Marcy Sheiner – författare

PERFECTLY NORMAL addresses with unprecedented honesty a mother''s experience raising a child with a disability-hydrocephalus. This condition causes spinal fluid to accumulate in the head, making it grow, sometimes causing brain damage. A surgical procedure developed only a few years prior to Daryl''s birth has kept him alive; he is now thirty-six and lives a fully independent life.

The author was nineteen when faced with this difficult life situation. She worked through years of denial, anger, resentment, and fear; she battled with the medical profession, the educational system, and the vast array of social service providers who invaded her life. Her journey radicalized her with regard to the way society treats people with disabilities; by the time Daryl reached adulthood she was involved with and writing about the Disability Rights Movement. She speaks with absolute candor about personal difficulties and social injustice. She tells her story with unflinching self-examination, with no attempts to be "inspirational." She shows what it''s really like to raise a child with a disability in America, particularly in the uncaring social climate of thirty years ago, some aspects of which persist even today.

Sexy, smart and literate—these erotic stories are for readers who want to know the truth about women's sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth, with its surprises and twists and turns. With unashamed honesty and passionate intensity, Best Women's Erotica 2002 presents the year's hottest bedside reading.

Cleis Press's Best Lesbian Erotica and Best Gay Erotica series top best-seller lists across America every year. These books raise and exceed the standards and expectations of readers of erotic fiction with each new edition. Now fans of women's erotica will discover writing that is equally hot, sexy, literate, and thought-provoking in this debut collection. Series editor Marcy Sheiner writes, "A decade after the explosion of women-authored erotica hit the publishing world, the genre has evolved to a sophisticated level of stunning talent and startling sexual honesty." Best Women's Erotica celebrates the sometimes perverse, frequently unconventional, and always compelling work of women writers.

Readers and critics everywhere have applauded the Best Women's Erotica series, exclaiming that it shows "women's sexuality in all its wet, juicy, romantic, and lustful guises" (Libido) and "gets racier every year" (San Francisco Bay Guardian). With stories that have raised the bar for women's erotic writing, this series tells the truth about women's sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth. Now readers can experience the hottest of the hot, the best of Best Women's Erotica of the past six years, since the series began in 2000. This fearless collection covers a thrilling range of women's sexual desires and exploits — straight, lesbian, bisexual, rough, delicate, dangerous, imaginative — by writers as accomplished as Isabel Allende, Carol Queen, Maryanne Mohanraj, Hanne Blank, Alison Tyler, and Helena Settimana.

The Best Women’s Erotica series is known for its sexual honesty and intensity, presenting stories that tell the truth about women’s sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth. Now in its sixth year, with a whole new look, Best Women’s Erotica 2005 satisfies even the most sexually voracious reader. Ann Regentin’s “Just Passing Through” tells what happens when a woman decides to disguise herself as a gay man and cruise the local gay bar. In Andrea Miller’s “Picking Up,” a jealous woman listens in on her girlfriend’s phone sex job and decides to bring the scene to life. And Alison Tyler’s “Evian” is a classic bad-girl tale: a not-so-innocent young woman with a crush on her boss discovers just the right way to heat up their flirtation — while only a kitchen window separates them from his wife.

Sexy, smart and literate—these erotic stories are for readers who want to know the truth about women's sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth, with its surprises and twists and turns. With unashamed honesty and passionate intensity, Best Women's Erotica 2004 presents the year's hottest bedside reading.

Sexy, smart and literate—these erotic stories are for readers who want to know the truth about women's sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth, with its surprises and twists and turns. With unashamed honesty and passionate intensity, Best Women's Erotica 2002 presents the year's hottest bedside reading.

Sexy, smart and literate—these erotic stories are for readers who want to know the truth about women's sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth, with its surprises and twists and turns. With unashamed honesty and passionate intensity, Best Women's Erotica 2001 presents the year's hottest bedside reading.