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If you've read any of my Hawaiian novels, you've already met my favorite
mahu, Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa'aka. Mahu is a Hawaiian word for gay, often used
in a derogatory way, but I've reclaimed it. In my stories and novels, readers meet strong, handsome,
confident, sexy gay men who embrace their sexuality.
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. You'll see a whole new side of Kimo, and I hope you'll enjoy it. |
| Order Mahu Men from MLR Press in ebook format here, or in print from Amazon.com. |
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| A Kimo short story, "Christmas in Honolulu," placed second in a "Bad Santa"
contest sponsored by Mysterical-E, a mystery webzine. It was reprinted
in December, 2006 in the anthology By The Chimney With Care, from Wolfmont
Publishing. (Also in Mahu Men.) |
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| "Refuge," published at Blithe House Quarterly, is Kimo's
first appearance in print. He and his friend Gunter have gone camping on the Big Island, at Ho'okena Beach,
near a place of refuge for the ancient Hawai'ians. (Also in Mahu Men.) |
| In addition to the stories here and in Mahu Men, there are a half-dozen other Kimo stories which haven't yet been published. |
Three of the Kimo stories are available through Amazon.com. They are:
- "I Know What You Did." Kimo investigates the
murder of a man killed outside a gay bar after a tea dance. Was it a gay bashing?
- "Kelly Green." Kimo is asked to investigate
why a man's gay son won't return to the islands from San Francisco.
- The Price of Salt." An Indonesian diplomat is
murdered in his hotel room using a ceremonial sword.
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| I don't get much chance to get Kimo into bed in the mystery novels;
I try and focus on solving the crime. But I think sexual experimentation is a big part of the coming-out
process, so I've been writing some stories I call Kimo-Rotica, which give Kimo a chance to get laid
now and then. Here are some places where you can find these stories: |
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The story I wrote for Island Boys, "Lomi-Lomi Massage," is a little bit of a spoiler... because it takes place a while after Mahu Vice, the fourth novel in my series, which won't be published until August, 2009. Let's just say that Kimo and Mike head off to Maui for a little vacation, where they learn to massage each other at a bed-and-breakfast. |
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There's a Kimo story called "Paniolo" (which is the Hawai'ian word for cowboy) in the Cleis anthology
Cowboys: Gay Erotic Tales. See what happens when he travels to the Big
Island of Hawaii and hooks up with a paniolo, a Hawaiian cowboy. (Also in Mahu Men.) |
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Kimo gets recruited to help a flight attendant get rid of a persistent
suitor in "Blowing It," a story in Hot Cops: Gay Erotic Stories, also from Cleis. (Also in Mahu Men.) |
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In "Island Ball," Kimo's assigned to special duty: bodyguard for a major league baseball player
who's just come out of the closet. Find this story in Fast Balls, from Alyson. (Also in Mahu Men.) |
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Gunter comes out of the closet-- as a poet-- in "Slamming the Poet," in which he and Kimo have a threesome with a visiting spoken word artist. (I never got paid for this story, or got my contributor's copy from Alyson, so please don't buy the book.) |
| There are two more stories set in Kimo's world, which
don't quite fit the categories above. |
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I was asked to write a story for the I Do Two anthology, published
by MLR Press to raise money in support of same-sex marriage initiatives. But I didn't think
Kimo and Mike were ready to get married, and it's not legal in Hawai'i anyway. When I decided
to write about an old friend coming to the island to marry, I knew it should be one of Mike's
college friends. And that meant the story, called "The Honolulu Hula," should be from Mike's point of view. It was a lot of fun to get into his head and his voice. |
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I really like the character of Jimmy Ah Wang, the Chinese teenager
with the coxcomb of black hair who first appears in Mahu. He's not the main character in
my story, "Missionary Road," but he does play an important part. I like the idea of writing
stories set in Kimo's world, even if he doesn't appear in them. |