What’s Here?
An explanation of where to find a lot of my shorter works. I say, "a lot," because you won't find everything listed here. For instance, I thought it'd be redundant to list my novels here. More importantly, however, you won't find the thousands of direct mail pieces, press releases, newspaper and magazine articles, grants and everything else I've done. This is a chart that is just about the fiction, essays and other materials I've written for books (except any blurby things I've done, of course).
The fiction, essays and other materials I've written for books under my own name, that is.
In some other part of this site, I might talk about some of my other work that's ended up in newspapers and other places, but this is just a chart a few dozen folks have asked for, so I'd be extremely remiss in not including it here. I just want to make sure that anyone who's trying to locate and read all of my stuff has some chance at doing so.
“...My favorite erotic story in The Touch of Your Hand is Therese Szymanski's “DriveTime,” about Erika, a beautiful but closeted radio DJ, who has a one-night assignation wtih Shawn, a muscular, dark-eyed butch admirer. It teases the reader to a frenzy...”
—Anne Kail, The Lesbian Review of Books, Fall 1999 One
| Book | Publisher | Story | Editor(s) | Notes |
| First Person Queer | Arsenal Pulp Fiction | Words | Richard Labone and Lawrence Schimel | |
| Queer and Catholic | Routledge | Once Upon a Cross | Amie M. Evans and Trebor Healey | |
| Mystery Readers Journal: The Journal of Mystery Readers International | Volume 24, Number 2: Summer 2008 Irish Mysteries |
Interwoven Irish | Janet A Rudolph, Editor Kate Derie, Associate Editor |
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| The Touch of Your Hand | Naiad | DriveTime | Barbara Grier, Christi Cassidy | Szymanski's piece is an erotic short story. |
| The Very Thought of You | Naiad | Double Fantasy | Barbara Grier, Christi Cassidy | Erotica |
| The Very Thought of You | Naiad | Imagine | Barbara Grier, Christi Cassidy | Erotic short story |
| Shadows of the Night | Haworth Press | The Morning After | Greg Herren | |
| Back to Basics | Bella After Dark | The Fan | Therese Szymanski | Szymanski edited this book, wrote the introduction and contributed one-and-a-third erotic short stories to it (she wrote The Fan by herself and also co-wrote "Three to Tango," with Peggy Herring and Laura DeHart Young) |
| Back to Basics | Bella After Dark | Three to Tango | Therese Szymanski | Chain Gang Chronicle co-written by Therese Szymanski, Peggy Herring and Laura DeHart Young |
| Call of the Dark | Bella After Dark | All Hallow's Eve | Therese Szymanski | Chain Gang Chronicle co-written by Therese Szymanski, Peggy Herring and Laura DeHart Young |
| Call of the Dark | Bella After Dark | Dream Lover | Therese Szymanski | Szymanski edited this book, wrote the introduction and contributed one-and-a-third erotic short stories to it (she wrote Dream Lover by herself and also co-wrote "All Hallow's Eve" with Peggy Herring and Laura DeHart Young) |
| The Perfect Valentine | Bella After Dark | When the Lights Go Down | Barbara Johnson, Therese Szymanski | Szymanski edited this book with Barbara Johnson, wrote the introduction and contributed one erotic short story to it as well |
| Wild Nights | Bella After Dark | The Voyeur | Therese Szymanski | Szymanski edited this book, wrote the introduction and contributed two erotic short stories to it |
| Wild Nights | Bella After Dark | Working the Night Shift | Therese Szymanski | Szymanski edited this book, wrote the introduction and contributed two erotic short stories to it |
| Fantasy | Bella After Dark | Metro Heat | Barbara Johnson, Therese Szymanski | Szymanski edited this book with Barbara Johnson, co-wrote the introduction with Johnson and contributed one erotic short story to it as well |
| Once Upon a Dyke: New Exploits of Fairy Tale Lesbians | Bella After Dark | A Butch in Fairy Tale Land | Karin Kallmaker and Julia Watts | The first book in the New Exploits series, Once Upon a Dyke comprises four erotic lesbian fairy tale novellas by four different authors. |
| Bell, Book & Dyke: New Exploits of Magical Lesbians | Bella After Dark | By the Book | Karin Kallmaker and Julia Watts | The second book in the New Exploits series, Bell, Book & Dyke comprises four erotic novellas about magical lesbians. |
| Stake Through the Heart: New Exploits of Twilight Lesbians | Bella After Dark | Elsewhen | Karin Kallmaker and Julia Watts | Szymanski's piece in the third book in the New Exploits series, Stake Through the Heart, is an erotic lesbian vampire story. |
| Tall in the Saddle: New Exploits of Wild West Lesbians | Bella After Dark | The Life and Times of |
Karin Kallmaker and Julia Watts | The fourth (and last) book in the New Exploits series, Tall in the Saddle comprises four erotic lesbian novellas about wild west lesbians. |
| Up All Night | Alyson | In the Mood | Stacy Bias and Rachel Kramer Bussel | |
| The Milk of Human Kindness | Regal Crest Enterprises | Disconnected | Lori L. Lake | |
| Bed | Haworth Press | Sex, Lies and Videotape | Victoria Brownworth | |
| Bed | Haworth Press | Last Exit Off the Turnpike | Victoria Brownworth | |
| The Good Parts | Alyson | Viva La France! | Nicole Foster | |
| The Good Parts | Alyson | Sex, Lies and Videotape | Nicole Foster | |
| Infinite Pleasures | Intaglio Publications | Guppy Love (not Another Twisted Fish Tale) | Stacia Seaman and Nann Dunne | |
| Roughed Up | Alyson | The Write Stuff | M. Christian and Simon Shepard | |
| Sex Buddies | Alyson | The Neighbor | Paul Willis | |
| Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2006 | Alyson | There Really is a Kalamazoo | Nicole Foster | |
| Show and Tell | Alyson | WWBD: What Would Brett Do? | Nicole Foster | |
| First Timers | Alyson | 8 Mile | Rachel Kramer Bussel | |
| First Timers | Alyson | Now Arriving | Rachel Kramer Bussel | |
| First Timers | Alyson | Do You Floss? | Rachel Kramer Bussel | |
| Erotic Interludes 2: Stolen Moments | Bold Strokes Books | Sitting Pretty | Radclyffe and Stacia Seaman | |
| Erotic Interludes 3: Stolen Moments | Bold Strokes Books | A Shorts' Story | Radclyffe and Stacia Seaman | |
| Erotic Interludes 4: Extreme Passions | Bold Strokes Books | Not Another Buffy Rerun | Radclyffe and Stacia Seaman | |
| Erotic Interludes 5: Road Games | Bold Strokes Books | Denver Part Deux | Radclyffe and Stacia Seaman | |
Read These Lips: Volume 1, Openings |
Evecho | The Perfect Woman | Evecho and Linda Lorenzini | Click here o find out more about RTL and the free books it publishes. |
| Drag King Erotica (working) | The Payback | Amie M. Evans and Rakelle Valencia | Forthcoming | |
| Ex Anthology? | All My Exes Live in |
Victoria Brownworth | Forthcoming |
To find out more information about any volume Szymanski edited—or for information about any New Exploits Book—please follow the link provided, so you can check out the book's page on this site.