Tag: gay author
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Part of the backstory of both The Medway Wolf and Ghosts of Oaklight Hall is an alternate timeline featuring a recent war between the United States and the British Empire. That doesn’t mean I’m anti-American: I most definitely am not. I wanted my main character in The Medway Wolf to be someone recovering from the…
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No Coming Out Story to Tell In some ways, I have no coming out story since it was never really an issue for me. And I think that had a significant influence on what I want to write and how I approach writing gay characters. I always knew I was different, even before I learned…
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Probably the most unexpected influence on the writing of The Medway Wolf is Stephen Tennant — or, more properly, the Honourable Stephen Tennant — a minor and generally useless aristo who died in 1987. I have no love of the British aristocracy, but I developed a fascination for the character after reading the fascinating biography…
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What writer doesn’t like to read as well? As a child I feasted on fairytale stories subconsciously altering the heroines into other boys like me. In my head I was the handsome prince rescuing another prince from the clutches of the evil queen or slaying dragons so that we could be together. As I grew…