you would like to ORDER A SIGNED COPY they are $25 postage prepaid for US/Canada customers, and your order must be received by Friday August 20th as we will have limited supply of the autographed ones. See the “Add to cart” box below the cut if you are interested.

In other news:

Like A God’s Kiss received 4.5 “divas” from Dark Divas Reviews! The reviewer praises the stories individually, and it can be read in its entirety: here. Download link below the cut if you must have it!

The Collective Review today features an interview about Circlet Press with editorial director Cecilia Tan. Penelope Friday asks about what not to do in a sex scene and other burning questions: here.

Coming soon, we will begin a new serial on circlet.com to add to your reading pleasure! “Chocolatiers on the High Winds” by H. B. Kurtzwilde will bring you the tale of young Mayport Titus, heir to the Titus Chocolate fortune, or what’s left of it since his parents’ disappearance on a transoceanic airship voyage years ago while young Mayport was at boarding school. Now having escaped the shackles of school, and perhaps propriety, our Hero sets out to rebuild his father’s ship, the Dutch Process, and seek out his own fortune, love, and adventure, no matter how bittersweet. (Sorry about the pun, steampunk just brings it out in me.)

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The Bachelor Machine
Erotic Stories by M. Christian
ISBN: 978-1-885865-58-8
Word Count: 70,562
List Price: $7.99

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Now available in ebook for the first time, 18 short stories of crackling erotic futures by the master of erotic voice, M. Christian. Men, women, hackers, derelicts, enforcers, hustlers, and whores in every combination inhabit the streets and beds and back alleys of Christian’s imagination. This is erotic science fiction at its best.

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Come celebrate the release of the Circlet anthology Like a Sacred Desire: Tales of Sex Magick in our Livejournal community this coming Sunday August 1st through Saturday August 7th. Several contributors to the anthology will be making posts throughout the week to discuss the book and answer your questions. There will be giveaways and discussions with authors such as D.L. King, David Sklar, Angela Caperton, Jana Denardo, Elizabeth Schechter, and the editor of the anthology, Jennifer Williams.

Dark Diva Reviews recently had this to say about Like a Sacred Desire:

I could easily see this collection being used in a discussion group on mythology and sexology. Joseph Campbell would have had much to say about the characters and situations found here.

Want to learn more? Then stop by our author chat starting this Sunday. We look forward to seeing you!

Tags: Angela Caperton, author chats, D.L. King, David Sklar, Elizabeth Schechter, Jana Denardo, Jennifer Williams, Like a Sacred Desire: Tales of Sex Magick

The Marketplace
by Laura Antoniou
ebook ISBN: 978-1-885865-56-2 • $9.99 • 133,693 words
print book ISBN: 978-1-885865-57-1 • $19.95 trade paperback • 330 pages

We are very pleased and excited to be bringing back Laura Antoniou’s enchanting series of books about an underground secret society of owners, masters, mistresses, and their property: submissives, maids, butlers, and pleasure slaves. In the first volume, follow the trials and tribulations of four aspiring slaves as they undergo training hoping to be accepted into The Marketplace. Under the firm hand of Grendel, the sharp eye of Alexandra, and the painful leather strap in the hands of Chris, these men and women will find some of their hardest challenges come from within themselves.

The Marketplace is available as an ebook OR in a print-on-demand paperback edition. The ebook contains an all-new bonus story, “For the Want of a Nail,” in which Grendel and Alexandra decide to host a dinner party, and also includes the text of the bonus story from the Mystic Rose edition of The Marketplace, “A Leash Has Two Ends.” (The paperback has only the text of the novel.)

Fans of Circlet Press may notice one element of these incredible books, though, makes them somewhat different from most Circlet publications: they are not science fiction or fantasy. Thus we are launching a new imprint, Luster Editions, to publish books of alternative sexuality that do not have the sf/f genre element. These books still fit Circlet’s motto perfectly well: Celebrating the erotic imagination.

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The enticing, erotic, madcap adventures of Daedalus Tesla and his neo-Victorian experimentation into the sensual sciences are now available for everyone’s listening pleasure once again! (Our website had coughed up a hairball in their place for a while there.)

The story totals 90 minutes and is in four parts. The first one is FREE! So please feel free to download it from here: The Ontological Engine, Part One

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Tags: audio erotica, the ontological engine, vinnie tesla

Like That Spark: Erotic Tales of New Relationships
Edited by Cecilia Tan and Marcy Harris
ISBN: 978-1-885865-92-2
Word Count: 33,933

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Like That Spark is a collection of short stories that explore the sensuality and eroticism of the moment when two characters finally realize they are meant to be together. These are tales of relationships and the beginnings of romantic and sexual connections. The stories here will challenge you and your notions of what constitutes a relationship in the first place. You will not find the common tame romance tale here.

Here erotic connections are represented by the science fiction and fantasy worlds; a realm of infinite possibilities. Nothing is ever as it seems. There are mythical kingdoms, distant planets, futuristic cities, surreal dreamscapes, sultry bedchambers, and even the furthest reaches of space to tempt and entice you.

Table of Contents:
• Clear Sight in the Double Full Moon Night by Shawn Erin
• A Balefire Chronicles Short Story: Poisonous Passions by Cynthia Gael
• A Last Goodbye by Roxanne Rhoads
• ToyGirls of the Personal Genome by Giselle Renarde
• The Shock of the New by D Mark Alderton
• Navigator by Kathleen Tudor
• Passive Resistance by Josephine Myles

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Like a Sacred Desire: Erotic Tales of Sex Magick
Edited by Jennifer Williams
ISBN: 978-1-885865-82-3
Word Count: 39,300

List Price: $6.99

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A ravaged warrior in search of peace and understanding. A Tarot deck that is more than what it seems. Love born of vengeance in the midst of war. Like a Sacred Desire: Tales of Sex Magick is Circlet Press’s latest anthology of erotica, exploring sex not only as a pleasurable act but as an instrument of ritual, something sacred and profound.

Featuring seven stories from contributors such as D. L. King, Angela Caperton and Raven Kaldera, in Like a Sacred Desire sex becomes a gateway to healing, achieving higher consciousness, and unlocking the mysteries. Editor Jennifer Williams invites readers on a journey both sensual and spiritual, erotic and divine. Like a Sacred Desire promises to challenge and stimulate readers’ senses, hearts, and souls.

Warning: Explicit sex.

Table of Contents:
• Unquiet Ghosts by Jana Denardo
• The Hand You’re Dealt by Elizabeth Schechter
• The Birthright by Renatto Garcia
• Perhaps a Worthy Offering by D. L. King
• Wood by David Sklar
• St. Nicholas’ Eve by Angela Caperton
• Opening by Raven Kaldera

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A brand-new ebook for your pleasure!

Like Butterflies in Iron: Erotic Tales of Urban Fairies
Edited by Cecilia Tan and Lauren Senger
ISBN: 978-1-885865-92-2
Word Count: 38,069

List Price: $6.99

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With the ever growing craze of the supernatural comes the next anthology in Circlet Press’ line of erotic fantasy anthologies, Like Butterflies in Iron. Dark and erotic, this series of short stories takes fairies out of their classic settings and places them into the urban world of today. Though the stories vary in length, style, and use of fae creatures, they combine to make a collection that intrigues all audiences, whether interested in gay, lesbian, bisexual, or heterosexual encounters.

We live in a world where environmental degradation and economic hardship are facts of life.
Paralleling our lives that sometimes seem to be falling apart around us, these stories show how fairies themselves have had to deal with human destruction. But like a wildflower growing up through a crack in concrete, even the bleakest tale of loneliness or despair can sprout beauty and hope. These fairies have learned that, while they may not live in the enchanted forests or green fields of their ancestors, they must find peace in the small things–the touch of another, the beauty of a flower, the taste of something sweet–and teaches us to do the same.

Table of Contents:
• The Beauty of Broken Glass by Frances Selkirk
• Equinox by C.A. Young
• Fairy in the Garden by Beryl Falls
• Doppelganger by Michael M. Jones
• Loel’s Choice by Essemoh Teepee
• A Goblin in Hand by Monique Poirier
• A Fairytale of New Cross by Elizabeth Coldwell

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