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Stevie Woods
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  Stevie Woods is a Brit living in the Northwest of England and though Stevie would love to be able to write full-time she has to resort to a day job, though she's counting down to the days until she can finally give it up and concentrate on doing what she really wants! A long time avid reader of romance with a dash of adventure, Stevie only stumbled over 'slash' pairings a few years ago and was an immediate convert. Having dabbled with writing on and off for years, it wasn't long before Stevie was tapping away on the keyboard inventing stories around two hot guys, gaining her first publication in the summer of 2007. Stevie likes reading stories with a good strong plot and believable characters and does her best to create them in her own work. Stevie has a soft spot for historical settings but also thoroughly enjoys SF and Fantasy, Paranormal and Contemporary, finding the similarities as intriguing as the differences. Stevie already has several novels and short stories released by Torquere Press and Phaze Books.

Lex Valentine
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  Lex has been writing ever since she could hold a pencil, but wasn't published until 2009. A native of California's Central Coast, Lex has lived in Southern California since 1992. She works as a network administrator for a large cemetery and mortuary company in Orange County and lives with her long haired, tattooed rocker significant other and her daughter, the art college student. Lex loves loud music, builds her own computers, and has a propensity for having very weird vivid dreams about Nikki Sixx. She is an EPIC author and a Covey Associate.

Claire Thompson
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  Claire Thompson has written erotic fiction since 1995. Much of her work focuses on the romance of erotic submission, as well as the darker exploration of BDSM. Her most recent work focuses on the romance of male/male romance and erotic submission. Claire has published numerous novels and short stories, both in print and ebook format. Says a reviewer for eCataRomance, "... Claire Thompson draws a compelling, graphic picture of a loving dominant/submissive relationship. Erotic and confronting, yet tender and intimate".

  Claire's website address is www.Clairethompson.net, where you will find all of Claire's novels, new releases and upcoming releases, as well as more detailed information about the author.

Richard Stevenson
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  Richard Stevenson is the pseudonym of Richard Lipez, the author of nine books, including the Don Strachey private eye series. The Strachey books are being filmed by here!, the first gay television network. Lipez also co-wrote Grand Scam with Peter Stein, and contributed to Crimes of the Scene: A Mystery Novel Guide for the International Traveler. He is a mystery columnist for The Washington Post and a former editorial writer at The Berkshire Eagle. His reporting, reviews and fiction have appeared in The Boston Globe, Newsday, The Progressive, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and many other publications. He grew up and went to college in Pennsylvania and served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia from 1962-64. Lipez lives in Becket, Massachusetts and is married to sculptor Joe Wheaton.

Caro Soles
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  Caro's mystery,DRAG QUEEN IN THE COURT OF DEATH, was short-listed for a Lambda Literary Award in 2008. She is the founder of Bloody Words, Canada's annual mystery convention. Writing in several genres, her work includes the mystery The Tangled Boy, the sf series The Danger Dance and The Abulon Dance as well as two short story collections and five erotic gay novels under the nom de plume Kyle Stone. Caro's short stories have been published in many anthologies and gay magazines and she received the Derrick Murdoch award from the Crime Writers of Canada in 2002.

Jardonn Smith
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  So, tough guy, think you'd like to be a character in one of my books? Fine, but please be advised you will be tested. You will deal with restraints -- ropes, leather straps, chains, whatever suits my story. You might be placed in ancient times, contemporary or future times. You will be made vulnerable, stripped and exposed, at the mercy of me and other men of my choosing, and you will suffer. But, you will never be damaged. If you prove yourself worthy you will be worshiped like all who came before you in my previous books. There are rewards for surviving my punishments, because I, Jardonn Smith, adore men of strength, defiance and virility. You, my next male lead, will be my hero. You will be immortalized in print for all to love same as I do.

George Seaton
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  A native of Denver, Colorado--with glorious treks to Hollywood for three years, and the more onerous, but nevertheless rewarding coddling by Uncle Sam in Louisiana, Texas and Virginia--George Seaton has been writing forever, with some little succes in publishing short stories in slick-back publications and ezines. His passion encompasses the give and take of relationships, critters (so-called wildlife, including, oh, certainly including dogs), his 1893 Victorian in Northwest Denver, the luscious spread of the Colorado landscape and the stories of the men and women who value the land, the caprices of the land and the seasons, and, certainly, finally and forever, his twenty-six year relationship with his partner, David.

AM Riley
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  AM Riley is a film editor, and sometime poet, living in Los Angeles. Riley writes primarily LGBT paranormal and murder mysteries, and has been published with Torquere Press and Loose ID.

Rick R. Reed
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In their October 2006 issue, Unzipped magazine said: "You could call him the Stephen King of gay horror." And Dark Scribe magazine said: "Reed is an established brand - perhaps the most reliable contemporary author for thrillers that cross over between the gay fiction market and speculative fiction." To date, Reed has twelve published novels to his credit, and his short fiction has appeared in more than 20 anthologies. His novel, ORIENATION, won the EPPIE Award for best LGBT novel of 2008. He lives in Seattle, WA.

Patric Michael
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  Born during one of the worst fires in L.A history, Patric Michael escaped to the Pacific Northwest, and a uniquely varied career which has sufficiently armed him for a lifetime of stories. All of which are adamant they be the next to be written, despite Patric's woeful lack in having only ten fingers and one laptop, and not enough hours in the day.

Luisa Prieto
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  Originally intending to become an artist, L.M. Prieto began writing in junior high in order to come up with a plot for her comic book, Pirate Tomatoes. After two issues, she gave up the drawing and began focusing on the writing.

  Since then, Prieto has graduated from the Odyssey Writer's Workshop (http://www.sff.net/odyssey/). When she's not writing, she's thinking about writing.

Jordan Castillo Price
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  Jordan Castillo Price grew up in Western New York, spent her formative drinking years in inner city Chicago, and is now writing paranormal thrillers from her home in small-town rural Wisconsin. Jordan is best known as the author of the PsyCop series http://www.psycop.com, an unfolding tale of paranormal mystery and suspense starring Victor Bayne, a gay medium who's plagued by ghostly visitations.

Neil Plakcy
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  Neil Plakcy has been reading romance novels since he used to borrow Harlequins from his mother as a teenager. He is delighted to have his first M/M romance, GayLife.com, under contract with MLR.

  He is the author of Mahu, Mahu Surfer, Mahu Fire and Mahu Vice (August 2009), mystery novels which take place in Hawaii. Publishers Weekly called Mahu Fire "Engrossing... a sharp whodunit," and the book has received enthusiastic reviews from Library Journal, Out, In LA, and many mystery and GLBT websites.

  He is co-editor of Paws & Reflect: A Special Bond Between Man and Dog (Alyson Books, 2006) and editor of the gay erotica anthologies Hard Hats (Cleis Press, 2008) and Surfer Boys (Cleis Press, 2009).

  Plakcy is a journalist and book reviewer and writes author interviews for Gaywired.com. He is an assistant professor of English at Broward College's south campus in Pembroke Pines, vice president of the Florida chapter of Mystery Writers of America, and a frequent contributor to gay anthologies.

Willa Okati
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  Willa Okati can most often be found muttering to herself over a keyboard, plugged into an iPod and breaking between paragraphs to play air drums. She's teaching herself to play the pennywhistle and mixing up the summer's batches of henna. She has forty-plus separate tattoos and yearn for a full body suit of ink. Willa tends to walk around in a haze of story ideas, dreaming of tales yet to be told, and she drinks an alarming amount of coffee for someone generally perceived to be mellow.

Jet Mykles
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  Jet's been writing sex stories back as far as junior high. Back then, the stories involved her favorite pop icons of the time but she soon extended beyond that realm into making up characters of her own. To this day, she hasn't stopped writing sex, although her knowledge on the subject has vastly improved.

  An ardent fan of fantasy and science fiction sagas, Jet prefers to live in a world of imagination where dragons are real, elves are commonplace, vampires are just people with special diets and lycanthropes live next door. In her own mind, she's the spunky heroine who gets the best of everyone and always attracts the lean, muscular lads. She aids this fantasy with visuals created through her other obsession: 3D graphic art. In this area, as in writing, Jet's self-taught and thoroughly entranced, and now occasionally uses this art to illustrate her stories or her stories to expand upon her art.

  In real life, Jet is a self-proclaimed hermit, living in southern California with her life partner. She has a bachelor's degree in acting, but her loathing of auditions has kept her out of the limelight. So she turned to computers and currently works in product management for a software company, because even in real life, she can't help but want to create something out of nothing.

Jet's Rated X-mas: Spiritual Noelle with LooseId won the coveted EPPIE Award for 2008 in the Erotic Romance Fantasy/Paranormal catagory.

Z. A. Maxfield
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  During Spring Break of the year 2007, working on the theory that most amazing things are accomplished by people who simply haven't been told they can't be done, Z.A. Maxfield informed her children it was the truest desire of her heart to become a writer. This may have been the result of boredom, or sunspot activity, or the earnest desire to function as some sort of role model for a change (as opposed to object lesson). It occurred to her that all those 'do your best' and 'try your hardest' and 'never too late' speeches would go better with a little active participation and the occasional visual aid. Since then, Ms. Maxfield has written several novels, three of which have been contracted for publication, and two prize-winning short stories. Ms. Maxfield currently lives in Southern California with her husband and four children, where she regularly and faithfully allows herself to be distracted by life, as well as any other shiny thing she happens to see.

Gary Martine
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  A reclusive writer-artist-photographer-videographer, Gary Martine, in his own words, "lives and breathes" San Francisco. Kingsley and I marks Gary's introduction into the gay erotic romance genre.

William Maltese
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  William Maltese's over four decades of writing more than 150-published novels has earned him his long-standing listing in WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA as well as foreign-language editions of his work in over twelve different countries.

  While Maltese began his writing career documenting his non-fiction Inca treasure-hunting adventures and mountain-climbing exploits for men's magazines of the sixties, like Argosy, he soon capitalized upon his very same been-there-done-that-got-the-T-shirt world travels, as well as his military service (he was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army at the rank of Sergeant E-5), to become a powerhouse within the then-booming pulp-fiction industry. His simultaneously varied sexual experiences provided him fodder for expertly exploiting the, likewise, burgeoning erotica genre and resulted in his early and extensive catalogue of m/m, m/f, f/f, and variations-thereon group-sex novels. Some of his early and increasingly harder-and-harder to find books from that era now come (no pun intended) with for-collector's-only four-figure price tags.

  Although Maltese has successfully ventured into mainstream on more than one occasion (even writing a children's book and three internationally best-selling SuperRomances for Harlequin), he's most recently concentrated, once again, on providing sensuous material for an adult readership. "Sex," says Maltese, "is an important part of anyone's life and should no more be literarily ignored than any other subject matter. It's part and parcel of whom and what we are, and I'm pleased to be considered a bona-fide expert in the field."

  Why m/m sex novels in particular? "I just seem to have a particular knack for the genre," confesses Maltese, "and have, over the years, had publishers and readers ask me to provide them with more and more. That sees me particularly pleased, at this time, to team up with MAN LOVE ROMANCE PRESS with its primary focus on turn-on male-male literature for its discriminating clientele."

Clare London
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  Clare took the pen name London from the city where she lives, loves, and writes. A lone, brave female in a frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home, she juggles her writing with the weekly wash, waiting for the far distant day when she can afford to give up her day job as an accountant. She's written in many genres and across many settings, with three novels and a smattering of short stories published both online and in print. She says she likes variety in her writing while friends say she's just fickle, but as long as both theories spawn fiction, she's happy. Most of her work features male/male romance and drama with a healthy serving of physical passion, as she enjoys both reading and writing about strong, sympathetic and sexy characters.

  Clare currently has several novels sulking at that tricky chapter 3 stage and plenty of other projects in mind . . . she just has to find out where she left them in that frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home.

Josh Lanyon
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  Josh Lanyon is the author of three Adrien English mystery novels and has been writing GLBT stories for over a decade.
THE HELL YOU SAY was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and is the winner of the 2006 USABookNews awards for GLBT fiction. Josh lives in Los Angeles, California, and is currently at work on the fourth book in the series, DEATH OF A PIRATE KING.

Mexican Heat has won a coveted CataNetwork Reviewers' Choice Award for 2009. CataNetwork reviewers consider this book one of the best that they have read and reviewed for Sensual this year.

J.L. Langley
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  JL has been talking since she was about seven months old. To those who know her it comes as no surprise, in fact, most will tell you she hasn't shut up since. At eighteen months, she was speaking in full sentences. Imagine if you will the surprise of her admirers when they complimented her mother on "what a cute little boy" she had and received a fierce glare from said little boy and a very loud correction of "I'm a girl!" Oddly enough, JL still finds herself saying that exact phrase thirty-some-odd years later.

  Today JL is a full-time writer, with over ten novels to her credit. Among her hobbies she includes reading, practicing her marksmanship (she happens to be a great shot), gardening, working out (although she despises cardio), searching for the perfect chocolate dessert (so far as she can tell ALL chocolate is perfect, but it requires more research) and arguing with her husband over who the air compressor and nail gun really belongs to (they belong to JL, although she might be willing to trade him for his new chainsaw).

Samantha Kane
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  Samantha Kane lives in North Carolina with her husband of ten years and three children, two boys and one girl. She spent seven years as a high school history teacher in Kansas and North Carolina before becoming a full time writer and mom. Ms. Kane has a Master's degree in American History from the University of Kansas.Ms. Kane's hobbies include reading, knitting, chasing children, going to the beach as often as possible, antique stores and catalog shopping. (Although she insists she does not have a problem, she only shops recreationally.)Ms. Kane's novels are not written from experience, but from an overactive imagination, (for which her husband is eternally grateful.) The main theme in her novels is the acceptance of love in its many forms: among friends, for family, and romantic love between men and women.

Wayne Gunn
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Wayne Gunn, a.k.a. Drewey Wayne Gunn, has been mostly in academic publishing till now. Scarecrow Press published his ground-breaking bibliography of Tennessee Williams plays (1980; 2nd edition, 1991). Most recently the same press brought out his The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography (2005). Queer Horror named it the best queer nonfiction of the year. He regularly reviews gay mysteries for the Lambda Book Report and the e-journal Reviewing the Evidence.

He grew up on a tobacco farm in North Carolina. He received his B.A. from Wake Forest College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is presently professor emeritus at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. He was partner for 21 years with Jacques Murat, an Air France translator, until Jacques's heart attack in 1994.

LB Gregg

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In 2008 LBGregg debuted on the m/m writing scene with the novella: Men of Smithfield. LBG enjoys reading, writing, travel -- and controlled falls: skiing, flying, rollercoasters, and sex.

Amber Green
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Amber Green's college housemates often spent evenings sprawled around the living room with bodice-rippers, reading racy scenes aloud. After losing jobs requiring competent use of shovel, calculator, spatula, or carbine, Amber took up studying the law. Her resultant need for escapism brought her back to those racy scenes, which she commenced to write. Her early shapeshifter novellas appeared in Red Sage's Secrets, then Loose Id released the more intense Huntsmen novels (including Bareback, briefly mentioned in Wikipedia). Amber's first bloodsucking vampire darkens More Than Memories for MLR's Blood Lust. Meanwhile, One Good Turn introduces Turner & Turner, who are all too human.

Storm Grant
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After a decade of writing fanfiction, Storm Grant decided to go pro. Look for her first novel, Gym Dandy, this Christmas from MLR Press. Her writing experience includes commercial copywriting, as well as fiction. She has contracted short stories to several publishers, including Phaze, Freya's Bower, and Torquere.She is a Board member of the Toronto chapter of the RWA. Storm holds a degree in business and has spent nearly three decades working in marketing and administration. She was born and still lives in Toronto, Canada, with her husband, and a miscellany of rescued pets.

Follow Stormy's life and writing career at her blog or email her at storm.grant@gmail.com.

Kimberly Gardner
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Kimberly has been making up stories for as long as she can remember. As early as the seventh grade, she recalls slashing her favorite rockstars for her own and her friends' enjoyment. It was also around that time that she began a lifelong love affair with the romance genre, devouring category romances as fast as she could smuggle them into the house. So it's not all that surprising that her two passions, romance and putting pretty boys with other pretty boys, would ultimately come together in her writing.

Moliere says, "Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, then for a few close friends, then for money."

Kimberly is delighted at long last to be doing it for money. Her appearance in the Ties That Bind anthology is her first publication.

S.J. Frost
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S.J. Frost resides on a mini-ranch in Ohio with her husband and son, as well as a kind-hearted German Shepherd, a Collie who is the anti-Lassie, a few kooky cats, and some very special horses. She enjoys experimenting with her writing and dabbling in different genres, though it's guaranteed that no matter what she writes there will be hot erotic action appearing somewhere in the story. She's a romantic at heart, which is reflected in her writing. The majority of her work is m/m, though she's had the occasional m/f piece published too. Her short stories have been featured in several erotic and romance anthologies including, Best Gay Romance 2007 Edition, Girls on Top, and Surfer Boys, all published by Cleis Press, Ultimate Gay Erotica 2008 and Best Gay Love Stories: Summer Flings, both published by Alyson Books, and Honey Flava published by Atria Books.

Dakota Flint
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Dakota Flint lives in upstate New York and currently spends her days dreaming up lots of interesting situations for two men to meet and fall in love. While she hasn't yet managed to attain the fame and fortune she's sure will come her way through these tales, Dakota has managed to convince the employees of her local Starbucks not to give away her usual table. Any story she publishes can be dedicated--in part--to the iced white mocha. To find out what's going on with Dakota and her writing, check out her website.

Angela Fiddler
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Angela Fiddler lives with her wife in southern Alberta. She has four previous gay erotica vampire novels released through Loose Id, a novella in the upcoming Blood Claim anthology, and is working on several other pieces. She is always surprised her stories contain as little kneeling as they do.

Jason Edding

Jason has been writing since he was 9 or 10, he doesn't remember exactly, but his stories started out as one page epics (well, they were epics to him) and he's never looked back. Just last year, he completed his course work and graduated as a certified veterinary assistant. He loves animals. One of his favorite channels is Animal Planet. When he's not bumming around watching TV, he writes, which usually has him wide awake at all hours of the night, and often into the next day.

Ethan Day
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Ethan lives in Missouri. He is currently single but always looking for that special someone that makes his heart skip a beat. He was the youngest of four children and the only boy.

After a few stints in college, he eventually signed up for a Creative Writing course. He took the class because there were no tests. For once his scholastic laziness paid off, and he found an outlet for all the fantasies running amuck in his head. It was love at first write, and he's been doing it off and on ever since.

Dick D.

Sex: Anytime (Male), born: September 11th 1963 in Fort Hood, Texas (Army Brat) and currently resides in San Francisco (Mecca). Dick holds a Bachelor of Computer Science Degree, served from 7/87 - 6/96 as a United States Navy Radioman Second Class (SS) with Highest Security Clearance Held: Top Secret-Specat. He's been HIV+ since 4/90, presently works as a Internet Banking Security Specialist and is an alumni with Centaur Motorcycle Club, Washington DC. He lists his hobbies as being Evil Overlord, World Domination and loves his iPod.

Kirby Crow
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  Kirby Crow worked as an entertainment editor and ghostwriter for several years before happily giving it up to bake more brownies, read more yaoi, play more video games, and write her own novels.Changing weather patterns, watering bans, and pesticides have unhappily forced her to give up growing roses, alas.

Her published novels are Prisoner of the Raven (historical romance, Torquere Press, 2005), Scarlet and the White Wolf: The Pedlar and the Bandit King (fantasy romance, Torquere Press, 2006), Mariner's Luck (fantasy romance, Torquere Press, 2007), and The Land of Night (fantasy romance, Torquere Press, 2007). They are available from Torquere Books, most online book retailers, and Amazon Kindle. Her next novel, Angels of the Deep, will be published by MLR Press.

Kirby is a Spectrum Book Awards nominee, and is at work on two more fantasy novels: Erisine and Swanhand.

J.S./JoAnne Soper-Cook
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J.S./JoAnne Soper-Cook was born in outport Newfoundland, received a B.A., B.Ed and M.A. from Memorial University, and lives in St. John's, Newfoundland, with her husband Paul and her dogs Lola and Sheppy. She is the author of six previous books, including the critically-acclaimed novel Waterborne and the short story collection, The Opium Lady. Soper-Cook has also worked as an editor at the Newfoundland and Labrador provincial legislature and has taught English Literature at Memorial University of Newfoundland. When she isn't writing, she conducts her own forensic experiments as research for her mystery novels, namely the Inspector Raft series and the Heartache Cafe series.

Charlie Cochrane
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  Charlie Cochrane primarily writes historical gay mysteries/romances, although she has to admit that her favourite short story is the little one she wrote about gay werewolves. She started writing relatively late in life but believes she draws on all her hoarded experiences to try to give a depth and richness to her stories. She also reckons that an East End upbringing and a Cambridge University education gives you an unusual view on life.

   Her ideal day would be a morning walking along a beach, an afternoon spent watching rugby, and a church service in the evening, with her husband and daughters tagging along, naturally. She loves reading, theatre, good food and watching sport, especially rugby.

Named by Speak Its Name as Author of the Year for her Cambridge Fellows Mysteries series.

James Buchanan
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  James Buchanan is an award winning author of, primarily, gay erotic fiction. James grew up in a small Southwestern town, hours away from any other small Southwestern town. A stint at the State University, where he ostensibly majored in English, garnered him a degree useful for being someone's secretary. The absolute lack of employment opportunities led James to Southern California. After a stint in County Mental Health (administration not client) he ran screaming into the field of Law. James has been practicing for nine years and someday he might even get it right.

  James has published several short stories and novellas as well as six novels with various publishers.

Jade Buchanan
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  Jade Buchanan is currently trying to find balance between work, writing and grad school, which makes for some interesting conversations over the dinner table. Her writing is as eclectic as her reading tastes, with over twenty gay and bisexual novella's currently published, and she has been known to accept writing challenges from friends and family just to see their reactions. She's a firm believer that love and romance are universal concepts, no matter a person's gender identity or sexual orientation.  Originally from Northern Ontario, she's lived in British Columbia and the Sultanate of Oman in the Middle East. Jade currently lives in Calgary, Alberta where she's hard at work on her next story.

Pat Brown
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  Born in Western Canada, which probably explains my intense dislike of all things cold, I grew up in Southern Ontario, at that time the most white-bread vanilla of places.

  Southern California, where I moved in 1978 and left the day Ronald Reagan won his second term as President was everything Southern Ontario wasn't. In 1986 we moved to Hawaii where my daughter was born. Los Angeles was for me the land of dreams and lies, where illusion battled daily with reality, and reality rarely won. People ask why I write. It's simple really, I write to give the little voices inside of me an outlet. Otherwise they'd drive me crazy.

  So it was probably fitting that I spent eight years there. To this day I have a love/hate relationship with L.A. I was endlessly fascinated by it, but I was repelled at the same time. That dichotomy still exists in me. L.A. Heat grew out of those sometimes dark, always fascinating days. Like nearly everyone else who makes the trip, I went to Hollywood to reinvent myself. But I quickly discovered that in Hollywood, writers have about as much cachet as what a dog leaves on your lawn. Did I stop writing? Hell no, I just stopped telling everyone I was a writer, and just kept perfecting my craft.

  Eventually I dropped the idea of doing screenplays and went back to my real love: novels. It was years before I took up bragging rights again and once more told anyone crazy enough to express even the least interest that yes, I was a writer and I wrote Science Fiction - then - eventually switching my interest to mysteries which was when I was published. I wrote my first book at 17, and my first published book at 48, proving that the tortoise does sometimes does win.

J.P. Bowie
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  J.P. Bowie was born and raised in Aberdeen, Scotland. He wrote his first (unpublished) novel at the age of 14 - a science fiction tale of brawny men and brawnier women that made him a little suspect in the eyes of his family for a while.

  Leaving home at age eighteen for the bright lights of London, he found himself in the midst of a "diverse and creative crowd" that eventually led him to the performing arts. For the next twelve years he sang, danced and acted his way around the theatres of London and the provinces, appearing in shows with many famous British singers, actors and comedians. He immigrated to the US and made his home in Las Vegas, working for that illustrious duo, Siegfried and Roy.

  J.P. wrote his first gay mystery in 2000, and after having it rejected by every publisher in the universe, he opted to put his money where his mouth is and self published A Portrait of Phillip. Now several books, short stories and novellas later, he is writing m/m erotica almost exclusively. J.P.'s favorite singer is Ella Fitzgerald, and his favorite man is Phil, his partner of 15 years.

Brenda Bryce
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  Brenda Bryce is an author of paranormal romances, a mother of three teenagers, the wife of a really hot guy, and the family chauffeur. When not writing, she plays with yarn, reads, chats on AOL instant messenger, or watchs something on educational television.

Ally Blue
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  Ally is a married mother of two, living in the mountains of North Carolina in the U.S.A. She is a registered nurse by trade and a writer of manlove by inclination. Her husband is a freelance artist, and their children have apparently inherited his artistic tendencies. Thankfully, they have also inherited his singing voice instead of Ally's, which her family will confirm can peel the paint off the walls.

  Ally wrote her first story — a slash fanfic — in the fall of 2003. She has since branched out into original character gay romance. Her short stories have been published in the e-zines Forbidden Fruit and Ruthie's Club, and her novels are available from Loose Id and Samhain Publishing.

  In addition to writing, Ally enjoys traveling, collecting dragons, and trying to scare herself. Her favorite authors include Stephen King, Clive Barker, and H.P. Lovecraft, and she is a rabid fan of horror movies.

  Ally adores music, particularly Radiohead and Patrick Wolf. She plans to have her iPod surgically implanted as soon as someone invents a way to do that. Hopefully this will mean the end of playing CDs and her children can finally stop telling her to turn the volume down.

Sarah Black
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  Sarah Black roams the Southwest in an old Ford pickup, listening to sad cowboy songs and stopping for coffee and pie at every cafe she passes. She writes stories about the men she meets, men as battered and strong as the land, reckless and wild men with tough notions of honor, justice, and love.

Sarah Black has been nominated for a 2007 Pushcart Prize for her flash fiction story A Snowball's Chance.

Alex Beecroft
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  Born in Northern Ireland, raised in Cheshire, Alex has lived all over the UK but nowhere else. She studied English and Philosophy at Manchester University, then read for an MPhil in The Cult of the Horse in Early Anglo-Saxon England. She worked in the Lord Chancellor's Department in London, moved to Guildford to work in the Crown Court, and has hopefully finally settled near Cambridge with her husband and two children

  Alex's first m/m novel, Captain's Surrender is an Age of Sail romance set in the 18th Century British Royal Navy of Hornblower fame. Her second novel, False Colors, on a similar theme, comes out in spring 2009 from New York press Perseus Books. Working with MLR has given her the chance to branch out of 'pure' historical into historical/paranormal with an 18th Century ghost story also due in 2009.

Laura Baumbach
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Laura Baumbach is the best-selling, multi-award winning, acclaimed author of short stories, novellas, novels and screenplays. Most recently, Mexican Heat, written in collaboration with Josh Lanyon, has been chosen as a FINALIST for Best Gay Romance in the 2009 Lambda Literary Awards, a FINALIST in the 2010 EPPIE Awards, and has received an Honorable Mention at the 2009 San Francisco Book Festival. Laura was nominated for Best GBLT Author 2008 in the LRC's Best Of Awards for 2008. Her adventure story The Lost Temple of Karttikeya won the 2008 EPPIE Award for Best GLBT novel. Her sequel to the best-selling novel A Bit of Rough, Roughhousing, was 2007 Reviewers' Choice Award Winner.

Details of the Hunt, a 2006 EPPIE Finalist, in its mainstream 'buddy' version, was selected as a Semi-finalist in the 2007 Shriekfest Screenplay competition as well as becoming the winner of Best Telefilm in the aTalentScout, Winter 2004 TV writing contest, and the Fort Bend Writers Guild Screenplay writing Contest for Spring of 2005.

Mexican Heat has won a coveted CataNetwork Reviewers' Choice Award for 2009. CataNetwork reviewers consider this book one of the best that they have read and reviewed for Sensual this year.

A retired nurse, Laura devotes herself fulltime to publishing and writing. She is the ownerof ManLoveRomance Press, a small print publishing house that specializes in gay erotic romance, mystery and fiction. (http://www.mlrpress.com) MLR Press was founded in January of 2007, publishing authors such as Richard Stevenson, author of the Donald Strachey Mystery series and J.S.Cook, author of the Inspector Raft Mystery Series. She is also the owner of the promotional co-op for authors of gay romance and fiction, Manloveromance.com.

Jeanne Barrack
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  Jeanne Barrack is a native New Yorker, born and bred in Brooklyn, married for thirty-odd years (and they have been odd) to her high school sweetheart. She now live on a mountain top in rural Pennsylvania. Jeanne plays guitar and studied voice privately with a Juilliard coach and has a Masters in Music Therapy. She sings everything from folk music to Grand Opera - in ten languages including Gaelic and Hebrew. Many of her stories draw inspiration from music. Her day job involves music therapy for seniors.

  Jeanne writes straight erotic paranormal romance laced with historical subtext and with the publication of The Sweet Flag, can add gay erotic paranormal romance to her credits. Jeanne's goal for her m/m writing are stories set in her cultural heritage, be they historical or paranormal -- or both.

Victor J. Banis
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  Lecturer, writing teacher and early rabble rouser for gay rights and freedom of the press, Victor J. Banis is the critically acclaimed ("the master's touch in storytelling" Publishers Weekly) author of more than 150 published books and numerous shorter pieces in a career spanning nearly 50 years. A native of Ohio and longtime Californian, he lives and writes now in West Virginia's beautiful Blue Ridge.

Maura Anderson
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  A software engineer by day and writer by night, Maura Anderson is an author of both fiction and non-fiction, both of which she blames on her inability to resist a challenge. Erotic romance was a natural genre given her need for sweet & spice in the relationships she writes about. Maura is now making her debut in gay erotic romance with stories that started as challenges but whose characters quickly captured her heart.