MLR Press - Gay, Erotic Fiction and Romance at its Best

Derek Adams
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Derek Adams is the award-winning author of a popular series of novels featuring the spectacularly inept detective, Miles Diamond. In addition, he has written over a hundred short stories which he insists are ongoing chapters in his autobiography. When not chronicling his amorous adventures, Adams writes about gay history and travel. He currently lives in Seattle.

M. Jules Aedin
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  Jules was a late bloomer in the garden of self-discovery but is now making up for lost time. Self-described as a "happy tree-hugging hippie pagan queer," Jules has found an affinity for advocating for equal rights in many arenas. A psychology major with a yen for gender and sexuality studies, Jules finds GLBT fiction a natural fit. An individual of many vices-including addictions to video games, gin & tonic, and bad poetry-Jules nonetheless clings to the illusion of questionable virtue.

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.

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.

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.

Laura Baumbach
Owner - Publisher
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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.

For the Love Of Man examining the M/M erotic romance genre ERWA Writer's Resource article September 2008

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lorraine Brevig
Artist
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Lorraine Brevig always wanted to be an artist since she was very young. Lucky to be able to attend art school and received an undergraduate and graduate degree in painting, she soon found out that art wasn't very helpful in getting a real job. Lorraine worked as a technician for a private painting conservator for five years and then decided to become one, too. After receiving her MA in art conservation, she didn't paint for eight years and finally got back into it only after discovering fan fiction on the net. She rediscovered fan art at that time, too. Lorraine painted her first fan art painting in 25 years of Frodo based on the movie actor Elijah Wood in 2001. She's been doing fan art since then, having branched out to book covers starting with the cover art she did for MLR Press author Laura Baumbach.

Michael Breyette
Artist
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Michael Breyette is a self taught artist who has been drawing for as long as he can remember. But, it wasn't until moving from a conservative family and hometown in rural upstate NY that he felt the freedom to express his true self and his true passions in his artwork.

The resulting illustrations of male nudes and gay themed works rendered in soft pastel are what turned his hobby into a career. In 2000 he found a global audience by posting a few of these pieces on the Internet. Three years later he made the decision to quit his secure day job and be a full time self supporting artist.

One of the major rewards of that decision came in 2007 when renowned gay pictorial publishing house Bruno Gmünder of Germany published Summer Moved On, a collection of Michael's works, followed by calendars in 2008 and 2009. His works also appear in the anthology Stripped and The Greatest Erotic Art of Today Volumes 1 & 2 (for which he won the Viewer's Choice Award in 2008), as well as numerous magazines including Blue, Manner Aktuel, Unzipped, Gaydar, and [2], for which he earned the distinction of having the magazine's first ever illustrated cover. His work has also appeared on several book covers

Michael's works can be viewed and purchased at his online gallery, www.breyette.com, where in addition to his originals; he offers prints, postcards, and magnets and copies of his books and calendars. He is also represented by leading male figurative gallery, Lyman-Eyer, of Provincetown MA.

Nowell Briscoe

Southern-born Nowell Briscoe has been an avid reader all his life.He likes to describe himself as "the child raised by books". A former funeral director, book-seller and librarian, he credits his love for books to his great aunt who was a librarian and introduced him to the world of literature.At the urging of his friends, he is writing of his experiences, his friendships and life growing up in the South plus other tales he has kept hidden for many years.

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.

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.

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.

Karenna Colcroft
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  Karenna Colcroft is the alter ego of a shy, sedate wife and mother. She's been writing stories since age five, and began writing erotic romance on a challenge from a friend in 2006. Since her first publication in 2009, Karenna has had a number of romances published by a variety of e-publishers. She lives in the northeastern United States with her two children, her real-life romance hero husband, and two cats, one of whom occasionally reads over her shoulder. (Fortunately, the cat is over 18 in cat years.)

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.

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, Scarlet and the White Wolf: The Pedlar and the Bandit King, Mariner's Luck, and The Land of Night by other publishers. They are available from 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.

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.

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.

Diana DeRicci
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Diana DeRicci is the sexy, flirty pen name of Diana Castilleja. A romance author at heart, DeRicci's writing takes you into a saucier spectrum of sensuality and sexual adventure, where a happily-ever-after is still the key to any story. Diana lives in Central Texas with her husband, one son and a feisty little Chihuahua named Rascal. You can catch the latest news on all of Diana DeRicci's writing and books on her website. Feel free to drop Diana an email. She'd love to hear from you.

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.

Taylor V. Donovan
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Taylor V. Donovan is a compulsive reader and author of m/m romantic suspense. She is optimistically cynical about the world; lover of history, museums and all things 80s. She is crazy about fashion, passionate about civil rights and equality for all and shamelessly indulges in mind-numbing reality television.

When she is not making a living in the busiest city in the world or telling the stories of gorgeous men hot for one another, Taylor can be found raising her two daughters and two terribly misbehaved furry babies in the mountains she calls home.

Theo Fenraven
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Theo Fenraven grew up in rural Ohio, and so, early writing featured horses, cows, and pirates in tree houses. An occasional cowboy or astronaut sometimes showed up by accident. Then he hit puberty and everything changed. His focus shifted to love, romance, and sex, and it's pretty much remained there ever since. He currently lives in NYC, has an okay job doing relatively unimportant things, and writes every chance he gets. His stories now reflect the drama and adventure of people exploring themselves and others. He apologizes in advance if the occasional cowboy or astronaut show up

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.

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.

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, Ultimate Gay Erotica 2008 and Best Gay Love Stories: Summer Flings, and Honey Flava published by other publishers..

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.

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.

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.

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.

Roland Graeme

Roland Graeme is one of several pseudonyms used by a prolific writer of erotic fiction. A native of Pennsylvania and a descendant of Swiss immigrants, Graeme began his writing career as a teenager. He earned a Ph.D. in English, writing his doctoral dissertation on Male Bonding in the Novels of Sir Walter Scott. ("Roland Graeme" is the protagonist of Scott's novel The Abbot.) His wide range of interests includes literature, history, art, music, world culture and religion, and (of course) sexuality. A passionate advocate of adult education, he believes it is never too late to develop new interests and try new things. Graeme has never seen any incompatibility between his two chosen disciplines, the scholarly and the entertaining; on the contrary, one enriches the other. His first book for MLR Press, The Temple of Skanda, in fact marks his return to full-length fiction, after a hiatus during which he devoted himself to classical music criticism, among other pursuits. Graeme lives in Buffalo, NY.

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.

Kaje Harper
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Kaje Harper grew up in Montreal and spent her teen years writing, filling binders with stories about what guys like Starsky and Hutch really did on their days off. (In a sheltered-fourteen-year-old PG-rated romantic sense.) Serious authorship got sidetracked by ventures into psychology, teaching, and a biomedical career. And the challenges of raising children.

When Kaje took up writing again it was just for fun. Hours of fun. Lots of hours of fun. The stories began piling up, and her husband suggested it was time to try to publish one. Kaje currently lives in Minnesota with a creative teenager, a crazy little omnivorous white dog, and a remarkably patient spouse.

Deana C. Jamroz
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Over a lifetime, the East-Coast artist has divided her professional talents between writing and graphics design for all types of advertising and P.R. agencies - the good, the bad and the greedy.

Ms. Jamroz describes the best of her current computer-generated artwork, i.e., website graphics, book covers, promotional materials, etc., as erotic, exotic, and great fun.

At present, Deana enjoys the freedom that less restrictive audiences afford her rather mad-cap, zany muse.

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.

Thomas Kearnes

Thomas Kearnes is a 35-year-old author from East Texas, the son of a U.S. Marshal and a secretary. He is an atheist and an Eagle Scout. Despite often tackling gay themes and characters in his fiction, he has enjoyed consistent mainstream success in publications such as PANK, Storyglossia, Night Train, SmokeLong Quarterly, Word Riot, Eclectica, JMWW Journal, The Pedestal, 3 AM Magazine, Temenos, wigleaf, Underground Voices and elsewhere. In addition, he has appeared in the gay venues Blithe House Quarterly, Velvet Mafia, Harrington Gay Men's Literary Quarterly, the Best Gay Romance series and elsewhere. He is a columnist for Flash Fiction Chronicles and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He hopes his career will inspire other young queer authors to take more risks in their fiction.

Thomas can be contacted at trkearnes @ yahoo.com {remove the spaces}

M. King
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M. King lives in a damp, verdant corner of south west England, where she may usually be found behind a keyboard and a vat of coffee. She writes gay fiction with an emphasis on romance and erotica and, though her stories range across several genres, they share a vibrant, lush, and compelling style.

On the rare occasions she isn't writing, M. King enjoys taking long, muddy walks with her dogs, dabbling in her herb garden, and falling off horses... just not all at the same time. Since the late '90s, she has published a wide variety of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, and her work has featured in mixed media exhibitions, festivals, and on radio. She continues to write under a small clutch of pen names.

K-Lee Klein
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K-Lee Klein has lived in one part of Western Canada or another for her entire life. She's a doting mother of three now-grown kids and has had characters and plots running around her head for as long as she can remember. Though this is her first foray into throwing her original fiction out into the web universe, she hopes to substitute her passion for writing beautiful, emotional men for her previous jobs as a hockey manager/coach, school band volunteer and overall chauffeur.

K-lee lives with an overly-patient husband who totally does not get her thing for gay men, two spoiled but wonderful sons (who don't get it either), two also spoiled but beautiful cats, many phone calls with her daughter who has already left the nest, and an abundance of fabulous gay men, large and small, bouncing off the walls of her skull, competing for their turns to tell their stories.

Geoffrey Knight

From palace-hopping across the Rajasthan Desert to sleeping in train stations in Bulgaria, from spinning prayer-wheels in Kathmandu to exploring the skull-gated graveyards of the indigenous Balinese tribes, Geoffrey Knight has been a traveller ever since he could scrape together enough money to buy a plane ticket. Born in Melbourne but raised and educated in countless cities and towns across Australia, Geoffrey was a nomadic boy who grew into a nomadic gay writer. When he's not travelling the world, Geoffrey is travelling the world of his imagination-where the adventures, thrills and romance are limitless.

He currently owns his own advertising and design agency in Sydney, Australia, and can't wait to buy his next plane ticket-whether it's real or imaginary.

Christopher Koehler
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Christopher has writing since before he could read, according to his parents, but it wasn't until his grad school years that he realized writing was how he wanted to spend his life. Long something of a hothouse flower, he's been lucky to be surrounded by people who encourage that tendency and the writing both, especially his long-suffering husband of twenty years and counting.

He loves many genres of fiction and nonfiction, but he's especially fond of romances because it's in them that human emotions and relations, at least most of the ones fit to be discussed publicly, are laid bare. While writing is his passion and his life, when he's not doing that, he's a househusband, at-home dad, and oarsman with a slightly disturbing interest in manners and the other ways people behave badly.

Mathew Lang
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  Matthew writes behind a desk, in the park, on the tram and sometimes backstage at amateur theatre productions. He has been known to sing and dance in public, analyse the plots of movies and TV shows, and is a confessed Masterchef addict. He has dabbled in film, machinema, event management and even insurance, but his first love has always been the written word. He is suspected of frequenting libraries and hanging around in bookstores, and his therapists believe he may be plotting some form of literature.

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).

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.

Vincent Lardo

  New York Times best selling author, Vincent Lardo, began his writing career moonlighting his Madison Avenue adman persona under the nom de plume, Julian Mark. As New York editor of The Advocate, Julian penned film and theater reviews, celebrity interviews and his own byline gossip column. When his office acquired a Word Processor, Lardo gave up his martini lunches (and Julian Mark) in favor of a tuna sandwich and milk at his desk where the first Vincent Lardo novel was conceived and carried to fruition. CHINA HOUSE was a big seller for Alyson Publications and was followed by the equally successful THE PRINCE AND THE PRETENDER and THE MASK OF NARCISSUS.

  A born and raised New Yorker, Lardo left Madison Avenue and his east side co-op to take up residence in his beach house in East Hampton. There he began work on his Hampton mysteries for Putnam. THE HAMPTON AFFAIR and THE HAMPTON CONNECTION were so well received it prompted Putnam to offer Lardo the task of taking over the McNALLY SERIES, founded by the late (great) Lawrence Sanders. The first, McNALLY's DILEMMA, was an immediate Times Best Seller. Five more McNALLY's followed, all making the Times Best Seller list.

  MLR PRESS recently reissued THE MASK OF NARCISSUS in electronic and paperback format. This has induced Lardo to return to his roots and he's now at work on a Mike Gavin mystery entitled THE JOCKSTRAP MURDER.

Elizabeth Lister
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  Elizabeth Lister lives in Ottawa, Ontario Canada with her husband, two children and a miniature schnauzer named Bee Bee. In order to escape the humdrum responsibilities of being a stay-at-home mom she escapes into her imagination and writes naughty books about gorgeous men who love other men. Often, the laundry and other household chores get neglected as her stories take hold and spin themselves out. Her husband makes fun of her but helps clean the house at weekends.

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.

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."

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.

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.

Lloyd Meeker
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   Born and raised in a religious commune in the mountain west, Lloyd Meeker began his formal training as an energy healer at the age of ten. As an adult he served for a long time as a minister and teacher in that community before striking out on an individual path of mystical discovery. His academic career has been sporadic and eclectic, ranging from English literature, history, theatre, music, and classical archaeology to computer science.

  Previous published works include two volumes of poetry and an erotic swords-and-sorcery adventure novel, The Darkness of Castle Tiralur. His essay, Gate-Keepers appeared in the anthology Second Person Queer, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009, Labonte and Schimel, eds. Since 2009 he has served as a judge in the Queer Foundation's annual High School Seniors English Essay Contest (queerfoundation.org ), which promotes effective writing by, about, and/or for queer youth.

  Meeker celebrates life with his husband Robert in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he is at work on his next novel.

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.

AKM Miles
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AKM Miles loves to read M/M. She loves to write. She loves characters. A good story line is great, she figures, but if you don't care anything about the characters, why would you care what happens to them? That's pretty much why and how she writes.

She loves, absolutely loves, to hear from readers. She's quite tickled when the emails she gets all say something along the lines of..."When is Daniel going to get a story?" or "I'm still waiting for Gom's story?" What about Randy, that Brack and Austin helped. Will he get a story, too?" and "You are going to write one about Mark and Wade, aren't you?"

That shows that people love the characters in AKM's books and that's why she writes. She loves it when readers love her guys. Often called for being too mushy or romantic or sweet and told that guys don't talk like that, she replies, "Actually, yes, they do." Her motto is ***love is love*** and she believes that guys do feel deeply and care deeply and if they're happy people, they don't mind sharing that love. It's a good thing.

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 another publisher won the coveted EPPIE Award for 2008 in the Erotic Romance Fantasy/Paranormal catagory.

William Neale
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William Neale was first published at the age of 11 when he won first place in an essay contest sponsored by his hometown's chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. As an adult, he plummeted from that moral pinnacle of his life by becoming a successful advertising executive, PR spin doctor, and admirer of a good bottle of wine. Now, many years later, he seeks redemption as one of the newest authors of romance and erotica for a gay and gay friendly audience.

William's stories blend black and white reality with the fanciful notions that on occasion, the stars do align. That sometimes prayers are answered; and sometimes they are blessedly not.  That even in the bleakest of times and lives, there really are happy endings - which is what he and his partner of over a decade have found at the historic home they've restored together in Cleveland.

NJ Nielsen
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  NJ needs to write like she needs to breathe... It is an addiction that she never intends to find a cure for. When you don't find NJ writing about the wonderful men in her stories you find her reading work by others... NJ lives in the SE of Qld, Australia with her family who all encourage her writing career even if she does occasionally call them by her character's names... NJ thinks that anyone taking the time to read her stuff is totally awesome.

Cherie Noel
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Butcher, baker, candlestick maker...ummm, eww, every chance I get, and I surely would if these damn characters would ever shut up. Born in West Palm Beach, Florida and raised...er, is all over the damn place a sufficiently descriptive term? No? Then how about this? Tinker, tailor, Indian chief...Ooooh, especially when smexy men are involved (!), only under duress, and did the cheek-bones give it away?

Seriously? I've lived in Washington D.C., Virginia, Upper Michigan, Texas, New York, California, and Alabama in the United States; Hessen in Germany, London in England, Masirah Island in Oman and...sometimes it was in a house, sometimes in a tent, and sometimes anyplace I could find to lay my head.

I've been in love with words since before I drew breath, and I don't see that ever changing. I write stories. Sometimes I write music with them, sometimes they're poems, and lately, to my great delight, M/M erotic romance. Yum. Smexy man to the second...or third power...now that's the kinda math I can get behind!!

The hair curls or frizzes as it will, the eyes are green and tend to look in two different directions-no, really-and the rest is subject to change. You know the guy who didn't know if he was a butterfly dreaming he was a man or a man dreaming he was a butterfly? Yeah, that's me, but substitute drag queen for butterfly and wacky, wild ex-Army chick for man.

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.

Erica Pike
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  Erica hasn't been writing since she was in diapers, nor has she been an avid reader since she learned her ABC's. She has, however, always been a daydreamer spinning tales after tales. After having exhausted every possible scenario of man-woman love, she started weaving stories of men who love men. So much hotter! This time she wrote it all down.

She lives in Iceland with her adorable little twin boys, and is happy with what she has. She often says that her real name sounds like Klingon to foreigners so she doesn't even bother revealing it.

She's been writing for several years, or ever since reading became an obsession. Aside from a business degree, Erica has taken English courses at the University of Iceland and gulped down anything that might help her in her career as an author. She takes great interest in English, but will break every single grammar rule for the sake of the voice.

Erica loves to hear from her readers. She's a friendly, easy-going (and a bit silly) person who doesn't mind talking about herself in third person.

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 and editor of the gay erotica anthologies Hard Hats and Surfer Boys.

  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.

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.

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.

Rick R. Reed
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Rick R. Reed is the author of dozens of published novels, novellas, and short stories. He is a two-time EPIC eBook Award winner (for ORIENTATION and THE BLUE MOON CAFE). His work has caught the attention of Unzipped magazine, "The Stephen King of gay horror,"; Lambda Literary, "A writer that doesn't disappoint,"; and Dark Scribe magazine, "an established brand-perhaps the most reliable contemporary author for thrillers that cross over between the gay fiction market and speculative fiction." He lives in Seattle.

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 other publishers..

AJ Rose

  It began with a Halloween themed short story assignment from his second grade teacher, and from then on, AJ Rose fell head over heels in love with writing. Even an active social life through school, learning to play the piano in a passable imitation of proficient, and a daring move to New York City from the Midwest couldn't stop him from telling tall tales about imaginary people. College experiences changed his perspective to romance and passion, and his propensity to slash favorite TV characters brought him to where he is today. But don't be surprised if the occasional ghost still pops up in his stories.

George Seaton
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  George Seaton lives in Denver with his longtime companion, David; his dog Sarah, and his horse Shy.

Riley Shane
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I am a native Californian who has spent the years since graduating high school bouncing around the world at every opportunity. I am a graduate of Vassar College where-despite often being distracted by British Literature-I received my Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. I'm an avid reader who spends much of my time engrossed in romance novels...when I'm not being shanghaied by the loud, demanding, often-crazy characters that live in my head. Right now you can find me in Northern California, but who knows where I'll be next? So long as I have my laptop and most discerning critic with me, I'm ready to travel and write from wherever the wind may take me.

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.

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.

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.

D.H. Starr
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D.H. Starr is a high energy guy with a big heart and a dirty mind. As those of you who know him can tell, he loves to have fun and lives life with a glass-half-full attitude. While there are times his day job can feel like an EDJ (Evil Day Job for those not in the know), he truly loves the work he does with middle school students, families, and teachers.

Despite the pictures and stories to the contrary, DH is actually a homebody type of guy who prefers to spend time with family, curly up with a blanket and a great book, or have dinner parties where he can cook the meals his friends love. But when he parties, he rivals the wildest of the rock stars.

While many of DH's books are erotic romance, he also writes M/M young adult stories as well. Publishing through Featherweight Press, DH brings the raw emotions of first experiences and issues young people face and lays the emotions out on the page.

Marshall Thornton
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  Marshall Thornton is an award-winning novelist, playwright and screenwriter living in Long Beach, California. He is best known for the Boystown detective series, which received an honorable mention in the 2011 Rainbow Awards. Other novels include the erotic comedy The Perils of Praline, or the Amorous Adventures of a Southern Gentleman in Hollywood, Desert Run and Full Release. Marshall has an MFA in screenwriting from UCLA, where he received the Carl David Memorial Fellowship and was recognized in the Samuel Goldwyn Writing awards. He has also had plays produced in both Chicago and Los Angeles and stories published in The James White Review and Frontier Magazine.

Lex Valentine
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  Lex Valentine is known for writing across genres from contemporary to urban fantasy. A native of Monterey County, California, Lex now lives in Orange County, California with her long haired tattooed husband, a college age daughter and bunch of cats she calls "babies." She loves loud rock music, builds her own computers, and works full-time at a cemetery as the network administrator. She also enjoys creating cover art as ARIANA Award winning Winterheart Design. Lex is a member of the PASIC, Orange County, and Fantasy, Futuristic & Paranormal chapters of Romance Writers of America.

Maggie Veness
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Maggie Veness was born in Sydney, Australia, and lives in a small harbour-side city on the sunny north coast of NSW. Coming from a Nursing and Counselling background, she began writing in 2007 and hasn't stopped. When she's not writing she's presenting writing workshops or tutoring short fiction at a local College. She also has two part-time volunteer positions and cycles at least 100 miles per week. Maggie's stories have been described as emotionally powerful, lyrical, disquieting, poignant, and thoroughly engaging. Her prize-winning fiction has been widely published around the world.

Haley Walsh
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  Haley Walsh tried acting, but decided the actor's life was not for her. She became a successful graphic designer in Los Angeles, her hometown. After fifteen years of burning money in the '80s and early '90s, she retired from the graphics industry and turned her attention toward writing novels. Under another name she became a freelance newspaper reporter, wrote articles for quirky magazines, published award-winning short stories, and writes an acclaimed series of historical mysteries. She's lived all her life in southern California with a lot of gay friends dealing with a lot of gay issues. FOXE TAIL is her first gay mystery.

Stevie Woods
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  Stevie is a Brit living in the Northwest of England and has recently been able to leave her day job behind - though it's a quandary that there still doesn't seem to be much more free time in her day!

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 a variety of novels, novellas and short stories released by other publishers.

Lance Zarimba

  Lance Zarimba is an occupational therapist working in Minneapolis, MN. His first novel, Vacation Therapy, will be out soon. He has stories in the Mayhem in the Midlands anthology, Pat Dennis' Who Died in Here? 25 mystery stories of crimes and bathrooms, Anne Fraser's Bats in the Belfry anthology, and eshort stories on Echelon Press. He is an avid book collector and enjoys all the cultural events the Twin Cities have to offer. His Therapy series, Vacation Therapy, Missing Therapy, Shock Therapy, and Family Therapy, involve an occupational therapist who solves crimes with the help but more likely the hindrances of his friends. He can be reached at LanceZarimba@yahoo.com.