Caro Soles is a Canadian author of

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and erotica literature,"Sci-fi author Soles tests waters of mainstream". ''

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'', April 10, 2001. who has published work both in her own name and under the pen name Kyle Stone.

Background

Previously a high school

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teacher, when Soles decided she wanted to become a writer she initially tried her hand at a

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, instead turning to erotica when her first attempt turned out more

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-themed than romantic.

Career

Her erotic works, published as Kyle Stone, centred on

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characters; in his 2002 ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada'',

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identified Stone as the most commercially successful author of gay literature in Canada. Many, but not all, of her Kyle Stone books were hybrids of erotica and science fiction. During this era, she also co-edited several anthologies of gay male erotica by other writers under her own name, becoming embroiled in the ongoing Canada Customs controversy around shipments to LGBT bookstores such as Glad Day and Little Sister's when her anthology ''Bizarre Dreams'' was confiscated by customs agents despite being a Canadian book. In 2001, she decided to branch out from writing erotica, publishing her first conventional science fiction novel, ''The Abulon Dance'', under her own name. Throughout her career as a writer, she has also taught creative writing at Toronto's

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, and was a founder and organizer of the Bloody Words conference for crime writers.

Awards

She was presented with the Derrick Murdoch Award by the

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in 2002,Arthur Ellis Award - Derrick Murdoch Award
''Crime Writers of Canada'', (retrieved 11/21/2012) and her mystery novel ''Drag Queen in the Court of Death'' was a Lambda Literary Award nominee in the Gay Mystery category at the

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.Drewey Wayne Gunn, ''The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography''.

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, 2013. . p. 381.

Works

as Kyle Stone

*''The Initiation of PB500'' (1993, ) *''The Citadel'' (1994, ) *''Rituals'' (1996, ) *''Fire and Ice'' (1996, ) *''Fantasy Board'' (1996, ) *''The Hidden Slave'' (1997, ) *''MENagerie'' (2000, )

as Caro Soles

*''The Abulon Dance'' (2001, ) *''The Tangled Boy'' (2002, ) *''Drag Queen in the Court of Death'' (2007, ) *''The Danger Dance'' (2007, ) *''The Deja Dance'' (2012, ) *''A Mutual Understanding'' (2012, )

Anthologies

*''Bizarre Dreams'' (1994, ) *''Meltdown!'' (1994, ) *''Hot Bauds'' (1995, ) *''Hot Bauds 2'' (1997, ) *''Bloody Words'' (2003, ) *''Blood on the Holly'' (2007, ) *''Don Juan and Men'' (2009, ) *''nEvermore!'' (2015, )

References

External links

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