Possible Titles: The Romantic Ace; Acethetic
Edited by Victoria Pond
It seems like every romance movie, book, and song out there equates lust with love, and that means some of us are left out. Not everyone feels lust. Not everyone even wants romantic love.
Here’s your chance to talk about romance for the characters uninterested in sex. Give me your space pilots in serious relationships with their sentient ships. Think about how an incubus would patiently court a demi-sexual. Maybe you have a regency fantasy where only a virgin can wield the talisman, and thank goodness we’ve got an adult countess who can step up.
Let’s not define this by what it isn’t. Allosexuality dominates the rest of the media. Here’s a chance for ace pride to shine. Submit your stories from all over the spectra—from science fiction to fantasy, from sex-repulsed to demi-sexual, from romantic to platonic.
This romance anthology celebrates asexuality in all its forms, in all its levels. Maybe your characters will take things to their allosexual conclusions, but maybe they won’t. And, as it ought to be in reality, that’s up to you.
“Ace” puns highly encouraged. (You know: the dogfighting “flying ace” who has a closer-than-lovers arrangement with his mechanic.)
Email your submissions to acethetic.submissions@
For those of us who are bored with the sex 24/7 (yeah that means you, too ,Kardashians) this anthology sounds like something we’d buy. Tree huggers, animal advocates, and new moms will understand completely. Good theme.
For the record, I like ‘Acethetic’. This sounds interesting!
Any idea when we can expect to see this collection?
Wow, I can’t describe how excited I am to read about people not banging. I think the bit I look forward to the most is the internalized homophobia and misogyny.
Not to mention serophobia.
“Maybe you have a regency fantasy where only a virgin can wield the talisman,”
Ooooh, nothing more “subversive” than a story where a woman’s “purity” is her power!
Who said the virgin had to be a woman?
Ignoring the trolls,, I see this is from 2018, did the anthology ever happen?
Not yet. Everything is backlogged at our new owners, Riverdale Avenue Books, while the principal owner there, Lori Perkins, has been dealing with breast cancer. But I’ll check in with the editor to see if she’s heard anything recently.