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Current Administrators:
Erastes: Director and site Webmaster.
James Buchanan: Awards administrator, discussion forum moderator, and Webmaster of MySpace page.
Jolie du Pré: News blog moderator.
Past Administrators and Founders:
Former Administrators: Marilyn Jaye Lewis (founder) | Dusk Peterson | Alexander Renault | Rob Stephenson | Thomas S. Roche.
Founding Board of Advisors: Adrienne Benedicks | Christine Cassidy | Jack Fritscher | Maxim Jakubowski | Michael Perkins.
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Erastes lives in Norfolk, and when he can be dragged kicking and screaming away from his computer, he enjoys walks by the Broads, classical music, cats and cheese. Trial and error has revealed that only one of those are any good on toast.
He likes his men like his fiction, dark, with a hint of danger, romantic and intelligent without being too wordy. He believes in the GDM and has an iguana called Neville.
He has had many short stories published by Alyson Press, Cleis, Starbooks, Haworth to name a few. Although Erastes loves writing short stories, his true love is homosexual historical fiction and his first novel "Standish" (gay regency) was published November 2006.
He is also moderator of erotic_writers, the LJ presence of EAA on Livejournal
James Buchanan is a multi-published author of homoerotic romance. James grew up in a small Southwestern town, hours away from any other small Southwestern towns. A stint at the State University, where he ostensibly majored in English, garnered him a degree useful for being someone's secretary. The absolute lack of employment opportunities led James to Southern California. After a stint in County Mental Health (administration, not client) he ran screaming into the field of Law. James has been practicing for nine years and someday he might even get it right.
Jolie du Pré is a writer of lesbian erotica and lesbian erotic romance. Her stories have appeared on the Net, in e-book and in print. Jolie is the editor of Iridescence: Sensuous Shades of Lesbian Erotica, published by Alyson Books, and is the founder of GLBT Promo a promotional group for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender erotica and erotic romance.
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Marilyn's short stories and novellas have been widely anthologized in the United States and Europe. She is the founder and former director of the Erotic Authors Association, the first American organization to honor literary excellence in the erotic genre.
She is the author of the critically acclaimed modern erotic fiction classic, Neptune & Surf. Called "a sensational debut" by The Guardian newspaper in London, Neptune & Surf was also selected as one of their Top Ten Summer Reads for 1999. Hailed by The American Book Review as "reminiscent of Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon A Time in America'" Neptune & Surf won Ms. Lewis London's Erotic Writer of the Year award for 2001.
She is co-editor of the international top-selling art book, The Mammoth Book of Erotic Photography. Her erotic fiction has won many citations and awards, including the New Century Writer Awards and finalist in the William Faulkner Writing Competition.
In the late '90s, as president of Marilyn's Room, Inc., Marilyn was executive producer on numerous spoken word recordings for fiction authors and poets, and she sponsored and/or produced live video and audio web casts of spoken word performances in conjunction with Broadcast.com and Pseudo.com. As web mistress, her erotic multi-media sites have won numerous awards, in particular inclusion in Playboy's Online Hall of Fame for her groundbreaking erotic fiction web site Other-Rooms.com in 1997.
She has been interviewed on syndicated radio, Internet radio, cable television, and Canadian syndicated television. As head writer for RomAntics Inc.,her work was highlighted on HBO, won an AVN award for Best Adult CD ROM game of 1998, and received critical recognition in Entertainment Weekly, the popular American entertainment magazine.
Lust, the collected works of her short erotic fiction from 1994 to 2003, was published by Alyson Books in October 2004.
Her erotic romance novels include When Hearts Collide, In the Secret Hours, and When the Night Stood Still. She is the editor of a number of erotic short story anthologies including Stirring Up A Storm (Thunder's Mouth Press 2005). Upcoming novels include Twilight of the Immortal, A Killing on Mercy Road, and Freak Parade.
Dusk Peterson writes mainstream fantasy stories, homoerotic historical fantasy tales, and contemporary gay leather fiction. Peterson's nonfiction includes information on the history of – and current debates on – friendship, romantic friendship, romance, and sexuality, as well as resources on GLBT history and leather history. Dusk Peterson, who was a runner-up in 2006 for the Rauxa Prize for Erotic Writing, is also editor of an e-zine of gay fiction and nonfiction, True Tales: An Erotic E-Zine of Masculinity and Power. The e-zine's contributors include Felice Picano and the late John Preston.
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Alexander Renault's work was published online and in several anthologies, from pet magazines to feminist newspapers, on philosophical issues from freedom of speech to the intersections of religion and sex, on human subjects from survivors of the Holocaust to popular music's rock goddesses. His journalism was published in the United States, the United Kingdom, and South Africa. He was the editor of Walking Higher: Gay Men Write about the Deaths of their Mothers. He worked in the mental health field for 15 years. Mr. Renault lived in Savannah with his two Boston terriers, Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi. He was a contributor to Fusion, Savannah's magazine serving the gay community.
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Rob is an artist who writes, composes music, and makes visual art. He received a B.A. in Experimental and Interdisciplinary Art from San Francisco State University 1985 as well as an M.F.A. in Electronic Media from the Center for Contemporary Music in Oakland, CA 1990.
Rob Stephenson's writing has been published in the Blithe House Quarterly (online), Dangerous Families edited by Matt Sycamore Bernstein for Haworth Press, Black Sheets magazine, and Fish Drum magazine. He makes and distributes his own chapbooks, including "Three of Them," "Angel," "Some Notes on Art and Architecture," "To an End," "Signals de Sade," and "Paris Over Paris." With Bill Brent of Black Books, he edited the groundbreaking anthology "Tough Guys" (a finalist for the Firecracker Award for Alternative Fiction).
Much of his sex writing appears under the name TruDeviant, in places like Best Bisexual Erotica 1 and 2 (Black Books; the latter a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award), in Italian translation in Sex Toys: 20 storie di giocattoli per adulti (Mondadori; Milan), and the SandMUtopian Guardian. Issue #5 of BUTT magazine (the lovely pink one from Amsterdam!) featured an interview with Rob on his erotic writing and an excerpt from an unpublished novel. His work has also appeared in anthologies by Alyson, Cleis, Haworth, and Starbooks.
Thomas's more than 200 published short stories have appeared in a wide variety of websites, magazines and anthologies including Susie Bright's Best American Erotica series, Maxim Jakubowski's Mammoth Book of Erotica and Best New Erotica series, and Violet Blue's Sweet Life series. The editor of the Noirotica series of erotic crime-noir anthologies, Roche is also a sex educator with San Francisco Sex Information and the customer service manager at Great Pleasures.
ERWA website consists of six sections, including book reviews and recommendations, author resources and market opportunities, 5 galleries of original erotic fiction and poetry, adult video recommendations, sex toy information, and current sexuality issues.
Regular contributors include Marilyn Jaye Lewis, M. Christian, Anne Semans, William Dean, Rachel Kramer Bussel, and a host of others.
A graduate of Florida State University with a degree in anthropology, Adrienne has three children currently in college and lives with her husband in Florida.
His writing and photographs, internationally published and internationally censored, have been championed by British arts critic Edward Lucie-Smith, in the books, Ars Erotica (1997), Adam: The Male Figure in Art, (Rizzoli, 1998), and in the British Index on Censorship (1997 & 1999). After writing the controversial 1994 erotic bio-memoir of his relationship with the federally censored Robert Mapplethorpe, Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera (aka Mapplethorpe: El fotographo del escandelo, 1995 Barcelona), Fritscher also wrote the "Mapplethorpe" entry for Censorship: A World Encyclopedia (2002).
With his dissertation on eros and thanatos, Love and Death in Tennessee Williams, he received a doctorate in American literature and criticism from Loyola University, Chicago, 1968, and has continued his eros-themed Williams' scholarship with Modern Drama magazine as well as the New York Art Theater, Playbill (in Manhattan, September 11, 2001). From 1968-1975, as tenured associate professor, he taught creative writing, American literature, and film criticism and history; and at art centers and on the university lecture circuit with Bella Abzug and Adele Davis, he represented the underground erotic cinema of Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, Maya Deren, and the Kuchar Brothers, while shooting and screening his own erotic films which, evolving into Palm Drive Video, have played at pop-culture venues ranging from clubs and bars to the 9th Annual Olympia Film Festival, Washington, 1992, and the Maison Europeene de la Photographie, Paris, 1995.
In 1971, his nonfiction book Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witch's Mouth, pioneeredalong with a distinguished interview with Anton LaVey, High Priest of the Church of Satanthe first mention of "the eros of gay wicca." With a 1972 government grant, he resurrected the writing of erotic literary legend Sam Steward (Phil Andros), intimate of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Thornton Wilder, and James Purdy, for whose novel Narrow Rooms Jack Fritscher shot the cover photograph (1995 British edition).
He is also the founding San Francisco editor of Drummer magazine. Over 25 years, he has been Drummer's most frequent contributor with more than 125 fiction and feature pieces, as well as 400 photographs, including covers and centerfolds in 60 issues. In 1984, the Bay Area Reporter wrote: "Jack Fritscher invented the South of Market prose style and its magazines."
Magazine culture has been his prime erotic medium for market-testing readers' reflexive tastes in fiction for anthologies and novels. After Drummer, he created both Man2Man magazine (1980) and the San Francisco tabloid, The California Action Guide (1982), and aided John W. Rowberry in the creation of the magazines Skin, Skinflicks, Inches, and Just Men. His erotic journalism published in Drummer, including a back-story memoir of creating the legendary Drummer, will appear in his forthcoming book, Eyewitness Drummer: A Memoir of the Gay History, Pop Culture, and Literary Roots of the Best of Drummer Magazine.
His erotic writingstrong on dialog, character development, and narrative archas appeared in 30-some magazines, both straight (Larry Flynt) and gay (Checkmate, Dungeon-Master, Bear, Bear Annual, Powerplay, In Touch, James White Review), as well as in many pedigreed anthologies: Gay Roots (Winston Leyland); Best American Erotica (Susie Bright); Best Gay Erotica series (Richard LaBonte); The Burning Pen: Sex Writers on Sex Writing (M. Christian); Chasing Danny Boy: Powerful Stories of Celtic Eros (with Neil Jordan, author, The Crying Game); Tales of the Bear Cult (Mark Hemry); and the Friction series (Alyson).
His on-going erotic history of gay popular culture appears in The Leather Man's Handbook (Larry Townsend); Leatherfolk (Mark Thompson); Bears on Bears (Ron Suresha); Bear Book II (Les Wright). He has recorded oral history interviews, and written features, on many erotic personalities including, besides Robert Mapplethorpe: Tennessee Williams, photographer/painter George Dureau, photographer Joel-Peter Witkin, director Wakefield Poole, Sam Steward/Phil Andros, Georgina Spelvin (star of The Devil in Miss Jones), Peter Berlin, Robert Opel, Camille O'Grady, David Hurles (Old Reliable Studio), Bob Mizer (AMG Studios, Physique Pictorial), Lou Thomas (Target Studio), and director J. Brian (Seven in a Barn) for whom he wrote the screenplay and novelization of the 1981 film, J. Brian's Flashbacks, serialized in Honcho.
His earliest erotic novel is Leather Blues (written 1968, published 1972). His collection of 69 erotic stories is in four books: Corporal in Charge of Taking Care of Captain O'Malley, Stand by Your Man, Rainbow County and Other Stories, and Titanic: Forbidden Stories Hollywood Forgot. This series won the 1999 Small Press Book Award for best erotica in the U. S. from a field of straight, gay, and lesbian fiction and nonfiction. The newest edition of his fiction, collected and introduced by Jesse Grant, is Jacked: The Best of Jack Fritscher (Alyson, summer 2002).
His other erotic-themed novels are, The Geography of Women: A Romantic Comedy (aka in the Greek edition, Geographia Gynaikon, Athens, 1999), and What They Did to the Kid: Confessions of an Altar Boy (2001), winner of several 2002 Book Expo America awards including: "Story Teller of the Year," "Top 10 Books of the Year," as well as "Finalist, Best Fiction," ForeWord Magazine awards, and on network CNN: "Top 100 You Are Reading."
His mammoth signature novel is Some Dance to Remember (completed 1982, published 1990). The Advocate called Some Dance "the gay Gone with the Wind." Michael Bronski termed Some Dance an "epic" narrative-telling of the gay renaissance in San Francisco, 1970-1982. The coffee-table book of his X-rated photographs, with an introduction by Edward Lucie-Smith, Jack Fritscher's American Men, was published by GMP Press, London, 1994. His books have sold more than 110,000 copies, and his erotic videos, more than 250,000 copies.
For television, he has appeared on Oprah, as well as with Camille Paglia in Priapus Unveiled (BBC-Channel 4); and was a producer with Gay Rosenthal Productions, Los Angeles, for "Robert Opel: The Man Who Streaked the Oscars," featuring Mark Thompson and Durk Dehner, Tom of Finland Foundation, on the network TNN series: Fame for 15 (2001). Two of his videos, including Dureau in Studio, produced by Mark Hemry, profiling the erotic painter-photographer, George Dureau, New Orleans, are in the permanent collection of the Maison Europeene de la Photographie, Paris. With Mark Hemry, he shot on location in Amsterdam, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, and West Berlin (June-July 1989, the last summer of West Berlin) the severely erotic six video series Bound for Europe for director Roger Earl and producer Terry LeGrand, Marathon Studios. He has written, directed, and photographed more than 150 erotic video features and documentaries for www.PalmDriveVideo.com.
Michael Perkins is recognized as the world's leading expert on modern erotic literature. His weekly book reviews in Screw have been influential in establishing erotic writing as a valid literary genre. Many were collected in The Good Parts (Richard Kasak Books, 1994). His groundbreaking critical survey, The Secret Record: Modern Erotic Literature, first published by William Morrow in 1976, is available in paperback from Rhinoceros. As a writer/editor he has been associated with all the leading erotic publishers: Maurice Girodias, Barney Rossett, Al Goldstein, Richard Kasak. He is the editor of several anthologies of erotic writing, including Coming Up: The World's Best Erotic Writing (1996). His work appears in The Mammoth Book of Erotica and The Mammoth Book of International Erotica, as well as in The Nation, Paper, American Book Review, Gauntlet, Mother Jones, High Times, The Notre Dame Review, Spectator, and Masquerade Erotic Journal.
Winner of London's Erotic Oscar for Writer of the Year 2002, he has lectured on erotic writing at San Francisco's Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, William and Mary College, and at various universities in the State University of New York system. In 1998, he participated in a six-part BBC TV documentary on the history of sexuality in the 20th Century. He is a member of The Authors Guild, The National Book Critics Circle, Potes & Writers, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Museum of Sex in New York.
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Robert W. Birch.
Greg Black.
Linda Braun.
Bill Brent.
Rachel Kramer Bussel.
Patrick Califia.
Christine Cassidy.
M. Christian.
Wayne Courtois.
William S. Dean.
Roy Edroso.
Robert Fleming.
Jack Fritscher.
Sam Garcia.
Jamie Joy Gatto.
Danny Gruber.
Cris Guitierrez.
Michael Hemmingson.
Debra Hyde.
Susannah Indigo.
Maxim Jakubowski.
Rebecca Jung.
Michele Larue.
Addison Long.
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