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William Maltese

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male

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http://www.williammaltese.com/

genre

Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Mystery & Thrillers

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I was born in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, land of work boots, flannel shirts, lumberjacks, and rain ... rain ... rain. Frequent deluges probably the origin of my present fondness for most places warm, tropical, and continually bathed in lots and lots of sunshine.

When I was young, we moved to California, land of surfboards, surfer shorts, surf sand, all beneath blue-blue surfer-boy-eyes skies. Providing me endless insights for telling tales of those blond-haired young studs who ride the waves and each other.

I attended university and majored in Marketing/Advertising. Between my junior and senior years, I accompanied a friend to South America to follow a treasure map from an obscure Spanish botanical text. All we got for our efforts were bad c...more I was born in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, land of work boots, flannel shirts, lumberjacks, and rain ... rain ... rain. Frequent deluges probably the origin of my present fondness for most places warm, tropical, and continually bathed in lots and lots of sunshine.

When I was young, we moved to California, land of surfboards, surfer shorts, surf sand, all beneath blue-blue surfer-boy-eyes skies. Providing me endless insights for telling tales of those blond-haired young studs who ride the waves and each other.

I attended university and majored in Marketing/Advertising. Between my junior and senior years, I accompanied a friend to South America to follow a treasure map from an obscure Spanish botanical text. All we got for our efforts were bad cases of crotch rot and enough he-man adventure for me to write up for a popular men's magazine.
After I got my university degree, I enlisted in the U.S. Army. The draft existed, and non-compliance with one's military obligation could provide a blotch on one's record. Granted, the Vietnam War moving into full-swing, more than a few of my peers sought and got deferments, or fled (momentarily or forever) to Canada; actions that, even today (ask some to-remain-unnamed political candidates) can come back to bite them on their collective ass. I rose to the rank of Sergeant (actually to an E-5 equivalent). Despite consistent rumors that my attained experience in "black-ops" accounts for the realistic portrayal of more than one of my military-background fictional characters (Jeff Billing in THAI DIED specifically comes to mind), let me emphasize that my entire term of service was pretty much spent behind an innocuous desk in Personnel. My three years in the Army did, though, expose me to a genuinely extensive gay subculture that included officers and enlisted men ... and their frequent get-togethers for sexual fun and games. Gay debauchery in the Army thrived covertly (sometimes overtly) between periodic sweeps - easily avoided by those in the know - for the purpose of "weeding out the perverts and the queers."

After my Honorable Discharge, I was faced with either advantaging my degree in Marketing/Advertising, by interviewing for jobs on the East and West coasts, or taking off a couple of months to try my hand at a return to writing. At which time, I read my first book of gay erotica and immediately thought I could do as well. I proceeded to write a chapter a day of my gay sci-fi opus, FIVE ROADS TO TLEN, reading the results each night to friends turned sycophants by free booze. I sent the final results to Greenleaf Classics that published not only it but my second TLEN book, then my ADONIS detective series, and then so many others I've almost lost count. At which point, there was no looking back.

Finding myself rampantly prolific, my gay literary output suddenly too much for Greenleaf to keep up with, I was asked to come up with some hetero erotica for that publisher's straight-sex imprint.(less)

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Books by William Maltese

Average rating: 3.62 · 533 ratings · 102 reviews · 79 distinct works

	Diary of a Hustler 3.57 avg rating — 23 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Love Me Dead by William Maltese, Lex Valentine (Goodreads Author), A.M. Riley (Goodreads Author) 3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Hard Working Men by William Maltese, Victor J. Banis (Goodreads Author), J.P. Bowie 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Beyond Machu 3.14 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Honorable Silence by William Maltese, Lex Valentine (Goodreads Author), Maura Anderson (Goodreads Author) 3.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Goldsands 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Tusks 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Love Hurts 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dear Parker (Boys Reformatory, #1) 2.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	I Debauchee (I Series, #1) 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Series by William Maltese

Got 5 Minutes? (10 books)
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2.63 avg rating — 16 ratings

Boys' Reformatory (7 books)
by William Maltese

2.64 avg rating — 14 ratings

I Series (1 book)
by William Maltese

3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings

Stud Draqual Mystery (2 books)
by William Maltese

2.60 avg rating — 5 ratings

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