Not official yet...

[catherineldf]

but it looks like my succubus story "Emily Says" from "Lust for Life" has been picked for "Best Lesbian Erotica 2007." :-)))
Or at least it's in the press release so hopefully wacky things like a contract are forthcoming. This will make my 8th overall "Best of...", including the various Alyson ones and "Best New Erotica," and my 5th BLE so I'm very pleased.

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[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

. I could probably be prevailed upon to send you a copy of the story in question without any arm-twisting whatsoever. And hopefully it's not going to be a repeat of the year that one of my other stories got "accidentally" accepted for both BLE and BNE only for me to be told it was a clerical error. I'm figuring it's provisional until an actual contract shows up. :-)
You in BLE the year, BTW?

[sacchig.livejournal.com]

Wow, "Emily" really is a gem, finely crafted and hot! Thanks so much for sharing!

So here I was debating whether to own up to having sent a story to BLE this year, since if you'd heard and I hadn't, it meant I was out. I expected to be out, in fact; the best things I've written this past year are for books I couldn't be sure would be published in the right time period. But I did send one I hadn't finished in time for another anthology and still don't think I got right--the only three-dimensional (and possibly four-dimensional) character is the Grand Canyon--and late this afternoon I got the "finalist" e-mail. Maybe it's my turn to play the clerical error game! We'll see. After five years in and three out, I've adjusted to the likelihood that T and I are going our separate ways, and my way has been just fine. It'd be really nice to be in it with you, though.

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-))))
Hopefully we both get in. I seem to be on the 'a few years in, a few years out' schedule. The only stories of mine that get in are the ones where the POV character dies or turns into a vampire or turns into a giant lizard, and there are only so many of those I can write and sell elsewhere. :-)