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Copyright

©Copyright 1984, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2006 by Lars Eighner. All rights reserved.

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Acknowledgments

This book first appeared as Lavender Blue: How to Write and Sell Gay Men's Erotica from Caliente Press, Inc., Austin, Texas, 1987, ISBN: 0-938743-01-5.

The second print edition of this book, extensively revised and expanded, appeared as Elements of Arousal: How to Write and Sell Gay Men's Erotica, a Richard Kasak Book, in October of 1994, ISBN: 1-56333-230-2.

"Dale and the Glory Hole" appeared in Torso (September 1984)

"Smuggler's Moon" appeared in Drummer #81 (1985)

Part of the new material in the chapter on the erotic scene first appeared in The Guide, October 1989, as "Nine Rules for Come Shots."

"Why I Write Gay Erotica" first appeared in The Masquerade Erotic Book Society Newsletter, 1:4, September/October 1992.

Some material in this edition first appeared in various issues of Austin Writer, the newsletter of the Austin Writers' League.


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