Back to Basics: A Butch-Femme Anthology

by Therese Szymanski (Editor), Jean Stewart, Karin Kallmaker

The world's hottest lesbian authors want you... lie back and surrender to the erotic world of Bella After Dark!

Seductive surprises from your favorite authors, plus sexy scenarios from the hottest newcomers, equals enough steamy stories to satifany your deepest butch/femme desires. Pleasure yourself with the best of: Karin Kallmaker, Jean Stewart, Lesléa Newman, Barbara Johnson, Julia Watts, Peggy J. Herring, Laura DeHart Young, Therese Szymanski, Amie M. Evans, Krysia Lycette Villón, M. Christian, L.E. Bland, Jesi O'Connell, Joy Parks, D.L. White, Carol Rosenfeld, Sabrina Wilcox, M.J. Williamz, Nairne Holtz, Jennifer Collins, Jean Roberta, Nathalie Graham and Elizabeth Dunn.

This compelling collection of Butch/Femme sense and sensuality will take you on a fantasy journey – on the road, in the pool, against the wall, and wherever else you long to go.

Whether you dream of long-legged soccer stars, the girl next door, your favorite bartender, a sultry tango dancer or a traffic cop who’ s packing more than handcuffs, you’ ll find her waiting for you inside… Back to Basic.

Genres: LGBT, Erotica, Butch Femme, Lesbian, Fiction, Anthologies, Short Stories

315 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2004

About the author

Therese (Reese) Szymanski is an award-winning playwright who has been short-listed for a few Lammies, a few Goldies and a Spectrum, and made the Publishing Triangle’s list of Notable Lesbian Books in 2004 and was chosen for an Alice B. Reader’s Appreciation Award for 2008.

She’s written eight Brett Higgins Motor City Thrillers (When the Dancing Stops, When the Dead Speak, When Some Body Disappears, When Evil Changes Face, When the Corpse Lies, When First We Practice and When It’s All Relative); one Shawn Donnelly book, It’s All Smoke & Mirrors: The First Chronicles of Shawn Donnelly; and edited the erotic anthologies Back to Basics, Call of the Dark, Wild Nights, Fantasy and A Perfect Valentine. She has novellas in Once Upon a Dyke; Stake through the Heart; Bell, Book and Dyke and Tall in the Saddle and has a few dozen published short stories and essays.

She’s a seasoned writer with two decades’ experience writing for nonprofit, advertising, marketing and journalistic purposes. A second-generation American, she comes from Detroit, lives in D.C., and hopes to move in with her girlfriend, Stacia, soon. Her books can be found for purchase at BellaBooks.com, Amazon.com and all sorts of other places in both the cyber and real worlds.

She occasionally teaches classes, though it's been quite a while since they've been at the college level. She's much more likely these days to be found at festivals and book signings. Well, and online.

http://www.bigbadbutch.com/Bio.html

Reviews

[Isa · Rating 1 out of 5]

Fuck this. Lmao. Every other story in this book about how butches are inevitable transitioners, or how stone butches are frigid selfish bitches, or butches don't know how to satisfy femmes, or dysphoric butches are violent male oppressors, or butch4butch women are "faggots" who need to get with "real women." I was reading this slowly with my girlfriend, supposedly for fun, and the language these authors use is so frequently outright callous and nasty that I honestly just got upset and went to bed half the time. Like what the hell was the point? Don't bill a collection as butch/femme romance if you're going to spend all your time talking about how disgusting and worthless one half of that dynamic is. Don't bother picking this one up. I'm sorry I slogged through it. I'm REALLY sorry I own it. This thing might need to be ceremonially burned.

[Melinda · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved this anthology! Seriously, the stories were hot and the romance was sincere. Usually I have a hard time finding women loving women romance/erotica stories that are actually hot. I am sad that it took me so long to read this!

[Megan · Rating 4 out of 5]

My beloved has a story in this book, check it out! "Pandora's Box"

[Mickilus Laramie-Belcourt · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wassup Joy Parks ..... astounding how well hated we butch are....we aren't all cold, hating self, bashing women, now that may have been the norm way back when we couldn't see ourselves and were brought up hating self....but there are those among us who right our ways, embrace our selfs, and learn....I'm not really butch...I'm 2Spirit....there's a big difference ....I appear one way, so the world treats me one way, and that causes confusion and years of trying to figure out where you sit...Joy Parks...it's well written...but I thought you being the fem you are wouldn't bash us so....but hurt is hurt and I'm sorry....happy is a better place ... forgiveness is a better stance....I'd like to talk to you but you are invisible....Joy Parks can write better than this ..please do....and get in touch k.... [email protected]

[Cori · Rating 3 out of 5]

Apologies to everything in the first quarter of this book it took my sooo long to slowly read through that I can’t remember if I liked any of those. But of the ones I do remember, top 3 in no particular order: pen and willow, touching stone, escapade

[Risa · Rating 1 out of 5]

Blech. Seriously. Pedestrian, painfully cliche, AND boring, which all together should get get you ex-communicated from being gay. If I want pedestrian, cliche, AND boring, I'll read chick-lit.

[Sassafras Patterdale · Rating 3 out of 5]

Butch/Femme coming out cannon