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Playing with Wax!

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Alison

Playing with Fire on Fleshbot!

Playing with Fire has been Fleshbotted! How totally fucking cool is that? Thanks to Lux Alptraum for selecting the book for part of the Fleshbot Book Club! (I love her bio: "Lux Alptraum...has been obsessed with the Internet since 1994, obsessed with computers since 1987, and obsessed with sex since 1982." A girl after my own ♥.)

The portion featured on Fleshbot is from the story "On a Hot Tin Roof" by I.K.Velasco.

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Alison

P.S. Exciting features like these are why I'm always harrassing you all for reader reviews. If someone clicks through from Fleshbot, they'll have 10 reviews on Amazon to read to help them decide whether or not they'd like to purchase the collection!

"Literary erotica- extraordinary."

Thank you to Jeremy Edwards for sending me the link to this unbelievably fabulous review of Playing with Fire by Roxanne Rhoads:

My favorite line: Playing with Fire has to be one of the best collections of erotica that I have read.

Damn!

And I like this, too: Alison Tyler knows how to choose the best, most erotic and stimulating stories for her collections. Not only are these stories hotter than hot they are brilliant works of art crafted skillfully; the words are sensual, seductive, artful and erotic.

She highlighted her favorite stories (kudos to Sommer Marsden, Shanna Germain, Nikki Magennis, Teresa Noelle Roberts, and Jeremy Edwards—and nicely summed up the book as a whole. Ta very much, RR!

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Alison

P.S. Gorgeous photograph is by the bunny cage.

I ❤ Violet Blue

Playing with Fire not only made the Hottest Sex Books of 2009 list, it made number 1:

Topping the list (heh) is the mistress of literary erotica, the bestselling and award-winning Alison Tyler, who not only knows how to write one hell of a dirty story, but puts together collections that become overnight classics packed with mesmerizing, arousing and inspiring stories. "Playing With Fire" is Tyler at her finest, and the stories feature (heterosexual) couples who play with their most daring sexual fantasies, explicitly penned by today's hottest erotic authors. It's not to be missed.

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Alison

I ❤ Ashley Lister

I can’t honestly recall the last time I enjoyed a collection so much. The stories in this collection are so hot the pages will leave scorch marks on the readers’ fingers.

The weather forecast in the UK is promising a hot summer. Clearly the forecasters knew that Playing With Fire was being released because the summer doesn’t come much hotter than this.

Read the whole review, and then raise a glass of champagne and toast those fabulously clever writers who helped me pull this off!

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Alison

"Group, Public, and Fetishistic Sex"

Here's a review from Scarlet Magazine! Okay, so they got my name wrong. No worries. At least, they liked the book!

The perfect short-story anthology to sate your dark side, this taboo-breaking book's themes include group, public, and fetishistic sex. 'Fanning the Flames' by Andrea Dale is perfect for spanking fans and features a delicious twist, while 'Hot off the Press' by Thomas S. Roche is utterly salacious. Kinky, inspirational but not so extreme it'll turn you off, you're sure to find something that will light your fire.

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Alison

I Need More!

5.0 out of 5 stars

By J. Kelley

I like reading short stories. I love reading novels. I really would love for some of the short stories in this collection to be coaxed into novels. So, Sophia Valenti, if you're reading this review, please please please tease out more from the delicious triangle in your story 'Carrying a Torch.'

Andrea Dale, if you're reading this, I am dying to know more about Catriona and the devilish Jake. I know you must have more to tell.

And even though I was provoked by 'Trial by Fire,' I couldn't stop reading it. And I have to admit, it would unfold as a compelling novel, if Bella Dean were so inclined.

And 'Where There's Smoke,' by Kristina Wright. This story has plenty of emotion, vulnerability, lust, deceit and confession, and adrenaline. It has romantic love, forbidden love, and still, innocence.

I know it's the whole point of a short story: leave the reader wanting more, dramatic endings, etc. But it doesn't mean I can't dream of how these stories would continue, or beg for just a little more.