Best Women's Erotica of the Year

We're excited to round out a DECADE with Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 10, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel, out December 3, 2024 from Cleis Press! Add it to your Goodreads want-to-read list and pre-order it in print from your local independent bookstore, Bookshop, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble. We'll update here when ebook links are available.

There is a lot to be desired in Bussel's latest addition to the BWE series! "Anything goes" in this wild and thrilling collection of erotic fiction. From lesbian vampires to the ghost of Nathaniel Hawthorne, exhibitionism for a daring woman's neighbors and sexy onstage burlesque moves, the women in these stories are hot, horny, and determined to get exactly what they want. Whether they're bedding a longtime partner or hooking up with someone they've just met, they always find a way to get exactly what they want. From outlandish erotic fantasies in public and private to tender intimacies, sexual healing and hotness take many forms in these arousing tales by authors including Sally Bend, Katrina Jackson, T.C. Mill, Garnell Wallace, and more. Edited by the award-winning Rachel Kramer Bussel, Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 10 serves up twenty-one steamy adult stories that are sure to fan the flames of readers' desires!

Table of Contents

Introduction: Anything Goes

Try Something New by Amanda Nicholson

Sunlight and Santino by Garnell Wallace

“The Afterlife with Red and White” by Eireann Shells

Belly of the Beast by Katrina Jackson

The Alligator Jaw by April Would

Begetting by Jean Roberta

Mangoes by S.P. Jaffery

With Wand’ring Steps and Slow by T.C. Mill

Butterfly Heart by Anna Sansom

The Con by Gracie C. McKeever

A Work of Art by Kit Nowell

Steamy ’Squatch Watch by Brynne Blackmoore

Cloverleaf by Faith Arrowsmith

Behind the Times by Vix Hille

The Giving by Jayne Colridge

Call of the Asphodel by Sri Savita

Hawthorne’s Ghost by Melanie Anton

The Chameleon by Valerie Alexander

Sometimes Lies Become Her by Roberta Kelley

Salad Dressing by Sally Bend

Happy International Women’s Day! Head on over to Goodreads to enter to win 1 of 5 copies of Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 8 (US only). Enter by March 31.

We have 8 hot volumes of Best Women’s Erotica of the Year for you to give! All are out in print and ebook, with Volumes 1-7 in audio too. Below are buy links for our latest, Volume 8, with 21 BRAND NEW stories on the theme of PLAY! 

p.s. You can totally give yourself a gift this holiday season!

Buy links:

Print

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Ebook

Kindle (all markets)

Nook

Google Play

iBooks

Thanks for making this a wonderful release day and catapulting the Kindle edition of Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 8 to the #1 spot on Amazon’s Erotica Anthologies bestseller list! This sexy book has 21 BRAND NEW stories and makes a great gift for you or someone special!

Happy release day to Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 8! Details below about what’s in this super sexy book of 21 BRAND NEW stories about PLAY and where to buy it! There will be an audiobook and we’ll post when that’s out.

It's Playtime! Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 8 is ready to play! The characters in these 21 stories play music, play sex games and play with each other. Edited by the award-winning Rachel Kramer Bussel, these sexy stories feature everything from a daring historical tale of two lovers getting intimate in a crowded theater to forbidden love and lust to alien passion in "Out of This World," along with plenty of fetishes, BDSM, and paranormal tales. Everyone's a winner when these characters play out their deepest sexual fantasies. With stories by popular authors such as Rilzy Adams, Christina Berry, Dena Hankins, Ruby Lang, Eva Leigh, Rosanna Leo, Robin Lovett, P. Stormcrow, Fiona Zedde along with fresh voices, this playful collection is a winner when it comes to steaming the pages.

Buy links:

Print

Bookshop.org

Amazon (all markets)

Barnes & Noble

Powells

Books-A-Million 

Ebook

Kindle (all markets) 

Nook

Google Play

iBooks

Kobo

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Table of contents

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Introduction: Let's Play

Until The Last Note Plays Rilzy Adams

The Devil Take You Eva Leigh

Ars Amandi V. A. Vazquez

Embracing Against the Rules Noor Juman

It Feels Good Clare London

Drag Dena Hankins

Frenzy Diva Darling

Happy Now Ruby Lang

The Luv Sub Karina L. Agbisit

Out of this World Robin Lovett

So Many Ways to Win Julie Fennell

Whenever You Need Me Fiona Zedde

Desire Blooms Brynne Blackmoore

The Mid-Autumn Moon P Stormcrow

Checkmate Cat Giraldo

Capturing the Storm Sage Parker

How Real Are You? Christina Berry

The Reset Button Rosanna Leo

Bursting His Bubble D. S. Dane

Character Work Souma Midwinter

Ludamus J.L. Jenson

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Introduction: Let's Play

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Welcome to Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 8! I chose

the theme of “play” because sex and desire have so many elements

of playfulness. I wanted to see where these authors could take that

playfulness in the name of turning readers on.

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As you’re about to read, the word “play” can have many meanings.

The characters here play music, play sex games, play with

gender, play with fetishes, dress up for LARPing, engage in threesomes,

enjoy outdoor sex, and so much more. They play with each

other, they play with their own ideas of how to get off, and they

play with their relationships. They ignite passion with strangers

and rekindle the flames with longtime partners. They have threesomes

and go on sex vacations and create their own very personal

sex toys.

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In the opening story, “Until the Last Note Plays” by Rilzy

Adams, exes Sage and Garrick reunite after six years and find a

very intimate way to work through their issues. Adams writes,

“She kissed him like she could find the answer to all of life’s

burning questions on his tongue.” The sparks continue to fly in

the next twenty stories, whether in a forbidden rendezvous in the

audience of a theater in Eva Leigh’s “The Devil Take You” or in an

erotic adventure that unlocks untold pleasures in Diva Darling’s

“Frenzy.” In Souma Midwinter’s “Character Work,” Jeannie and

Alex see if the roles they play onstage can continue when it comes

to getting naked backstage.

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You’ll discover the thrill of a couple’s exploration in “It Feels

Good” by Clare London and the sexual excitement of meeting an

online partner, who may or may not be what they seem,

in “How Real Are You?” by Christina Berry. You’ll also travel to

a planet far, far away in Robin Lovett’s “Out of this World” and

discover some paranormal eroticism in Fiona Zedde’s “Whenever

You Need Me” and Cat Giraldo’s “Checkmate.”

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There’s also plenty of BDSM here, as in the kinky game in Julie

Fennell’s femdom story “So Many Ways to Win” and the bondage

delights in P. Stormcrow’s “The Mid-Autumn Moon.”

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Within these pages, couples discover new aspects of their most

personal, sensual selves in stories such as Ruby Lang’s “Happy

Now” and Rosanna Leo’s “The Reset Button,” which blend

romance and longstanding passion with the hottest of sex acts.

Every story in this book unlocks sex play in a different way,

providing personal revelations, playing out sexual fantasies, and

exploring fetishes, with plenty of orgasms, pleasure and sensual

excitement. I hope you enjoy the way these characters play, and

that their fun inspires some playfulness in your life.

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Rachel Kramer Bussel

Hope you can join us on Tuesday, December 7, at 5 pm PT/8 pm ET for the virtual launch celebration of Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 7! It’ll be happening on The Ripped Bodice Facebook page and you can RSVP here if you want a reminder. When you tune in, you’ll get a 15% off code for books on The Ripped Bodice’s site. Joining this event will be editor Rachel Kramer Bussel and contributors Adriana Herrera, Lucy Eden, Corrina Lawson, Angelina M. Lopez, Holley Trent and Erin McLellan.

More about the book:

So happy to share the cover of Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 7, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel,out December 7, 2021 from Cleis Press. Learn more about the book here, add it to your Goodreads want-to-read list, and if you shop from Amazon, you can pre-order the print edition now (more buy links coming soon). The theme of these 20 sexy stories is surprise, and they definitely deliver!

Table of Contents

Introduction: Surprisingly Sexy

Colors Velvet Moore

The Two of Us Holley Trent

Hot Pockets Angelina M. Lopez

Tulsa Erin McLellan

Gravity Gwendolyn J. Bean

Bitch Inga Gardner

Dripping Adriana Herrera

Sealing the Treaty Ann Castle

Symmetry Angela Kempf

Your Name on My Lips Joanna Shaw

Phosphorous Kim Kuzuri

Puzzle Gabrielle Johnson

ʻOhana Lucy Eden

Who Is Like You? Sara Taylor Woods

A Modest Woman Lin Devon

Wicked Ride Corrina Lawson

Broken Bars S.P. Jaffrey

Before and After Kristine Lynn

Lioness Theo de Langley

Exciting news: The audiobook of Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 6, narrated by @rosecaraway​, is now available at Audible. Enjoy 20 super sexy adventure stories!

If you’re looking for your next sexy listen, Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Book 6 is sure to heat things up. These 20 adventure-themed stories will take you around the globe as you meet characters eager to indulge their sensual sides.

From competing on a reality show and getting “Inked on My Skin” by an extremely sexy tattoo artist to exploring a “Cabinet of Curiosities”, these characters say "yes" to their most daring desires. Whether a single mom having a hot vacation fling, a vegetarian lusting after a hunky butcher, a couple visiting a kinky escape room, or a divorcee hitting up a motorcycle club and going on an “Easy Ride”, these erotic tales bare all. Women who’ve been told they’re “too much”, by an ex or the world, discover the joy of asking for more and more and more — and getting it.

You’ve got a few more days to enter to win this 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle of the cover of Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 6. It will come deconstructed in the tin shown below along with a copy of this anthology of 20 adventure-themed stories! (Open to those in the U.S. only.) Head on over to the Best Women’s Erotica of the Year Instagram to enter. Good luck! The deadline to enter is December 31, 2020, 11:59 pm EST. And make sure to follow Best Women’s Erotica on Instagram (bestwomenserotica) and Twitter (BWEoftheyear) for more giveaways, and subscribe to Rachel Kramer Bussel’s newsletter for monthly giveaways.

Tonight, December 18, at 7 pm CT/8 pm ET! If you can make it to the Facebook Live event on the Feminist Erotica podcast Facebook page, you can enter to win a copy of Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 6! If you can’t join us live, you can watch the recording.

Friday, December 18, 7 pm CT/8 pm ET

Feminist Erotica Podcast

Virtual Happy Hour + Panel Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 6