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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
YUou're welcome, and nice to see you here.
I looked at your web sites, and it led to some trips back through memory lane. I remember Greenleaf Classics, for instance.
I also chuckled at "One Handed Reads" as a as a category for a book line. An old friend used to do copy editing for the Penthouse Letters publications. Typesetters are trained to hook the eyes in parallel with the fingers and take the brain out of the loop. They don't actually read what they are setting. He could tell when the topic of a particular letter hooked into a typesetter's fantasy and they actually started reading the copy, as the galleys suddenly became riddled with typographical errors. I just said "That's what happens when you try to typeset one-handed". Nice to see it applied to the final works as well.
Who is publishing you these days? The market for print erotica seems to have been killed off by the internet, and most of what I know of is small press stuff. A friend was an editor at a major publisher, and was talking to her boss about the void. "Well, yes", he said. "There's a market there that isn't being served." Someone else commented "You mean there's a market that isn't being serviced." to general laughter.
But it's still a true observation. The last outfit I recall doing it was Masquerade Press (who reprinted some of John Norman's Gor series, to my amusement). The folks I know of now are basically small presses.
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Dennis
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Dennis!
Sorry if this turns out to be a duplicate of something just "sent", in that I'm not sure it was really "sent" at all. The long message I just typed out seems to have disappeared into CyberSpace (something that's always happening to me). Anyway, if this turns out to be a duplicate, my apologies. Rather you receive two than miss out entirely in thanking you for the check-in.
Ahhhhhhh, the Greenleaf Classic days. It's hard for me to imagine that I actually put out one or two of those a month for close to five years. I've certainly slowed down a pace to be sure.
As for the one-hand read section (my having acquired and received the registered trademark for "one-hand read(R)" , by the way), I'm glad that I've been able to make my little contribution to that particular genre.
As to what I've been up to, in the world of male erotica, I've actually been pumping (no pun intended), them out quite regularly over the years. I did several of them, under various pseudos for Brit publisher Millivres/Prowler (which has since folded its erotica hard-print lines). Then, I moved on to GREEN CANDY PRESS (for whom I did THAI DIED and SLOVAKIAN BOY, both still available at books stores everywhere). I've since moved on to MRL Press with DIARY OF A HUSTLER, GOLDSANDS, LOVE HURTS (yes, that is I as cover boy in gas mask and all bound up in "whatever"), and a new book ARDENNIAN BOY about the French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine (which is due out within the next couple of months). None of which, unfortunately, are noted on my regular web-site, because I've been derelict in keeping the site up-to-date (something I hope to rectify soon, with inclusion even of my ebook offerings). My more recent stuff (male erotica and othewise) seems to be better represented at my
http://www.myspace.com/williammaltse site.
Surprisingly enough, the male erotica area of publishing has recently seen an influx of women writers and readers (Go figure!) and is found nowadays under the genre term m/m fiction. And, eventually, up the line, I've just been informed, MLR Press will be doing theirs in ebook format; I've been asked and approved of their issuing mine for them in the ebook format, when the big moment occurs.
And, of course, while my publisher Borgo Press (kind of a subsidiary of amazon.com's publishing wing), has been publishing a lot of my original mainstream fiction, there have been crossover books in that area (many of them ebooks), including THE FAG IS NOT FOR BURNING, THE GOMORRHA CONJURATIONS, and ANAL COUSINS: CASE STUDIES IN VARIANT SEXUAL PRACTICES, with characters who are outright gay or wondrously bisexual.
Likewise, within the very next few weeks, Borgo is scheduled to re-release a lot of my m/m work (in print format and in ebook format) the books I did originally for Millivres/Prowler, including A SLIP TO DIE FOR, SUMMER SWEAT, CALIFORNIA CREAMIN', YOUNG CRUISERS, SLAVES)...
So, the male/male erotica is still "out there", even today, if you know where to look for it, even if not mass-distributed by the one-time giants like Greenleaf Classic used to be.
Anyway, seems I'm turning this into a novel, and I merely wanted to check in and say thanks for your check-in.
In summation -- thanks!
William