Romantic reads

Four new books to heat up Valentine's Day, with or without that someone special. As always, BTL encourages our readers to support their local independent LGBT bookstores.
Best Lesbian Love Stories 2005
Angela Brown (Editor)
Alyson Publications
"Best Lesbian Love Stories 2005" is a collection of stories from some of the best contemporary lesbian romance authors edited by West Hollywood editor Angela Brown, who was also at the helm of the 2003 edition. Includes new original romantic fiction by Katherine V. Forrest ("Curious Wine"), Karin Kallmaker ("One Degree of Separation"), Claire McNab ("The Wombat Strategy"), Jane Summer ("The Silk Road"), Carol Guess ("Gaslight"), Ann Wadsworth ("Light, Coming Back"), LeslŽa Newman ("She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not"), and Diana Cage, author of the hilarious Рand informative Рtext on oral sex, "Box Lunch."
Best Gay Love Stories 2005
Nick Street (Editor)
Alyson Publications
Popular gay authors offer tales of love and romance in Alyson Publication's annual collection of love and lust stories. Simon Sheppard ("Kinkorama"), Jay Quinn ("Metes and Bounds" and "Back Where He Started" – coming in April), Lawrence Schimel ("Boy Meets Boy"), Jim Gladstone ("The Big Book of Misunderstanding"), and master of queer erotica Simon Sheppard are just a few of the leading gay writers who present new stories of gay love and longing in this collection of passionately romantic original fiction edited by Los Angeles writer and editor Nick Street.
Change of Pace: Erotic Interludes
Radclyffe
Bold Strokes Books
Lesbians who want to skip right to the action will appreciate "Change of Pace: Erotic Interludes," a collection of short – and to the point – erotic stories. A construction worker discovers a pleasant distraction in the surgical locker room; two friends share a walk on the wild side in Amsterdam's Red Light district; a femme top welcomes her lover home from the road; a woman enjoys a lazy summer afternoon with solo pleasures; a missed flight leads to a memorable limo ride for two women stranded in the fog on Cape Cod, and more than twenty other hot-wired encounters to spark more than just your imagination.
Nick of Time
Scott & Scott
A Romentics Novel
Nick is a handsome stonemason who has given up on gay men and has agreed to marry a woman who needs him for a green card. Brent is a dancer from the city, in town for his sister's wedding. Sparks fly and lives are turned upside down when these two opposites attract.
For too long paperback romance novels have been written only for women. Gay men have largely been left out of the mix. Romentics are a line of romance novels written just for gay men with all the steamy passion, crazy excitement and gay drama you'd expect when two men fall for each other. And they're all written by real-life partners Scott and Scott. For more information and to read excerpts visit www.romentics.com.