Lesbian Cops – Blog Tour!

Sacchi Green’s newest anthology, Lesbian Cops, hits bookstores April first. In celebration, she’s hosting a blog tour, and since I have a story included in the book, I’m participating. Come check it out! Here’s the hookup:

April 1  JL Merrow

April 2  Jove Belle

April 3  Delilah Devlin

April 4  R. G. Emanuelle

April 5  Andrea Dale

April 6  Kenzie Matthews

April 7  Ily Goyanes

April 8  Cheyenne Blue

April 9  Evan Mora

April 10 J.N. Gallagher

April 11  Liz Coldwell

April 12  Teresa Noelle Roberts

April 13 Lynn Mixon

April 14 RV Raiment

 

Introduction

What is it about lesbian cops that pushes all the right buttons (and some of the deliciously transgressive wrong ones?) It’s not just the uniform, with handcuffs and weapons, or the confidence, authority, and sense of danger. The intrinsic appeal of women taking on roles that have traditionally been seen as hyper-masculine is part of it, of course. To hold their own they need to be hyper-strong, in body, mind, and strength of will. That’s intensely sexy, for me, at least, and if you’ve read this far I suspect it is for you too.

But there’s something more as well, an irresistible force that these writers have channeled into fiercely erotic stories of policewomen in or out of uniform, on patrol or undercover, in charge or in need of healing, on the case or under the sheets.

The action can be gut-level tough, as in Jove Belle’s ”Hollis” where anti-terrorism boot camp surges over the edge into BDSM; or heart-wrenching, as in Evan Mora’s “A Cop’s Wife,” when death threats give a keen edge to the need for life-affirming sex; or quirky as well as steamy when Teresa Noelle Roberts’s cop finds a way to maintain respect for her own “Dress Uniform” while indulging her anime-girl lover’s cos-play kink.

The settings vary, as well, affecting the mood and feel of each piece. Delilah Devlin’s cops play their “Only Game in Town” in a southern city that’s small without being entirely small-minded. Kenzie Mathews’s Alaskan village is a natural place for the mythic “Raven Brings the Light”.  JL Merrow heats up a British town during one “Blazing June”, and Cheyenne Blue goes Down Under to an Australian rain forest for “How Does Your Garden Grow.”

J.N. Gallagher’s “Officer Birch” inspires undying passion in a Midwestern high school; Terry Mixon’s witness protection marshal finds (and gives) a “Healing Hand” in an unidentified (of course) mountain location; Andrea Dale’s “Charity and Splendor” merge in a nice family neighborhood; and Elizabeth Coldwell’s handcuffed stripper in “Torn off a Strip” meets her match on a suburban porch. Sacchi Green’s state-trooper-turned-bodyguard just keeps “Riding the Rails” from Vermont to D.C., with special attention to the roomy handicapped restroom.

Urban scenes range from R.G. Emanuelle’s sweet and spicy “Cop at My Door” and Ily Goyanes’s “Undercover” hooker who’s way in over her head in Miami, to R V Raiment’s gritty (and lyrical) “Chapel Street Blue” and Annabeth Leong’s searing, stirring, and ultimately redeeming “A Prayer before Bed.”

The characters, of course, are the real heart and strength of any story. I’m not easily impressed, but these writers did the trick; they walked the fine line between fantasy and believability without ever slipping into caricature, and gave us fully rounded people, explicit, uncompromising eroticism, and their own sizzling visions of the complexity and depth, the strength and vulnerability, and above all the commanding, overwhelming sex appeal of Lesbian Cops.

They’ve definitely made me resolve to support my local policewomen.

 

Sacchi Green

Amherst, Massachusetts

 

Table of Contents

Hollis  Jove Bell

Only Game in Town  Delilah Devlin

Dress Uniform  Teresa Noelle Roberts

A Cop’s Wife  Evan Mora

Charity and Splendor  Andrea Dale

Chapel Street Blue  R V Raiment

Cop at My Door  R. G. Emanuelle

Torn off a Strip  Elizabeth Coldwell

Officer Birch  J.N. Gallagher

Raven Brings the Light  Kenzie Mathews

Healing Hand Lynn Mixon

Undercover  Ily Goyanes

Riding the Rails  Sacchi Green

Blazing June  JL Merrow

A Prayer before Bed  Annabeth Leong

How Does Your Garden Grow  Cheyenne Blue

 

About the Authors

Jove Belle (http://jovebelle.wordpress.com) lives in Portland, OR with her partner of fifteen years and their three children. Her novels include Indelible, Chaps, Split the Aces, and Edge of Darkness, all from Bold Strokes Books.

Cheyenne Blue‘s (http://www.cheyenneblue.com) erotica has appeared in over 60 anthologies including Best Women’s Erotica, Mammoth Best New Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Lesbian Romance, Girl Crazy, Girl Crush, and Lesbian Lust. She was once “taken in for questioning” about an incident involving a mysterious bag of green tea and an unregistered Holden.

Elizabeth Coldwell lives and writes in London. Her stories have been published in a number of anthologies including Best Of Best Women’s Erotica, A Kiss In The Dark, and Lesbian Love 1, 2 and 3. ‘Torn Off A Strip’ is dedicated to Becky, who’s always a force to be reckoned with.

Andrea Dale’s (www.cyvarwydd.com) stories have appeared in Lesbian Lust, Best Lesbian Romance 2011, Lesbian Cowboys, and many others. Parts of “Charity and Splendor” are mostly true, but she’s being coy and not going to tell you which ones.

Delilah Devlin (www.DelilahDevlin.com) is an award-winning author with a rapidly expanding reputation for writing deliciously edgy stories with complex characters, whether from dark, erotically-charged paranormal worlds or richly descriptive westerns that ring with authenticity.

R.G. Emanuelle is a writer and editor living in New York City. She co-edited Skulls and Crossbones, an anthology of female pirate stories, and her short stories can be found in Best Lesbian Erotica 2010, Khimairal Ink, Women in Uniform, Read These Lips 4Play, Lesbian Lust, and the online collection Oysters & Chocolate.

J.N. Gallagher is currently working on a short story collection of erotic fiction, a full-length erotic novel, and a bunch of other stuff that J.N.’s Midwestern parents can never, ever be allowed to read.

Ily Goyanes is a Latina lesbian who lives to learn. When she isn’t writing about food and culture for the Miami New Times, she likes to fiddle around in the kitchen and get dirty. Feel free to email her at ily.goyanes@gmail.com.

Annabeth Leong‘s (http://annabethleong.blogspot.com/) lesbian erotica has appeared on Oysters and Chocolate and in Girl Crush. Other erotic adventures include technological erotica in Ravenous Romance’s Experimental anthology, and an erotic retelling of The Six Swans forthcoming in Coming Together: Neat.

Kenzie Mathews works in a small library in rural Alaska. When not writing, she paints landscapes and seascapes and walks her dogs. Her work can also be found in Lesbian Lust from Cleis Press.

JL Merrow (www.jlmerrow.com) read Natural Sciences at Cambridge, where she learned many things, chief amongst which was that she never wanted to see the inside of a lab ever again. She has had over twenty short stories and novellas published, including her latest novella Pricks and Pragmatism, available from Samhain Publishing.

Lynn Mixon (terrymixon.com) lives in Texas and is a co-host of the Parsec Award Finalist (x2) Dead Robots’ Society writing podcast.

Evan Mora is a recovering corporate banker living in Toronto who’s thrilled to put pen to paper after years of daydreaming in boardrooms. Her works can be found in Best Lesbian Erotica ’09, Best Lesbian Romance ’09 & ’10, Where the Girls Are, The Sweetest Kiss: Ravishing Vampire Erotica, Girl Crush, Please, Sir: Erotic Stories of Female Submission, Spank!, and Best Bondage Erotica ’11.

R V Raiment is a prize-winning English writer, novelist and philosopher, born in the North of England, now happily established in London and often to be found feeding squirrels in St James’ Park. R V’s stories can be found at Clean Sheets, at ERWA, in The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 5 and ERWA’s own Cream.  R V’s erotic novel, Aphrodite Overboard is published by Velluminous Press.

Teresa Noelle Roberts enjoys writing about women who love hot women, as evidenced by her publication in such anthologies as Lesbian Lust, Best Lesbian Romance 2009, Best Lesbian Erotica 2009 and Lipstick on Her Collar. She’s married to someone in law enforcement and has washed far too many uniforms to find them sexy. The courageous people in them are another story.

About the Editor

Sacchi Green is a Lambda Award winner who writes and edits in western Massachusetts. Her stories have appeared in numerous books, including seven volumes of Best Lesbian Erotica, four of Best Women’s Erotica, three of Best Lesbian Romance and Penthouse. She has edited or co-edited five previous lesbian erotica anthologies: Rode Hard, Put Away Wet (Suspect Thoughts Press); Hard Road, Easy Riding (Lethe Press); Lipstick on Her Collar (Pretty Things Press), and Lesbian Cowboys, Girl Crazy, and Lesbian Lust, all from Cleis Press.