Dark Eden Press (with a special alert to centaur lovers)
Well, a search on ERWF reveals that we have a lot of centaur erotic fiction fans here. I couldn't find the thread I was looking for; I assume it was deleted. At any rate, here's a new press (presumably an e-publisher, though they don't say) whose "no bestiality" guidelines offer hope for centaur lovers. Dark Eden Press. They also take non-centaur stories. :)

IMHO that is the standard disclaimer? If it's sentient its allowed. They may not accept it but you are certainly allowed to submit. Other than Torquere I don't see many of them printing sex with animal formed sentients in full animal form, though. The centaur kink community is dizzying in its size and diversity--not that I'd know....

I sort of figured (perhaps wrongly) that they wouldn't go into such detail as to what was acceptable if they weren't willing to seriously consider such stories. I mean, if I'm trying to discourage BDSM stories at my e-zine (a pause for you all to laugh at length), I don't say, "Clothespins are okay, and so is hot wax, but no ball-stretchers, please." Dusk (fervently hoping the press's editors don't stumble across this thread)

They've also just put a call on Epic that they desperatly want m/m

I have to say I like how up front they are with payment structures and everything right on the front page. I'll be watching with interest.

I wish them well but I wouldn't go with a start up without knowing who was running it and that they had a really good marketing plan (i.e. distribution, a genre niche). The only erotic romance epublishers not desperate for m/m are ones with "issues" about queer stuff or who have nailed their stable of authors to the desk and closed to submissions. They may be great, but four erotic romance epublishers opened in the last month and they all have extrememly similar websites that suggest they are going to do what the other 53 already out there are doing--it worries me. (especially as 2 also went broke this month, at leat 3 are teetering on the brink and 30-40 are selling low double figures in the first month etc.) Of course in my case it would take a crow bar and a directed TNT charge to get me away from Loose Id so it's probably moot :) Ignore the dog, she already has a manger of her own...

Yes, I tend to be wary of start-up presses too (though in my case also, the matter is moot, since I'm no longer marketing myself to publishers). It doesn't matter so much with e-zines, because if an e-zine goes out of business after the first issue, you've had your payment for the story (or your resume credit), and all's fine. But having your press go out of business soon after it publishes your novel is a bummer. Poor Susan R. Matthews, for example, just had a novel published with Meisha Merlin last year; now it's out of print, and the revised reprints of her novels that Meisha Merlin had planned won't come to fruition. Not that Meisha Merlin was a recent start-up, but the emotional impact is the same on authors when presses fail.

It was really sad about Meisha Merlin. I bought quite a few of their books and loved them. Publishing is a risky business even for people with a lot of skills and experience.

Is the market truly as flooded with m/m erotic e-fiction as it sounds?

It's one of the top selling ebook categories. So that would provide an outlet for dozens of manuscripts every week. But as there still aren't really that many people writing it, an MM writer can afford to pick and choose IMHO.

For those wanting to push the old envelope though Dark Eden said they want m/m twincest fic. I think this was on the GLBT promo loop

So can someone please whisper in my ear who DE actually are? Because I am beginning to suspect they might be not entirely unknown to me.

No clue. I read the "About Us" bit on their site, but no mention of exactly WHO they are, though they do say they're authors.