News! Lots of news!

My story, "Rainbow's End," an homage to hot women, queer bookstores and queer poetry, will be appearing in Year's Best Best Lesbian Erotica Vol. 3, edited by Sacchi Green (Cleis Press, December, 2018). Now up for preorder!

My story "Phone, Sex, Chocolate" appears in Candy Lovers: Sugar Erotica edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel, out this week!

Medusa's Touch will be out on 5/23 but is up for preorder now! Author Anne Hagan was kind enough to host my announcement info (the novel is cyberpunk, not steampunk, just to avoid disappointment later) and you can see Sacchi Green's blurb. Medusa also got a nice shoutout on Queer Sci-Fi. :-)

In another early review, author Dayna Ingram says:
"Pilot-Captain TiCara X273 navigates more than just the stars in Emily L Byrne's sexy space opera MEDUSA'S TOUCH.

As a medusa pilot, TiCara is specially wired to command the Astra, the ship she longs to own so she can fly free from corporate interference. This latest job has just enough risk (and thus reward) to let her do exactly that. But this latest job also includes the beautiful and alluring Sherin Khan, who might prove to be as much of a distraction for TiCara in bed as she is a betrayer with an agenda of her own.

Byrne spins a tightly-paced web of melodrama aboard the Astra, with the right balance of sex and explosions to keep the pages turning. TruTell: you'll be savoring certain scenes long after you've left TiCara and Sherin's orbit."

And an early reminder: Medusa's Touch will be one of 15 books included in this year's Pride Month StoryBundle! This will kick off in early June and include titles by Melissa Scott, Alex Acks, Tenea D. Johnson and other folks and will be featuring Rainbow Railroad, a nonprofit that helps LGBTQ folks who are in danger in their home countries to get to safer ones. Stay tuned!

MEDUSA'S TOUCH is up for preorder!

My new lesfic erotic romance science fiction novel, MEDUSA'S TOUCH, is up for preorder! Betrayal, desire and danger: how did a simple side job go so wrong? Medusa Pilot TiCara X273 is in over her implants and she’s going to need all the help she can get from the lovely Sherin Khan…if she can learn to trust her.

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New ARC giveaway for MEDUSA'S TOUCH!

I've got an Author Spotlight and ARC #giveaway for MEDUSA'S TOUCH at @jscoatsworth's site today - stop by and comment to be entered to win! #lesfic #queerspecfic #sfromance

MEDUSA'S TOUCH Cover Reveal and Blurb!

Blurb:

Medusa Pilot Captain TiCara X273, ex-street kid, former bondslave and veteran of the Corps Wars, thought she wanted nothing more than to be captain of her own starship. Or, at least, that was all that she thought she wanted until Sherin Khan came back into her life. A bar singer turned corporate rep, Sherin is now working for Ser Trin Vahn, one of TiCara's best clients and head of Vahn Corp.

Once they are thrown together on TiCara’s ship, TiCara and Sherin can no longer deny their simmering attraction to each other. A simple mission to transport the ailing Vahn to the legendary asteroid, Electra 12, for medical treatments turns dark and dangerous as betrayal leads to betrayal. TiCara's greatest enemy is pursuing them, there's a traitor on her crew and Sherin has a secret that can tear them apart. Can they learn to trust each other before it's too late?

Coming May 20, 2018 from Queen of Swords Press!

MEDUSA'S TOUCH will be out in May!

Several years ago, I had a near miss with signing a three book contract deal with a largish romance publisher that went boom shortly thereafter in exciting and unpleasant ways. It was a "near miss" because I had a lawyer with publishing expertise review their contract and was counseled not to sign it as it was. The publisher wouldn't negotiate, I wouldn't sign, and that, as they say, was that. This was a crushing disappointment for me for a few months, at least until said publisher imploded horribly and a lot of other people's books were caught up in the resulting disaster. In the meantime, I drafted a novel from one of my three proposals. Then I rewrote it and sent it out for feedback and edits, then rewrote it again. Then more edits and more rewrites.

The short version is that I'm nearly done, the cover artist is working on artwork for it and I have a release date of late May, 2018 from Queen of Swords Press. The original plan was to release this book later on in the year, but I have a chance to get it into a book bundle in June so we moved it up.

So what is Medusa's Touch about? It's a far future science fiction lesbian romantic adventure with some erotic scenes. Or it's a space opera with some queer women and Pilot-Captain TiCara X273 is a lot of things: a medusa pilot who can pilot a ship that plugs directly into her brain, a former fighter pilot from the Corps Wars that wracked the galaxy, a former street kid from one of the outlying settlements, an ex-sex slave to the Ears, who serve as corporate spies and assassins to the highest bidder. The woman she's falling for, Sherin Khan, is a corporate rep, a former singer in the spacer bars and a woman with some big secrets. They're on a mission to take Ser Vahn, an aging corporate CEO to the asteroid Electra 12 for medical treatments, but there are a bunch of folks who don't want them to make it. Also, there's some hot sex. Have I mentioned that part? :-)
Stay tuned for more updates and the cover reveal!

News!

Sacch Green's erotic lesbian fairy tales anthology Witches, Princesses and Women at Arms, which includes my story "Toads, Diamonds and the Occasional Pearl," is a Lambda Award finalist!  Fingers crossed that it's a win in May!

In other news, I have a provisional acceptance for  Best Lesbian Erotica 2019, pending publisher approval. This is for my brand new story, "Rainbow's End," which has something of a sweet romance vibe. Kind of. :-)

Speaking of romances, the massive overhaul of my erotic sf romantic space opera, Medusa's Touch, continues apace! I'm making sons good progress and will hopefully get it overhauled and edited in time for a late May release. Other stuff in progress too - stay tuned for updates.

Win a copy of DESIRE and other fun lesfic titles!

My collection Desire is part of a book giveaway package out on Instafreebie this week. Check it out and claim a fun new read!