Arthur Soo Donim

I am an author, and it is my intent to tell a good story. I also happen to be gay, which is part of my worldview, and about which i have no intention of excluding from whatever i may write, but it is secondary to telling an interesting and readable story. I have no agenda with regard to that part of my being. I am old. When I first felt attractions towards men, it was considered a mental disease, and doing anything so prompted was a felony. I lived before, during and after HIV entered our lives, and have been to enough funerals to fill up several lifetimes. However, I remember enough of their lives to know that it is my duty to remember, and I experienced enough of their joy to refuse to change my sadness to bitterness. Introducing myself seems to me mostly an exercise in vanity, but it is an ordeal that may not be too painful to the reader. In my youth, i received a PhD in biochemistry, and for thirty five years i did basic and clinical research. I am also a trained lapidary and certified emergency medical technical, and furthermore have worked for a year as a dealer in fine arts and antiques, and a year and a half as an armed security guard. I have published dozens of technical articles, have five patents, and have written five technical books. I have also published a gay novel as an e-book, with pleasant revenues in its first year of sales. On this site, I would like to publish 3 more novels which are already done, and use that as an incentive to finish a fourth. My only hope is that people enjoy the reading of them, and I don't need to make any money. In the limited time I have left I do not think I would have the energy to follow more conventional outlets for these, and so brace yourself - here I come!