I have two bits of exciting news today.
The first is that I have a story, “Rough Sports”, in a new e-book anthology called Tight Ends from Ravenous Romance.
Do not let the fact that this is a romance anthology from a romance company dissuade you: this is honestly the filthiest, raunchiest story I have written to date. Raunchy enough, in fact, that my partner Evan doesn’t even like the story.
If you doubt me, this is how the story begins:
When Daniel said that he was going to shove my face into a urinal, I didn’t believe him.
It’s Sunday evening and my forehead is pressed hard against the cold porcelain of a urinal in an abandoned locker room. My body is bent at the hip. My chin is submerged in the shallow water, floating above the worn pink urinal cake. Daniel’s body is pressed against mine, his breathe is warm in my ear.
“Is this what you wanted?” he asks.
He slides a hand along my back and lets it dip into the back of shorts, beneath my underwear. As his hand spreads over my ass cheeks, a finger slips down into my crack until he finds my hole. My ass is already sweaty from excitement, and he rubs my hole in a soft circular motion. I can’t help but pucker against him.
“I know this is what you want,” he says. “But I want to hear you say it.”
I get paid royalties for that story, so I’d appreciate it greatly if you’d buy it. Along with my story, you get ten other stories about footballer players of all stripes doing it in all kinds of ways.
(Currently, my name is misspelled on the webpage and in the e-book. It’s spelled “Johnny Murdoch.” Rest assured, it is me, and they should be correcting it soon.)
The other exciting piece of news is that Cleis Press‘s anthology, Skater Boys, is now available for pre-order from Amazon.com. This is extremely important, because it contains my story “Kick, Push”. Cleis Press is one of my favorite publishers of erotic and sex-ed books, and I am incredibly happy and excited to have sold my first story to them.
The anthology is edited by Neil Plakcy, author of the Mahu series of gay detective novels and editor of the previous Cleis Press anthologies Surfer Boys and Hard Hats.
The anthology arrives in stores in August, but you can pre-order it now!
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I love it already!
I just wish I knew who the art director was for the cover – I would have killed to have drawn it!
…and I'd have killed to see your work on either one of these! Hope you dig the stories, man.
Congrats on your Cleis pub. Are there any other anthologies on your radar to submit to this year? You'd might like to submit to Quickies. It looks like it will be a fun one. (http://www.erotica-readers.com/ERA/G/Gay_Quickies.htm)
Rob, thanks a lot!
I've had my eye on a couple of anthologies, including Quickies, but I haven't done much fiction writing this year (cringe!). Between prepping for Crash Course and my non-fiction work, my schedule's been pretty tight. I'm looking ahead, though, and have more than a handful of stories in progress.
I've been meaning to tell you, your story "The Bed from Craigslist" was fucking fantastic work, man.