Larry  Duplechan

First of all, it's pronounced "DOO-pluh-shan".

 Gee, what do you want to know?

 I'm in my 50s.  Fighting the physical aging process, tooth and claw.  Married to my college sweetheart (legally married in 2008, after 32 years together).

I started writing gay fiction in the mid-1980s, and I wrote and published four novels in eight years.  And then stopped.  I hadn't sold many books, made much money, or become even passably famous.  So I took a little break from writing.  A 15 year little break.

I sang - in choirs, in a barbershop quartet.  I formed a band, cut an album, then left the band.  I took up the ukulele (no, really), and played the ukulele circuit for a few years.  Yes, there's a ukulele circuit.  I wrote some songs, and made a little DYI ("do it yourself") CD.

Then, in 2005, I started writing another book, Got 'til it's Gone, winner of the 2009 Lambda Literary Award, Gay Romance category.

I work as a secretary in a Los Angeles law firm.  It's a living.

I work out with weights.  I hope it shows.

I sing first tenor in the Chancel Choir of Westwood Presbyterian Church.  My husband sings second tenor.

I read voraciously (generally, on my iPad), mostly history and biographies, and progressive Christian theology (John Shelby Spong, Bob Shore-Goss).  I'm pretty sure Joni Mitchell is God.

Anything else you wanna know?  Email me.