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BOOKS BY TAS




The Erotic Writer's Thesaurus (with notes on usage) paperback edition (510 pages, 8.5 x 11)
Amazon
Amazon UK 

Kindle edition
Amazon
Amazon UK

With over 10,000 entries and more than 1,800 examples of words in ‘real-world’ context, ‘The Erotic Writer’s Thesaurus’ is the most thorough, in-depth, serious reference of its kind. Besides all the expected “obvious” words—with long lists of creative substitutes—users will also find entries representing a wide range of gesture and emotion, words to establish erotic context and setting including common expressions, expletives, “swear words” and insults with “clean” alternatives, plus many antiquated or obsolete words  and phrases of value to writers of erotic historical narrative.

The Erotic Writer’s Thesaurus differs from “traditional” reference books of this type in two significant ways. In most thesauruses, word lists are arranged hierarchically, that is, synonym lists will first show the nearest alternatives to the entry (headword) followed by more remotely-related words, all regardless of alphabetization. In almost all earlier thesauruses, headwords were arranged so as to reflect an editor’s judgment about which forms of a word were most common or useful, thus, a word like “exact” might be presented first as an adjective, and then as a verb, while in the same book,“advance” might be presented first as a noun, than as a verb, and then in its adjectival form “advanced”. All synonym lists in the EWT are arranged in strict alphabetical order. Where a word may belong to several parts of speech, those variants are always presented in the same order: verb, noun, adjective, adverb or preposition. Some words or phrases also function as intensifiers, interjections, or colloquial expressions, and these functions are indicated as appropriate. There are some words that defy synonymization, and so, occasionally, ‘The Erotic Writer’s Thesaurus’ also functions as a dictionary, offering brief definitions, which may be used as a starting point for more in-depth research.  





Eighteen with a (Silver) Bullet: An Erotic Christmas Carol

Amazon

Christmas Eve is Marla's eighteenth birthday, but heck if she can remember anything about her past, especially where sexual experience is concerned. Will Marla find a cure for her erotic amnesia in time for her birthday party?  Will she discover something about her past, present, and future as she shops for the perfect Christmas gift? Will a bizarre series of sexy twists and turns ultimately convince Marla to seek help in the most unlikely of places?

Inspired by Charles Dickens' immortal holiday classic, A Christmas Carol, this contemporary erotic romp will entertain and titillate even as it tickles readers' literary sensibilities with a nudge and a wink at some of the sillier genre conventions of our time.






The Seven Seductions: A Novel
Amazon (Kindle and paperback)
(or request the paperback edition at your favorite book-seller)

Haunted by a demon’s prophecy…

Gretchen grows up dreading the destiny she cannot escape—not even within the walls of a convent—the lustful longings of the otherworldly creature she knows only as The Nameless One.

Uncanny things have always had a way of happening ever since her older sister read aloud from a book of black magic, unwittingly awakening the demon. But now, after having become Sister Mary Chastity, Gretchen must struggle with the stirrings of her own long-buried desires, the undeniable yearnings that overpower her flesh, and the guilt that inevitably follows when dark secrets come back to confound her.

On “sacred sabbatical” in a cabin by the shores of a lake in the Great North Woods, Mary chastity meets Magic, a handsome, carefree young artist who tests her vows even as he speaks to something deep within her heart. Can this beautiful boy help her to face her fears—or is he part of the future The Nameless One has foreseen for her all along? Is Magic the key to Mary Chastity’s salvation—or nothing less than the incubus itself in human guise? 





The Sexy Librarian's Dirty 30 Vol. 3 (includes TAS' story Hung Jury)

Lose yourself in these thirty risqué adventures, loaded with fabulous characters in provocative situations. Get ravished by flirty-frills and sassy petticoats in our hot bodice-ripper romance. Keep it strictly confidential as you fall in love with a dangerous undercover spy. Feel your heart quiver as you lust after two brothers on the lone frontier. The choice is yours in this library of sexy-sharp stories! 

Aphoristic and lively, these tales are perfect for a mid-day quickie or an evening kiss before bed. Do you have twenty minutes for a brazenly sexy jewelry heist? Or maybe take that once in a lifetime cruise vacation and discover that mermaids really do exist! You can savor the heat rising in your cheeks as you confess your deepest desires to the town priest, then finish-off your evening with a run in Central Park and stumble upon a house made of…gingerbread?

FEATURING: Ria Restrepo, Janine Ashbless, T.D. Rudolph, Kenzie Mathews, T.C. Mill, Alex Slaine, Lynn Lake, Kendel Davi, Terrance Aldon Shaw, Rachel Woe, Eddie Monotone, Romey Petite, Chase Morgan, Clare London, Silas Bliss, Dr. J., Sommer Marsden, Eliza David, Alegra Verde, Kiki DeLovely, Emma Chaton, M.P. Clifton, Emily L. Byrne, Saskia Walker, Jaap Boekestein. Maxim Jakubowski, Alexa B. Forde, t s cummings, Jaycee Amore, and Janie James.






The Sexy Librarian's Dirty 30 Vol. 2  (includes TAS' story A Polite Fiction)

The Sexy Librarian, Rose Caraway returns with another Library of Erotica, just for you. From Torrid Literature to BDSM, Fairy Tales to Orgies, Clandestine Military Adventures to Bi-Curious Rendezvous, this adventurous, and fantasy-filled collection is here to turn you on. So grab your partner and peruse the card catalog and see which sexy story catches your interest first. This is your very own, hand-held library! Explore this volume of Erotica to your libido's content.

Featuring: Chase Morgan, Malin James, Silas Bliss, Sommer Marsden, Daily Hollow, Terrance Aldon Shaw, Jordan Castillo Price, Dahlia Lovejoy, Janine Ashbless, Jean Roberta, Emily Bingham, Rose de Fer, Dee Maselle, Rachel Woe, Josie Jordan, Eva Hore, R.A. Goli, Tamsin Flowers, Melina Greenport, Sonni de Soto, Elliot DeLocke, Landon Dixon, Michael Lewis, Janie James, Brantwijn Serrah, Emmanuelle de Maupassant, Spencer Dryden, M.L. Doyle, Brown Sugar, and Dorothy Freed.






For the Men and the Women Who Love Them (includes TAS' story Making Hay)

The Sexy Librarian, Rose Caraway presents an anthology intended for the fellas and the women who have an appetite for bold, adventurous erotic storytelling. Escape into the fantastic, the outlandish, and the literary. Get ready for; a space pirate, a cowgirl, an anxious odd man out, an undercover agent, lonely ghosts, a taxi driver with an unexpected topsy-turvy fare, a burly biker who just wants to be cuddled, a bride-to-be with one last oat to sow, The Devil offers a golden deal, a mysterious hitchhiker, strangers and a spontaneous three-way, and a reluctant hitman. You will find these and many more audacious characters playing out intense encounters. 


Featured stories by: Allen Dusk, Jade A. Waters, Terrance Aldon Shaw, Tamsin Flowers, Landon Dixon, Sonnie de Soto, Adrea Kore, D. Lovejoy, Erin Pim, J.T. Seate, Spencer Dryden, Winter Blair, Simon Drax, Lynn Lake, Chase Morgan, Charlie Powell, Josie Jordan, Daily Hollow, Marc Angel, Rachel de Vine, D.L. King, Dorothy Freed, Rachel Kramer Bussel, T.J. Christian, and Emmanuelle de Maupassant 






The Moon-Haunted Heart (50 short stories)

paperback:

e-book:
Nook (Barnes & Noble)

Sometimes, the truest stories are about what ‘almost’ happened; not what was, but what just as easily might have been. The would’ves, the should’ves, the could’ves, the haunting maybes and the melancholy might-haves are the fertile soil in which the most powerful and affecting fiction takes root. Then too, sometimes, the most intriguing stories leave a bit of mystery beyond the margins—small enigmas for the reader to ponder hours and days after the book has been closed. Sometimes, the shortest stories are the ones that stay with us the longest.

The fifty very-short pieces in this collection of mature literary fiction range from as many as 4,000 to as few as 50 words. The purpose of these stories is not necessarily to arouse, but rather to explore various aspects of the human condition through the lens of the erotic in a way that is both enlightening and entertaining.

There are brief vignettes—entire worlds conjured up within the space of an eye-blink—alongside more conventionally expansive narratives. There are a number of stories about the erotic dimensions of ‘disability,’ particularly visual impairment. There are pan-sexual celebrations—the hetero- and homoerotic along with the intentionally ambivalent. There are richly atmospheric scene-settings, effusive literary evocations, and casual pop-culture-inspired dialogues; orneriness and ecstasy, contemporary vulgarity and timeless transcendence standing cheek by jowl, low comedy, erotic horror and lambent exultation comfortably sharing the same space, breathing the same air, seeking the same truth.




Kiss-Off the Devil (9 Transgressive Tales of Taboo, Seduction, and Surrender)

AVAILABLE ONLY IN PAPERBACK (get it before it's banned everywhere)

The truth isn’t always 'nice', and those who would dig down to the roots of human folly should expect to get their hands at least a little dirty. This collection transports readers to the realm of the forbidden, probing the dark, seldom-explored reaches of illicit desire and obsession where opposites attract and lust burns on any fuel it can find. Ranging in mood from the comically macabre title story, to the poignant realism of “All the Things They Never Got to Say” and the bewildering moral ambiguities of “The Why in Everything” and “Detour (Alternate Timeline)”, these tales challenge our comfort zones and scandalize the earnest little angels sitting on our shoulders, while inviting their opposite numbers to come out and play. If the stories in this book were made into movies they would no doubt be rated somewhere between R and NC-17. Not so much for graphic content (though there is a fair amount of that) as for “adult situations.”






Take Me Like the World Ends at Midnight (8 Stories of Unexpected Passion)

paperback:
Amazon

e-book:
Smashwords
Amazon: Six Erotic Tales (The Complete Entertainments So Far)

They say forbidden fruit is always the sweetest. They never tell you how hard it can be to get. These stories are all about the thrill of the unexpected; a handsome stranger’s touch in a dark theater, a night of passion with the most unlikely of mystery men; the sheer adrenaline rush of sudden contact; the silent promise of ecstasy. 

Available only in paperback, Take Me Like the World Ends at Midnight comprises all the stories from Six Erotic Tales as well as Mr. Friday's Midlife Crisis and Summer of '69.

All these stories are also available in discrete electronic editions: Her Dark Passage; Saturday Nights in the Middle of Nowhere; The Sweet Guy Tells All; Sleeping Dogs and Southern Comfort; Night Vision; Three Lies Before the River, Mr. Friday's Midlife Crisis and Summer of '69.




A Song for the Girl with the Almond Eyes (a novel)

paperback:
Amazon
Barnes and Noble

e-book:
Amazon (Kindle)
Smashwords (all platforms)
Barnes and Noble (Nook)

Then something caught my eye. Passing the Great Room, I froze, dead in my tracks. May-Lin was sitting on the corner of the bed nearest the entrance, looking out into the hall. Keeping perfectly still like a model holding a pose for a painter, she was serenely topless, a beautiful mermaid, dark hair hanging loose around her shoulders, some rumpled sheets draped over her legs. My sudden appearance didn’t seem to startle her at all. She looked straight at me, but made no move to cover herself. I stared back, admiring her as much as I dared, trying not to be too obvious while pretending that this sort of thing happened all the time. Neither of us said a word.

Ben Bohring’s life gets interesting, taking a dark detour into obsession when he meets beautiful May-Lin Song during a summer week of teenage debauchery at a lakeside cabin. The vivacious young woman’s combination of classic Asian beauty and all-American attitude is more than Ben can resist, and he vows to have her some day in spite of the odds.


Ben’s quest propels him on a series of amorous, sometimes-violent misadventures, where unsettling secrets about the past are revealed and hard truths about the future learned at painful cost, ultimately leading to someone who may hold the key to questions that have haunted the young man his whole life.





Summer of '69: A Coming-of-Age Story

e-book (perma-free)
Smashwords
Barnes and Noble
Also available in paperback as part of Take Me Like the World Ends at Midnight (see above)

It’s the summer of Woodstock and the Moon landing, but for sixteen-year-old Nate, vacationing with his family on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, the real excitement is considerably closer to home. The Establishment’s in serious trouble when long-lost “Aunt” Penny shows up for a visit. A free-spirited flower child, Penny’s the hippest, most exciting, worldly woman Nate’s ever known, an irrepressible exhibitionist with a talent for finding fun and getting everybody else into trouble along the way.

“1969 was my summer of love; the summer Aunt Penny taught me how to juggle; the summer I finally got the hang of driving a clutch, lost my virginity and my stutter, all on the same incredible night. It was the summer of one small step that changed the course of history for all mankind, and of one giant leap that changed a lonely boy’s life forever.”

Summer of ‘69 is the funny, sometimes poignant story of classic rock, not-so-cool cars, and the agonies of puberty; sex and the generation gap, the clash of cultures and the games people play for a thrill. A story about coming of age and coming into your own; learning to stand up for yourself and the ones you love; finding your place in a world that doesn’t want to understand, and finding your true voice in the last place you’d ever expect.

(This title was banned on Amazon)







Muse in the Neon Twilight (An Erotic Entertainment)

e-book:
Amazon
Also available in paperback as part of Kiss-Off the Devil (see above)

Beautiful Julia Rogers schemes to make her long-distance boyfriend jealous, though it could mean making a deal with a man she despises. Caught in the web of her own deceit, Julia discovers that no plan ever goes smoothly once emotion takes over, and her most deeply repressed passions come into play. Soon, she must decide what she truly wants in a surreal world where the lines between hate and attraction, lust and disgust, revulsion and surrender are virtually erased. A world where seduction’s a zero-sum game—where no means no means yes. 






Mr. Friday's Midlife Crisis (An Erotic Entertainment)

e-book:
Amazon
Also available in paperback as part of Take Me Like the World Ends at Midnight (see above)

Sixtysomething and seriously oversexed, Mr. Friday’s long overdue for a midlife crisis. The old man still has two or three items left to cross off his bucket list of ingenious kinks when he meets beautiful Sami Rosenberg; a smart-mouthed, vivacious nineteen-year-old college coed with major cash-flow problems and a boyfriend who bores her to tears.

When Mr. F offers an ungodly amount of cash for her to play the courtesan, Sami tells herself it’s all about the money. But more troubling questions persist. How far will she go to get what she wants? How deep do her inhibitions truly run? What’s the real price of a thrill?

Definitely NOT a sweet romantic yarn about nice, agreeable people, Mr. Friday’s Midlife Crisis is the gritty, sometimes disturbing story of what happens when headstrong opposites attract, when honesty takes a back seat to greed, and lust goes on the take. Sexual sparks fly, triangles are shattered and dark emotions laid bare in this contemporary character-driven erotic entertainment from Terrance Aldon Shaw.






Turn Me On--Tell Me a Story: An Erotic Anthology

e-book only:
Amazon (Kindle)
Smashwords (All platforms, perma-free)


What you will find in this collection falls comfortably into the sane middle somewhere between highfalutin, metaphor-heavy 'erotica' and over-pungent porn; better edited than a stroke book, more down to earth than the kind of 'literary fiction' that usually ends up winning the British Literary Review's annual 'Bad Sex in Fiction' award. There’s an actual story that connects the juicy parts, but those scenes are just as well-crafted and carefully thought out as the rest of the book, if not more so. This is unapologetically sexy fiction, intended to entertain, turn-on, titillate, lubricate, harden, and stroke. If it also gets you to laugh, think, imagine, fantasize, or dream, so much the better. 

The stories are set mostly in the American Midwest; the characters are not larger than life—and, at least most of the time, neither are their body parts. They take their foreplay slow; they talk to each other like real people, and think about what they’re doing and feeling. They get it on with gusto, and do it till they—and the people watching them— are satisfied. They understand that the brain is also a sex organ, and needs its share of stimulation from time to time. 

The novels and stories excerpted in this newly-updated anthology began life as imagined conversations. What would smart, sexy, articulate people talk about if they were free to think and say whatever they liked? Smart people want pretty much the same thing as everybody else; they just want to deconstruct their favorite episodes of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' or quote William Butler Yeats while in the process of getting it, undoubtedly bandying about one of the great Irish poet’s most famous pronouncements while gently maneuvering their partners into bed; “sex and death are the only things that can interest a serious mind.” 

These stories have the sex part covered, and one of them even delves into death at the end. The characters have decidedly serious minds, always actively engaged, yet most of them are people you might imagine hanging out with and talking to, or fantasize about making love with. They are the sort you wish you knew in real life, and not just because they don’t mind if you fantasize about making love to them—in fact, they hope you will. The clean little secret they all know is that there’s nothing wrong with sex between consenting adults; that thinking about it doesn’t make you a bad human being—even if your thoughts occasionally go beyond the limits of what society deems acceptable; that talking about it isn’t naughty or immoral; that reading about it isn’t a waste of time 

This anthology includes a complete short story 'Sleeping Dogs and Southern Comfort', excerpts from the up-coming collection 'Stories Out of School' and generous selections from the novels 'A Song for the Girl with the Almond Eyes' and 'The Seven Seductions of Sister Mary Chastity'. And finally, for dessert, a collection of bawdy limericks.







Turn Me On Again--Tell Me Another Story (A New Erotic Anthology)


e-book only:
Amazon
Smashwords (All platforms, perma-free)


Seduction comes in many forms; the subtlest looks and gestures, a virtually imperceptible nod of the head, the tiniest hint of moisture on the lips, a furtive movement of the eye, the slightest flutter of lashes. Seduction is a would-be lover’s hot breath on the back of your neck, the wordless hum of a deep male voice rippling through your body like a giant vibrator.  

I felt his presence there, and the little hairs on my neck stood up, and he was touching me with these big, strong hands, cradling the side of my face, running them down over my shoulders, across the front of the soft flannel shirt I had on. And the whole time he’s breathing those sweet somethin’-somethin’s in my ear until all I want to do is get the hell out of there with him.

Explore seduction in its many forms in this new anthology of erotic fiction from Terrance Aldon Shaw. The collection features two complete short stories, including the first publication of  A Girl from White City as well as a substantial excerpt from the upcoming novel, A Song for the Girl with the Almond Eyes and an extract from the new erotic coming of age story, Summer of ‘69 Here are stories that will arouse, enlighten, inspire, entertain, and, yes, seduce.




Turn Me On--Tell Me a Story 3

e-book only:
Amazon
Smashwords (All platforms, perma-free)


This third sampler of recent fiction is organized around the theme of humor in erotic storytelling. Sometimes, that humor is fairly black, approaching the macabre with a good stiff does of 'meta' to go with the dark jollies. The seven stories and one narrative poem in this book offer sometimes mordant, open-eyed forays into the realm of the transgressive, with perverse twists and turns, leading to bizarrely ironic denouements, worlds-removed from anything resembling the traditional Hollywood happy-ending. 

Sexy, creepy, silly, fun, ‘Turn Me On—Tell Me a Story 3’ makes a perfect, easy introduction to the teeming world of erotic imagination that is the mind of Terrance Aldon Shaw. 







Three Lies Before the River (An Erotic Entertainment)

e-book:
Amazon
also available as part of Six Erotic Tales (see above)
available in paperback as part of Take Me Like the World Ends at Midnight (see above)

Drop-dead gorgeous Terri’s psychic ability has always given her an edge on the job, and at the poker table; until a co-worker gets under her skin and into her head. As if beating her at cards isn’t bad enough; he makes her want him obsessively, and leads her to question everything she ever thought she knew about herself. Living a lie is hard work; but learning how to let go is even harder.





Night Vision (An Erotic Entertainment)

e-book:
Amazon
also available as part of Six Erotic Tales (see above)
available in paperback as part of Take Me Like the World Ends at Midnight (see above)

In this noir-ish tale, a down-and-out ex jazz DJ discovers an unusual ability, born of his very ordinariness. But his new-found talent is put to the test when a beautiful, strangely troubled woman walks into his life, and leads him on a bewildering night journey, culminating in unexpected pleasure and mystery.







Her Dark Passage (An Erotic Entertainment)

e-book:
Amazon
also available as part of Six Erotic Tales (see above)
available in paperback as part of Take Me Like the World Ends at Midnight (see above)

Ignored by her husband, and abandoned by her so-called best friend, Jessi is left alone on a rainy night to celebrate her fortieth birthday at a decrepit old movie house.  But the Humphrey Bogart double feature is less interesting than the handsome young stranger who sits down next to her halfway through the show. Will Jessi ignore the boy’s subtle advances, or take a chance for once in her life?







The Sweet Guy Tells All (An Erotic Entertainment)

e-book:
Amazon
also available as part of Six Erotic Tales (see above)
available in paperback as part of Take Me Like the World Ends at Midnight (see above)

The sweet guy is a character in every romance novel, but being one in real life is no fun. Will the sweet guy finally get lucky? Or will his life continue to imitate art?









Sleeping Dogs and Southern Comfort (An Erotic Entertainment)

e-book:
Amazon
also available as part of Six Erotic Tales (see above)
available in paperback as part of Take Me Like the World Ends at Midnight (see above)

On a trip south with her boyfriend to attend a reunion of his old Marine unit, Nancy finds herself in a tight spot when he abandons her for the love of his life, leaving Nancy alone in an old brass bed with “the other woman’s” gorgeous, half-wit brother.

Will fooling around make her boyfriend jealous, and get her off in the bargain? Or will Nancy end up with more pleasure—and more trouble—than she could possibly imagine?







Saturday Nights in the Middle of Nowhere (An Erotic Entertainment)

e-book:
Amazon
also available as part of Six Erotic Tales (see above)
available in paperback as part of Take Me Like the World Ends at Midnight (see above)

Somewhere, deep in the wild, wide-open subconscious of the southern Great Plains, the shadowy caretaker of the New Squamedaya Roadhouse tells the story of lovely aspiring country-western chanteuse, Suzan L’Amour, and the unlikely lover who changes her life forever. 






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