Rachel Kramer

A total of 216 music teachers from 199 cities have been announced as quarterfinalists for the Music Educator Award presented by the Recording Academy® and GRAMMY Museum®. In total, nearly 2,000 initial nominations were submitted. In addition to our quarterfinalists, 91 legacy applicants from 2020 will also be eligible to win the award this year.

Trinity Rep continues its 53rd season Ghosts of the Past, Dreams of the Future with MacArthur "Genius" Grant-winnerBranden Jacobs-Jenkins' Appropriate by directed Brian Mertes.  Appropriate runs through November 6, 2016.

Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of Casa Valentina, the play by four-time Tony Award winnerHarvey Fierstein, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello just opened last night, April 23, 2014 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). Check out photos from the star-studded theatre arrivals below!

Alison Tyler's The Delicious Torment: A Story of Submission was recently featured on Romantic Times Book Reviews as a 'delightful return to old-school' romance. Romantic Times also spotlighted a teaser from the story that explores the effects saying 'I love you' can have on a relationship. What does love actually mean in the context of a kinky relationship? Alison Tyler explores the nuance in a realistic, gripping, and semi-autobiographical tale. The Delicious Torment is the second in Tyler's A Story of Submission series, preceded by the critically acclaimed Dark Secret Love.

Tonight at 5:00 PM Pacific Time, Night Owl Reviews is hosting an exclusive author chat with five top Cleis Press authors: Delilah Devlin, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Alison Tyler, Neil Plakcy, and Kathleen Warnock. The writers will discuss their latest titles, and chat with readers and fans about the experience of writing erotic and romantic fiction.

In Rachel Kramer Bussel's collection Lust in Latex: Rubber Sex Stories (Cleis Press), top authors make the most of the sensual potential inherent in getting suited up. From latex body paint to the smell of rubber tires to clingy catsuits worn by powerful mistresses, these stories show how suiting up is even hotter than wearing nothing at all.

Rachel Kramer Bussel, editor of more than forty Cleis Press anthologies (most recently The Big Book of Orgasms and Serving Him), is kicking off a nationwide tour in which she will teach the basics of erotic writing, including a stop in San Francisco with Good Vibrations.

With the unthinkably widespread popularity of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy has come a torrent of disdain for author E.L. James. Rachel Kramer Bussel, prolific author and editor of books in the 50 Shades genre, has stepped in on The Toast to express sympathy for one of the most influential women of 2013.

Rose Caraway, of the popular podcast The Kiss Me Quicks, was featured as an example of a success story in an article about creating a successful audiobook on Audible.

The Advocate recently published an article on bisexual identity in relation to Lindsay Lohan's 'coming out' as heterosexual. Instead of condemning Lohan for her refusal to identify under the label of 'bisexual,' Rachel Kramer Bussel, editor of Twice The Pleasure: Bisexual Women's Erotica, explains the importance of welcoming all varieties of sexual identity. Many people who are attracted to more than one gender choose not to use the label of bisexual, and, according to Bussel, this needs to be more widely accepted. Bussel seeks to increase the visibility of these people by including them in her fictional stories with Cleis Press; even in her more straight-focused anthologies like Gotta Have It, which is in the top ten best-selling romance audiobooks, Bussel tends to feature queer characters and story lines.

Love is in the air, and several hot summer romances from Cleis Press are on sale as kindle ebooks. Don't miss the chance to read these sweaty encounters.

Rachel Kramer Bussel is a pundit on sexuality, passion, and romance, and a prolific erotica author and editor to boot. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Passion, Obsessed, Irresistible, and Only You, all collections of erotica specifically written to reignite the passion of adventurous couples. She frequently weighs in on today's most pressing issues in the realm of love and sex, and continues to edit timely and intelligent erotica with a romantic bent.

As a Navy wife and mother of two toddlers, one might wonder how Kristina Wright does it all, but she's living her dream and following her passion as a writer. She has been met with rave reviews and fans.

Universal's BIG MIRACLE is coming to theaters on February 3, 2012. Inspired by the true story that captured the hearts of people across the world, the rescue adventure tells the amazing tale of a small town news reporter (John Krasinski) and a Greenpeace volunteer (Drew Barrymore) who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle.

A young girl asks her father, where do plastic surgeons come from? What follows is a fantastical romp through pre-civilized Europe, via the medieval art and science of nosemaking. Our hero is Gavin, a young orphan rescued from a dismal existence in the Ivanhoe Workhouse for Criminally Impoverished Boys when he is apprenticed with the local Nosemaker, eventually to become one of the finest surgeons in Vienna, cradle of quack medicine.

The Brick Theater, Inc. and Terrible Baby Theater Co. present THE NOSEMAKER'S APPRENTICE: Chronicles of a Medieval Plastic Surgeon Written by Nick Jones and Rachel Shukert Directed by Peter J. Cook (New Director)