Erotic Fiction
A World of Yes

A World of Yes

an erotic novel by Amanda Earl about a woman who falls asleep during her 35th birthday party and misses an orgy. now available as an e-book via Amazon.com and Smashwords.com.

"Amanda Earl somehow manages to keep the sexual heat turned up, even when Bonnie veers close to the edge of ridiculous. Having edited her collection of short stories, I already knew that Ms. Earl could write gorgeous, intense, transgressive erotica, the sort of stories that melt you as you read. I didn’t realize she had such comic talent. Bonnie had me laughing out loud, even though I knew her sexual-existential crisis was fundamentally a serious issue." Lisabet Sarai gives A World of Yes a glowing review on her Beyond Romance blog.

New stories at UnlikelyStories.Org

Thanks to Jonathan Penton and Alan Fyfe of UnlikelyStories.org for publishing the first of two stories from “Fallen Angels and Other Broken People.” Lucifrina is kicked out of Heaven after fucking Michael. Tango Unclare finds a home in the desert after wrecking havoc in Humdrum City. You can read the stories here
Coming Together Presents Amanda Earl

Coming Together Presents Amanda Earl

I am pleased as punch that my first book of erotic fiction has been published through Coming Together Presents. All proceeds from the sales of my book will benefit GMHC, the world’s first and leading provider of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and advocacy.


With 24 stories, 245 pages, and a lovely introduction by my editor, Lisabet Sarai, the book includes the dark, the shameful, the fanciful & the just plain fun.


The book is available in both print and e-book formats.


My heartfelt thanks to my brilliant editor, Lisabet Sarai, to Alessia Brio & the team at Coming Together, to theErotica Readers and Writers Association, helmed throughout my time there Adrienne Benedicks. What a supportive & encouraging group. And endless kisses to my sexy muses, Tom & Charles.


Lisabet has described the book as not for the faint of heart. I would also say that it is not for the faint of groin either. I wrote these stories over a period of ten years. In them I explore the nature of desire. To quote Lisabet's fine introduction:


"The stories in this book run the gamut from raw and transgressive ("Sir North", "Daddy Complex") to wistful and tender ("Typing for Jack", "Mercy and the Man in the Dark Suit") to playful ("Cinderella and the Glass Dildo", "Jesus,Melinda and the Undead") to desperately dark ("The Vessel", "Sex with an Old Woman"). In these pages, you'll find humor and irony, satire and philosophy, and pretty much every shade of pleasure imaginable. Amanda's fiction explores lust in all its compelling urgency and celebrates the incandescent experience of mutual sexual satisfaction. But don't look for romance; although her characters may share affection, respect, the thrill of recognizing common or complementary fantasies, she's not really interested in happily ever after."

"Contributing to a worthy cause gives you a warm glow, but seldom does it heat you up the way the Coming Together books do. (The charity benefitting from the proceeds of this book is GMHC.org, an AIDS/HIV care and prevention organization.) Coming Together Presents Amanda Earl,edited by Lisabet Sarai,ramps up the heat especially well. Amanda seduces not only the libido but also the mind, sometimes subtly (although the sex is seldom subtle) and sometimes very blatantly indeed. In the editor’s introduction the book is described as “literary—and literate—erotica,” which is quite true. There are frequent literary references, and characters with backgrounds in (or aspirations to) the literary world, but the sure-handed quality of the prose—raw when it needs to be, even brutal, introspective at times, poignant, complex, and memorable—is what makes it both literary and literate.

I was especially intrigued by the variety of points of view in these stories. Often (but not always) female, occasionally older women with younger men, with a nice range of characterization from deliciously dominant to deeply submissive to downright surreal.   

The first-person narrator of the opening piece, “Mind If I Sit?” takes full advantage of sitting next to a young, blond, somewhat nervous “golden boy” with a contradictory “rebel look” on an airplane. She has what it takes to get his attention; “Long legs: check. Flimsy mini skirt: check. Big tits in a low-necked blouse: double check.” Her copy of Kerouac’s On the Road doesn’t hurt, and is the first of many literary references that fit naturally into the flow of the prose. “I’m a capricious bitch,” she tells us. Newly turned forty, resolved not to “sit back in your comfort zone” and let life pass by, she’s a complex, arresting character, good company for the reader as well as the for guy who gets to share her under-the blanket games.

The narrator in the second story, “Real Irish,” has a very different self-image, at least at the beginning. She thinks of herself as a “middle-aged spinster” with indecently lustful thoughts about a good-looking Irish barista and a stream-of-consciousness novel eternally in progress. By the end, though, thanks to her best friend who resembles Botticelli’s Venus and lets nothing stand in the way of what they both want, her stream-of-consciousness has more to celebrate than her most lustful thoughts had imagined. The hottest threesome I can remember ever reading, and the most fun.

We also get a ruthless legal secretary with a “Daddy Complex”, a housewife whose secret is that instead of AA meetings, she goes off to wear a catsuit at a BDSM hideaway specializing in rubberists, and a girl who thinks she’s desperate for domination, pain, and humiliation from a stranger, but has the sense at last to resist a scene that goes too far, and the luck to get away.

In a few of the stories the sex is entirely in the minds of the protagonists, their lust no less arousing for being unfulfilled, with a melancholy tone that provides a contrast to more carefree encounters.  In “The Vessel,” the point of view shifts between two not-quite-lovers, each so scarred by their pasts that they can’t believe the other could find them worthy of desire or love. ”Typing for Jack” begins with the woman losing her long-held virginity with a man she’s met at a funeral, but it’s Jack’s funeral (yes, that Jack,) and the defining act of her life has been typing the manuscript of his On the Road.For all her fantasizing, and all the opportunities Jack offered, she knew she could never handle his freewheeling sexual habits, so she handled only his manuscript, and takes cold comfort in a report that he was holding it when he died. And in “Sex with an Old Woman” the fifty-ish narrator can’t imagine her much younger male friend finding her sexually attractive, and tortures herself with imagining how repulsed he would be if he saw her naked. I kept thinking, “But fifty isn’t all that old!” until she revealed how much more than age her body had endured. 

I was encouraged by a later story about a woman of fifty who is unabashedly “boy crazy, man hungry,” and thinks of herself (with reason) as “irresistable,” but there’s a dark undertone here as well. “The Adulteress” stalks her literary prey—novelists, poets, playwrights—and seduces them, married or not, with no difficulty. Adultery just adds extra spice. The sex is hot, raw, and described, by the woman writing it all down afterward, with explicit attention to detail a well as evocative imagery. Even at the height of arousal she thinks about what she’ll write afterward, how she’ll “frame this later on the page.” Truthfully, don’t all writers of erotica think sometimes about how we’ll describe sex even as we’re (almost) swept away by its delights? Should we feel guilty? Does it cheat our partners in some way, or does our secretly enhanced excitement intensify their own experience? The latter, I think, but who knows? In the case of the woman supposedly narrating this story, one even begins to wonder how much of what she describes really happened that way (in the context of the story) or is magnified by her writerly imagination. The nuances of this piece are tinged with melancholy, deftly written, and the final paragraph is a masterly handling of perspective. I’ll leave readers to discover that for themselves.

I’ve only mentioned nine of the twenty-four stories in this collection, even though all of them are just as worthy of consideration. Some, of course, will appeal to certain tastes more than to others. My own tastes run to literary references and older protagonists, but the book provides plenty of other viewpoints and scenarios that I found just as enjoyable. I should also note that several stories are of the science fiction or fantasy persuasion, and they’re worth an entire review of their own. I’ll just mention that one involves an orgy in heaven and another has a nice twist involving its deliciously snarky narrator. I may already have come too close to revealing “spoilers” about the other stories I discussed, though, so I’ll leave the rest for the reader to discover. And to savor, just as I did. " Saachi Green, Erotica Revealed



I hope you & your lovers enjoy this book. May it inspire days of wanking, zipless fucks, love making & stories of your own.

Virtual Carnality

Ashamed of the Dark is a series of linked stories that follows the exploits of B. 
Desire/desire is a blog that explores my thoughts and activities during the pandemic and hopefully after. I am going to turn the entries and stories into a series of long poems.


ERWA Treasure Chest - some of my kinky erotica

my first stint as a writer over at the Erotica Readers and Writers Association was from 2004-2007. My second stint was from 2012-2014. here are 16 stories still available on the site in the Treasure Chest. 
I'm giving the following workshop online on Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 12pm ET. Message me for more info: 

Online Workshop: Writing the erotic as a radical act of resistance




Here are some interviews with me about my erotica:

Interview with Rachel Kramer Bussel about my story "Welcome to the Aphrodesiac Hotel" in Do Not Disturb, Hotel Sex Stories

Audio Interview with Nigel Beale about my erotica in general.


BOOKS and CHAPBOOKS

 

Sessions from the DreamHouse Aria (above/ground press, prose/naut imprint, 2020)

A World of Yes (self-published e-book, DevilHousePress, 2015)

Coming Together Presents Amanda Earl (Coming Together, New York City, 2014)

 

ANTHOLOGIES

 

The Big Book of Orgasms: 69 Sexy Tales, Volume 2, Cleis Press, 2021

Hot to the Touch: Views from the Polyamory Lifestyle, Cleis Press, 2020

The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 12 and 13, Constable and Robinson, 2013, 2014

Post Scripts to Darkness, Ex Hubris, 2011

Surrender: Erotic Tales of Female Pleasure and Submission, Cleis Press, 2011

Do Not Disturb, Hotel Sex Stories, Cleis Press, 2009

Swing! Adventures in Swinging by Today’s Top Erotica Writers, Logical-Lust, 2009

Lucrezia Magazine, Yellowknife, 2008

Yes, Sir: Erotic Stories of Female Submission, Cleis Press, 2008

Departures (above/ground press), 2008

Tasting Him: Oral Sex Stories, Cleis Press, 2008

The Moose and Pussy, Volume 2, , 2008

The Mammoth Book of Best Erotica, Volume 6, Carroll and Graf, 2007

He’s On Top: Erotic Stories Of Male Dominance And Female Submission, Cleis Press, 2007

Iridescence: Lovely Shades Of Lesbian Erotica, Alyson Books, 2007

The Puritan, Volume 1, Number 1, January, 2007

Front& Centre (#18), Caught in the Rain, Black Bile Press, 2007

31, Crane's Bill Books, 2007

The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 2006, Caroll and Graf, 2006

Cream, The Best of The Erotica Readers and Writers Association, 2006: Successor and A Good Haunting, Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006

Solstice: Tales For The Longest Night Of The Year, Dusty Owl, 2005

 



 


My stories appear most recently in print here:
The Big Book of Orgasms: 69 Sexy Tales, Volume 2A World of YesThe Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica Volume 13Big Book of DominationComing Together Presents Amanda EarlBad Boy Menagethe Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 12Surrender Erotic Tales of Female Pleasure and Submissionthe Mammoth Book of Erotic ConfessionsSwing! Adventures in Swinging by Today's Top Erotica WritersDo Not Disturb, Hotel Sex StoriesTasting Him: Oral Sex StoriesYes, Sir: Erotic Stories of Female SubmissionCream, The Best of The Erotica Readers and Writers AssociationIridescence: Lovely Shades Of Lesbian Erotica