The first volume of my two-volume novel, Bullies & Victims is out (at last) in an ebook edition on Amazon; the next and final volume will be out before the end of this month.
Bullies & Victims is more a variation on a theme than an original novel. I wrote it back in 2008. It was inspired by several episodes of a serialized story I found in the authoritarian section of the gay story site, Nifty.org. That story, titled “Boys, Buds & Bullies,” by a writer named Chuck H, touched on so many themes of my real, fetish and fantasy life that even after I had to stop reading because Chuck was going in directions too exotic for me to follow, I couldn’t get his principal characters out of my mind.
I became obsessed with them, and one day sat down to let them tell their story the way I saw it. Once I gave them new names, the characters reshaped themselves to more closely resemble my image of them. I retained some of the incidents from Chuck’s story but put my guys in new situations, and often in ones which involved a lot of bondage. Bondage, an essential prerequisite to any story of mine, had sadly been missing from “Boys, Buds & Bullies.”
Mine may have been the hand that wrote, well, typed the book, but it wasn't long before Brad, the bully/idol/tormentor of my narrator, Bobby, tore the book free from my control and took it in directions even I hadn't anticipated.
I sent Bullies & Victims to Chuck H, who loved it, and gave me his blessing to do whatever I wanted with it. I was delighted and moved by his enthusiasm. So I posted the book on my blog all the way back when, chapter by chapter, over 35 weeks. The reader response was very enthusiastic (Don't go looking for it here; I've taken it down) and I hope new readers enjoy it as much as those first readers did.
By the way—I hate harping on this but people always ask—you don’t need a Kindle Reader to read books on Kindle. Just download the free Kindle app. Then you can read any Kindle book on any electronic device.
Yeah I love this story so much, having read it over the years for many times. Glad to finally see it in book form.
Posted by: Steve | August 10, 2020 at 05:17 AM