Cunning Linguists’s Table of Contents and Pre-Orders Up!

I’m thrilled to at last share the list of authors and stories I’ve been editing for the New Smut Project’s fourth anthology, Cunning Linguists.

Language. Literature. Lechery.

Thirty authors, including Rachel Kramer Bussel, Sonni de Soto, Kristan X, and Good Sex Award honorees D. Fostalove and jem zero, share clever, sensual stories of the many ways we communicate about and around our desires. From erotic epistolary tales to queer retellings of classics, this collection bursts with memorable and hot new reading material.

1. One Tongue – A.C. Quill
2. Dido Burns – Taylor Verdon
3. Blue Rising – Max Turner 
4. Head to Toe – Camille Devine
5. I Ought to Be Thy Adam – Seb Palumbus
6. Barako – Rachel Woe
7. Draft – T.C. Mill
8. Astronautical Intimacy – Tiana Talaria
9. Sky-High at Aquarius – jem zero 
10. The Meaning of Anything – Kristan X 
11. Muse – Sprocket J. Rydyr 
12. On the Line – Sonni de Soto
13. Noi Leggiavamo Per Diletto – Alex Freeman
14. We’re Not Tentacle Porn – Koji A. Dae
15. Spark to the Tinder – Cathy Bryant
16. Written – Ollie Fox
17. Frontiers – Moxie Marcus
18. Cave Suckers – Elizabeth A. Allen
19. Under the Table – Rachel Kramer Bussel
20. Planet Rolling Over – Peach Berman
21. Moonlight and Madness – A. Zimmerman
22. First Time – Alex Yan 
23. Inkmanship – Melissa Snowdon
24. Welcome to EvolWorld – Louise Kane
25. Spell Ling B – D. Fostalove
26. Unsexed, Sexy – Danny McLaren
27. The Feeling’s Mutual – D.J. Hodge
28. The Training of the Tongue – Evadare Volney
29. More Than Words – Lillian James
30. Phantom Centre – T.J. Cooke 

Heated banter simmers until the sexual tension boils over. An academic aches with curiosity about the mysterious woman behind the letters she translates–and the mysterious woman working alongside her. Lovers seek a common language after the fall of Babel. Without a physical body, a spaceship’s AI makes love to her captain with words. A domme and her sub negotiate kink titles that reflect all they are to each other. After saving his nonbinary partner, Victor Frankenstein celebrates both erotically and electrically.

Diverse characters find pleasure in body writing, music, virtual realities, fanfiction, first-time phone sex, the queer truth behind local folklore, and reading aloud despite a boyfriend’s best attempts at distraction. Stories ranging from the lighthearted to the bittersweet explore what happens when someone finds just the right thing to say in bed—or says the wrong one—or speaks eloquently without using any words at all.

Preorder links:

• Gumroad (use coupon code CUNNING for 25% off preorders)
• Amazon
• Smashwords
• Barnes and Noble
• Other retailers – Books2Read

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(Update: Gumroad, our platform for direct sales, is phasing out the pre-order option. The ebook version just squeaked in while it was still supported. A paperback order page is up, but with the caveat it’s not an ‘official’ pre-order in the system. This means, unlike when you order the ebook, for paperback your card will be charged when you place the order rather than on the release date in May. I’m also looking into options for more official pre-orders, though Gumroad is still one of the best I’ve seen for coupon codes — and both paperback and ebook pre-orders on Gumroad include a coupon code in their product descriptions, so be sure to take advantage of those!)