If I don’t get an erection when I’m doing a drawing, I know it’s no good.
- Tom of Finland

I’ve been writing stories to give myself a boner since I was fourteen.  Not until I was twenty-two did I begin to get serious about what I was doing.  I submitted my first story to the Nifty Erotic Stories Archive on September 16th, 2001 (strange week, that was).

Since then I’ve had stories published in a bunch of gay porno publications:  from FirstHand to Mandate/Torso to Handjobs and Men/Freshmen (R.I.P. all except Handjobs).  I’ve had stories on the websites Clean Sheets and Velvet Mafia.  And I’ve gotten stories into a some anthologies, too, including Best Gay

Erotica and Best Gay Romance (see the sidebar on my erotic stories page for a closer look at my anthology credits).

In 2007, I found out that my first published piece of Nifty erotica was used (without my knowledge) to contribute dialogue to the 2006 Titan Media film Lifeguard: The Men of Deep Water Beach, directed by Joe Gage (as of this writing, the single most mind-blowing thing that has ever happened to me).  I went on to co-write the script for Joe Gage’s 2009 film Dad Takes a Fishing Trip.

Around 2007 I got an idea for a book, and I spent the next two years working on it, on and off.  I finished it in September of 2009 and it’s going to be published in the next year or so by Queer Mojo/Rebel Satori Press.  It’s called Backwoods, and it’s less of a novel than a collection of erotica set in a rural Pennsylvania town, sort of a porno version of Winesburg, Ohio. Thanks to an incredible cadre of supporters I was able to raise money to include illustrations, by one of my favorite erotic artists, Michael Kirwan, in the finished volume.

All of these projects have been a blast, but in the end I always come back to the Nifty Archive and this website.  As long as I’m interested in writing erotica, I feel I’ll be invested in both of these outlets.  What they don’t offer in monetary benefits is made up for with an enthusiastic, responsive readership and a non-judgemental, democratic, anything-goes nature.

They help to remind me that I started writing for one reason only: to give myself a boner.  And though I enjoy trying different things and taking my writing to different areas, there’s a lot to be said for writing purely for one’s own enjoyment.  I like what I write.  Maybe you like it too.