Surrender: Tales of Submission (17 page)

erotica & poetry entitled
fine flickering hungers
, won the 2007 EPPIE Award for Best Erotica.

Alessia is primarily published electronically. She strives to bring a print-level of respectability to ebooks, to promote diversity, and to maintain an altruistic focus in all her efforts. To that end, she is the driving force behind the
Coming Together
anthologies.

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TALES OF EROTIC SUBMISSION

Nominated in 2004 as Literotica's Most Influential Poet and in both 2005 & 2006 as its Most Influential Writer, her work also appears online at Oysters & Chocolate, Tit-Elation, Ruthie's Club, The Shadow Sacrament, and

Desdmona, where she received honorable mentions in

both the Stiletto Flash & Titillating Tattoo erotic writing contests.

When she's not writing, editing, designing covers, or

researching
, Ms. Brio is performing her domestic duties as a work-from-home mom, kicking ass (or kissing it) as a civil rights advocate, or wasting time in cyberspace.

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