As a groundbreaking multi-media producer, author, and editor, Marilyn Jaye Lewis has been interviewed on syndicated radio, Internet radio, cable television, and Canadian syndicated television. As head writer for RomAntics Inc., her work was highlighted on HBO, won an AVN award for Best Adult CD ROM game of 1998, and received critical recognition in Entertainment Weekly, the popular American entertainment magazine. She is the author of the critically acclaimed modern erotic fiction classic, Neptune & Surf. Called “a sensational debut” by The Guardian newspaper in London, Neptune & Surf was also selected as one of The Guardian ‘s Top Ten Summer Reads for 1999. Hailed by the American Book Review as “reminiscent of Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time in America”, Neptune & Surf won Ms. Lewis London’s Erotic Writer of the Year award for 2001. She was the founder of the Erotic Authors Association, the first American organization to honor literary excellence in the erotic genre, and was its Executive Director from 2001 - 2006. She is co-editor of the international best-selling art book, The Mammoth Book of Erotic Photography. Her erotic short stories and novellas have appeared in numerous anthologies in the United States and Europe and have won many citations and awards, including the New Century Writers Award and finalist in the William Faulkner Writing Competition. In the late 1990’s, as president of Marilyn’s Room, Inc., Marilyn was executive producer on numerous spoken word recordings for fiction authors and poets, and she sponsored and/or produced live video and audio web casts of spoken word performances in conjunction with Broadcast.com and Pseudo.com. As web mistress, her erotic multi-media sites won numerous awards, in particular inclusion in Playboy’s Online Hall of Fame for her groundbreaking erotic fiction web site Other-Rooms.com. Her popular erotic romance novels When Hearts Collide (2003) and When the Night Stood Still (2004) are being re-issued in Spring 2008 as From Hollywood, with Love and will be distributed exclusively by Barnes & Noble nationwide. As editor, Lewis’s anthologies include the controversial Zowie! It’s Yaoi! Western Girls Write Hot Stories of Boys’ Love (Thunder’s Mouth Press 2006), and Stirring Up A Storm: Tales of the Sensual, the Sexual, and the Erotic, (Thunder’s Mouth Press 2005) -- nominated for 3 Pushcart Prizes for Short Fiction and featuring short fiction by Selma Blair, Dorothy Allison, Joyce Carol Oates and Margaret Atwood, among many others. Her current collection of memoirs, Entangled Lives: Memoirs of 7 Top Erotica Writers (July 2007), upon publication was a front page feature on SMITHmagazine.com and has been nominated for a 2008 Lambda Literary Award. Her upcoming novels include Twilight of the Immortal, Freak Parade, A Killing on Mercy Road, and We’re Still All That. Marilyn Jaye Lewis is represented by Helen Breitwieser of Cornerstone Literary Inc. in Los Angeles. |
