The first Hot & Bothered, a 1998 collection of short short stories on lesbian desire, went through three printings within its first year and appeared on numerous gay/lesbian bestseller lists, rising as high as No. 2 in the Lambda Book Report in 1999. Hot & Bothered 2, the sequel, contains even more sensuous tales of lesbian seduction and fantasy. As in the first volume, there are 69 stories from numerous countries around the world, including the US, Canada, Great Britain, and elsewhere. Hot & Bothered 2 includes another all-star lineup of contributors. These imaginative, uninhibited stories will delight, arouse, and inspire readers in 1,000 words or less.
Contributors in Hot 2 include: Donna Allegra, Wendy Atkin, LaShonda K. Barnett, Russel Baskin, Wendy Becker, Shari Berman, Robin Bernstein, Persimmon Blackbridge, Helen Bradley, T.J. Bryan, Johanne Cadorette, Connie Chapman, Jeanne Cordova, M.R. Daniel, Robin Dann, Maria de los Rios, Donna Dow, Elana Dykewomon, Gale Sky Edeawo, Deb Ellis, Sandra E. Fellner, Karen Galbreath, Gabrielle Glancy, Jewelle Gomez, Erin Graham, Florence Grandview, Zonna, Terrie Hamazaki, Sharon Hanna, Quade Hermann, Lou Hill, Susan Holbrook, Elisabeth Hurst, Lizard Jones, Sook C. Kong, Marlys LaBrush, Annitsa Laitman, Monica Lee, Rosalyn Lee, Susan Lee, River Light, Rosalind Christine Lloyd, L.M. McArthur, Liz McKenna, Cathy McKim, Mary Midgett, Heather Mitchell, Nilaja Montgomery-Akalu, Shani Mootoo, Joan Nestle, Leslea Newman, Carol Queen, Jean Roberta, Jacqueline Ross, Elizabeth Rowan, Lisa Sheridan, Alison Smith, Wickie Stamps, Jessica Stein, Zara Suleman, Cecilia Tan, Shoshie Tornberg, Jules Torti, Karen X. Tulchinsky, Sarah Van Arsdale, Jess Wells, Robin G. White, L. Wilder, Shirley Williamson, Phoenix Wisebone, Karen Woodman.

Aren X. Tulchinsky is the award-winning author of Love Ruins Everything (Press Gang Publishers), a novel that was named one of the top ten books of 1998 by the Bay Area Reporter and has been translated into German and French; its sequel, Love and Other Ruins (Polestar); and In Her Nature (Women’s Press), a collection of short fiction which won the 1996 VanCity Book Prize.His screenplays have been short-listed in the Praxis Screenwriting competition and the Los Angeles-based Chesterfield Film Company Writer’s Project. He is a graduate of the prestigious Canadian Film Centre’s Professional Screenwriting Programme, where he wrote two feature-length screenplays and a short film, Straight in the Face, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and was broadcast on Showcase TV.Tulchinksy has written for numerous magazines and newspapers, including the Vancouver Sun, Georgia Straight, Now Magazine, Xtra West, Canadian Screenwriter and the National Post, and has taught creative writing at Langara College and Screenwriting at the UBC Writing Centre.

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