Crave is a winna!

Went to Phoenix last weekend for the Golden Crown Literary Conference and picked up a 2008 Goldie for Crave (erotica category). The Goldies are awards for excellence in writing lesbian literature and I'm honored to be in the company listed below. I also highly recommend the conference.
Squee!!! :-D
Golden Crown

The winners of the 2008 Goldies were:

Congratulations to the 2008 GCLS Literary Award Winners

Lesbian Mystery
Dark Valentine, Jennifer Fulton, Bold Strokes Books
Redress of Grievances, Brenda Adcock, Regal Crest Enterprises
The Devil Unleashed, Ali Vali, Bold Strokes Books

Lesbian Speculative Fiction (includes SciFi/Fantasy/Horror/Paranormal)
Crown of Valencia, Catherine Friend, Bold Strokes Books
Queens of Tristaine, Cate Culpepper, Bold Strokes Books
Rebels' Quest, Gun Brooke, Bold Strokes Books

Lesbian Romance
And Playing the Role of Herself, K.E. Lane, Regal Crest Enterprises
Out of Love, K.G. MacGregor, Bella Books
Second Season, Ali Vali, Bold Strokes Books

Lesbian Erotica
Crave, Catherine Lundoff, Lethe Press
Erotic Interludes 5: Road Games Radclyffe, S. Seaman, eds., Bold
Strokes Books
In Deep Waters: Cruising the Seas, Karin Kallmaker & Radclyffe, Bella
Books

Lesbian Dramatic General Fiction
In Broad Daylight, Jane Vollbrecht, Regal Crest Enterprises
Landing, Emma Donoghue, Harcourt
The Spanish Pearl, Catherine Friend, Bold Strokes Books

Lesbian Anthology (non-erotica)
Love, Castro Street: Reflections of San Francisco, Katherine V.
Forrest & Jim Van Buskirk, editors, Alyson Books

Lesbian Poetry
The Human Line, Ellen Bass, Copper Canyon Press
The Islands Project, Eloise Klein Healy, Red Hen Press
Torch River, Elizabeth Philips, Brick Books

Lesbian Short Story/Essay Collection
Are There Closets in Heaven, Carol Curoe & Robert Curoe, Syren Book
Company
Deep in the Heart – A Memoir of Love and Longing, Sheila Morris, Red
Letter Press
Fried & True – Tales from Rehoboth Beach, Fay Jacobs, A & M Books

Lesbian Debut Author
K.E. Lane, And Playing the Role of Herself, Regal Crest Enterprises
Paula Offutt, Butch Girls Can Fix Anything, Regal Crest Enterprises
Jennifer Parello, Dateland, McKenna Publishing

The Ann Bannon GCLS Popular Choice Award
And Playing the Role of Herself, K.E. Lane, Regal Crest Enterprises

The GCLS Trailblazer Award
Katherine V. Forrest

The GCLS Director's Award
Nann Dunne

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Reading August 10th

at the Smitten Kitten with Rachel Kramer Bussel and sundry other delightful folks. Sunday, August 10 at 7Pm. Stop by!

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Which Jane Austen character are you?

And my day is made. :-)




You are Eliza Bennett from Pride and Prejudice! Yay, you! Perhaps the brightest and best character in all of English literature, you are intelligent, lively, lovely-- in short, you are the best of company. Your only foibles are that you stick with your first impressions... and your family is quite intolerable.

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New interview!

I answer 20 Questions in the Hot Seat over at The Wry Writer.

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Rainbow Reviews gave "Haunted Hearths" 5 stars!
Current mood: jubilant

Among other lovely things, the reviewer said Hearths is "A fascinating anthology of literate, lyrical, Lesbian ghosts interacting with Lesbian protagonists and an occasional homophobic shade too."
Catherine does happy dance of reviewer awesomeness.


Rainbow Reviews

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CONvergence 2008 is imminent

Here's the convention link - http://www.convergence-con.org
And here's my schedule -

Thu 8:00pm - 9:00pm Lit 6 Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Highly improbable, unlikely and "You Must Be Joking!" usage of swords, firearms and other weaponry in science fiction and fantasy. Let's talk about the best and the worst.
Catherine Lundoff, Rebecca Marjesdatter

Sat 3:30pm - 4:30pm LL
Lit Broad Universe Rapidfire Reading
This is a fiction reading by members of Broad Universe, an organization which promotes the work of women SF&F writers.
Catherine Lundoff, Sharon K. Richards, Ruth Souther, Kathryn Sullivan

Sat 5:00pm - 6:00pm A3
Comics CLAMP
A discussion of the works of Japan's premiere women's comic book/manga collective.
Melissa Gregory, Catherine Lundoff, Rebecca Marjesdatter

Sun 2:00pm - 3:00pm Kr
Lit Specters, Shades an..oplasm
The ghost story is a classic tale that never seems to die out. What's the nature of the appeal of a good spooky tale about the restless dead? What do hauntings say about us? Let's talk about the good, the bad and the ugly portrayals of ghosts in genre fiction.
Jerrod Balzer, S.D. Hintz, Kenneth Hite, Catherine Lundoff

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4th Street Fantasy!

My schedule looks quite interesting. You can view the whole of the contents here:
4th Street Fantasy

F R I D A Y:
9:00 PM Elise's Shiny soiree. A celebration of jewelry Elisian and a lovely related book designed by my partner and featuring fabulous stories by Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, Jane Yolen and Beth Meacham, as well as the splendid poetry of Betsy Lundsten and Ariel Franklin-Hudson and the marvelous photos of David Dyer-Bennet. It's called Glass Bead Games and should be out and about and available shortly.

S A T U R D A Y
9:30 a.m. The Dreaded Second Draft
[There is no need to describe what I mean by this.] [This one should be obvious.] [Every writer has had the experience . . . ] Self-explanatory.
Elizabeth Bear (mod), Eleanor Arnason, Emma Bull, Pamela Dean, Catherine Lundoff, Caroline Stevermer

8 p.m. Food, Fashion, and Fornication
Previous 4th Street conventions have established beyond doubt or question that good fantasy has good food values. What about fashion? Fornication? What about other things that may or may not begin with F?
Elise Matthesen (mod), Elizabeth Bear, Catherine Lundoff, Sarah Monette, Kit O'Connell, Jon Singer

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"Crave" is a finalist!

Just found out that my collection, Crave: Tales of Lust, Love and Longing is a finalist for the 2008 GLCS Erotica Award! :-D
Huge squee! And a hearty congrats to all the other finalists!
See list here - 2008 GLCS Award Finalists.

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Sexy Spring!

Sexy Spring Thing...
So it occurs to me that I should plug next weekend's big event while there's still time for interested folk to register.

Sexy Spring V, June 13th - 15th, Blevins Hall, U. of M (http://sexyspring.org/practical-info/sexy-spring-v-schedule/) is, to quote the website, "a radical, sex/body positive sexual education skill-share and conference focused on exploring the ways sex, sexuality, gender, relationships, communication, health, our bodies and our choices affect our lives through workshops, art, discussions, performance, play, demonstrations, storytelling, networking, etc."
And how cool is that? There are workshops of sex and disability, making your own sex toys, parenting and pre-parenting, fire play and, ahem, writing erotica.

I'll be teaching an erotica writing workshop on Sunday from 11 to 12:30. Based on how my ability to plan things has been going this last week or two, it will have a delightful spontaneous quality to it. Or so I hope.

And on Saturday night, it's the Fairy Tails Cabaret at Intermedia Arts (2822 Lyndale Ave.):

8:00pm (doors at 7:00)
$10 Suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
Advance tickets will ONLY be available at Sexy Spring

Once upon a time there were some sexy, open-minded people looking for some fun after a hard day of learning about each other, sexuality, gender, and sex…Let legendary MCs Crystal & Patricia guide you through a magical evening of fairy tales told in words, music, dance, drag, film, trapeze, and burlesque.

Performers include
Heidi Arneson
Venus DeMars
Brooke Aberlin
Justin Leaf
Kats Fukasawa
Sweet LillyBee
Catherine Lundoff
Sexualis
Dr. Jacky Wackensmack and Dollface
And more!

Arrive early, the show is certain to sell out!

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Featured author!

I'm one of the featured authors for June at Just About Write! :-D

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