Event Details:
Sept. 7th, 8 to 10 p.m.
Free. Casual dress.

Happy Ending Lounge
302 Broome Street
New York, NY 10002
(212) 334-9676
www.happyendinglounge.com

We’ve got prize packages filled with books, treats, and sundries. Just throw your favorite dirty word into our drawing and maybe you’ll score one of them!

This month (for starters):

Born and raised in the United States by traditional Indian parents, writer and editor Suleikha Snyder has always marched to the beat of her own dhol. Twenty-plus years after scribbling her first fanfic story, Suleikha now pursues her dream of being a romance writer. Her short stories and novellas are spicy, often LGBT-themed, and frequently peppered with bits of Hindi or Spanish. Expect both masala and masti! Variety is her spice of life and this month we welcome her reading from her new novella, Heart Murmurs.

We also welcome back poet, performer and storyteller Mo Beasley, creator of the celebrate monthly performance series UrbanErotika. Now in its second decade, UrbanErotika celebrates erotic love through poetry, spoken word, music, dance, and theatre – as expressed by New York City’s diverse cultures. Each performance is composed of four Suites of Eros, starting with the most soft and sensual and ending with the most wild and explicit.

We can’t wait to bring this month’s guest talent to our mic!

Doors open at 7:00 so come early and socialize. Reading gets underway at 8:00 pm. And we can now hang out later than our previous end time of 10:00. Which gives us more time to socialize and enjoy each other’s company.

So let’s celebrate the erotic word in all its many forms!

If you’re registered to attend Floating World, be sure to join host Lori Perkins on Sunday, August 5th at 8:00 as Laura Antoniou, Susan Wright, and Debra Hyde read from select works.

Plus we’ll have PRIZES! We’ll have our Dirty Word Draw for prize baskets filled with books, ebooks, and sundry kinky items! For your chance to win that night, you’ll write down your favorite dirty word and initial it (because great perv minds think alike). We’ll toss it in our basket and then it’s the luck of the draw.

Get Between the Cover with us! If not at Floating World, then on September 7th. We’ll keep the bed warm for you.

ADAM CARPENTER is the #1 best-selling author of several titles of hot, gay erotica. His “European Flings” trilogy includes the prequel short story, “Prelude to a Fling,” then PASSION IN PARIS, RAPTURE IN ROME, and LUST IN LONDON. His “Wonderland” trilogy includes DESPERATE HUSBANDS, DESPERATE LOVERS, and DESPERATE ENEMIES, co-written with Curtis C. Comer and Jeff Wilcox. Other books include the “White Pine” series, SECRET FLAMES and HEAT OF THE MOMENT, as well as the Johnny Lee Capstone-featured DUDE RANCH and the novella-length A YEARLY TRYST. His short fiction has been collected in the anthology, NOCTURNAL DELIGHTS. His most recent book is THAT PASSIONATE SEASON.

Event Details:
Juy 6th, 8 to 10 p.m.
Free. Casual dress.

Happy Ending Lounge
302 Broome Street
New York, NY 10002
(212) 334-9676
www.happyendinglounge.com

Though long a well-regarded writer of nonfiction, David Stein had never committed fiction publicly before, only written out some personal fantasies for the drawer, when he surprised himself by giving birth to a short story he felt was good enough to share. Every friend who read it encouraged his perversion by asking, “So what happens next?” More than ten years and a quarter-million words later, Carried Away: An S/M Romance was finished. Several excerpts had made their way into Drummer magazine during its long gestation, and “When can I read the whole thing?” became the question dinned into his ears. To his pleased surprise, Daedalus Publications just then relaunched as a division of The Stockroom, a major supplier of kinky toys and gear, agreed to publish the novel. It was released at the end of May 2002 and made its debut at International Mr. Leather that year. It’s been in print continuously ever since.

Subsequently, David produced a few other short stories that appeared in magazines like Drummer, International Leatherman, and PowerPlay as well as in Laura Antoniou’s “novelogy” The Academy. In 2009 he collected these along with several new stories in Boots, Bondage, and Beatings, which he self-published under his own Perfectbound Press imprint with original illustrations by Axel. That same year saw the publication of his book of profiles of real-life gay Masters and slaves, Ask the Man Who Owns Him, which won the 2010 Geoff Mains Award for nonfiction from the National Leather Association–International. Collections of erotic stories by Thom Magister (The Slave Journals and Other Tales of the Old Guard) and Christopher Pierce (Winner Takes All) followed, and both of those are available as ebooks as well as paperbacks. More BDSM books from Perfectbound Press are in the works, both fiction and nonfiction.

Laura Antoniou is the author of the best selling Marketplace series of BDSM novels, about a realistic, modern day slave training world. In addition to writing a ton of other erotic material, she has edited over a dozen anthologies and is collecting stories for even more right now. For over twenty years she’s been teaching and ranting at the kinky and alt-sex communities, and her contribution to Tristan Taormino’s The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge is a rare example of her non-fiction work. Naturally, it’s all about how to train a slave. She is the two-time winnder winner of the John Preston Award for short fiction from the National Leather Association–International, most recently in 2012 for the story. Laura can be found at lantoniou.com and on Fetlife and Facebook.

Yes, we’re changing our name! We’re no longer affiliated with Ravenous Romance, but we’re still gung-ho for erotica and erotic romance. And our commitment to bring you quality authors hasn’t changed one iota.

Come join host Lori Perkins on Friday, July 6^th as we christen our new. Throw your favorite dirty word into our drawing for prize packages of books, ebooks, and other sundry goodies.

And we’ll continue our Pride celebration with authors Laura Antoniou, David Stein, KT Grant, and Adam Carpenter! (Bios forthcoming.)

<u>Event Details:</u>
Juy 6th, 8 to 10 p.m.
Free. Casual dress.

Happy Ending Lounge
302 Broome Street
New York, NY 10002
(212) 334-9676
www.happyendinglounge.com

Between the Covers — it’s a great place to be!

Event Details:
June 1st, 8 to 10 p.m.
Free. Casual dress.

Happy Ending Lounge
302 Broome Street
New York, NY 10002
(212) 334-9676
www.happyendinglounge.com

Sassafras Lowrey is an international award winning queer author and artist who came into a gutterpunk leather community a decade ago. Sassafras is the editor of the two time American Library Association honored and Lambda Literary Award Finalist Kicked Out. Sassafras’ first novel, Roving Pack, will be released autumn 2012, an excerpt of which earned hir an Honorable Mention in the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund for Fiction. Ze tours to colleges, and community organizations across the country facilitating workshops that support LGBTQ people in telling their stories. Ze is currently editing Leather Ever After an anthology of BDSM fairy tale retellings to be released by Ravenous Romance. Sassafras lives in Brooklyn, New York with hir partner, two dogs, and two kitties. You can learn more about Sassafras and hir work at www.SassafrasLowrey.com.

Our good friend (and self-confessed “reading whore”) Jefferson curates and hosts Spill Stories: True Stories of Queer Sex, Desire and Romance as well as Bare: True Stories of Sex, Desire and Romance. (Something for everyone!)  A sex educator and writer, Jefferson keeps a pseudonymous blog, One Life, Take Two, that details his life as a parent and pervert. He is a storyteller frequently seen on stages around the city and elsewhere, including The Moth, where he is a StorySlam winner.

Indigo is a black poly kinky feminist queer dyke; writer, teacher, artist and aspiring sex education/blogger. She’s about liberating the woman, questioning the man and fantasizing about all folks in between. She reads, questions, wonders, writes and hopes the art leads the way. Her blog, Indigo’s Theory, explores being in a loving poly relationship, having sex in great spaces, learning to love her skin, belly, hair, etc. and coming into her kinky queer self. Visit Indigo at http://indigostheory.wordpress.com.

D. L. King is a smut writing—and editing—New Yorker who lives somewhere between the Wonder Wheel at Coney Island and the Chrysler Building. The editor of The Harder She Comes: Butch Femme Erotica, Spankalicious ,  Spank! and the Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Where the Girls Are: Urban Lesbian Erotica, D. L. King also publishes and edits Erotica Revealed, the erotica book review site. The author of dozens of short stories in dozens of anthologies, she is the author of two novels of female domination and male submission, The Melinoe Project and The Art of Melinoe. Find out more at dlkingerotica.com and dlkingerotica.blogspot.com.

Be sure to join us July 6th for a second Pride line-up. Hey, when it comes to the erotic word, the celebration never ends!

EVENT DETAILS:
Friday, May 4, 2012 · 8:00 – 10:00 PM
Happy Ending Lounge
302 Broome Street, New York, NY 10002
(212) 334-9676
Free. Street casual.

IJ Miller has published two novels and a collection of short stories. SEESAW was published by St. Martin’s Press in hardcover and Bantam in paperback. WHIPPED was published by Fanny Press. Both books are also available in a German translation, entitled Die gelehrige Schulerin and Die Herrin, respectively. SEESAW was also translated into Spanish as Sube Y Baja. His newest book, SEX AND LOVE, a collection of short stories, was released this past summer by Fanny Press. IJ was also a screenwriting fellow at the American Film Institute where he earned his MFA.

Making her second appearance at Ravenous Nights, Isabo Kelly is the award winning author of numerous science fiction, fantasy and paranormal romance novels, short stories and novellas. After finishing her Ph.D. in Zoology in Ireland, she buckled down to concentrate on writing. Isabo currently lives in New York City with her brilliant Irish husband, her son and her mad dog. To learn more about Isabo’s books, visit her at www.isabokelly.com.

A trained actress, prolific short-story writer M. M. De Voe has won, made finalist or been shortlisted for 23 literary awards and has placed short fiction in more than a dozen journals and three anthologies. “Overheard” is her first erotica story. De Voe holds an MFA from Columbia in Fiction, is an Associate Editor and Director of Online Workshops for OUr Stories Literary Journal, and is the founder and executive director of Pen Parentis, an organization that provides resources to authors with kids. De Voe lives in NYC with her husband, children, and a small collection of unpublished novels.  Website: mmdevoe.com  Like: Facebook.com/mmdevoe and Follow @mmdevoe

Join us this Friday night for an invigorating evening of the erotic word!

Scheduled to read in May: I.J. Miller, M.M. DeVoe, Ben Francisco, and Isabo Kelly.

We’re already shaping future Ravenous Nights.  For starters, June will celebrate Queer Pride, August will boast an Author Smorgasbord, and October will celebrate Cleis Press books.

See you in May – and watch for announcements here!

EVENT DETAILS:
Friday, March 2, 2012 · 8:00 – 10:00 PM
Happy Ending Lounge
302 Broome Street, New York, NY 10002
(212) 334-9676
Free. Street casual.

Joining us:

Nicholas Kaufmann is the critically acclaimed author of the Bram Stoker Award-nominated General Slocum’s Gold (Burning Effigy Press), Hunt at World’s End (as Gabriel Hunt, Leisure Books), Chasing the Dragon (ChiZine Publications) and the collection Walk in Shadows (Prime Books, out of print). His fiction has appeared in Cemetery Dance, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 3, City Slab, The Best American Erotica 2007, Playboyand others. In addition to writing the monthly “Dead Air” column for The Internet Review of Science Fiction, his non-fiction has appeared in On Writing Horror (Writers Digest Books), Dark Scribe Magazine, Annabelle Magazine, Fantastic Metropolis, Hellnotes and others. He has also served on the Board of Trustees for the Horror Writers Association and is a member of the International Thriller Writers.

Born and raised in the United States by traditional Indian parents, Suleikha Snyder has always marched to the beat of her own dhol. As a child, she began writing fan fiction, mixing canonical TV characters with invented Indian-American characters, the genesis of the multicultural and interracial themes she explores in her current work. Today, her short stories and novellas are spicy, often LGBT-themed and frequently peppered with bits of Hindi or Spanish. (Expect both masala and masti!) Her short fiction appears in Cleis Press and Ravenous Romance anthologies. Her eagerly anticipated LGBT novella, Spice and Smoke, will be released on April 10 from Samhain Publishing. (Warning: This book contains gay and straight sexy times, smoking, drinking, references to drug use, and a gratuitous musical number involving The Beatles.)

Our good friend, Jefferson, curates and hosts of Bare. A sex educator and writer, Jefferson keeps a pseudonymous blog, One Life, Take Two, that details his life as a parent and pervert. He is a storyteller frequently seen on stages around the city and elsewhere, including The Moth, where he is a StorySlam winner.

Mo Beasley is an award-winning performance poet and storyteller. He is also a sexuality educator, author, and public speaker. He has successfully integrated his love of performing with his love of education and community building. In the fields of sexuality, race, manhood, and arts advocacy, he has over 20 years experience as a stage performer, teaching artist, workshop facilitator, consultant, activist, and mentor to youth. Mo Beasley’s presentations range from cutting-edge perspectives on sex, sexuality, to art as action, fatherhood and family building, hip hop as a tool for education, to re-defining masculinity for the 21st century.

EVENT DETAILS:
Friday, February 3, 2012 · 8:00 PM –10:00 PM
Happy Ending Lounge
302 Broome Street, New York, NY 10002
(212) 334-9676
Free. Street casual.

Lolita Wolf discovered the BDSM scene back when “online” meant the phone sex lines. An activist who defends sexual freedom for all consenting adults, Lolita spreads the word about BDSM, sex and poly, and helps the community grow and flourish. Yet, her goal remains to have fun. Known for a fun and entertaining style that packs a lot of information into a short class, she has authored two books with videos: Spanking and CBT in a Nutshell, and is featured in the Details of Flogging DVD. Her writing has appeared in On Our Backs, Prometheus, and Rachel Kramer Bussel’s Lust Chronicles. She also a chapter in the soon to be published Ultimate Guide To Kink edited by Tristan Taormino. Lolita was featured in the New York Times One in 8 Million series: http://is.gd/RIbuhN Her website can be found at http://leatheryenta.com/

Angel Propps is a sex-positive femme leatherdyke and Ms. SouthEastLeatherFest 2011. She is an often-published writer of lesbian BDSM erotica and horror, a poet who has appeared in art journals, and the author of many nonfiction essays and articles on sexuality and feminism. She grew into her kinks during her years as a Riot Grrl and, later, the manager of a gentlemen’s club. Angel was a member of the International Ms. Leather Seduction Team 2011 and is a puppy who has written much about the subject, most notably in a series run by Leatherati.com. She is the founding member of both a Riot Grrl band (The Southern Helles) and an outreach program for the homeless in Columbus, GA. Angel has presented nationwide on Bratting, AgePlay, Puppy Play, and Lap Dancing. When not traveling with her butch dyke Daddy (OB of Owhips) she lives in rural North Carolina.

Sara Eileen is a writer, editor, marketer, artist and event coordinator. Her journalism, non-fiction, and award-winning short fiction has been published internationally. Sara holds a BA in English and Art from Columbia University, and a Masters of Creative Writing from the University of Sydney. She has been writing about kinky things on the Internet, in various forms, for the past 5 years.

Laura Antoniou is the author of the best selling Marketplace series of BDSM novels, about a realistic, modern day slave training world. In addition to writing a ton of other erotic material, she has edited over a dozen anthologies and is collecting stories for even more right now. For over twenty years she’s been teaching and ranting at the kinky and alt-sex communities, and her contribution to Tristan Taormino’s The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge is a rare example of her non-fiction work. Naturally, it’s all about how to train a slave. She can be found at lantoniou.com and on Fetlife and Facebook.

Elizabeth Thorne began writing erotic stories when she started working in a place known as The Sex Lab. It was an act of desperation since, ironically enough, studying sex kept her too busy to meet anyone larger than a mouse… and unlike Cinderella she doesn’t actually swing that way. These days, Elizabeth spends her time sitting around in her PJs writing popular science during the day and erotic romance at night. You can sometimes find her haunting NY delis at 2 a.m., looking for chocolate chip cookies and wondering why people are staring at her fuzzy pants. She has contributed to more than ten anthologies of erotica and erotic romance and is proud to be the author of “The Gingerbread Dungeon,” a collection of BDSM fairy tales. You can find her online at withbatedbeth.com.

Come listen to authors read from their newest works and be ready to enter a chance to win a collection of ebooks and other goodies. All you have to do is write your, ahem, *most revealing* resolution on a piece of paper and drop it in the bucket. From there, it’s the luck of the draw!

EVENT DETAILS:
Friday, January 06, 2012 · 8:00 PM –10:00 PM
Happy Ending Lounge
302 Broome Street, New York, NY 10002
(212) 334-9676
Free. Street casual.

Joining us this month:

Jeremy Edwards, author of the erotocomedic novel Rock My Socks Off (Xcite Books, 2010), the erotic story collection Spark My Moment (Xcite Books, 2010), and most recently The Pleasure Dial: An Erotocomedic Novel of Old-Time Radio (OC Press, November 2011). His quirky, libidinous tales have appeared in over fifty anthologies, including three volumes in the Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica series, and he has read his work live at New York’s In the Flesh and Philadelphia’s Erotic Literary Salon. Jeremy’s greatest goal in life is to be sexy and witty at the same moment—ideally in lighting that flatters his profile. Readers can drop in on him unannounced (and thereby catch him in his underwear) at www.jeremyedwardserotica.com

As a self-proclaimed promo ‘ho, Cat Johnson is known for her creative marketing and research practices. Consequently, Cat has sponsored bull riding rodeo cowboys, owns an entire collection of cowboy boots and camouflage shoes for book signings and a fair number of her consultants wear combat or cowboy boots for a living. In her real life, she’s been a marketing manager, professional harpist, bartender, tour guide, radio show host, Junior League president, wife, avid animal lover and is the author of over a dozen published full-length novels and numerous shorter works. Find out more at www.CatJohnson.net

KT Grant, a self-proclaimed eccentric redhead who not only loves to read a wide variety of romances, but also loves writing it. Under her alter-ego, she is a well known book reviewer and blogger who doesn’t shy away from voicing her opinion. A proud native of New Jersey, KT is multi-published and known for writing “out of the box” romances. KT has been quoted in such publications as the Romance Writers of America’s Romance Writers Report and Night Owl Reviews. She has also been mentioned in the Guardian.UK, Publisher’s Weekly’s Beyond the Book and at Bookseller.com. KT is a top ten best-selling PAN (Romance Writers of America Published Authors Network) author at Amazon, as well as being a multiple All Romance Ebooks best seller and a Night Owl Reviews Top Author Pick.

D. L. King spends an inordinate amount of time reading and writing smut in her New York City apartment and postage stamp sized garden. She is the editor of Spankalicious, a new spanking anthology for Ravenous Romance, due out in February. Her fourth anthology with Cleis Press, The Harder She Comes: Butch/Femme Erotica, is due out in March. She is also the editor of Carnal Machines, The Sweetest Kiss and the Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Where the Girls Are, all with Cleis Press and Spank! a Logical Lust anthology. The author of dozens of short stories, her work can be found in various editions of Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Women’s Erotica, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, as well as such titles as One Night Only, Power Play, Lucious, Hurts So Good, Fast Girls, Gotta Have It, Please Ma’am, Sweet Love, and Frenzy, among others. She is the author of two novels of female domination and male submission, The Melinoe Project and The Art of Melinoe. She edits and publishes the erotica review site, Erotica Revealed, which has been referred to as the New York Times Book Review of Erotica. Find out more at dlkingerotica.blogspot.com and dlkingerotica.com.