Rough Trade

CHRISTOPHER PIERCE is the author of the novel Rogue: Slave, published by StarBooks Press. His erotic fiction has been published in more than twenty-five anthologies, including Ultimate Gay Erotica 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. He co-edited the Fetish Chest Trilogy of anthologies with Rachel Kramer Bussel for Alyson Publications and edited Men on the Edge: Dangerous Gay Erotica for StarBooks. The second book in the Rogue Sequence is forthcoming. Visit Chris at http://www.christopherpierceerotica.com.

NEIL PLAKCY is the author of Mahu, Mahu Surfer, Mahu Fire, and Mahu Vice (August 2009), mystery novels set in Hawaii, and was the editor of Paws and Reflect: A Special Bond Between Man and Dog and Hard Hats: Gay Erotic Stories. More info at ww.mahubooks.com

NIC P. RAMSIES is an East Coast native with a passion for tiaras and ball gowns. He is a recovering Catholic. The second oldest in a family of six, Nic was the first boy in his small rural Pe

MAX REYNOLDS is the pseudonym of a well-known East Coast journalist and academic who teaches by day and just loves to write porn by night. Reynolds’s work has been widely published in magazines and anthologies, including Men of Mystery, His Underwear, FRATSEX, and Dangerous Liaisons. Reynolds’s erotic novel Touches of Evil will be published next year.

From Vancouver, Canada, JAY STARRE has written for numerous gay men’s magazines including Men,Torso, and Mandate. His stories have been included in over forty gay anthologies including Full Body Contact Kink, View to A Thrill, His Underwear, and Wired Hard 3. His short story “The Four Doors” was nominated for a 2003 Spectrum Award. His gay novel The Erotic Tales of the Knight Templars came out in the fall of 2007.

CAGE THUNDER is a professional wrestler for BGEast, the premier gay-interest wrestling video company in the world (www.BGEast.com). He has several wrestling-themed erotica stories in upcoming anthologies, is working on a novel, Going Down for the Count, and is also putting together of erotic wrestling stories written by gay wrestlers, called Learning the Ropes.

AARON TRAVIS is the pen name of novelist Steven Saylor. His first erotic story appeared in 1979 in Drummer magazine. Over the next fifteen years he wrote dozens of short stories, the serialized novel Slaves of the Empire, and hundreds of book and video reviews for magazines including, First Hand, Manscape, Hombres, Advocate Men, Mandate, Blueboy, Studflix, and Stroke. His stories have also been translated into Dutch, German, and Japanese. In 2003, his story “The Hit” was voted their all-time favorite by readers of Susie Bright’s Best American Erotica anthology series. Visit him at www.stevensaylor.com/AaronTravis.

GREG WHARTON is the author of Joh