Category: Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance–Part II

• “Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance” Short Video: A Gay AND a Sapphic Gothic Romance

  Dracula/Harker is not just a gay Gothic romance. It also features a sapphic Gothic romance. While the former gradually develops between the Count and Jonathan over the course of the already published Part I, the latter blossoms between Ilse, Countess Dolingen, and Lucy Westenra in the upcoming Part II. However,… Read More

• “Dracula/Harker’s” Van Helsing: Self-Righteous Bigotry Incarnate

  Dracula/Harker’s Professor Abraham Van Helsing, unlike in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, is no eccentric, erudite grandfatherly character who tempers his cruel resolve with empathy. Quite the opposite, my Dutch polymath embodies the worst in people the LGBTQ+ community has had to suffer and endure since forever. To understand what that entails… Read More

• The Agony and the Ecstasy

  “A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.”—Princess Irulan in Frank Herbert’s Dune When it comes to writing the opening passages of my works, I recall the above quotation and heed its advice—usually to my agony. But when those first few tortured… Read More