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| Mystery | Romance | Fiction | Anthology |
| Mahu | Gay Life.com | Invasion of the Blatnicks | Paws and Reflect |
| Mahu Surfer | Three Wrong Turns in the Desert | At The Diner | Hard Hats |
| Mahu Fire | Dancing with the Tide | Surfer Boys | |
| Mahu Vice | The Guardian Angel of South Beach | Skater Boys | |
| Mahu Men: Mysterious and Erotic Stories | Tough Guy Erotica | ||
| In Dog We Trust | Romantic Erotica | ||
| Pledge Class & Other College Boy Erotica | |||
| In Dog We Trust | ||
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After a bad divorce and a brief prison term for computer hacking, 42-year-old Steve Levitan has returned to his home town of Stewart’s Crossing and taken a part-time job as an adjunct professor of English at his alma mater, Eastern College. While walking around his gated community, he becomes friendly with his next-door neighbor, Caroline Kelly, and her golden retriever, Rochester. | |
| When Caroline is shot and killed while walking Rochester, Steve becomes the dog’s temporary guardian. Together, these two unlikely sleuths work to uncover the mystery behind Caroline’s death. This book is available in Kindle edition from Amazon.com and in other formats from Smashwords. | ||
| Mahu Men | ||
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Mixing mystery and erotica, the stories in Mahu Men take readers into the world of openly gay Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa’aka. Moving from pickups to murders, Kimo surfs the waves of his professional and personal lives in a sexy, sensual tropical paradise, where danger and desire lurk behind every palm tree. The stories fill the gaps between the Mahu novels, showing Kimo dating as well as solving cases and establishing a relationship with his new detective partner. Mixing the sensuality of erotica with the sharp-edged attitude of mysteries, Mahu Men is a chance for new readers to meet Kimo, and for fans to delve more deeply into his world. |
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| Mahu Vice | ||
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About a year and a half has passed since the flames engulfed Waahila Ridge
State Park at the end of Mahu Fire. During that time, Kimo and Mike dated for about six months,
but the pressures on them increased to the point where their relationship ended. But when a fire
breaks out at a shopping center Kimo's father used to own, and a young boy is killed, they are
forced to work together-- and to acknowledge that the embers of their relationship are still hot. But a lot stands in the way of their getting together once more, including a mysterious man who knows how to exploit Kimo's sexual fantasies, Mike's identity issues, and a deadly little thing called murder. | |
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Click here to buy Mahu Vice at Amazon.com. Click here to read an excerpt from Mahu Vice. |
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| Mahu Fire | ||
| Winner of the Hawaii Five-O award for
best police procedural mystery A finalist for the 2008 Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Mystery |
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Six months have passed since Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapaka'a's return to Honolulu from his undercover
assignment on the North Shore. He's becoming more comfortable with his visibility as Honolulu's
only openly gay homicide detective, including mentoring a group of gay teens.
Kimo, his family and friends are attending a local charity event in support of gay marriage when a bomb disrupts the gala. Kimo is determined to find out who feels strongly enough against the issue to kill-- but it's possible that his high profile will stand in his way. | |
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Click here to buy Mahu Fire at Amazon.com. Click here to read an excerpt from Mahu Fire. |
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| Mahu Surfer | ||
| A finalist for the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Mystery | ||
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Mahu Surfer, Neil Plakcy's second mystery novel, sends openly gay Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa'aka back to his surfing past. Rather than announce Kimo's public return to the HPD after the events of Mahu, his new boss asks the former competitive surfer to go undercover on Oahu's North Shore to find the killer of three young surfers. In his return to the North Shore, Kimo discovers trouble in paradise, from an epidemic rise in the use of crystal meth to increasing pressure on real estate prices. As well, he rekindles an uneasy friendship with an old friend whose sexual assault drove Kimo into the police academy, and further into the closet, six years earlier. |
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| Mahu Surfer showcases a handsome, sexy hero who struggles to overcome personal troubles and makes private sacrifices for the public good. Throw in an exotic tropical locale, plenty of aloha spirit and a dash of surf culture, as well as a slam-bang ending that puts Kimo and the people he cares about in danger, and you've got the makings of a page-turning mystery.
Click here to buy Mahu Surfer at Amazon.com. |
| Mahu | ||
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Haworth Press's edition of Mahu is out of print, though you can probably still find copies out there. Alyson Books issued a new edition, to match the look of the other books, in March 2009.
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| Kimo Kanapa'aka's world turns upside down in Mahu. At 32, the hero of
Māhū has reached the pinnacle of his profession, detective
on the Honolulu Police Department's homicide squad, based at the
Waikīkī station. But a difficult murder case, as well as
turmoil in his personal life, is about to threaten everything he
has worked for. A life-threatening drug bust in chapter 1 makes Kimo realize that it's time to stop lying to himself. He's drawn to the Rod and Reel Club, a gay bar in Waikīkī, where he has a couple of beers and begins the long process of accepting his attraction to other men. Leaving the club, though, he stumbles onto two men dropping a dead body in an alley, and he launches himself into a nightmare where his private life becomes public news. |
| Kimo's pursuit of this case takes him from the seamy underside of Chinatown to the elegance of million-dollar homes in Maunalani Heights, from gay bars where young men stride naked down runways to bloody crime scenes. | ||
| GayLife.com | ||
| Ah, romance! I love it and I hope you do, too. GayLife.com is my first venture into the
world of M/M romance. Learn more about the book at the GayLife.com page here on my website.
Click here to buy GayLife.com at Amazon.com. Also available in e-book from AllRomance E-books. |
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| Three Wrong Turns in the Desert | ||
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If you like Kimo and Mike, you'll love Aidan and Liam. After his partner of ten years kicks him out, Aidan Greene flees Philadelphia for a job teaching English as a Second Language in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. He notices bodyguard Liam McCullough showering naked behind a bar and falls immediately in lust. (That's Liam on the cover. If you don't think he's sexy...) Aidan agrees to help Liam make a delivery, and that's where the fun starts. This is a fast, sexy adventure that I hope fans of the Mahu series will really enjoy. It came out from Loose Id in e-book format in late September 2009. |
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| Click here to order Three Wrong Turns in the Desert from Loose Id. Click here to read reviews. |
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| Dancing with the Tide | ||
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Aidan and Liam return in their second sexy, romantic adventure! With a handsome, horny client, a mysterious visitor, and deadly threats, Aidan and Liam will have their hands full. |
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| The Guardian Angel of South Beach | |
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Despite regular work-outs, out-of-shape computer geek Leo can’t build the body he dreams of. Then he meets a strange old man who mixes up some magic pills, and Leo’s body blossoms. But even though he’s developing a killer body and having lots of great sex, he’s not happy, until he begins to change his personality, too. Can becoming The Guardian Angel of South Beach, protecting the weak, weird, and drunk from predators, make Leo happy and help him hook up with Dan, the man of his dreams?
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| Invasion of the Blatnicks | |
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Steve Berman loses his job just before a visit to his parents in Florida. En route, though, he’s offered a new one, with a developer building a shopping center at the edge of the Everglades. Comic complications ensue with the craziness of his cousins, the Blatnicks, and the equally zany construction crew. |
| "At The Diner" | |
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Here's what reviewer Kathy K. has to say about this short story, in her review for the E-Book Addict website: "At the Diner" is only 6 pages, but in those few pages Neil Plakcy shows us two men, father and son, estranged and, without saying anything, trying to find their way back to a relationship. Told from the son’s—Jerry—point of view I was immediately connected with what he was feeling. Not only had he lost his mother but his father as well… a father whom he felt he could never satisfy. |
| My heart went to him totally and I mourned even as he couldn’t, or wouldn’t. But as the story progresses we see that, by small degrees, Phil is trying to mend the rift between them. Even seeing through Jerry’s eyes I still got a real feel for his father but, not being invested emotionally the way that Jerry was, I could understand that in his own mostly non-verbal way Phil was trying. Now this is a story that, even as short as it is, holds a solid wallop that I felt for quite some time. In fact I’ve re-read Neil’s short At the Diner a few times in the time I’ve had it… and I believe that I will continue to do so. It’s about a journey that most of us have either undertaken or at least understand and tied to family it has the potential to really affect the reader. Beautifully done Mr. Plakcy; it’s no wonder you’re one of my favorite authors. Click here to order this story from Untreed Reads. |
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| Paws and Reflect | ||
Now Available in trade paperback:
Paws and Reflect: A Special Bond Between Man and Dog Click here to buy Paws and Reflect at Amazon.com. Sharon Sakson and I have collaborated on this collection of stories about gay men around the US and the close connections they have with their dogs. Contributors include Edward Albee, Charles Busch, Lev Raphael, Alistair McCartney and David Mizejewski, host of Animal Planet's Backyard Habitat. |
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I've edited three collections of gay male erotica for Cleis Press: Hard Hats, Surfer Boys, and Skater Boys. I've also collected my own erotic stories into three volumes: Romantic Erotica, Tough Guy Erotica, and Pledge Class and Other College Boy Erotica. There's more about all these book on my Erotica page. |
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