short story market -- Pain/Pleasure (5 kwords, erotic, all orientations)

A posting to the Erotic Authors comm reminded me that I had failed to point at this call for submissions when Jane first posted it, and it's likely to be of interest to several people on my flist who might not be reading either Dear Author or the erotic authors comm.

http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2010/06/26/submission-guidelines-for-the-painpleasure-anthology/

I confess that when Berkley asked me to put this together, I thought I would have to strong arm some people (20 of them) into writing me a short story but there is quite a bit of interest in contributing to this collection.

I am looking for stories of 5,000 word length (you can go slightly over but you won’t be paid more) about the concept of the twin emotions of pain and pleasure. The submissions must be full (the story complete) and turned in to me litte. jane at gmail dot com by October 1 as an MS Word Attachment with the subject line: Pain/Pleasure Anthology Submission.

The submission can be, generally, anything with a strong erotic content. There is no limitation on genre. I definitely want a lot of variety such as m/m, femdom, diversity in characters. The work can have been published on your website but it cannot have been sold in publication.

I will be paying $500 for each contracted submission with .25% royalty in exchange for world digital, audio and print rights.

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Got home early tonight, so for once was not too drained of mental energy to write. Not that I got much done, but 239 words tonight for a total of 1007 on the one that was "trashy porn you may get to see" on the poll a while back. It's developed something that may be usable as a plot, in which case it's going to be not-a-short-story, but probably not going to hit 20k unless I can find it a bit more plot.