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David Holly (April 3, 1949—) has been writing gay fiction since 1995. His most recent novel is The Moon’s Deep Circle from Bold Strokes Books.

Early Writings

David Holly made his first professional sale to Guys, a digest from FirstHand. The story “Leonardo’s Model” fictionalized a recorded historical event in the life of the renaissance artists Leonardo da Vinci and the model Jacopo Saltarelli. Holly continued writing for FirstHand magazines and another digest Hot Shots through the 1990s.

Later Writings

Many of Holly’s stories have appeared in anthologies from Bold Strokes Books, Alyson Books, Cleis Press, and Starbooks Press. In addition to three stories published in StarBooks anthologies, two collections of David’s Holly’s stories have appeared. Delicious Darkness is a collection of stories with fantasy themes in which human males have sex with ghosts, demons, devils, fairies, and space aliens. These stories are highly erotic and hilariously funny. The stories in The Dream in the Heart of the Forest are largely set in past times or exotic locations. They are intensely sexual and closer to being realistic than those in Delicious Darkness.

Themes

Holly writes stories that skew history and involve anachronisms. His stories are mythological, philosophical, psychological, and satirical. He’s written a gay romance with a literary subtext Kissing Behind the Bathhouse, a gay political novel Stealing the Mayor’s Underpants, and stories of female domination and male emasculation collected in Measuring Down.

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Bibliography''

Print and E-book


 * The Moon’s Deep Circle
 * The Dream in the Heart of the Forest
 * Delicious Darkness

E-book Only


 * Stealing the Mayor’s Underpants
 * Kissing Behind the Bathhouse
 * Measuring Down
 * The Devil’s Demand
 * My Fine Gay Booty