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Neil S. Plakcy
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Neil Plakcy's fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including Blithe House Quarterly and In The Family, as well as winning first prize in a South Florida magazine contest. He has published a wide range of fiction and non-fiction in mainstream and GLBT publications, both in print and on line. His work has been anthologized in My First Time 2 (Alyson, 1999) and Men Seeking Men (Painted Leaf Press, 1998) and he has written about gay and lesbian issues for gfn.com and lesbianation.com. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (BA), Columbia University (MBA), and Florida International University (MFA), Neil Plakcy is an assistant professor of English at Broward Community College and the author of Steve and the Blatnicks (Xlibris, 2000) and Mahu, coming out from Haworth Press in May of 2005.  -- from Saints & Sinners

Fiction
  • Invasion of the Blatnicks (2000)
    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.

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Mahu Mystery Series
  • Mahu Fire: A Hawaiian Mystery (2008 release)
    Evil moves to paradise, as openly gay police detective Kimo Kanapa'aka battles an extreme religious group that opposes the idea of same-sex marriage. It begins with a simple shooting, but the danger intensifi es as Kimo strives to unmask a killer.

  • Mahu Surfer (2007)
    Mahu is a generally negative Hawaiian term for homosexual, and for police detective Kimo Kanapa'aka, being gay doesn't make for an easy life. Especially when you're publicly outed. Now, semi-retired, Kimo must go undercover and stop a brutal killer. Already three surfers have been shot dead, and Kimo must infiltrate the close-knit surfing community, knowing his only way back to active duty is to catch a killer he may know all too well.

  • Mahu (2005)
    Kimo Kanapa'aka doesn't know it yet, but his world is about to turn upside down. 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 will take 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.

Non-fiction
  • Paws and Reflect: Exploring the Bond Between Gay Men and Their Dogs (2000) with Sharon Sakson
    The truth is, our dogs are our children. We don’t have to straighten their teeth or send them to college, but we love them, feed them, groom them, sometimes even dress them up, just like we'd do with little boys and girls. Most dog owners, straight or gay, would probably feel the same way.

    Even though advances in society and social norms have made it more common for gay men to have human children, for many gay men, our dogs play an even more important role in our lives. They love us unconditionally; they comfort us when we are in pain; and because it's most likely that we will outlive them, they teach us to cope with loss.

    We decided to parlay our backgrounds-- Neil as a gay writer and dog owner, Sharon as a journalist, dog show judge and award-winning breeder of Whippets and Brussels Griffons-- to explore this connection. We asked talented writers to contribute their thoughts, and Sharon interviewed celebrities and ordinary men about their relationships with their dogs.

    With contributions by Alistair McCartney, Andy Zeffer, Brian McCormick, Charles Busch, David Mizejewski, Donald Hardy, Edward Albee, G. Russell Overton, Hal Campbell, J.R.G. DeMarco, Jack Morton, Jay Quinn, Jeffrey Ricker, Jonathan Caouette, Justin Rudd, Kevin Anderson, Lev Raphael, Matthew Phillips, Michael Wallerstein, Neil Plakcy, Randall McCormick, Randy Allgaier, Ron Nyswaner, Sharon Sakson, Stephen Kwielchek, Steve Berman, and Victor Banis

See also:
  • Hard Hats: Gay Erotic Stories (2008)
    Construction workers, plumbers, gardeners or any hard working man with a tool belt play a part in many gay male fantasies. In this steamy collection we take a ride to the top of a high rise under construction for a precarious steel beam encounter, go down in the belly of a dark steamy mine, hang out with some hunky sweaty landscapers and slip into the construction manager's office for a quickie. Wherever we go, you'll find sexy, men loving men who are turned on by more than their buddies' tools, in this world the hats are not the only thing that's hard.

  • Rough Trade (2007), Greg Herren, ed.
    Includes works by Amie M. Evans, Bill Brent, Brent Maxwell, Greg Wharton, Jeffrey Marks, John Nail, K. D. "Kate" Santinau, Karen Thomas, Kelly McQuain, Lance Zarimba, Neil S. Plakcy, Steve Soucy, Tim Bergling, Victoria A. Brownworth, and Wade Brown.

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