Caro Soles

Caro Soles is a Canadian author of science fiction, mystery and erotica literature, who has published work both in her own name and under the pen name Kyle Stone.

Background Previously a high school French language teacher, when Soles decided she wanted to become a writer she initially tried her hand at a romance novel, 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. 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 Crime Writers of Canada in 2002, and her mystery novel Drag Queen in the Court of Death was a Lambda Literary Award nominee in the Gay Mystery category at the 20th Lambda Literary Awards.

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, )