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Erotic Authors AssociationLiterary Awards |
The Obelisk Award for Lifetime Achievement in
Erotic Writing or Publishing
Nan Kinney (2007)
Deborah Sundahl (2007)
Jack Fritscher (2007)
Michael Perkins (2007)
Patrick Califia (2007)
Betty Dodson (2002)
Larry Townsend (2002)
Richard Kasak (2002)
Barney Rosset (2002)
Other 2002 Awards
The Girodias Award for Outstanding Publisher of
the Year (Venus Books)
The Apollinaire Award for Outstanding Erotic
Poetry or Prose Poem Collection (Sex-Fiend Monologues II)
Best New Voice in Erotic Fiction (Wayne Courtois)
Erotic Novel of the Year (Diary of a Manhattan
Call Girl)
Erotic Book of the Year, Non-fiction
(no nominees in 2002)
Best Erotic Fiction Anthology
by Multiple Authors (Of the Flesh: Dangerous New Fiction)
Best Erotic Non-Fiction Anthology
by Multiple Authors (no nominees in 2002)
Best Erotic Anthology by a Single Author
(Hotter Than Hell)
Best Erotic Screenplay, Play, or Teleplay by a Single
or Multiple Authors (no nominees in 2002)
Nan Kinney is the president of Fatale Media and producer of Fatale Videos. She is one of the founding publishers of the highly acclaimed and notorious On Our Backs magazine.
Debi Sundahl, aka Fanny Fatale, is the foremost pioneer and expert in female ejaculation and the G-spot, which she calls 'Phase II in The Bloom of Female Sexuality' that began in the 1960's. Her 23 years of groundbreaking contributions to this field include author of the first popular book on the subject, Female Ejaculation and the G-spot; and as producer, director and writer of a line of DVD's entitled the Female Ejaculation Sex Education Series through her company Isis Media. These include: the first video made on this subject, How to Female Ejaculate; the first video featuring the G-spot massage, Tantric Journey to Female Orgasm; and the first video to actually show visually where the g-spot is located, Female Ejaculation for Couples. She lectures and gives workshops internationally, and has taught thousands of men and women how to integrate the once silenced G-spot and female ejaculation into their erotic life.
Deborah is also a pioneer in the field of women's sexuality, most notably as co-publisher for ten years of the first women's erotica magazine, On Our Backs (1984-95); as co-founder of the the first lesbian erotic video company, Fatale video (1985-1996); and as co-founder of the first women's erotic striptease show in San Francisco, BurLEZk Live! (1985-1988) all with Nan Kinney. She continues to be a spokesperson for female sexuality, and an advocate for sex education. Currently, she is exploring the realm of sexuality as a healing modality.
Jack Fritscher, PhD. 50 years as published author; 17 books; 400 articles/stories, 1000 photographs in 38 mags; writer-director,162 homomasculine videos: www.PalmDriveVideo.com; world's first PhD dissertation on Tennessee Williams (1967); 1968 novel I Am Curious (Leather) [Leather Blues]; founding San Francisco editor, Drummer magazine. Books: memoir-bio of his bicoastal lover, Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera; Popular Witchcraft (1972 & 2005); and Lambda Award-Nominee, Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of 18th and Castro 1970-1982. "Gay Heritage" research at Website.
Michael Perkins has been at the forefront of serious American erotic writing for three decades. His early erotic novels issued by the legendary avant-garde California publisher Essex House won praise from Samual R. Delaney, Thomas S. Disch, Philip Jose Farmer, Norman Spinrad, Harlon Ellison, Marilyn Hacker and many others. His classic 1968 novel Evil Companions was reprinted in 1992 by Rhinoceros with an introduction by Samuel R. Delaney. His novel, Dark Matter (Titan), appeared in the UK in 1996. He has published a dozen novels, including the million-copy bestselling novelization of Deep Throat.
Since the late 1970s, Patrick Califia has been educating outsiders about sexual minority issues (gay and lesbian, bisexual people, transgendered people, the BDSM community, sex workers, etc.). He has been one of the most prolific and outspoken voices in favor of freedom of sexual expression between consenting adults.
Betty Dodson, Ph.D., artist, author, and sex educator is an international authority on women's sexuality. Dodson achieved international recognition with three ground breaking erotic art exhibitions in the sixties and seventies before she left the art world to become a feminist activist and public advocate for women's sexual liberation. In 1973, she began running sexual CR (consciousness raising) groups for women which later became her Bodysex Groups. In those groups, women learned to appreciate the beauty of their genitals as well as to explore the varied experience of orgasm through practicing masturbation skills.
In 1974, Betty Dodson wrote, illustrated, and self-published her first book, Liberating Masturbation: a Meditation on Selflove, which by the 80s had become a feminist classic. In 1986, she sold the book to Crown Publishing Group and it was renamed Sex for One; the Joy of Selfloving. In 1996 after doing a major revision, Sex for One became a best-selling trade paperback and was chosen for the Quality Book of the Month Club. By now Betty had been called "America's first public masturbator" on national Television (the Phil Donahue show). Sex for One has been translated into eight foreign languages.
Dodson received a Ph.D. in sexology from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in 1992. Her bold, innovative teaching methods have been documented in a series of videos: Selfloving; Portrait of a Sexual Seminar, Celebrating Orgasm; Women's Private Selfloving Sessions, and Viva la Vulva; Women's Sex Organs Revealed. Dodson wrote, directed and produced all three. Her latest book, Orgasms for Two: the Joy of Partnersex, was published in 2002 with 25 pages of drawings by Betty. She has been interviewed, featured, or quoted in numerous sex books and national magazines, and has appeared on many national TV talk shows. Dodson has a private practice in New York City and maintains an active website.
Larry Townsend is the foremost writer in the genre of male-male, leather/SM. He is widely acclaimed for his Science Fiction and historical novels. He was also a longtime columnist for Drummer, Honcho, and Bound & Gagged magazine.
In February 2000, Larry Townsend received the prestigious Centurian Award from The Leather Archives & Museum in Chicago . This was in recognition of his many years of work writing the many stories, books and articles that have become an intrinsic part of the Leather Community's legacy.
Now comfortably settled in his West Hollywood Hills home where he lives with his longtime companion of 35 years, Larry Townsend continues to produce a stream of novels, short stories and articles. At the present time on the basis of the number of titles in print, L.T. is among the most published gay writers in the world.
Because of his popularity and high name recognition, Larry has been extremely successful in publishing his own works under the L.T. Publications imprint. These titles include, in trade paperback format: The Case of the Severed Head (a novel of suspense and brutal retribution), DreamMaster (a collection of five short stories), A Slave's Gambit (a novel of American twins in Arab slavery), The Original Leatherman's Handbook (an unabridged reissue of the 1971 classic), Master of Masters (an SM science fiction novel), Of Men, Ropes & Remembrance (a collection of short stories originally published in Bound & Gagged magazine).
Richard Kasak has been in the book and publishing business for nearly 40 years. In the late '50s, he opened the Bookmasters Chain, which he refers to as "the first paperback bookshop in the world" and which had up to 11 stores in New York. In the '60s and early '70s he published with the help of the legendary Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset a book called Becoming a Sensuous Homosexual, which he calls "probably the first gay sex manual ever published." He founded his own publishing house in 1990, Masquerade Books. It is safe to say that anybody who's anybody (and then some) writing in the modern erotic genre has been published by Richard Kasak at one time or another.
Barney Rosset was for many years the driving force behind Grove Press, a company he bought in 1951 and built into the era's boldest, most influential, and politically active publisher. In 1959 he published D.H. Laurence's Lady Chatterly's Lover in its first unexpurgated edition. In 1964, he published Henry Miller's The Tropic of Cancer.
In 1957, Barney Rosset founded the Evergreen Review, a literary journal that was also the house magazine of the Grove Press. Over the years, he published works by Samuel Beckett, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Marguerite Duras, Jean Genet, and Allen Ginsberg, among others.
Mr. Rosset is publisher and editor of Evergreen Review, Inc., a nonprofit company. He is also President of Foxrock, Inc.
Primarily known as an erotic book club, Venus Books also publishes original erotic fiction titles and reprints from some of today's top erotic authors, including M. Christian, Maxim Jakubowski, Marilyn Jaye Lewis, Michael Hemmingson, Alison Tyler, and many more.
[Venus Books is no longer in business.]
Book description:
Sex-Fiend Monologues II is the sequel to the legendary Sex-Fiend Monologues. A collection of prose poetry using deft word play and humor to delve into the varied and multi-faceted fetishes of today's society.
About the Author:
Thaddeus Rutkowski's work has been anthologized in The Naughty Bits (Three Rivers/Crown), The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder's Mouth) and Between the Cracks (Daedalus). His prose poems have appeared in Prometheus, Masquerade, Paramour and other magazines. His electronic book, Sex-Fiend Monologues, written under the name Rusty Cuffs, is available at Renaissance E Books. He reads his work extensively and has performed in New York, London, Dublin and Berlin.
About the author:
Wayne Courtois lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where queer life is thriving. He holds an M.F.A. from the Writing Program of the University of North CarolinaGreensboro. Most recently his work has appeared online in suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing and Velvet Mafia, and the anthologies Love Under Foot: An Erotic Celebration of Feet and Of the Flesh: Dangerous New Fiction. His novel My Name Is Rand was published by Suspect Thoughts Press in 2004.
Book description:
This is the diary of Nancy Chan, turn-of-the-millennium call girl, who lives and works on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Although she's in her thirties, she's at the top of her career a better twenty-five-year-old today than when she was twenty-five. Most of her regulars don't realize how long she's been working. Her new fiancé, Matt, an up-and-coming M.B.A. on Wall Street, does know her age and how long she's been working but not what she does for a living. And at least for the time being, Nancy wants to keep it that way.
Nancy is full of contradictory desires. She frequently has to choose between making love and making money. On good days, she gets to do both. Surrounded by devoted, wealthy, and powerful johns, some of whom want more than just sex, and caught between two complicated call girl friends who, shall we say, make her life more interesting than it really needs to be not to mention an unwitting fiancé who has started to apartment hunt and arrange a wedding Nancy navigates the tricky currents of the world's oldest profession. With one foot in the bedrooms of her rich and demanding clients and one in the straight world of her fiancé and his family, Nancy demonstrates, in her inimitable fashion, that if you know the dance, you can keep those two worlds from colliding. At least for a while.
Based on the highly successful Salon.com column "Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl," this wonderfully intelligent, sexually frank, rollicking novel gives us fresh insight into the machinations and politics of being an expensive call girl in the modern world. Tracy Quan pulls no punches, gives no apologies, and has written one of the best and most honest books yet on the topic.
About the Author:
Tracy Quan lives in New York City. This is her first novel.
Book Description:
Is sex dangerous? These 20 stories answer this question in many ways: from the use of sex as a weapon to the use of weapons in sex; the human body can be dangerous; thinking about sex can be dangerous; love and the ways of the heart can be dangerous. Following your own desire can be dangerous . . .
Of the Flesh: Dangerous New Fiction includes the authors Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite, Cara Bruce, Hertzan Chimera, M. Christian, Wayne Courtois, doll yoko, Jamie Joy Gatto, Beth Greenwood, Debra Hyde, Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco, Susannah Indigo, Maxim Jakubowski, Sean Meriwether, Marshall Moore, Ian Philips, Carol Queen, Thomas S. Roche, Simon Sheppard, horehound stillpoint, and Emanuel Xavier.
About the Editor:
Greg Wharton is the founder and publisher of Suspect Thoughts Press, editor of the webzine suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing, and the erotica editor for Velvet Mafia. His short fiction, reviews, and creative nonfiction has been widely published online and in print including the recent and forthcoming anthologies Best S/M Erotica, Buttmen, Friction: Best Gay Erotica Volume 5, and Best of Friction. He is hard at work on a forthcoming collection of his short erotic fiction for Alyson Books.
Book Description (via International Gay & Lesbian Review):
In Hotter than Hell, acclaimed erotic writer and sex columnist Simon Sheppard serves up a collection of stories that features street hustlers, sweet Kansas boys, closeted college kids, San Francisco leathermen, and everyone in between. The characters are swept way by need, frustration, and love in intense, sometimes nasty couplings in settings ranging from San Francisco to Morocco and India. In his introduction, Sheppard compares the writing of porn today with the writing of mysteries at the beginning of the 20th century when the genre was still being formed. Part of the excitement of writing porn for Sheppard is the opportunity to explore and discover the parameters of a genre still in formation. Refusing to become bored writing only about "dick, dick, dick," Sheppard asks his readers to "please, bear with [him] if [he] tr[ies] to tell actual stories amidst the flood of spooge."
About the Author:
Simon Sheppard is the author of Hotter Than Hell and Other Stories and the non-fiction book Kinkorama, as well as co-editor, with M. Christian, of Rough Stuff and Roughed Up. His work also appears in over 75 other books, including several editions of The Best American Erotica and all but one of Best Gay Erotica. He loiters beefily at his website.
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