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Well into her second decade of writing gay men’s fiction, Dale Chase thrives on a creative life interspersed with bits of reality. Invention is her passion, putting words together her play. Words are like toys to Dale, colorful building blocks, and she never tires of seeing how they will fit. A straight woman who had written for many years before wandering into gay fiction, she found a home in a wonderful literary community and will likely never write straight fiction again. Dale writes contemporary as well as historical gay erotica with some stories set in Victorian times and the old west. To date 150 of her stories have been published in various anthologies and magazines including translation into German and Italian. |
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Dale Chase - Strokes |
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Dale is also an artist although she does not sell her work. She long ago made the decision to pursue one creative outlet and let the other become secondary so art took the back seat and became an enjoyable and rewarding past time that occupies non-writing hours and fills her home with drawings, paintings, paper mache sculptures, and art from found objects. Whimsical is her style, color her passion. And art offers the same reward as writing, as any creative pursuit—joy in the process. It’s not what we have written or created, it’s the process of making something from nothing. |
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“Writing is like breathing. It's not optional.” Dale Chase |
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"Being is the great explainer." Henry Thoreau |
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"Keep passing the open windows." John Irving |
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“Crack Shot: Western Erotica” an e-collection of stories from Bold Strokes Books “Dolores Park” in Ageless Erotica from Seal Press. Joan Price, Ed “Bad Lieutenant” in Uniforms Unzipped: Gay erotic Stories, from Cleis Press, Richard Labonte, Ed. “Chisholm Trail Boys” in Showing Off, Getting Off: Erotic Tales of Exhibitionism & Voyeurism, from Cleis Press, Richard Labonte, Ed. |
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Recently published “Brimstone” in Raising Hell from Bold Strokes Books, Todd Gregory Ed. “Manly Magic” in Tricks of the Trade from Bold Strokes Books Jerry L. Wheeler Ed. “The Outlaw Paulie Creed” in Wild Boys from Bold Strokes Books
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Winner of 2012 IPPY Silver medal from the Independent Publishers Association |
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Story Collections Currently in Print |
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Dale's first novel from Bold Strokes Books: WYATT: Doc Holliday's Account of an Intimate Friendship. |
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In this erotic western novel, Dale takes the remarkable friendship between Wyatt Earp, upright lawman, and Doc Holliday, southern gentlemen turned gambler and killer, to an entirely new level: hot! Told by Doc, a highly intelligent and well spoken man, it covers the entire five-year friendship and includes major events such as the gunfight at the OK corral and its surprising aftermath, the shooting of one Earp brother, the killing of another, and Wyatt's Vendetta in which the lawman turns killer. Passion accompanies Doc and Wyatt throughout but the story that ultimately emerges is one of tragic love. |
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Dale Chase – writer, artist. |
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