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SIMON SHEPPARD is the Lammy Award–winning author of Sodomy!, and six other books including the upcoming The Dirty Boy’s Club, and his work has appeared in several hundred anthologies, including many editions of Best Gay Romance and Best Gay Erotica. He works part-time at San Francisco’s Warfield Theater, and hangs out at simonsheppard.com.
C. C. WILLIAMS (ccwilliamsonline.net), after moving several times about the country and through Europe, is now settled in the Southwestern United States with his partner, JT. When not critiquing cooking or dance show contestants, he is at work on several writing projects.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
RICHARD LABONTÉ (tattyhill@gmail.com), when he’s not skimming dozens of anthology submissions a month, or reviewing one hundred or so books a year for Q Syndicate, or turning turgid bureaucratic prose into comprehensible English for the Inter-American Development Bank or the Reeves of Renfrew County, Ontario, or coordinating the judging of the Lambda Literary Awards, or crafting the best croutons ever at his weekend work in a Bowen Island recovery center kitchen, likes to startle deer as he walks terrier/schnauzer Zak, accompanied by husband, Asa, through the island’s temperate rainforest. In season, he fills pails with salmonberries, blackberries and huckleberries. Yum. Since 1997, he has edited almost forty erotic anthologies, though “pornographer” was not an original career goal.
Copyright © 2012 by Richard Labonté.
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“Precious Jade” © 2012 by Fyn Alexander, excerpted from the novel Precious Jade (Loose-Id, 2010). “Gomorrahs of the Deep, a Musical Coming Someday to Off-Broadway” © 2012 by Steve Berman. “Cinema Love” © 2012 by Aaron Chan. “Cody Barton” © 2012 by Martin Delacroix. “Charming Princes” © 2012 by Jamie Freeman. “Splatterdays” © 2012 by Steve Isaak. “From a Journey” © 2012 by Håkan Lindquist. “The Curtain Store” © 2012 by Anthony McDonald. “The Bachelors” © 2012 by Gregory L. Norris. “To Brandon with Love, Justin” © 2012 by Ron Radle. “Prom King” © 2012 by Rob Rosen. “Hello, Young Lovers” © 2012 by Simon Sheppard. “The Prisoner” © 2012 by C. C. Williams.
Richard Labonte, Best Gay Romance 2012
