ABOUT THE EDITOR

RICHARD LABONTÉ has edited the Best Gay Erotica series since 1997. He writes the occasional newsletter, Books To Watch Out For, and the fortnightly book review column, “Book Marks,” distributed by Q Syndicate. With Lawrence Schimel, he is co-editor of The Future is Queer and First Person Queer, for Arsenal Pulp Press. He has edited Hot Gay Erotica, Country Boys, Best Gay Bondage, Boys in Heat, and Where the Boys Are for Cleis Press, where he is also an editor at large. He lives on Bowen Island, British Columbia, sixty seconds from the Pacific Ocean, and on a farm in rural eastern Ontario, surrounded by two hundred acres of hay fields.