Welcome author Dick O’Connnor to the blog.

Brandon: Poking around your social sites I noted that you’re gritty and raw, just like real life. I like that. Tell us a little something about yourself that we won’t find online.
Dick: I am a former model (I got too old and the binge drinking was hell on my abs) and a wannabe socialite. I’m originally from a desert cow town in Southern California and got into the gay club scene when I was eighteen once my best friend spotted my innocence in a club and took me under his wing, boozed me up, and taught me how to detach emotion from sex. Overall I’m a neo-Libertine.
B: Where did Stiff come from and what motivated you to write it?
D: STIFF: Memoirs of a Dick is my attempt to recount the stories to the best of my blacked-out memories in college; unfortunately, alcohol can make things a little hazy. If it didn’t happen the way I remember then it damn well should have.

B: From what you’re telling us, Stiff sounds like a raw, hot tale of debauchery. It’s on my bookshelf, and I haven’t had a chance to read it yet. Is that an apt description?
D: Whether raw or lubricated, that description sounds about right. I had mostly hoped to tell the story of my evolution, but the sex pieces kept popping up. So if people view Stiff as soft core porn but with a few more pages of script… then so be it. I pocketed the royalties anyway :).
B: I’ve noticed some readers who lean toward the M/M side of things tend to get a little squeamish about male sex, maybe because they are looking for more of the romantic leanings of a book. Have you encountered that with Stiff?
D: Oh, romance… [tweet_dis]My rule of thumb: if the cuddling is the better part, you’re doing the sex part wrong.[/tweet_dis] Thus, I think readers who have high hopes for romance in a book that alludes to a phallus in its very title are in store for a surprise. Nobody has spoken out against my explicit sex stories yet, but it has labeled me an “erotic author” – which I think can pigeon hole me. Yes, I talk about unabashed gay sex, but there is so much more to my stories past a money shot.
B: What’s coming up next for you?
D: I have a FREE short story out now in e-format entitled Blame It on the Hormones (JMS Books) which is the story of my first date gone comically wrong.
And I have a short story coming out in paperback entitled All Things in Time included in Latin Lovers (STARBooks Press) which is the story of a date gone horribly right. It picks up where Stiff left off with the story of “Melman,” the beautiful “straight” man with the ugly name.
I am also dotting the T’s and crossing the I’s on my sequel to Stiff. So be on the lookout for more Dick!
B: And there you have it. LOL. You can find Dick on his website and on Twitter. And, you can find his books on All Romance eBooks, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookstrand, JMS Books, Rainbow eBooks, and Smashwords.