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“Writing is like breathing. It's not optional.” Dale Chase |
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"Being is the great explainer." Henry Thoreau |
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"Keep passing the open windows." John Irving |
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Dale Chase – writer, Now in her second decade of writing gay men’s fiction, Dale Chase thrives on a creative life interspersed with bits of reality (day job, etc.). Invention is her passion, putting words together her play. Words are like toys to Dale, colorful building blocks, and she never tires of seeing how they will fit. A straight woman who had written for many years before wandering into gay fiction, she found a home in a wonderful literary community and will likely never write straight fiction again. |
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Dale Chase - Strokes |
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Dale writes contemporary as well as historical gay erotica with some stories set in Victorian times and the old west. An upcoming collection of ghostly gay erotica explores yet another world. To date 125 of her stories have been published in various anthologies and magazines including translation into German and Italian. Dale is also an artist although she does not sell her work. She long ago made the decision to pursue one creative outlet and let the other become secondary so art took the back seat and became an enjoyable and rewarding past time that occupies non-writing hours and fills her home with drawings, paintings, papier mache sculptures, and art from found objects. Whimsical is her style, color her passion. And art offers the same reward as writing, as any creative pursuit—joy in the process. It’s not what we have written or created, it’s the process of making something from nothing. |
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Upcoming 2010 “If The Spirit Moves You: Ghostly Gay Erotica” from Lethe Press. Dale’s first story collection "Hard Ride" in Biker Boys from Cleis Press, ed. Christopher Pierce "Hair Trigger" in Bears In Heat from Bear Bones Press, ed. Ron Suresha. |
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Recently published “A Marriage of Choice” in Time Well Bent from Lethe Press, ed. Connie Wilkins “Under The Table” in Rough Trade from Bold Strokes Books, ed. Greg Herren “Army Brat” in Boy Crazy from Cleis Press, ed. Richard Labonte “Coach” in Daddies from Cleis Press, ed. Richard Labonte |
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