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Coming Together: Al Fresco

Series: Coming Together
By: Alessia Brio | Other books by Alessia Brio
      Michelle Houston | Other books by Michelle Houston
      Jude Mason | Other books by Jude Mason
      Nicole Gestalt | Other books by Nicole Gestalt
      Lisabet Sarai | Other books by Lisabet Sarai
      Sommer Marsden | Other books by Sommer Marsden
      Robert Buckley | Other books by Robert Buckley
      Angela Caperton | Other books by Angela Caperton
      Teresa Noelle Roberts | Other books by Teresa Noelle Roberts
      Selena Kitt | Other books by Selena Kitt
      Giselle Renarde | Other books by Giselle Renarde
      Moondancer Drake | Other books by Moondancer Drake
      Allison Wonderland | Other books by Allison Wonderland
      Arya Rewan | Other books by Arya Rewan
      Heather Lin | Other books by Heather Lin
      Rita Winchester | Other books by Rita Winchester
      Robin Elizabeth | Other books by Robin Elizabeth
      Randy Foster | Other books by Randy Foster
      Sophie Mouette | Other books by Sophie Mouette
      Andrea Dale | Other books by Andrea Dale
      Jenna Byrnes | Other books by Jenna Byrnes
Published By: Coming Together
Published: Apr 22, 2009
ISBN # CTAF
Word Count: 79,000
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Categories: Erotica Anthology/Bundle Short Stories

Description
The latest in Alessia Brio's charity anthology series, Coming Together: Al Fresco features stories in which the action takes place without a bed... or a bedroom. All proceeds benefit Conservation International. GREEN is the new black!

RELEASED ON EARTH DAY 2009

See www.eroticanthology.com/alfresco.htm for details.
 
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Excerpt:
It is customary, when finalizing a Coming Together manuscript, for me to tweak margins and adjust line spacing in order to decrease the page count, thereby decreasing the production cost and increasing the profit margin by a few cents. Thus, more money goes to the target charity. With a volume being published exclusively in digital format, such measures weren’t necessary. No dead trees. No ink. No postage. Just bytes of eroticism arranged on a screen for the readers’ enjoyment.

I’m not one of those people who craves the feel of a book in her hands. I’ve spent the last ten years trying to reduce the amount of paper in my life, from bank statements to medical records to genealogy. If it can be managed electronically, I am so there. Not only is it space efficient, but it’s just damned tidy. I love tidy. Call it a fetish. The environmental considerations are icing on my tidy cake. If I had my druthers, the entire publishing industry would convert to ebook formats tomorrow. Unfortunately, my druthers aren’t driving the publishing industry. Yet.

It’s only a matter of time, though. Electronic books are the future, as inexorable as the tides. They will be doubly driven by nicety and necessity. The gadget hungry of all ages embrace ebooks for their convenience while the environmentally conscious tout their eco-impact or, rather, lack thereof.

Yeah, I know that trees are renewable resources. So are fossil fuels, technically. But it takes time to renew a resource—time and effort—and we’re consuming trees faster than they grow, even with recycling efforts. It doesn’t help that the demand exists for building materials in addition to paper products.

And when we talk about deforestation, we’re not just talking about the availability of wood and paper products. Vegetation has global implications on both the quantity and the quality of life. It produces oxygen, prevents erosion and flooding, filters pollutants from the air we breathe and the water we drink, drives rainfall, and provides habitat for up to 90% of all organisms.

So, this volume of Coming Together—while providing the intrepid reader with a damned fine collection of steamy stories—is also doing its part to preserve our rich ecological heritage. All proceeds benefit Conservation International which believes, as do I, that human societies can live harmoniously with nature while preserving our global biodiversity.

~ Alessia Brio
editor

Coming Together: Al Fresco

By: Alessia Brio, Michelle Houston, Jude Mason, Nicole Gestalt, Lisabet Sarai, Sommer Marsden, Robert Buckley, Angela Caperton, Teresa Noelle Roberts, Selena Kitt, Giselle Renarde, Moondancer Drake, Allison Wonderland, Arya Rewan, Heather Lin, Rita Winchester, Robin Elizabeth, Randy Foster, Sophie Mouette, Andrea Dale, Jenna Byrnes

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