When Snowflakes Never Cease (Crossroads Collection)

Delilah S. Dawson is an American author, primarily of fantasy and science fiction, whose works have been published since 2012. She writes fantasy as Lila Bowen and formerly[2] wrote erotica as Ava Lovelace. Dawson’s work includes the Blud series of steampunk paranormal romance novels, the Shadow series of Weird West novels (as Bowen), as well […]

Greg Herren is an American writer and editor, who publishes work in a variety of genres, including mystery novels, young adult literature and erotica.[1] He publishes work both as Greg Herren and under the pseudonym Todd Gregory.[1] His novel Murder in the Rue Chartres won a Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Mystery category at […]

Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成, Kawabata Yasunari, 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972[1]) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely […]

According to late Greek sources on classical mythology, Astyanassa (Ancient Greek: Ἀστυάνασσα) was Helen of Troy’s maid. The 10th century scholar Photius, citing Ptolemy Chennus, mentions the story that Aphrodite lent her magical embroidered band (kestos himas) to Helen, to ensure that Paris would fall in love with her, and that Astyanassa stole it.[1] The […]

Paul Henry de Kock, better known as Henry de Kock, (25 April 1819 – 14 April 1892) was a 19th-century French playwright, novelist, and chansonnier, famous for his salacious novels. The son of Paul de Kock, he wrote feuilletons which gained a significant success such as La Voleuse d’amour (1863), L’Auberge des treize pendus (1866), […]