The Lovers and Liaisons Collection
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Book 1
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Book 2
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Book 3
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Book 4
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Book 5
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Book 6
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Book 7
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Book 8
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Book 9
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Book 10
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Book 11
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Book 12
About the Lovers and Liaisons Collection
The Lovers and Liaisons stories were originally published in Aphrodite in Bloom, the first of two historical erotic short story collections that I wrote for Entangled Publishing.
You may be wondering what led me down his road. The short answer is, my agent at the time pitched me on writing one.
The more comic series of events goes like this:
My agent asked if I wanted to take part in an anthology of erotic regency short stories and, if I did, asked me to provide a sample.
I wrote The Gift within a week and turned it in. Both she and the editor said, “You wrote the whole story?”
Apparently, they were looking for an opening chapter.
I then chatted with my agent and she said she wasn’t sure how many authors were participating, but her impression was that I would probably write 3 or 4 stories for the collection.
We then chatted with the editor who, by the end of the call, had revealed that if I chose to accept the assignment, I would write all of the stories. She wanted twelve.
Okay, then.
I did choose to accept the assignment and loved everything about the process. Remember when you could actually find what you were looking for on the internet? I had a grand old time researching the Regency era, exploring diverse couples and thruples, and writing to short story length.
As we went to contract, the publisher suggested I write a second volume with a theme of fetishes, which is now my Fancy Foibles Collection.
For marketing reasons—and because these stories were so different from my contemporary cis-het romances—we agreed to use the pen name, Anonymous.
It sounded titillating, but in retrospect, it’s a terrible pen name. I read several reviews that said, “I wish I knew who wrote these so I could read more of their work.” That made it difficult for my current fans to find these stories or for readers of these stories to find me.
That’s why I’ve put my name on them now that I have the rights back and am re-publishing them as the Lovers and Liaisons collection.
You can read these and the Fancy Foibles stories in any order. They stand alone and might raise your eyebrows, but I promise they are very Dani Collins with warm-hearted characters, emotion, banter, and hot, hot chemistry.
Enjoy your walk on the wild side.