THOM WOLF signing off

Thanks to everyone who has visited this blog over the last four years, even though I’ve been hopeless at keeping it up to date.  Blogging has never been one of my strong points and I’ve struggled to find the time to do it among my other writing. The short story collection I had planned for 2015 remains incomplete.  The reason it’s been so quiet around here is that I’ve spent the last year and a half working on a new novel CLOSER BY MORNING which is about to be launched by Pride Publishing. Exciting news, eh?

I have a new pen name too. THOM COLLINS.  The new book is still gay themed with lashings of sex, but it’s a lot more mainstream than my Thom Wolf work, hence the new identity.

I’ve set up a new page for Thom Collins HERE.

You’ll find all the info you need about Closer by Morning as well a free novella called THE PLAYERS.

You can also check out my author page at Pride Publishing HERE.

Is this the end for Thom Wolf? The truthful answer is I don’t know.  It’s now 22 years since my first published story and it’s been an absolute blast, but for now I feel I’ve exhausted myself in the field of erotic fiction. I’m not sure I have much left to say. I needed a new direction and am glad to have found it with Closer by Morning. If you liked my novellas Midnight Screening, Wild West Hero and Watching Henry Lawton, you’ll enjoy the new book.

BLURB:
Passion and love bring them together. Murder could tear them apart.
When Matt Blyth, a handsome young lawyer, joins an early morning boot camp, all he wants is to get in shape. His thirtieth birthday is approaching fast. He’s ready to throw away the past and embrace a new future. The last thing he expects is to fall in love…or become embroiled in murder.
Dale Zachary, an American actor, is stuck firmly in the closet. He spent his twenties playing good-looking jocks in bad horror films and romantic comedies. But that boy-next-door act has a limited shelf life. Dale lands the role of his career playing a sexy, psychotic killer in a major British TV series. It’s a part that could make him a star. It’s no time to fall in love, but when Dale meets Matt, the attraction is impossible to resist and they both fall hard.
Someone is killing young men in the city. A killer like no other. The murders bear an uncanny resemblance to the script Dale is shooting. A devious mind is at work. As their relationship becomes more complex, Matt and Dale find the murders intruding further into their lives. The killer is closing in on his next target. It could be either one of them…or both.

I’m currently developing a trilogy of novels which will tie me up for the next 18 months, so it’s unlikely I’ll produce much erotica in that time. But you never know what the future holds. My enthusiasm could return. It has before.

I’ll leave this blog running in the meantime as I still have a number of unpublished short stories I’d like to share.

But for now at least, this is Thom Wolf, signing off.

THE EXHIBITIONIST: Erotic Stories. A New Ebook

THE EXHIBITIONIST

I mentioned in my last blog that I was using the downtime between drafts of my new novel to get back to the dirty stuff that I've always been known for. I've used that time productively – porn always seems to come to me in a series of highly concentrated bursts [– and it's been a busy two weeks. My intention was to put together a one off collection in an ebook. But when I sat down to sort through the short stories I've written over the last two years I found what I actually had was material for three themed collections. The first of which I'm launching this weekend.

Kicking things off is The Exhibitionist. It seems only natural, given how much I've written about exhibitionism since I started back in the early 1990's. I'm not sure why this should be the subject I've returned to so often. I was a bit of a show off in my younger days but not at all now. Maybe I got it out of my system; dancing with my shirt off in sweaty night clubs (that's never gonna happen again) or trawling naked round Spanish sex clubs . Or maybe by writing about sex and sexuality, I don't feel the need to display myself quite so readily. Just glancing back quickly through my old titles I've written about so many exhibitionists: Henry Lawton, Daniel Higgins and Alfie Garcia in The Sex Cabaret, Charlie in The Chain, and dozens of other characters on my short fiction.

What is it about taking it off in public that we find so exciting? These days, it seems like everyone is at it; on Facebook, Twitter, X-tube or Flickr, everyone is showing off their hard cocks or open buttholes. I've always found still images sexier than film, but if that's too old fashioned there are plenty of cam sites where we can broadcast our entire sex lives to the world. And I'm surprised how many people do. Ten, fifteen years ago, guys used to worry what would happen if their movies or pictures were revealed to work colleagues or families. Not any more. Joyfully, proudly, people are happy to put themselves out there.

I don't claim to understand it. I just know it turns me on and I love to explore it through my characters and stories.

THE EXHIBITIONIST

Exhibitionism. Showing off. Revealing everything. Meet the men who hold nothing back.

Oscar has a body that was made to be seen. Twenty years old and physically perfect, he’s only ever happy when someone is watching. He’s THE EXHIBITIONIST. In the isolated basement of an abandoned building, two strangers meet to appease their hunger for rough, animalistic sex.

From locker rooms to private parties, offices to commuter trains, Thom Wolf conjures up a torrent of sexual encounters between uninhibited men for whom exhibitionism isn’t a fetish – it’s a way of life.

Five erotic stories from the author of The Chain and The Sex Cabaret.

Included in this collection:

Working Boy

Secret Basement

The Exhibitionist

Sharing the Bill

All I See

The book officially goes live on Amazon tomorrow 1^st August 2015 but may be available earlier. I'll post the links right here once the book is up for sale.

COMING UP FOR AIR

Today I completed the second draft of a novel I started planning last November and began writing in January. It's been a long and intensive process, so apologies for the lack of updates. It's been around four months since my last blog post and the final chapter of Conner Blue. That's bad, even by my standards. Writing the novel has been an absolute pleasure but it was hard work and required a lot of focus. This is longest book I've written at 85,000 words. When I'm really involved in a project I struggle to juggle other writing. I wish I one of those writers who have several projects ticking away at one time, who produce a new book every couple of months and manage to write extensive blog entries every couple of days. Unfortunately, I'm not. The fact that I write all my first drafts in long hand, only slows things down further. I feel like I'm coming up for air after a long time underwater.

The new book is a departure for me. It's my first “non-porn” novel. There are sex scenes (I haven't given up entirely) but they are not the focal point of the story, in the same way as The Sex Cabaret or The Chain. If I had to apply a label, I'd say it's a M/M novel, but that's not strictly true either. Anyone looking for M/M angst or lovers who do nothing but argue and fuck, won't find them here. So what is it? It's inspired by the kind of books I've always loved, those steamy 70s and 80s novels by Harold Robbins and Jackie Collins. Those thrilling page turners, filled with sex, danger and glamour. A M/M Bonkbuster is probably the best way to describe it, if there can be such a thing.

Because it's so different to what I've done before, I've got a new pen name lined up and will be looking for a traditional publisher. It's not like any of the books that are in vogue right now, so placing it could be a hard task. I'm going to give it a good push for six months and if I don't find an interested publisher it in that time, then I'll go down the indie route.

But right now, in the down time between drafts, I'm ready to dive back into the dirty world of porn. I've been a good boy for so long, I'm ready to get filthy. The Exhibitionist is a collection of short stories coming to ebook on 1^st August. I'll post a more detailed update about this book next week but in the meantime check out the cover below.

If you can't wait that long for a horny fix, I'm running a promotion at Amazon on Wild West Hero between 17^th and 24^th July. For this week only my spaghetti western novella will be available to USA and UK readers for 99c/99p. If you haven't already checked it out, please do. It's my personal favourite of all my porn stories.

Amazon UK

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I've kept a low profile so far this year, just trying to get my novel finished, but I've got a lot of new stuff lined up between now and Christmas. I've got a batch of short stories that I'm editing into three themed collections. They should come out at a rate of one every two months, starting with The Exhibitionist on 1^st August.

In the meantime I'm taking a weekend off. The bright lights of Blackpool are calling and I'm in the mood to celebrate.

Love Thom xxx

DECEMBER EBOOK SALE

The ebook of my novel The Sex Cabaret will be availabe through out December at a special low price. $1.22 for US readers and 77p for UK readers.

BLURB: Young and naive, Daniel Higgins, is drawn into a world that will challenge his inhibitions and ideals. Taking a job at The Viaduct, he is introduced to The Sex Cabaret -- a spectacle of erotica and exhibitionism like nothing he has seen before.

Clive Bronsan is a successful lawyer, happy with his family and achievements, until a visit to the cabaret reveals what has been missing from his life. When the curtains rises, everything Clive holds important will be changed forever.

Alfie Garcia's drop dead looks have made him the biggest gay porn star in Europe and the cabaret's reigning show boy. Men travel from all over the country to see him perform, but are any of them really interested in the man behind the visage?

As the lives these characters intertwine sex, love, desire, jealousy, fame, ambition and violence all play their part in a highly charge novel of eroticism and sensuality.
Three fates collide when the curtain goes up on The Sex Cabaret.

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PLAYING AGAIN

Early this year I began writing a rugby themed novella called The Players only to abandon it two thirds of the way through when I didn't know how to bring it to a satisfying conclusion. I started writing without planning the story in advance and as always happens when I try to wing it, I got lost. Most of my abandoned work is stuff I've started without an outline.  The Players was something a little different. More of a M/M story focusing on relationships rather than full on sex (though there is still plenty of hot sex in there).  It was something outside my comfort zone and around the 12k word point  I got stuck with it and moved on to work on a batch of short stories. I'd pretty much written off The Players as a failed experiment and didn't give the story or the characters another thought. Or so it seemed.
Last week, out of the blue  I woke up and suddenly knew how the final third of the story should play out. It's funny how that happens -- I hadn't been consciously thinking about that story at all --  and quite wonderful when it does.  So I reread the partially completed draft and picked right back up where I'd left off.  All being good I'll have a complete first draft in another week.  It's still very much a M/M drama/romance rather than my regular gay erotica. So much so that I'm wondering whether to use a new pen name for the finished novella. I've been kicking around another idea that if successful will develop into a M/M thriller. The M/M stuff, while still pretty hot, is different enough from my regular work that it doesn't sit comfortably to put it out as a Thom Wolf book.  I'm still not sure.  I have a pen name in mind but I'm not ready to commit to it just yet. What's that you say? ... Write the frigging stories first.  Too right! So I need to get the words down on paper and make a decision about how I'm going to market them in (gulp) 2015.

I intend being a lot more focused next year and managing my time much better. It's not always easy. I have another job and also run a small property business. But writing is my passion. I think about stories when I go to bed at night and I'm still thinking about them when I wake up in the morning. I just need a more productive method of getting those stories written. I'm still pretty old school and do all my first drafts in long hand. So maybe that should be my new years resolution – to get with the modern world and write straight onto my lap top. My goal for 2015 is to write one long novel and two novellas.

In the mean time The Chain is out there now. I love the new paperback edition. Ebooks are definitely a wonderful thing, but it's something special for a writer to be able to hold an old fashioned book in their hands. Or maybe that's just me. Old fashioned.

THE CHAIN Available Now

This is a long overdue update.  I have a few good excuses for not blogging.  First of which – The Chain is now available in ebook and print on demand paperback. This has been a very long time coming I procrastinated and delayed this new edition for the best part of two years but it's finally done - re-edited, proofed, formatted – and now it's done. And despite all that, I actually had a great time re-visting a story that first took shape way back in 2000 and was published in paperback by Zipper Books in November 2003. When the rights reverted to me I had all kind of crazy ideas about what to do with the book. I intended to completely rewrite and update it at first but resisted that idea. So what we now how is a slightly polished version of the original with a hot new cover.

On a visit to the north of England Dale Summer joins a group where anything is possible and soon becomes entangled in a complex web of obsession. He develops a fixation on one of the members this unusual club - a young married man with an insatiable appetite for extreme sex. Soon Dale is in over his head. Where will it end and how far is he prepared to go?

Buy it HERE:

AMAZON UK

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I also finished the last story for what will be my third short story collection Everyone Is Naked on the Internet.  I was aiming for a winter 2014 publication but now I've bumped up The Chain, this new book will most likely appear early in 2015.  I need to rewrite some of the stories and begin the formatting process for paperback and ebook but having done it once with The Chain, I'm less daunted about the process this time. I've already designed the cover so there's no reason this won't be ready for Jan/Feb 2015.

Of course editing, formatting, cover design etc are my least favourite part of the process.  It's the writing that I love the most and I've already started a new project.  A lot of my recent work has drifted into the M/M romance market - mainly because that's what is popular right now and more straight women buy gay books then gay men. But I don't want to get sucked into the trap of writing for that market all the time.  RevisitingThe Chain reminded me of a time when gay erotica was aimed squarely at the horny male market. My next book is going right back to basics - the kind of hard, gritty sex I used to write in those long dead 1990s porn magazines. I'm horny and ready to go.

Putting The Chain behind me.

EBOOK READERS - NEW FORMATS

Three of my ebooks which were previously exclusive to Amazon Kindle are going to available for all ebook readers. The Leather and the Flesh is available now at Smashwords and all major ebook sellers, with Midnight Screening and Wild West Hero following over the next few days.

Over the summer I've been working on my third collection of short stories. The project is going really well with 11 stories complete. Because I'm aiming for a paperback as well as ebook release for this set, it's going to be longer than Bedtime Stories or Body Language. Depending on length the finished book will contain between 13 to 15 stories. So far the shortest story is around 2500 words and the longest 10000. So there's a lot of scope and variety. I'm still not ready to share the title until the book is finished – I've come the conclusion that there's something in that old writers superstition about jinxing a project by talking about it too soon.

 

 

I've also (finally) come round to thinking about The Chain. As you know I've been toying with the idea of an ebook release for my old 2003 novel but haven't have the balls to look at it. I once thought I might rewrite the entire novel and put out a brand new edition but I'd much rather spend my time working on new stories than revisiting old ones. The Chain was originally published to the very tight deadline. I had six weeks to write and edit it for publication. What came out was little more than a polished first draft. So rather than completely rewrite the book as I once thought, I've decided not to change it but give it the through second draft I didn't have time for in 2003. I'm looking at a very loose publication date of late 2014/early 2015. I kind of fell out of love with The Chain for a long time but I'm beginning to look back on it with more affection and feeling those old passions stir.

Love Thom

 

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