Zowie! It's Yaoi!: Western Girls Write Hot Stories of Boys' Love »

Marilyn Jaye Lewis is the founder of the Erotic Authors Association, the first American organization to honor literary excellence in the erotic genre. Her anthologies include Stirring Up a Storm and The Mammoth Book of Erotic Photography.

Her erotic short stories and novellas have appeared in nearly 40 books and anthologies in the United States and Europe. Her fiction has won many citations and awards, including the New Century Writer Awards and finalist in the William Faulkner Writing Competition.

Yaoi's target audience, readership, and creators are almost exclusively women; the genre focuses on effeminate, pretty men — often so androgynous as to seem genderless. Here in the West, non-illustrated yaoi stories are getting very popular, to date exclusively among online readers. This all-original collection of six yaoi novellas written by Western women will be the first in the print marketplace here in the U.S.; only hentai (illustrated books) are currently available.

The contributors include: Nix Winter — a rising star in yaoi ebooks and also one of the most sought after illustrators for yaoi ebook cover art; Bianca James — whose lesbian erotic fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and her first novel Star of Persia was a finalist in the Project: Queerlit Contest, 2004; Stevie Burns lives and writes in Germany where she is publisher of Vora Books and editor-in-chief of the monthly erotic literary e-zine VoracityBeat.com; Claire Thompson — top-selling BDSM romantica writer on the Web. Catherine Lundoff has short stories and novellas in 37 collections; and Marilyn Jaye Lewis who has been writing and editing erotic fiction for the last 17 years.