Meet Our Dreamspinners...
Rhianne Aile
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Eric
Arvin ♦
Connie Bailey ♦
Alix Bekins ♦
Remmy Duchene
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Giselle Ellis
Catt Ford
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Shay Kincaid
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Marguerite Labbe
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Clare London
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Dar Mavison
Anais Morten
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Chrissy Munder
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Zahra
Owens ♦
D. G.
Parker ♦
Abigail Roux
Isabella Rowen
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John Simpson
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Sonja Spencer
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Jaxx
Steele
Fae
Sutherland ♦
Ariel Tachna
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Madeleine Urban
Rhianne Aile has an unhealthy relationship with her computer, iced tea
and chocolate.
Growing up, she split her time between Oklahoma and Chicago, making her
equally fond of horses, skyscrapers, cowboys and men in well tailored suits.
Facilitating retreats for women and authors keeps her traveling enough to stay
happy.
Dreamspinner Titles from Rhianne
Rhianne's
Website
Rhianne's Blog
Eric Arvin resides in the same
sleepy Indiana river town where he grew up. After
graduating from Hanover College with a Bachelors in
History, he has lived, for brief periods, in Italy
and Australia. He's survived brain surgery and his
own loud-mouthed personal demons. The author of The
Rest is Illusion and SubSurdity: Vignettes
from Jasper Lane, Slight Details & Random
Events is his first anthology of short stories.
Dreamspinner Titles from Eric
Eric's
Website
Eric's Blog
I was born on an Air Force base and
I’ve been in flight ever since. My father took the family with him wherever
he was stationed; Spain, Morocco, Turkey, and Alaska were among his
postings. While studying commercial arts, I married a musician who turned
out to be a pilot in disguise. Having no burning ambition of my own at the
time, I devoted myself to his dream. His job as aircraft designer and
competition pilot has taken us all over the world. I have now set foot on
almost every continent (a personal life ambition), but I don’t hold out much
hope for Antarctica anymore.
I have always loved to read. Since I was four, reading has been my favorite
diversion and books my best friends. A few years ago, with my husband’s support,
I set out to become a writer. I wrote every day and posted what I wrote at
various Internet groups and later on livejournal. I cannot recommend this school
of writing highly enough. The candid feedback I received was invaluable to my
development. I kept working at it, and one day I received the most exciting
e-mail ever. A publisher wanted to talk to me.
That’s pretty much it so far. There are a few fun facts like: my only child
is a rescued Greyhound named Lizard, I live at a small grass airfield with a
hang gliding school, I have what’s commonly referred to as a “photographic
memory”, I collect words as a hobby, and my only nickname is “The Judge”.
Dreamspinner Titles from Connie
Connie's
Website
Connie's Blog
Alix lives in the coastal mountains of Northern California
with her partner and their dog. She’s been writing for as long as she can
remember in a variety of genres, including fiction, erotica, poetry, and
nonfiction and has even managed to get some of it published from time to
time.
Sexuality is the cornerstone of her life and work and always
has been, through two degrees and several life plans. Her work and writing
focus on the themes of self-discovery and coming out, with a healthy dose of
kink on the side.
Alix is pretty sure she’s the only person in the world who
wears a plastic Viking helmet as a thinking cap when she battles Writer’s
Block. She always wins.
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Alix's Blog
Remmy Duchene is a
Canadian-hockey-watching-baseball playing kind
of guy. He loves walking in the rain and bugging his
friends about his latest story ideas. Remmy believes
that true love comes in all shapes, sizes and
sexualities. He is always saying "I'd rather see two
gay people in love get married than two straight
people that hate each other."
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Remmy
Giselle Ellis grew up on a farm thoroughly convinced
she was Laura Ingalls; she was quite displeased to
find out she was not. Giselle now lives just outside
of Minneapolis, Minnesota. She spends a great deal
of time roaming around the Twin Cities looking in
bookstores, museums and any odd spot she can find.
She also teaches, reads voraciously and obsessively
watches movies which in turn has created an enormous
font of useless knowledge of which she is quite
proud. If it were up to her, she would spend all of
her time traveling the world, writing fiction and
trying to convince Major League Baseball that
baseball should be played 365 days a year.
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Catt Ford lives in front of the
computer monitor, in another world where her
imaginary gay friends obey her every command.
She likes cats, chocolate, swing
dancing, sleeping, Monty Python, Aussie friends,
being silly, spinning other realities with words,
and sea glass. She dislikes caterpillars, cigarette
smoke and rude people who think the F-word (as in
faggot, or bundle of sticks) is acceptable.
A frustrated perfectionist, she
comforts herself with the legend about the weavers
of Persian rugs always including one mistake so as
not to anger the gods, although she has no need to
include a mistake on purpose. One always slips
through. Writing fiction has filled a need for
clever conversations, only possible when one is in
control of both sides, and erotic romances, where
everything turns out happily ever after, for the
most part.
Dreamspinner
Titles from Catt
Catt's Blog
Shay Kincaid calls
herself a dreamer; her husband and two children call her crazy, although they
are smiling when they do so.
Born and raised in
Southeast Texas, a young Shay would do anything and everything she could to
avoid reading, until her senior year in high school where her English teacher
introduced her to The Mists of Avalon. It was then she learned that there was a
huge difference between reading because she had to, and reading because she
wanted to.
Romance novels and
action-adventure stories were her genres of choice until 2001 when she
discovered ‘fan fiction’ dedicated to one of her favorite actors at the time.
After dabbling in that arena for a year or so, as both an avid reader and
writer, she was introduced to what she now calls ‘home’, also known as erotic
fiction.
Shay hasn’t looked back
since.
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Shay's
Website
Shay's Blog
Marguerite is a homoerotic author who is a shade
neurotic, has a muse with OCD tendencies, and a
husband, son, and gender-confused cat who are
all doing an excellent job at keeping her toeing
the line. Together with her co-author Fae
Sutherland, Marguerite has found a shared
passion for beautiful men with smart mouths, and
stories that often ask hard questions or bring
up taboo subjects.
When she's not working hard on writing new
material and editing completed work, she spends
her time reading novels of all genres, enjoying
roleplaying games with her equally nutty
friends, and trying to plot practical jokes
against her son and husband.
Dreamspinner
Titles from Marguerite
Marguerite's
Website
Clare took the pen name London from the city where
she lives, loves, and writes. She juggles fiction
with a frantic family life and waits for the far
distant day when she can afford to give up her day
job as an accountant. She’s written in many genres
and across many settings, with short stories
published both online and in print anthologies. Most
of her work features male/male romance and drama,
with a healthy serving of erotica, as she enjoys
both reading and writing about strong, sympathetic
and sexy characters.
Clare currently has a fantasy novel in the process
of publication, two more nearing the submission
stage and plenty of other projects in mind . . . she
just has to find out where she left them in amongst
the frantic family life.
Dreamspinner Titles from Clare
Clare's Website
Clare's Blog
Dar Mavison lives and
writes in Toronto in a household full of punks,
animals, books, musical instruments and
subversive attitudes. Sex has always been a
common, not to mention favorite writing theme,
and as a true Canadian, Dar proudly delves into
issues of identity in just about every tale. Dar
has worked in construction, copywriting, health
care, the psychic industry, mainstream
pornography, and web retailing, but always
returns to writing. First love, last love.
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Dar
Anais Morten is a
teacher of physical education and loves
mountaineering and traveling. She’s German, married
and the mother of two children. Her publishing
experiences include various contributions in gay and
queer anthologies.
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Anais
The joke in Chrissy Munder's family is that she was
born with a book in her hand. Even now, you'll never
find her without a book or seven scattered about.
Forced to become a practicing realist in an effort
to combat her tendency to dream, her many years
of travel and a diverse assortment of careers have
taken her across most of the U.S. and shown her that
there are two things you can never have enough of:
love and laughter.
Dreamspinner Titles from Chrissy
Chrissy's Website
Chrissy's Blog
Zahra Owens was born in Europe,
just before Woodstock and the moon landing, and
given a much less pronounceable name by her
non-English speaking parents. Being an Aquarian
meant she would never quite conform and people
learned to expect the unexpected.
She started writing fairy tales in
first grade; the same year she came into contact
with her first group of English speaking friends, a
group which would eventually grow to include people
from all over the world. On the outside she was a
typical only child, accustomed to being with adults
most of the time. On the inside, she sought ways to
channel her wild imagination.
Becoming an Intensive Care Nurse
only kept her interested for so long, the same was
true for being a Computer Specialist. According to
her mother, her hobby is collecting college degrees,
but it wasn't until she was in her thirties that she
realized what life was all about. By then she was
making a decent living during the day and honing her
writing craft at night. She wrote in English of
course, which was also her preferred reading
language. The final piece in the jigsaw of her
writing career was provided when she met her editor,
something she felt was essential for a non-English
speaker.
The fact that the Internet has
made the world a lot smaller, gave her access to
readers from all over the world. And she couldn't
be happier.
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Zahra's Website
Zahra's Blog
D.G. Parker
spends her days posing as a mild-mannered hospital
administrator in upstate New York. Her alter ego has
been reading and writing voraciously since childhood
and dreams of one day publishing the Great American
Novel. She's taken her pen name from the very
quotable Dorothy Parker, who reminds us all that you
can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her
think.
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D. G.
Abigail Roux is a whimsical girl who likes her
beer cold and her sex hot. A past volleyball
star and current rabid Braves fan, Abigail has a
husband, one dog, six cats, a crazyass family,
and a cast of thousands in her head. Her stories
often feature love, lust and manly men.
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Abigail's Blog
A black cat for a
witch may be a cliché, but add a whole bunch of
tribal tattoos and an intolerance to garlic
(seriously) and you have Isabelle Rowan.
Having moved to
Australia from England as a small child Isabelle now
lives in a seaside suburb of Melbourne where she
teaches film making and English. She is a movie
addict who spends far too much money on traveling…
but then again, life is to be lived.
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Isabelle's Blog
John Simpson, a
Vietnam era Veteran, has been a uniformed Police
Officer of the year, a Federal Agent, a Federal
Magistrate, an armed bodyguard to royalty and a
senior Government executive, with awards from the
Vice-President of the United States and the
Secretary of the Treasury. John now writes and is
the author of “Murder Most Gay,” a full length
novel, with a sequel entitled “Midnight Shift,” both
coming out through Dreamspinner Press, and numerous
short stories for Alyson Books. Additionally, he
has written articles for various gay and straight
magazines. John lives with his partner of 35 years
and three wonderful Scott Terriers all spoiled and a
breed of canine family member that is unique in
dogdom. John is also involved with the Old Catholic
Church and its liberal pastoral positions on the Gay
community.
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John's
Website
Sonja Spencer has always enjoyed writing as an
escape from her professional life. She spends what
spare time she has with her family and friends; and
she loves long walks on the beach, jumping in
puddles and cuddling puppies. She aspires to be an
entertaining writer and a gourmet chef.
Email Sonja
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Sonja
Jaxx Steele was born and raised in Brooklyn, New
York, but is hiding out in Indiana to stay out of
trouble. Reading and writing were his first loves
and continue to be first in his heart. He spends his
time working a nine to five and travelling when he
can. With room in his heart for Hou and their cat
Judo, Jaxx has a full and happy life.
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Jaxx's
Website
Jaxx's Blog
Jaxx's Myspace
Fae Sutherland has always dreamed of being a
published author, starting her writing career
off at age 11 with a horrific "Monkees" fan
fiction that will, luckily for all, never see
the light of day. At age 33, she has since
progressed to more serious writing, though
always keeping that dash of irreverence and fun.
Fae tells the stories that the muses give
her, and though she is multi-published both solo
and joint, she truly does prefer writing with
her co-author Marguerite Labbe best. When she's
not working hard on writing new stories to make
her readers sweat or slaving over edits for
completed work, she spends her time on website
and graphic design, being with her closest
friends and playing The Sims 2 until the wee
hours of the morning.
She currently resides in
Washington DC where there is never a shortage of
interesting characters to draw inspiration from.
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Fae
Fae's Website
Ariel Tachna lives in
southwestern Ohio with her husband, her daughter and
son, and their cat. A native of the region, she has
nonetheless lived all over the world, having fallen
in love with both France, where she found her career
and her husband, and India, where she dreams of
retiring some day. She started writing when she was
12 and hasn't looked back since. A connoisseur of
wine and horses, she's as comfortable on a farm as
she is in the big cities of the world.
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Ariel's Website
Ariel's Blog
Madeleine
Urban is a down-home Kentucky girl who's been
writing since she could hold a crayon. A longtime
science fiction and fantasy fan, she loves to mix
those genres with romance to get explosive,
satisfying results. She lives with a partner and two canine kids, visits Disney World twice a
year, and still believes dreams can come true.
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Madeleine's Blog
