Cecilia Tan is a writer and editor in the Boston area. She is known as the founder of Circlet Press, Inc., publishers of erotic science fiction and fantasy, but also the critically acclaimed author of two collections of literary erotica, WHITE FLAMES and BLACK FEATHERS. She has edited many anthologies of erotic fiction for Alyson Books, Thunder's Mouth Press, Carroll & Graf, Ravenous Romance, Masquerade Books, and Blue Moon Books.
She has recently written several erotic romances for Ravenous Romance, including MIND GAMES, THE HOT STREAK, and MAGIC UNIVERSITY, and edited anthologies for them too, including WICKED PLEASURES, BITES OF PASSION, and YOUNG STUDS. She has published with Torquere Press, as well, with the BDSM novella ROYAL TREATMENT.
She is also known as an accomplished baseball writer, specializing in the history of the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. She is senior writer at Gotham Baseball Magazine and the editor of the Maple Street Press Yankees Annual.
She is the recipient of the Pantheon of Leather President's Award for 2008, the NLA's Lifetime Achievement Award (2004), and has been nominated for various literary awards though never won, including being first runner up in the Best of Soft Science Fiction contest and having several books make it to the finalist list in the Independent Press Awards, Firecracker Alternative Book Awards, and Lambda Literary Awards.
Many more details can be found at her own web site www.ceciliatan.com. |
Influences/Inspirations:
Roger Zelazny, Marion Zimmer Bradley, David Foster Wallace, Patrick O'Brian, James Joyce
Current Projects:
March 2010: currently writing the third book in the Magic University series for Ravenous Romance, about halfway through writing and posting the web serial The Prince's Boy for circlet.com, also posting two times a week on Daron's Guitar Chronicles -- a web serialized pop culture novel of coming out in the 1980s. Also under contract to write a gay male romance with a baseball theme for Ravenous Romance, haven't started it yet. Sequel to Royal Treatment & Master Mind also on the slate to develop/w
University Affiliations:
Brown University, AB 1989, Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
Emerson College, MA 1994, Writing and Publishing
Contact Information:
www.ceciliatan.com