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Laura Antoniou is the author of the well-known Marketplace series of erotic novels. She also edited the three ground breaking Leatherwomen anthologies, and many other collections of fiction and non-fiction. Her work has been translated into Spanish, German, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean. Many examples of her short fiction, articles, essays and rants can be found in the collection titled The Catalyst and Other Tales.
She is featured in Writing Below the Belt: Conversations with Erotic Authors by Michael Rowe and The Burning Pen: Sex Writers on Sex Writing, by M.Christian. Laura was also a columnist for Girlfriends magazine from 1995-1997, the submissions editor for Badboy and Bi-Curious magazines from 1995-96, a regular contributor to The SandMUtopia Guardian from 1993-2000 and a columnist for Alt.com in 2008. She has appeared in too many anthologies to remember.
The Marketplace series describes "an elite and secretive world organization, dedicated to the auctioning and over seeing of the world's finest lifestyle slaves... a world so vivid in sequel after sequel, it takes on a reality of its own, one that's visually hard to let go of once the reader has put down the book." (Libido Magazine). Laura plans several more novels in the series and is currently working The Inheritor.
As a presenter, panelist, contest judge, emcee and keynote speaker, Laura has appeared at dozens of conferences over more than twenty years, both entertaining and delivering an occasional verbal indictment. Some of these include Living in Leather, International Ms. Leather, Southeast Leatherfest, the Leather Leadership Conference, and Black BEAT. She has also appeared at many SM/leather groups in the US, Canada and England, and at colleges and universities, including NYU, Columbia and the University of Washington. Having coined the phrase at South Plains Leatherfest in 2005, Laura is a proud member of the Middle-Aged Guard..
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