A joyful welcome to all my new JoyBoy visitors!
As of January 1, 2012, the JoyBoy Island website was shut down. A myriad of different and conflicting emotions run through me when I think of this. JoyBoy Island was a fictitious Caribbean island where homosexuality was open, accepted, and considered the status quo.
It’s the setting for the majority of my stories because my works deal with gay characters living a normal life rather than the experience of being gay. Writing and being one of the owners of JoyBoy turned me into a successful professional writer and led me to a fulfilling career!
Why did it have to end? As writers, my partners and I evolved and, in my opinion, we outgrew JoyBoy. Instead of dragging it on and writing uninteresting material, we decided to end the website. I’m excited by the prospect of working on my novels but saddened by the end of the website that led to something really great: my writing!
Update: Riptide, a novel based on my largest JoyBoy Island story, is in editing. I hope to have it published this spring!!
Reindeer on South Georgia Island
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