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Note from the
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It has been fun
putting this catalog together, seeing our growth and change over the
years. Synergy Book Service was first conceived in1985, and has gone
through many stages, but throughout that time we have striven to present
information, opinion, and erotica in a straightforward, simple way.
It has been almost
ten years since we moved to larger quarters out in the country, where
I spent some time healing from major surgery and focused on finishing
The ABCs of Living Without
Cancer Part 1. Copies are available, complete with recipes, food
charts, resource lists, and the story of my journey with natural healing.
During that time I also finished Good
Eats at Sally's: Recipes for Health, a cookbook for people who want
to change their diet but don't know where to begin. Both books have
gotten nice reviews.
Our newest publication
is Holy Communion, is a rite-of-passage novel that follows a
seven-year-old's first communion preparations and celebration. Throughout
the four-day period the boy deals with cruel nuns, his mother's unfortunate
accident, a drunken father, sadistic babysitters, a pedophile or two;
but he finds a way to cope in the midst of so much tragedy - first by
indifference, later by defiance and rebellion. He also discovers that
his urban surroundings in New York City give him autonomy, comfort,
and satisfaction. Holy Communion is full of the boy's despair
and self-questioning, along with author Mykola Dementiuk's powerful
insights into the human condition.
Mykola's first
book with us, published early in 2006, is Times Queer, a dark,
graphic, coming-of-age story set in New York's Times Square in the 1950s
and 60s. We have since published three others, including a full-length
novel called Vienna Dolorosa. Details for all of Mykola's books
can be found below.
If you have any
comments, requests, or questions, please include them with your order,
or you can email or call us and ask for me.
Sally Miller
September 1, 2008
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BOOKS
BY SALLY MILLER
JERSEY
GIRL FANTASIES
by Sally Miller
illustrations by Goldie
Compilation of
fantasies which were originally published in Sexual Perspectives
as "Fantasy of the Month," plus new fantasies created
especially for this collection. Many of the topics, such as infantilism,
enemas, and spanking, were suggested by some of the original Jersey
Girls phone sex operators. You will also find sensuous and futuristic
fantasies. If you've never seen one of our fantasy readers, this is
a good one to begin with. Click here to read "The
Scarf."
8.5" x 11"
30 pages 19 fantasies
$15
intense eroticism...for
the intelligent and sensitive reader of either sex – Gregor Samsa
HUNTERDON
GIRL FANTASIES
by Sally Miller
Some of these
fantasies first appeared in Sexual Perspectives during 1991-92.
Included are The Blow Job, The Barber, The Lady
Next Door, and The Electrician, as well as some new fantasies
about The Arboretum, The Dead Concert, The
Farmer, Phone Sex 15, The Wisemen and The Exhibitionist,
and The Guy Next Door (some of which are true stories!).
5.5" x 8.5"
66 pgs 13 fantasies
$20
the stories
will open your eyes and linger in your imagination long after you close
the cover - EIDOS
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FANTASIES
OF THE FUTURE
by Sally Miller
Contains fantasies
of social restructuring born partly from vision and partly from frustration.
Many put the women entirely in charge (submissive men get their chance,
and we are all given the opportunity to look at the world with sex roles
reversed). In others there are more equitable roles. Most are set in
the not too distant future – a time when "we" are
all and "they" are gone. There isn't as much explicit sex
in these, though some of them may get you hot just thinking! Some have
been published previously in APAEros, other SBS books, or early
issues of Sexual Perspectives (89-92). Big House,
The Hyena, New World Order, NeoPagan Men, Seeds,
The Spot, and Treatment
Man are some of the titles.
5.5" x 8.5"
78 pages 14 fantasies
$20
ENEMA
FANTASIES
by Sally Miller
Original fantasies
guaranteed to turn you on! Watch the head nurse at a girl's school,
a mother with her son, a neighbor
lady, a man in a hospital, and other scenes by simply using your
visual imagination! Most of the fantasies are two to four pages, just
enough to give you the setting, the participants, and the action. You
provide the pleasure.
5.5" x 8.5"
52 pages 10 fantasies
$15
strangely beguiling
and, in places, Rather Exciting – Donna Wood, The Master's
Way
FAMILY
AFFAIR FANTASIES
by Sally Miller
Collected and written by a professional sex counselor who understands
the power of these fantasies to arouse and excite. This is by far our
most controversial volume, showing erotic situations our society doesn't
approve of. They are written in a way that will allow everyone to see
how this kind of thing can come about, and how natural it might be if
we didn't have a lot of societal rules about what should and what shouldn't
be (which may or may not be valid in the 90s). Includes cousins, brother/sister,
aunt/nephew, mother/ son,
etc. These fantasies contain no coercion, as many experiences from our
real lives don't.
5.5" x 8.5"
46 pages
10 fantasies $20
ANIMAL
FANTASIES
by Sally Miller
Erotic stories about animals and animal behavior in people. Stylistic
drawings by ISU student Suzanne help set the tone of this reader, which
approaches the subject of sex with and like animals in a light-hearted
yet thoughtful way. Includes hyena, walrus, pig, dog, cat, swan, fly,
and more.
5.5" x 8.5"
64 pages
11 fantasies $20
treats subject.
. .with compassion, empathy, sensitivity, and
grace – Tammy Cole, BNI
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BOOKS
EDITED BY SALLY MILLER
HOLY COMMUNION
by Mykola Dementiuk
edited by Sally Miller
Though the primary focus of HOLY COMMUNION
is sin, guilt, atonement, and redemption, there is also a subtext which
explores the boy's growing awareness of sexuality. We see his faltering
attempts at reconciling these urgings and his longings for acceptance
with his inherent suspicion of love and contact.
The boy moves through the four days in a state of befuddled uncertainty
and ignorance, swept up in the promise of his religious instruction,
yet tormented by memories and the contradictory behavior of the adults
around him: he is belittled for his chronic bed-wetting; is witness
to the rape of his godmother; is battered by his nun teacher, is manipulated
into sexual participation (with adults and other children); is faced
with his loving mother's absence and eventual death.
In the end, burdened with self-accusations and guilt over what he feels
is unforgivable sin and deceit, the boy dares to partake of the communion
ceremony and risk the punishment of death he has been led to believe
is his due.
HOLY COMMUNION is an exploration of a boy's need to understand and accept
the consequences of his thoughts and actions as sin while he struggles
to challenge and renounce the authority of that judgment against him.
It is this groping through confusion and outrage that he comes to understand
the cetainty of his innocence and child-humanity, and achieve the "holy
communion" of sex and rejection, struggle and survival, loss and hope.
Holy Communion is a full-length novel, trade paper, 220 pages, 5.5"
x 8.5"
ISBN: 0-9758581-4-9
$25 postpaid
See the Holy Communion website
VIENNA
DOLOROSA by Mykola Dementiuk
edited by Sally Miller
Set on March 12, 1938, in a hotel/brothel in Vienna, Austria, Vienna
Dolorosa unfolds through the points of view of its main characters,
who are hotel employees and guests, brothel employees and customers,
as well as invading German soldiers, police, and Nazi SS (plus a darling
street kid). Violence and lust abound, with some warped humor and movie-direct
detail. Not for the faint of heart, this novel includes rape, incest,
intergenerational sex, transvestism, teen sex, prostitution, brutality,
castration/mutilation, and murder as well as thought-provoking discussions
on topics as diverse as Nazism, homosexuality, history of Vienna/Austria,
transgender issues, masculinity/femininity, Viennese sights, and a really
unusual take on why we don't need women (or perhaps it is why God gave
us women).
5.5" x 8.5" 256 pages trade paper
ISBN: 0-9758581-5-7
$25 postpaid
SELECTED
TALES by
Mykola Dementiuk
edited by Sally Miller
Selected
Tales is a collection of seven short stories. Lust, love, fear,
humor, tenderness, passion, and pain are all part of Selected Tales.
Each story reveals Mykola's sharp eye for detail and his great insight
into the human condition. His love for words is obvious throughout.
If we had to pick our favorite, it would be "The Electric Guy," which
gets into the head of an imaginative man working at an all-girls high
school. It's hilarious, especially when read out loud.
"Kiss Me" shows so perfectly both sides of a teenage boy/girl encounter
(could it enlighten even grown-ups?).
"Cosmo Girl" gives us a wonderful peek into a young woman's view of
modern marriage and femininity, and "Drama of a Gifted Child" will surely
warm your heart as it did ours.
"Her Kid Sister," a story of lust and satisfaction, is Mykola's favorite,
and "Dead Joey" reminds us of lessons learned in childhood.
The last story in the book, "Without You I'm Nothing," is somewhat melancholy,
but it so accurately portrays the depression that can come with life
change.
None of these stories have the hard edge that other of Mykola's writings
have, but they will make you laugh, and perhaps cry. Certainly they
will make you think.
5.5" x 8.5" 64 pages, saddle-stitched chapbook
$13 postpaid, or $10 when ordered with any other Synergy Book.
Selected
Tales flyer
BABY
DOLL by
Mykola Dementiuk
edited by Sally Miller
Mykola Dementiuk has again
brought us an unusual story of a youth growing up in New York City.
Skipping school as a daily routine, the main character of Baby Doll
finds himself spending time at the East River Park, looking for
girls. Instead he finds a pair of pink underwear which take him on an
adventure that shapes his future.
Baby Doll gives
us a literary look at the complicated psychodynamics of love and sex
between a boy and a man in America in the early ‘80s (the beginning
era of AIDS, sex-offender witch-hunts, and gay/transvestite visibility).
Like a good movie, Baby Doll is definitely worth giving a second
(or third) read. Mykola’s mastery at storytelling and excellent writing
will keep you engaged the first time through, but subsequent readings
will help you understand the complex forces that unfold between the
characters. You may question his opinions on femininity and relationships,
but you won’t be able to ignore Mykola’s love for words as well as his
understanding of a boy’s feelings and behavior.
Sexual counselor Sally
Miller provides some insight into the story in the afterword.
Baby Doll is the
second in a series of chapbooks by Mykola Dementiuk to be published
by Synergy Press in 2006. Look for the next one, a collection of short
stories, just in time for summer reading!
5.5" x 8.5" 56
pages, saddle-stitched.
$12 postpaid, $8 when ordered with any other Synergy book.
Baby
Doll flyer. Baby Doll
press release.
TIMES
QUEER by
Mykola Dementiuk
edited by Sally Miller
A dark, coming-of-age story set in New York's Times Square in the 1950s
and 60s. This 14,000-word story (or short novella) is just right for
one long sitting, but it comes in three parts if you want to divide
it up! Afterword by Sally Miller. First in a series of graphic stories
that we plan to publish by Mykola Dementiuk, who wrote "Pubes" (included
in Hair). Involves the dregs of urban society as well as a likeable
boy you'll not soon forget. Mykola's voice of authenticity reminds us
of Henry Miller. Our first fiction in nearly ten years.
5.5" x 8.5" 96
pages $15 alone, $10 with any other book or with Times Queer ebook
Times
Queer
flyer..
. . . Times
Queer press release.

TIMES
QUEER ebook
(with pictures but no "Afterword")
Here is the same story
as above, but with pictures of the various places mentioned in the story.
Send us your email address and we'll send you the book in pdf format
by reply email. Our email address is:
Synergy at SynergyBookService dot com.
Ebook: $6
with Times Queer print book: $4
free with $100 order (any 6 books)
Reviewer
comments about Mykola Dementiuk's chapbooks
THE SYNERGY
READER
edited by Sally Miller
15 stories with
a wide range of topics and points of view. Titles include Aunt Martha,
Bubble Bath, Embarrassment, Taxi Ride, Fantasim,
The Stewardess, plus 9 more. Some are by Synergy readers; some
were chosen from submissions. Included is a bonus story by Sally Miller
called The Psychiatrist.
8.5" x 11"
92 pages 15 stories
$20
erotic rompings...
with a down home, do-it-herself format – Jack Truett, EIDOS
ENEMA MEMORIES
edited by Sally Miller
In response to
Enema Fantasies, readers sent us their stories, their adventures,
their fantasies. You'll love the variety of characters, and writing
styles. The Professor, Student Nurse, Honeymoon
Enema, and The Van are some of the titles. They got us all
hot just editing them!
8.5" x 11"
75 pages
12 stories $20
BLOOMERS
A Novel by Gregor Samsa
edited by Sally Miller
Growing up in the 1940s in small town Montana and Alberta, Lance had
a brother he played with, a mother he idolized, two aunts he adored,
and a very smart granny!
8.5" x 11"
120 pages
15 chapters $20
a very interesting
treatment of a still taboo subject - Heather Seggel, EIDOS
HAlR
edited by Sally Miller
Entries to a hirsute contest held by SBS in 1994 constitute the bulk
of this book, stressing the attributes of natural women in a variety
of settings. Original stories of bittersweet abduction, obsession, and
confession (including one about Mom) complete the volume.
5.5" x 8.5"
68 pages
12 fantasies $15
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REPRINTS
BY SALLY
Some of the following
reprints were originally published in The Women's Newspaper, The
Rocky Mountain Oyster, APAEros, and The Affiliate, as well
as Sexual Perspectives. If you are ordering another item from
SBS, reprints will be included postage paid. If you are ordering reprints
alone, please include 25¢ per item. All reprints are $1 each unless
otherwise noted.
ARE YOU TOO
BIG FOR HER?
Difficulties having a large cock, and various suggested remedies.
CAN YOU MAKE
ANYTHING SEXY?
How our sexual interests develop, and how the arousal system works.
CHINESE RESTAURANT
A personal essay on the elderly.
COMMON SEXUAL
QUESTIONS
Penis size, masturbation, oral sex, and sexual normality are discussed.
DIFFERENT LOVING
FOR DIFFERENT PEOPLE
"There are zillions of kinds of relationships! And each relationship
can be fluid over time, giving a billion zillion configurations!"
GETTING OUT
OF IT
Layman's guide to controlling depression. Examines behaviors that signal
the beginning of the slide, & what to do about them. $2
GREATER AROUSAL
THROUGH KEGELS
This simplified version of the Kegels is important to men as well as
women.
THE HERE AND
NOW MOTHER
A personal essay on the elderly.
IMPROVE YOUR
PARTNER'S SEX DRIVE
How to deal with female sexual passivity and lack of spontaneity.
INDULGING YOUR
FANTASIES
Using fantasies to rehearse a role you might not be too comfortable
with (like being more assertive or more passive). Given are specific
suggestions for a more equitable and natural lovemaking (based on sensate
focus). Good for anyone who has difficulty with a partner having too
much or too little control sexually.
JUST WHO SHOULD
I DO?
How to find a partner who shares your special sexual interests.
KEEPING IT
UP AND STAYING HAPPY
Erection problems in an older man, and listening to your penis.
LEARNING TO
MAKE LOVE
Entrenched sex roles and how to grow sexually.
LEARNING TO
BE COMFORTABLE WITH SEX
Pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding in connection with sexuality.
LIGHT GAZING
A layman's guide to using light for winter depression, or "seasonal
affective disorder" (SAD).
MARRIED MEN
WHO TAKE LOVERS: WHY THEY DO IT!
Parts 1 & 2 A serious consideration of unhappy married men, and
self-help options for changing the situation. $2
MICROWAVE YOGA
Simple instructions for stretching exercises to be done while food is
warming/cooking in the microwave. Can also be used during commercials,
or while computer printers are working.
PRAIRIE REVOLUTION
A call for revolution sparked by the OK bombing. As published by The
Affiliate.
SECRET SEXY
FANTASIES
Secret fantasies of a man without a sharing partner, and the man who
turns to phone sex for satisfaction.
SENSUAL SPANKING
A short fantasy followed by commentary about incorporating spanking
into your sexual repertoire (and why).
SEX THERAPIST
GATHERING (AASECT, 1987)
A report on some of the new ideas in sexuality, including toys, videos,
and computer sex. It's interesting to see how these have grown in the
past years.
SEXY FEET AND
TEETH!
Exploring our sexual potential.
SEXY RISK TAKING
CAN BE FUN
Risks, moderation, & privacy.
SPECIAL SEXUAL
INTERESTS
Special sexual interests (often called fetishes) cause many women discomfort.
As with any prejudice, ignorance is at fault, as well as the distasteful
way these interests are often portrayed. This addresses how to incorporate
a special interest into your relationship.
STRESS BATHING
Use of the bath for effective relaxation.
TAKING A BREAK
FROM SEX
Taking time off from partner sex and what to do during those periods
of time you find yourself "without" sex.
TEN BEST KEPT
SECRETS ABOUT SEX
Little-known facts about male and female sexuality. What the Kinsey
Institute doesn't tell you. $2
WHEN IS KINKY
JUST TOO KINKY?
Evaluating your own sexual desires.
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OTHER
REPRINTS
The following
reprints were originally published in a variety of magazines on a wide
range of topics. All reprints are $1 each unless otherwise noted. If
you are ordering another item from SBS, reprints will be included postage
paid. If you are ordering reprints alone, please include 25¢ per item.
15 ROADS
TO RAPID RELAXATION
A chapter by Michael Busey from Rodale Press's Men's Health Advisor.
Any book that calls good sex "one of the healthiest ways to
unwind" is certainly worth quoting! You'll find these suggestions
all very practical and worthwhile.
ASPARTAME
& FLYING: THE UNTOLD STORY
A 4-pg article from the Aspartame Consumer Safety Network, for Extraordinary
Science.
AT RISK:
THE ENVIRONMENTAL LINK IN THE BREAST CANCER EPIDEMIC
This applies to many other types of cancer. From Holistic Living
magazine of Princeton, New Jersey.
ATTITUDE
CAN HELP BOLSTER RESISTANCE
Redbook article.
CAN YOU
THINK YOURSELF WELL?
Discover the amazing potential of psychosomatic wellness.
THE CRUELEST
OF SHOES
Interesting discussion on high-heels.
THE DRUG
PEACENIK
A profile of Princeton's hemp activist Ethan Nadelmann from New York
magazine.
DUTCH TOLERANCE
An examination of Holland's approach to social problems such as drugs,
sex, and death, stressing tolerance, rather than control. An important
perspective.
HAPPINESS
IS A CHOICE
Reprinted from Holistic Living.
IS ALTERNATIVE
HEALTHCARE HELPFUL OR HOKUM?
From Holistic Living.
MARIHUANA AS
MEDICINE: A PLEA FOR RECONSIDERATION
Recent article from the Journal of the American Medical Association.
MYSTICAL SEX
AS MEDITATION
For the best explanation we've seen on the methods for improving your
sexual technique, read this edited version of one of the chapters from
Louis Meldman's book Mystical Sex. $3
THE MYTH OF
MARIJUANA'S GATEWAY EFFECT Morgan & Zimmerl/POT'S NOT SO
BAD Leveritt.
THE MYTH OF
SEXUAL ADDICTION
This article by William Henkin discusses addiction, sex within a culture,
the creator of the concept of sex addiction, and the big business of
sexual addiction – seminars, groups, individual therapists,
and treatment centers which have sprung up all across the country, offering
12-step programs geared towards helping the client stay a victim and
need continual/perpetual help. Chemical castration offered for the sex
addicts who just can't stop! is also exposed. If you have any
concerns about being a sex addict, read this article for another point
of view. To quote his last paragraph, "This is. . .not a debate
about whether sex is good or not. It is a debate about who shall determine
which of us shall be free." $2
NICE PERSON
SYNDROME
If you have always been told you were a nice person, even as a child
– "He's such a nice boy" – then take the few
minutes to read this adaptation from Jack Morin's Anal Pleasure and
Health. Contains good ideas for better communication with others,
particularly sexual partners.
PERMANENT PAZ
A look at community from a fresh perspective, along with some valuable
suggestions. As reprinted in ByPass.
SEX, DRUGS
& DEMOCRACY
A review from NY Press of J. Blank's documentary on Dutch government
policy, especially on drugs & prostitution.
THE ZINE EXPLOSION
A good introduction to the zine scene (& what a zine is), by Jim
Romensko.
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AUDIO
TAPES
LEC: LEARNING
EJACULATORY CONTROL
How to master the embarrassment and frustration of premature ejaculation.
Two 45-minute lessons with Sally Miller, phone sex counselor. Explore
the reasons behind and methods to overcome premature ejaculation. $20
DISCOURSE
ON ANAL SEX
Explicit instruction. How to experience anal sex as pleasurable, with
Sally Miller. For men and women. $15
SEX SAVVY
Educational discussion on the finer points of good sex: control, communication,
and awareness, with Sally Miller. $15
SEXUAL RELAXATION
An instructional tape describing sexual techniques for complete release
and deep relaxation, with Sally Miller. Includes erotic tutorial with
original electronic music by
Don Slepian. $20
erotic, relaxing,
energizing, and orgasmically
– explosive!
-EIDOS
JERSEY
GIRL TAPES
Originally taped by HBO for their series Real Sex, these tapes are live
phone sex conversations with one of the Jersey Girls, a phone sex line
SBS operated in the 1980s.
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Christina:
From Behind & Watching $10
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Christina
2: Cousins & Crossdressing $10
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Christina
3: Masturbating with Mother, Diapering, & Fighting $10
All three tapes
$25
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