the inaugural Rose and Bay Award for Crowdfunded Fiction. Her novel The Prince's Boy was awarded Honorable Mention in both the 2010 Rainbow Awards and the NLA: International Writing Awards.. Her novel Slow Surrender won the RT Reviewers Choice Award in the erotic romance category from RT Book Reviews and the Maggie Award for Excellence given by the Georgia Romance Writers chapter of the Romance Writers of America. Tan was awarded the RT Book Reviews 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award in Erotica. As of 2014, her books have been multiply nominated for the Lambda Literary Award, though she has not yet won one. Circlet Press, the publishing house Tan founded and still directs, was co-winner of Bi Book Publisher of the Year at the 2014 Bisexual Book Awards. Tan was given the Woman Of The Year Award from the National Leather Association International in 2001, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Leather Association International in 2004. She also received the President’s Award as part of the Pantheon of Leather Awards in 2009. She and Sarah Desautels received the National Leather Association International’s Samois Anthology Award for 2010 for their anthology Like a Thorn. Her baseball writing and research has also earned awards. In 2004, her research presentation on "The Women's Baseball Marathon" won the USA Today Sports Weekly Award. In 2022 she was co-winner of the Tweed Webb Lifetime Achievement Award with Sean Forman for editing The Negro Leagues are Major Leagues. See also Sex and sexuality in speculative fiction References External links Cecilia Tan's Homepage Circlet Press homepage New Bedfellows: Sex & Science Fiction, a dialogue between M. Christian and Cecilia Tan SceneProfiles Interview, by Sensuous Sadie Strange Horizons Interview, by Mary Anne Mohanraj Mind Caviar Interview, by Jamie Joy Gatto Ms. Magazine The "pick three books" featurette SABR Award Press Release Interview from Hyphen Magazine by Claire Light Alternet column/interview by Annalee Newitz Nerve.com essay Interview with Michael A. Ventrella, May 2010 1967 births 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American short story writers American erotica writers American horror writers American science fiction writers American women novelists American women short story writers BDSM writers Bisexual women American bisexual writers Brown University alumni Emerson College alumni Living people Polyamorous people Science fiction editors Science fiction erotica Women erotica writers Women horror writers Women science fiction and fantasy writers 21st-century American women writers 21st-century LGBT people