Writing and Editing Career
Lewis began writing erotica in the 1980s. Her first erotic stories were published in the early 1990s in queer zines such as Bad Attitude and Frighten the Horses, and in anthologies of queer and women's erotica. While continuing to write mostly queer-oriented fiction, she worked in 1996-97 as head writer for Dada House. While at Dada House, Lewis helped create RomAntics, a bisexual CD-ROM game that won the AVN award in January 1998 for Best Interactive CD-ROM - game. Entertainment Weekly singled out Dada House's erotic fiction series as the "best Web soap opera" in its roundup of "the 30 most beautiful and entertaining websites in the world".
In 1997, Lewis also produced a website, Other Rooms, featuring the work of other erotica writers. In 1998, Lewis launched a second erotica website, Marilyn's Room, which featured stories and interviews focusing on the art and literature end of the erotic spectrum, designed to appeal primarily to a female reader and listener base.
Lewis' first book, Neptune and Surf, a collection of three erotic novellas, was published by Masquerade Books in 1999. In 2001, she won the London-based Erotic Awards in the Writer category.
She went on to write several erotic romance novels as well as a collection of her short stories, Lust: Bisexual Erotica (Alyson Publications, 2004), and edited anthologies of erotic fiction, memoir, photography, and Yaoi. Lewis' own work has been translated into French, Italian, and Japanese.
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