In two very different areas of my life—writing and having a child—I got a late start. For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to be a writer and even though I knew I was gay, I always thought I’d be a dad some day. Both dreams took decades to become a reality, each for different reasons. I started writing in college. My school allowed for independent study programs, but it require a bit of leg work. The student had to come up with the program, find an adviser, convince them you were serious and that your project had merit if you wanted credit for your dream class.  I managed to do this for a creative writing class.  I …

Things have changed a bit for me since my book got published. For one thing, I need to be more careful of what I say on line. Take Dan Caty, President of Chik-fil-A whose anti-gay statements earned him a boycott by my family. Had Mr. Caty kept his views to himself, he would still be the same anti-gay marriage person he is, but he wouldn’t be pillared by so many LGBT people and their supporters.  Lessons learned:  1) What people don’t know they can’t hold against you; and 2) if you’re selling something, be as Switzerland like as you can in your on-line life. Thank you Dan Caty. What brought this up were two distinct events.  The first is a review …

Yesterday’s blog resulted in some good advice on how important sex scenes are to the story.  But I’m hoping for a few more opinions before I out this to rest. Maybe my opinion would help people to way in. For me, I think it’s best to get the characters excited and aroused, but not – as one person said – give a blow by blow, lick by lick accounting of their bedroom gymnastics.  I prefer to get them to the point of sex, then fade out. I have several reasons for preferring this approach. The first is I don’t anyone who reads my books to think that is how I prefer to have sex. I know it’s stupid, but when …

I while back I wrote a short story for the Gay Author’s Summer 2011 Anthology.  The title was Archangel. The short story can be found here: Archangel I’ve always wanted to go back and create a bigger, fuller story using this as template.  There is a lot to the story arch I did not delve into with the short story and I won’t give that out in public – folks are going to have to buy the book to find out. 😛  But if you’ve read the story or will read it and care to help out, here are a some questions I have that I’d like to hear from readers and/or other authors. You can email any comments or …

After several months of waiting, editing, reviewing, tweaking, rereading and the like. (Un)Masked is finally published. If you’re interested, here is where you can buy it. It’s available in print, or eBook in all the formats. Here’s the link again:   http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=3151   Thanks to everyone at Dreamspinner Press, they were really amazing to work with. Hope everyone who buys the book enjoys it. Anyta and I had fun writing it – cliche? perhaps, but it is still true. It will always be a great memory for me the time I spent working with her on this.        

The big day is almost here. The day our first book gets published.  It might be a bit bigger deal for me than Anyta since she has ePublished a number of books herself so she’s already seen her work in ‘print’ and offered for sale. Me – first time. Here’s a link to the release notice: (Un)Masked Release Date That’s for the eBook, they are doing a paper release as well. To the millions  . . . . and millions [okay so I’m not the Rock, but it sounds good] of fans who are looking to buy the book – paper or eBook – would go to the publisher’s site to buy it, that would put a little more change …

Last week I signed the contract to have my second book – Chosen Of Honorus published.  Dreamspinner Press purchased it and we have a tentative date of early 2013.  Chosen is the first in a series – not sure how many books it will be, depends on the length of each but I envision at least four probably six or seven. Now that I know it is going to get published, I’m working on cleaning up book two so there isn’t too long of a break between books.   More details to follow when they become available.   Andy

Another step closer to our book being published. Anyta commissioned this from a friend of hers, cover artist Caroline Wimmer. The publisher Dreamspinner Press has approved the cover so we can share it with the world.

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The first post should belong to me, so here goes.  

I’ve been meaning to start a site to promote my writing, but there never seems to be time; so I made some. Anyta Sunday and I co-wrote a story that is scheduled to be published in August/September by Dreamspinner Press