Larry  Duplechan

My fifth novel, Got 'til it's Gone, won the 2009 Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Romance category.

Available from the publisher, Arsenal Pulp Press; from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and elsewhere.  Ask for it, loudly, at your local book store.

If you've heard of me, it's probably because of Blackbird, my second novel (1986, St. Martin's Press; 2006, Arsenal Pulp Press).

It's my personal favorite of my own books.  Sort of a gay Oreo homage to Catcher in the Rye.  Considered the first modern black gay coming-out novel (for whatever that's worth ...).

The 2008 publication of Got 'til it's Gone quelled the rampant rumor that I had died sometime in the 1990s; and recently, people have been asking me for short non-fiction essays for various anthologies.  Check out I Like It Like That: True Stories of Gay Male Desire (2009), edited by my old friend Richard Labonte and my new friend Lawrence Schimel.  I open the show with "Big Black Daddydick; or The Joys of Being Fetishized".  Oh, yeah - I went there.

 My other three novels - Eight Days A Week (1985), Tangled Up In Blue (1989), and Captain Swing (1991) are currently out of print.  But look for them used on Amazon and eBay.  You can pick them up for (literally) next to nothing.

Captain Swing is (I think) my best writing to date.  I'd love to get it back into print.  Maybe I'll self-publish ...