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Alessia Brio

peace & passion

About Me


Alessia Brio is the sultry, erotica-writing alter ego of an Appalachian soccer mom. She is "sensual, succulent, and satisfying" even when her creator feels like a hairy warthog. Her debut book, a single-author anthology of erotica & poetry entitled fine flickering hungers , won the 2007 EPPIE Award for Best Erotica. She is primarily published electronically, and her work is available on FictionWise .
Alessia 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, multi-author collections of erotica & poetry that benefit charity.
Ms. Brio lives in the mountains near Pittsburgh and is barefoot as much as life allows. She has an obsessive aversion to "to be" verbs in her prose and gets aroused by creative enjambment in her poetry. Her fetishes include SuDoku, rare steak, stainless steel, and office supplies.
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My Interests

Writing ... and writing ... and writing! Poetry and prose and the odd editorial rant -- each characterized by PASSION.

My Site:
AlessiaBrio.com

My Promo:
fine flickering hungers

My Blather:
fine flickering hungers (annex)

My Poetry & Prose:
Implexity

My Publishers:
Phaze
Torquere Press
Venus Press (defunct)
Ruthie's Club
Tit-Elation
Desdmona
Oysters & Chocolate
Charles River Press
The Shadow Sacrament
Clean Sheets

My Collaborations:
Artistically Inclined
Coming Together
Toys for Tarts

My Favorite Spots:
Will Belegon
Gwen Masters
Literotica

I'd like to meet:

Don't forget to thank your cover artist (a/k/a ME!): ~ ~ ~

Music:

Melissa Etheridge
Indigo Girls
Vienna Teng
Jewel
Anna Nalick
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Billy Joel

Movies:

Dangerous Liaisons
Bull Durham
History of the World, Part I
The Princess Bride

Television:



Books:



Heroes:

My son.

My Blog

Acoustical Exuberance

From a recent NY Times article:Unlike female baboons, who give a staccato whoop at each copulation, the chimps seem much more aware of the social context. Chimps are particularly likely to be silent a...
Posted by Alessia Brio on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:52:00 PST

Surrender Released!

Back cover blurb:Breaking Skye by Eden BradleySkye Ballard dreams of sexual submission. Convinced that all it will take to purge the yearning is one night, she searches for the perfect Dominant. But...
Posted by Alessia Brio on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:47:00 PST

Mirror Geography

In The PowerBook, Jeannette Winterson writes:"Sex between women is mirror geography. The subtlety of its secret--utterly the same, utterly different. You are a looking-glass world. You are the hidden ...
Posted by Alessia Brio on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:39:00 PST

Dont say I never gave you anything!

Expiring TODAY, here's an online coupon for $10 off a $50+ purchase from Books-a-Million: MAYSTEBPSo what? you ask. Well, if you forward your order confirmation email to me at alessia [at] eroticant...
Posted by Alessia Brio on Sat, 31 May 2008 09:01:00 PST

Battery PSA

I got into a "discussion" with the ex about rechargeable batteries, so I thought I'd share the results of a little Googling on the issue:Almost anyone who uses rechargeable batteries has heard of the ...
Posted by Alessia Brio on Thu, 29 May 2008 05:55:00 PST

THIS is a bully

And a licensed, professional bully, at that!  How much HARM has this woman done? Not only has she emotionally scarred this little boy, she has taught a whole roomful of kids that it's okay. Melis...
Posted by Alessia Brio on Tue, 27 May 2008 04:22:00 PST

Memorial Day Sale @ Phaze

All day today, Phaze Books is offering 30% off on all titles! To get the discount use code MEMDAY08 at checkout: Happy Memorial Day from Phaze Books and all of its authors!...
Posted by Alessia Brio on Mon, 26 May 2008 06:02:00 PST

A Hand-y way to fund RAISE

In 1995, Good Vibrations decreed May as National Masturbation Month in protest of the firing of Clinton-appointed U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders, who spoke positively of masturbation. The ca...
Posted by Alessia Brio on Sat, 24 May 2008 02:01:00 PST

I’ve said many times ...

... that I will never even consider government-sanctioned marriage again until ALL couples have equal rights under the law.  Looks like another state has woken up!California Supreme Court overtur...
Posted by Alessia Brio on Thu, 15 May 2008 03:44:00 PST

Woot!

Coming (pun intended) in September, but available for pre-cum... erm, order... NOW:Tasting Him: Oral Sex StoriesIntroduction: The Power and Pleasure of CocksuckingGloss by Rachel Kramer BusselA Treati...
Posted by Alessia Brio on Thu, 15 May 2008 06:12:00 PST