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Now in her second decade of writing gay men’s fiction, Dale Chase thrives on a creative life interspersed with bits of reality. 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. Dale writes contemporary as well as historical gay erotica with some stories set in Victorian times and the old west. To date 140 of her stories have been published in various anthologies and magazines including translation into German and Italian. |
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Dale Chase - Strokes |
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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, paper 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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Interview with Carsen Taite Saints and Sinners Literary Festival 2010 |
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Upcoming 2012
Cleis Press, Richard Labonte, Ed. “The Outlaw Paulie Creed” in Wild Boys: Gay Erotic Stories, from Cleis Press, Richard Labonte, Ed “Chisholm Trail Boys” in Showing Off, Getting Off: Erotic Tales of Exhibitionism & Voyeurism, from Cleis Press, Richard Labonte, Ed. "Daisy Dreams" in Melt in Your Mouth, from Lethe Press, C. B. Potts, ed. "Cookie" in The Dirty Diner: Gay Erotica on the Menu, from Bold Strokes Books, Jerry L. Wheeler, ed. |
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Recently published "Royal Service" in Riding The Rails: Locomotive Lust and Carnal Cabooses, from Bold Strokes Books, Jerry L. Wheeler, Ed., “Tender Mercies” in Histories Passions: Novellas of Sex Before Stonewall from Bold Strokes Books, Richard Labonte, Ed
"Maelstrom" in Wings: Subversive Gay Angel Erotica, from Bold Strokes Books, Greg Herren, Ed.,
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Story Collections Currently in Print |
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Dale's first novel to be published Fall 2012 by Bold Strokes Books: WYATT: Doc Holliday's Account of an Intimate Friendship. |
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In this erotic western novel, Dale takes the remarkable friendship between Wyatt Earp, upright lawman, and Doc Holliday, southern gentlemen turned gambler and killer, to an entirely new level: hot! Told by Doc, a highly intelligent and well spoken man, it covers the entire five-year friendship and includes major events such as the gunfight at the OK corral and its surprising aftermath, the shooting of one Earp brother, the killing of another, and Wyatt's Vendetta in which the lawman turns killer. Passion accompanies Doc and Wyatt throughout but the story that ultimately emerges is one of tragic love. |
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Dale Chase – writer, artist. |
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