I've been a reader from as far back as I can remember, mostly speculative fiction of one sort or another. I wrote quite a lot of non-fiction over the years, it being part of the job of an industrial research scientist. But fiction was another matter, until I stumbled into the fanfiction for a particular show, and something connected. Science fiction/politics/gaysex. Apparently that particular combination was the one that pressed my buttons, and it's made up most of what I've written in the years since.

I stuck with fanfic for three years or so, and then had a story idea which used some of the characters but also used something which in my view didn't really fit into theat universe. So I wrote it as original fiction, with avatar characters. There not being many markets for 13,000 word erotic sf stories at the time, I sent it to Circlet Press and forgot about it for a while. (Cecilia rejected it after a couple of years, but it's now on my list of things to expand to novel length.) But after that I started writing more original fiction, and the first piece I sold was a short story published in 2002.

I sold a few more pieces after that, but things really took off for me when Loose Id picked up The Syndicate, the fluffy BDSM gay romantic comedy in space I wrote with my writing partner Alex Woolgrave, who may be better known to some of you as predatrix. I've currently got ten books at Loose Id, all m/m, plus short stories published elsewhere, including Alyson's Ultimate Gay Erotica 2005.

I haven't written fanfic for three or four years now, but I certainly wouldn't rule out writing it again if I had the right idea. And I wrote an essay last year, On fanfic -- Some answers to the question 'You're such a good writer, why don't you write for money?'

There's a full bibliography of my published profic on my website here:
http://www.julesjones.com/fiction/bibliography.html
Plus a list of the short stories available for free dowload here:
http://www.julesjones.com/fiction/downloads.html

The website also has excerpts from all of my Loose Id books and some of my short stories, plus book reviews, con reports and other fannish stuff.

baileymoyes recently did an intro - and I think that's a cool idea.

Please feel free to introduce yourself and pimp your own writing, it's a good way to connect with other authors for a start.

For those of you who don't know me:
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I'm sure your stories are more interesting and I look forward to reading them.

Hi,

I just joined literotica and by way of introduction, I'm posting a link to my little website, my lj and my lj tag page:

http://www.conniebaileyfiction.com/
http://baileymoyes.livejournal.com/
http://baileymoyes.livejournal.com/tag/

I recently had the good fortune to be signed by Sybaritic Press, which published my Gay romance "Pasa Doble" and I'm very interested in the experiences of other first time authors. Looking forward to going through the posts.

Connie