Love and lust run wild in the boldest edition of Violet Blue's bestselling women's erotica series. Here women of every sexual persuasion tease, romance, dominate, and deflower their partners in steamy encounters ranging from sweaty trysts to loving experimentation by long-time partners. ''Fly'' updates a classic when a suddenly sexual Tiger Lily decides to take on both Peter and Wendy. In ''Cardio, '' a hunky dance teacher shows Christina how to shake more than her hips. ''The Girl Next Door'' bends the boy next door over the bathtub, with delightful results. Whether set in an Amsterdam shop window or a Victorian mansion, these 21 tales by top erotica writers let you savor the variety of women's sexual desires from the sweet to the shocking

A collection of the year's best erotic fiction for women.

Violet Blue's keenly intelligent, witty approach to sex and erotic writing is winning hearts and minds, as well as gaining readers – with sales for the Best Women's Erotica series growing year after year. A rising media star, Violet has been featured everywhere from O: The Oprah Magazine, to Wired, The Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek. A glorious celebration of the finest and friskiest female erotic fiction today, Best Women's Erotica 2010 delivers ecstatic, heady, and heart-pounding thrills. These steamy stories revel in erotic adventure, from the sparks between strangers to the knowing caresses of long-time lovers. Filled with strong characters and clever narratives that revel in a wide range of sexual experiences, each contribution redefines the meaning of "erotic." Lovingly selected by web celeb Violet Blue, these tales let readers savor the variety of women's sensual desires from the sweet to the shocking — but always sexy.

From the erotica anthology series that truly delivers, Best Women's Erotica 2009 is packed with risky, romantic thrills and erotic adventure - both inside the bedroom and out. The stories contained within the anthology are yet to be announced - Violet Blue is sifting through the year's best stories to find the best of the best - but the results of her search are bound to be explosive. Violet Blue is a sex columnist, author and editor of erotic fiction, as well as being the creator of popular podcast Open Source Sex.

Visible: A Femmethology, the only two-volume anthology devoted to femme identity, calls the LGBTQI community on its prejudices and celebrates the diversity of individual femmes. Award-winning authors, spoken-word artists, and new voices come together to challenge conventional ideas of how disability, class, nationality, race, aesthetics, sexual orientation, gender identity and body type intersect with each contributor's concrete notion of femmedom.

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Erotica in 2003 and 2004, Cleis’Best Lesbian Eroticaseries is the gold standard for erotic lesbian fiction, and this year's collection is no exception.Best Lesbian Erotica 2009journeys into the world of hot women-on-women action with edgy, unusual stories that push lesbian lust and desire to new heights. Edited by best-selling author Tristan Taormino and selected and introduced by the noted author, playwright, and poet Joan Larkin, this latest edition of America’s most popular lesbian erotica series is smart, sensual, inventive, and breathtaking. From threesomes to gender-bending to shedding one's wholesome image to indulge in more visceral pursuits, the women in these stories reveal all their pleasures in memorable tales that are both sexy and lyrical.

Since the publication of A Woman's World in 1995, Travelers' Tales has been publishing award-winning books by and for women. We continue this tradition with The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009, the fifth collection in our annual series guaranteed to inspire women to take their first trip-or to continue exploring the world with wit, soul, and verve, as so many adventurous women do each and every day. This best-selling, award-winning series presents the finest accounts of women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples - and themselves. The common threads connecting the stories are a woman's perspective and lively storytelling to make the reader laugh, cry, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn't. From breaking the gender barrier on a soccer field in Kenya to learning the art of French cooking in a damp cellar in the Loire Valley to hitchhiking through Mexico in the 1960s, the points of view and perspectives are global and the themes eclectic, including stories that encompass spiritual growth, hilarity and misadventure, high adventure, romance, solo journeys, stories of service to humanity, family travel, and encounters with exotic cuisine. In The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009:In Kenya, an American woman breaks the gender barrier on the soccer field. In the damp cellar of a Loire Valley chateaux, an American learns French and the art of """"creative"""" cooking. In Newfoundland, a kayaker gets up close and personal with icebergs and whales. An intrepid traveler canoes down the Amazon-at night. A 40-something motorbike rider braves a 1,550-mile race through China. In the Bahaman resort Atlantis, three sisters become seduced by the """"hyperreal""""-and remember the art of play. ...and much more.