By Author

A.E. Saachi lives in middle America and writes fiction, personal essays, criticism, commentary, and scholarly work, all of which—at their best—contain traces of the erotic in them.

Biography coming soon.

Gene Samuels is the pseudonym of an American ex-military man now living in the Southern United States. He has written fiction most of his life using his experiences in the military in many of his stories. His work has appeared in various university, small press, and online publications.

While still in her teens Ramona Beth Savage realized she didn’t have the legs to be a successful showgirl or the interpersonal skills to be a successful prostitute. Lowering her standards, she tried writing. She was less than satisfied with her efforts and buried the resulting manuscripts in the back of her closet. She confesses they remain there today, “like stillborn children from some psycho mommie’s flawed reproductive system, too grotesque for society’s eyes, but too much a part of me to casually throw in the trash.”

Victor Savage hails from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has been schooled in history, filmmaking, film history, and screenwriting. After discovering that his work is too offbeat and demented for Hollywood, Victor decided to turn to fiction for his outlet. You will find that his work blends erotica with hard-boiled crime, horror, and dark fantasy, but once in a while he may surprise you with a period piece, or romantic comedy.

n Schwartz writes from San Diego, where his daily trips to the beach provide plenty of inspiration.

Nick Scipio is the award-winning author of the Jazz Club series and the popular Summer Camp, Book 1. His stories range from personal experience to pure fantasy, but he’s not saying which is which.

J. Troy Seate’s short stories and poems appear in several magazines, journals and webzines and a paranormal suspense thriller, Delusion, is available through Gate Way Publishers. His suspense novel, Chosen, is available through Port Town Publishing, Amazon or can be ordered through most bookstores.

Alex Severn is the pseudonym of a writer of erotic fiction based in South Wales in the UK. The pseudonym is required to overcome an unpronounceable surname and exotic Serbian background.

David Shaw lives in Western Australia between a beach, a forest and a winery. Mr. Shaw’s sole remaining ambition in life is to get lots of tender loving care from a filthy minded lady in comfortable circumstances who would grant him economic refugee status, i.e., let him keep on writing whilst avoiding the need for any hard work. Meanwhile Mr. Shaw is reduced to making a few dollars writing descriptions of highly unlikely sexual encounters.

Jordan Shelbourne admits to no wisdom but that earned of experience, and not nearly enough of that. Although he has watched an embalming, run a lumberyard saw, and picked handcuffs with a paperclip, he was trained as a biologist. He is not nearly as kinky as others might like and not quite as vanilla as he pretends to be. He has made a living by putting words in a row for over fifteen years—which is not the same thing as selling stories.

J. Sherwood lives in the tropical mountains of southern Mexico where most of the time his imagination runs wild ... sometimes with real women.

Abbey Ships likes living in New Zealand and the US and enjoys writing about Jasmine Jasen very much.

Alexis Siefert lives in Alaska. She writes sex stories to help keep warm during the long, cold Alaskan nights.

An English transplant in the Sonoran desert, A. Silenus makes a living as a freelance journalist when not distracted by an overactive imagination.

Nikki Sinclair lives in a large American city and where she develops her own theories and perfects her own inventions.

Nicole Singer lives in the southeastern United States with her husband, two sons, and altogether too many cats.

Ricki Singer works full time, is single, and has two children. Every story she write always includes at least one redhead, because she is one! Growing up she never read anything positive about redheads, and she wants to change that.

Brett escapes from the chaos of wives, kids, housemates, and computers by writing erotica and speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, and horror). He specializes in flash fiction of 1000 words or less, though plans for longer works, including ideas for a few novels, are dancing like sugar plums in his head.

Nicanor Smith’s first story, The Kiss, was inspired in Wooster, Ohio by three young women, then taken to Crescent City, California and written while living in a cabin. He finished it in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and finally submitted it to Ruthie’s Club from Morgantown, West Virginia. Some places had good barrooms to write in, with low light and good whiskey, while other places were coffee shops where a girl walked by and into the story. His stories are always written honestly. He says, “It is inside of well-told stories that we find ourselves—and the awakening kiss.”

Savannah Stephens Smith lives and writes in Victoria, Canada, on the edge of the Pacific Ocean. When she’s not happily writing smut, she works undercover as a mild-mannered office employee and hides behind the lens of her digital camera at local parks.

Seamas Smith sits immobile in well worn leather chair awaiting his muse till well past midnight. On difficult nights he simply plays guitar

J.M. Snyder writes gay erotic fiction and has self-published several novels since 2002. Snyder has recently begun to explore the world of e-publishing. Snyder’s It’s All Relative, was published in October of 2004 by Lulu Press.

Io Sono is a European author who enjoys the pleasure and freedom that writing erotica gives to both the author and the reader.

Craig J. Sorensen spent his early life in Idaho as a chronic underachiever. Discovering he likes to do much more than study, he developed technical and managerial skills in the computer field after a brief blast of Army programming training. All his life, he succumbed to his compulsion to write, filling dozens of notebooks with raw ideas, partials, and crude completed works. After years of rough drafts, he began earnestly pursuing publication in 2005. Having lived around the USA and in Germany, he is now settled in a small Pennsylvania borough with his inordinately talented wife and children.

Jeremy Spencer lives on one of this country\'s great bodies of water and often spends his time on top of many of this country’s great women. He enjoys imagining himself a powerful leader, benevolent humanitarian, and conscientious world citizen, but alas none of these is true. He’s really just an ordinary guy who gets off on writing dirty stories.

Inna Spice: multi-cultural, well-traveled, professional reporter and photographer has suddenly discovered her new passion for sensual writing. Since then she has had a blast reading and writing kinky stories. She dreams to share her life, thoughts and cheerful attitude through her storytelling and photography with the readers and viewers of the world.

A. Steele, a/k/a Alisha Steele, lives in Alberta Canada with her two gorgeous sons and her very supportive husband—who is also quite lovely

Al Steiner is the Net author of numerous short stories and two novel-length narratives. His themes are usually of ordinary, average people caught up in extraordinary events, both sexual and geopolitical. He once killed off ninety percent of the planet and destroyed the entire structure of civilization in his fictional prose.

Chloe Sterling began writing fiction as soon as she could hold a crayon. Inspired by the works of authors such as Anne Rice, she joined the Writing.com community and began perfecting her writing style. She came fully into her own in college, when she began writing erotica.

Martha Sterling lives quite fretfully with difficult people who she loves very much. Her erotic fiction reflects the reality of her inner life. Martha is a writer, a mother, a landlord, a secretary, a gospel singer, an erotic model (for some people), a wife, an ex-wife, a daughter and a sister. She is also fiercely competitive, frighteningly honest, and occasionally volatile.

Bradley Stoke resides in the UK, but has lived elsewhere and has travelled extensively. He has been writing fiction ever since he was a child. As sex became more important in life, it became so in his stories too. He has written many erotic stories: some long, some short, some sad, some mad, and some just plan weird. He thinks the word processor is the best thing invented since the wheel.

James Stone is a young up-and-coming erotic writer from the glorious state of Ohio. He’s an avid reader, enjoys sitting on porches during thunderstorms, and loves watching Law and Order. He hopes one day to be a best-selling author, a museum curator, or an astronaut. He is open to constructive criticism, reviews of his work and commissions.

Donna George Storey believes the brain is the hottest erogenous zone the human body has to offer. She’s taught English in Japan and Japanese in the United States and has finally found the work of her dreams researching and writing erotic stories and novels. She is the author of Amorous Woman (Orion, 2007), a semi-autobiographical tale of an American’s sexual adventures in Kyoto.

Biography coming soon.

Sheta Storm began creating stories before she could write and has always enjoyed sharing them with others. Inspired by authors like Susie Bright and Jacqueline Carey, she’s been perfecting her writing style in the Writing.com community. Yoga is her favorite leisure activity. She lives in Iowa with her family.

Roman Summers can never figure out how he ended up in this erotic writing lark. His peers would be so shocked if they discovered his secret. After all, he seems like such a nice boy.

Brady Sutton likes to write, which he does a lot because he has no job. Any employer willing to hire a man who will spend his work time dreaming up stories rather than performing actual labor can reach him at his email address. (Salary negotiable.)

Julian Swan is a pseudonym who lives in Los Angeles. Under various names he has written bad movies, bad TV shows, bad novels, and some pretty good short stories. He lives alone with only his other noms de plume for company.

Tara Tainton spends her youth roaming the world in an effort to become all the more worldly in the most physical and spiritual senses. Spurred by the encouragement and lusty appetites of the few acquaintances privy to her erotic life experiences, she’s learning to transform the real and imaginary into formal tales to share with the rest of the unsuspecting world.

This writer informs us that he uses his real name, Carl Goliard Taylor, for writing erotica, and that he uses a pseudonym for all other aspects of his life.

Vinnie Tesla has been reading dirty stories on the Net since 1992, with occasional breaks to eat, sleep, drop out of college a few times, play Quake, and read dirty comic books.

Anna Thesia is the pseudonym for Nava Renek, a writer who lives and works in New York City. She is the author of Spiritland and forthcoming No Perfect Words. Her stories and articles have appeared in a number of literary magazines and websites. She is also editor of the yet to be published anthology of experimental women writers writing in the 21st century.

John “Choo Choo” Thomas writes romantic stories that often have a dark edge. He took his middle name from the children’s classic, “Choo Choo Thomas, the Tank Engine,” but you’ll find nothing childlike about his themes.

Meg Thomas lives in a loft in Brooklyn with her Puerto Rican street dog, Keats, and her old fat cat, Shelley. They are her first and most honest readers. Unfortunately, her artistic lifestyle did not support her fresh sushi and sparkling saki habit, so she has taken a job copyediting for a daily paper. If you see her out in Lower Manhattan with a red correcting pencil tucked behind her ear, be sure to say hello. And offer to buy her a drink.

Rachel Thompson is a writer living and working in the underbelly of the Blue Ridge Mountains. When procrastinating between flights of fancy, she likes horseback riding, hiking, and reading everything she can get her hands on, including, if nothing else is available, the ingredients on bottles of soda and how-to manuals.

John Train, a Brooklyn native, has been writing fiction as long as he can remember. He is pleased to have this opportunity to share his work with the readers of Ruthie’s Club.

Mat Twassel’s stories have appeared in print, on the Internet, and in several prominent sex story e-zines.

Simon Tyrone is one of the most prolific writers in the world of erotica today. His short stories, fantasy letters, and video reviews have appeared in over fifty adult publications.

Tzratzk is a fan of European comic styles, mainly French-Belgian, Spanish, and Italian. He is the creator of comic strips, book and magazine illustrations, and political humor ’toons published in Russia, Sweden, Spain, and Cuba.

Umbra was born in Italy in 1968. Always divided between his two passions of writing and painting, he has drawn and scripted comics, written and illustrated roleplaying games, and worked as an interior decorator and as an illustrator. He currently works full-time as a scriptwriter and assistant director in an animation studio, and continues to do illustrations—mostly for Web sites and advertisements.

Nicholas Urfé has never met an envelope he didn’t want to push, or a line in the sand he didn’t want to cross. His ambition is one day to be known as the enfant terrible of Internet erotica. Humor him.

Biography coming soon.

J.B. Vargas is a professional poker player and occasional software developer living in New York City.

N. Vasco has been writing erotica for about eight years and has had the pleasure of having his work featured in Variations, GC magazine, the Score Group’s Legsex, Amatory Ink, Justus Roux’s Erotic Tales, Oysters and Chocolate, and JenLynn.

Linda Veni is the pen name of a mainstream author and teacher who also enjoys exploring the many diverse aspects of erotica. She is the author of several novels in genres including romance, young adult mystery and historical fiction. She also teaches online writing classes taken by nearly a thousand students each year.

Nghi Vo got her first body piercing right after work and right before a Medieval Dance practice two years ago, and she hasn’t looked back since. Currently, her count stands at 10 piercings and no tattoos, the latter being a sad matter she hopes to rectify in the coming year. This is her first story sale and she finds this fact both unexpected and exhilarating.

Elizabeth Vongvisith splits her writing time between devotional poetry and dirty stories. She lives at the foot of the Rockies and spends her free time reading, thrift shopping, cooking, and planning extended road trips, some of which she actually manages to take.

Garnell Wallace loves good girls with dirty minds and fully indulges herself in her erotic writing endeavors while searching for the perfect partner to turn her stories into reality.

Lysander Ward began writing erotica in the late 1980s under various pseudonyms. He plans to stop about halfway into the 23rd century, if medical science will cooperate. He likes stories with a beginning, middle and end. He prefers the ends to be round and soft, with a little bit of jiggle when you spank them.

Leonard Waters lives in Melbourne, Australia, where he juggles his day job with a range of creative pursuits, including literary, musical, artistic and theatrical forays. Under another name, he has published poems, and serious essays on various arcane subjects. Writing erotica is a diversion that usually begins with a hot image that he can’t exorcise until he’s put it to paper. He won’t say where it usually ends.

Andrew Thomas Weems was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1972 and reared in the southern foothills of Appalachia. He is a professional hack journalist and a perpetual vagabond whose addictions include traveling, writing fiction, writing songs, and adoring adorable women.

Nolan Whyte is a writer, artist, and musician, and as such, is usually broke.

By nature, Andrzej Wilkowski is egocentric, lazy, and inclined to apathy. He began to draw at an early age, having determined that art is one of the few occupations not invoking an internal cast-off of the external. He prefers to create black and white comic-style illustrations and uses the abilities of colourists, such as Tzratzk, to complete his drawings.

Elazarus Wills is a journalist, artist, and used bookstore owner living in a small mountain valley somewhere between Aspen and Telluride in Western Colorado. Relatively new to the genre, his literary erotica work has also appeared in Clean Sheets as well as selected anthologies.

Rita Winchester is one of those dames. You know the type. The kind of dame that you meet on a hot, thick summer night. The kind of dame that looks like neon reflecting off wet asphalt and sounds like gunshots echoing down empty alleys. The kind of dame that makes you do sweaty, secret things. The kind of dame you’d kill for. And more than one man has. She’s the kind of dame that can look right through your eyes and see the dirty, petty things in your head, and then write about them. Rita Winchester is one of those dames.

Jordana Winters is a Canadian writer whose credits include eXtasy Books, Thermoerotic, Oysters and Chocolate, Best Women’s Erotica 2006, Uniform Sex, and Erotic Tales. When not hiding behind her computer telling filthy tales, Jordana is an often disgruntled white-collared worker. She spends much of her time reading, writing, doing as much and as little as possible and pissing people off. Jordana’s dream job would be anything involving the study of human sexuality.

Mark Wiseman started writing as a teenager, mainly mystery stories. A defining moment in 1999 inspired him to write hypnoerotica, and he is still looking for someone to practice it with in real life. A native of the Washington, DC area, Mark’s other avocations include improvisational comedy and building custom furniture. He plays a mean air guitar, too.

Lenny Woodson is a singular married father of two overly-precocious sons and a leopard gecko. He has been persuaded that at least one of them is adopted.

Biography coming soon.

Ezra Zane, aka E.Z. Riter, is a thoroughgoing gentleman whose themes often include dominant/submissive relationships, with the male always on top. His new Vinnie’s World series, presented here for the first time anywhere, is a wide-ranging exploration of those interests.