ABOUT THE AUTHORS

BARRY ALEXANDER’s fiction has appeared in several magazines and in anthologies including Best of Friction, Best Gay Erotica 2002, Saints and Sinners, and all of David MacMillan’s anthologies: Casting Couch Confessions, Freshman Club, Rent Boys, Skin Flicks 2, Divine Meat, and Lovers Who Stay with You. Alexander lives in Iowa, the tall porn state.

 

MICHAEL BRACKEN, a Derringer Award-winning mystery writer, is the author of eleven books, including All White Girls and Yesterday in Blood and Bone, and more than one thousand shorter works that have appeared in literary, small press, and commercial publications worldwide. Bracken is also the editor of eight published or forthcoming crime fiction anthologies.

 

KAL COBALT was born and raised in a small Oregon town where the diner across the street from the railroad depot was always open. See more work in Hot Gay Erotica, Best Fantastic Erotica, Distant Horizons and at www.kalcobalt.com.

 

LARRY DUPLECHAN is the author of five gay-themed novels, including Blackbird and the Lambda Literary Award–winning Got ’Til It’s Gone. He lives in Woodland Hills (a suburb of Los Angeles) with his lawfully wedded husband and their Chartreux cat, Mr. Blue.

 

ERASTES lives in the UK and was a punk in London in 1977, but will only admit to being too young to remember. His gay short stories have been published in collections as varied as Ultimate Gay Erotica, Treasure Trail and Superqueeroes. His first novel, Standish, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. www.erastes.com.

 

JACK FRITSCHER (JackFritscher.com) is founding San Francisco editor of Drummer magazine, where he first introduced the concept of daddies in a 1978 feature, “In Praise of Older Men,” leading to special issues titled Daddies. Eighteen books include the award-winning Gay San Francisco; Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982; and his bio of his lover, Robert Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera.

 

GEOFFREY KNIGHT (geoffreyknight.blogspot.com) is the author of the hit gay adventure series Fathom’s Five, which includes The Cross of Sins, The Riddle of the Sands and The Curse of the Dragon God. Geoffrey is a lover of handsome heroes, evil villains and tall tales. He lives in Sydney.

 

TOM MENDICINO spent six raucous years eking out a living in the sales departments of several New York publishing houses before attending the University of North Carolina law school. Since 1994, he has practiced as a health-care lawyer; his debut novel, Probation, was published in 2010.

 

JEFF MANN has published two books of poetry, Bones Washed with Wine and On the Tongue; a collection of memoir and poetry, Loving Mountains, Loving Men; a book of essays, Edge and a volume of short fiction, A History of Barbed Wire, winner of a Lambda Literary Award.

 

DOUGLAS A. MARTIN is the author of two novels (Branwell, Outline of My Lover), a volume of short stories (They Change the Subject), and two collections of poetry. He is also a coauthor of the haiku year.

 

F. A. POLLARD’s stories have appeared in The Ultimate Zombie, Chilled to the Bone and The Year’s Best Horror Stories: XXII. Current projects include a speculative-fiction novel entitled Shattered Mirrors.

 

DOMINIC SANTI (dominicsanti@yahoo.com) is a former technical editor turned rogue whose stories have appeared in many dozens of publications, including Hot Daddies, Country Boys, Uniforms Unzipped, Caught Looking, Kink and several volumes of Best Gay Erotica. Future plans include more dirty short stories and an even dirtier historical novel.

 

SIMON SHEPPARD is the editor of Homosex: Sixty Years of Gay Erotica, and the author of In Deep: Erotic Stories; Kinkorama : Dispatches From the Front Lines of Perversion; Sex Parties 101 and the award-winning Hotter Than Hell and Other Stories. His work has appeared in about two hundred and fifty anthologies, including many editions of The Best American Erotica and many, many volumes of Best Gay Erotica. He writes the syndicated column “Sex Talk” and hangs out at www.simonsheppard.com.

 

J. M. SNYDER (jms-books.com) writes gay erotic/romantic fiction and has worked with many different publishers over the years. Snyder’s short stories have appeared in anthologies by Alyson Books and Cleis Press. In 2010, Snyder founded JMS Books LLC, a queer small press, which publishes GLBT fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

 

KARL TAGGART abhors the current based-on-a-true-story trend in fiction but admits that some of his country encounter actually happened and leaves it to the reader to decide which part. Karl has been writing erotica for a number of years for both magazines and anthologies while working a day job at an insurance company. They have no idea a porn writer lurks in their midst. Karl loves his motorcycle almost as much as his men and is thrilled when he can combine the two.

 

DAVEM VERNE’s stories have appeared in numerous anthologies including Best Gay Erotica 2005, Frat Sex, Latin Boys, Dorm Porn, Travelrotica, and Inside Him.

 

XAN WEST is the pseudonym of a New York BDSM and sex educator and writer. Xan’s work can be found in Best SM Erotica 2, Got a Minute ?, Love at First Sting, Leathermen, Best Gay Erotica 2009, and Backdraft: Fireman Erotica. He has a particular love for canes, biting, public sex, and good boys. Xan wants to hear from you, and can be reached at xan_west@yahoo.com.