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Founder and Publisher of Suspect Thoughts Press
and its imprints She-Devil Press, Three Roads Press, and Reverse Rapture Books
“Alternaqueer lit publishing was drowning, with publishers either going under or going straight. And then Suspect Thoughts Press dove in, like a hunky savior in shiny swim trunks, and wrestled underground queer lit to shore, before administering the sloppy wet kiss of life. In the past few years, Suspect Thoughts has gone from an obscure webzine to a publishing powerhouse. More than anything Suspect Thoughts has put playfulness and risk-taking back into queer publishing.” —Charlie Anders, other
“With its wide-open definition of the word queer and fearless publishing choices that ricochet from risky to risqué, San Francisco's Suspect Thoughts Press has made the book world a more interesting place to inhabit. Suspect Thoughts has swiftly become the hot press for connoisseurs of transgressive, intelligent literature.” —San Francisco Bay Guardian
“Books to Watch Out For applauds Greg and Ian for not only making a commitment to publish literature by women but for flying the feminist flag high. In a society where even publishers that publish decidedly feminist books shy away from the 'F word,' these two gay men embrace the mantle for both themselves and their new imprint. Let's see the world accuse them of being man-hating lesbians!” —Suzanne Corson, Books to Watch Out For
“Almost everything published by Suspect Thoughts stands tall in the sometimes-shrubby field of queer-interest lit.” —Richard Labonte, Book Marks
Support your local bookseller.
Suspect Thoughts Press books are available wherever books are sold.
You can also order them through our amazing AlternaQueerBooks.com.
Founder, Editor-in-Chief, and web-wrangler of
suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing
suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing is an online magazine that features exciting alternative writing and artwork that blur the lines between genres and aren't afraid to frighten, cause laughter, or confuse, while perhaps arousing sexual desire. Issue 1 premiered in July 2000. suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing continues to frighten the horses, and quite a few people, with the best erotic writing and artwork the web offers.
“...a beautifully designed transgressive jewel.”
—Charles Allen Wyman, The Absinthe Literary Review
Co-Founder and Contributing Editor for Velvet Mafia
Sean Meriwether's Velvet Mafia premiered in November 2001. Velvet Mafia's an online magazine that features brand new queer fiction and erotica—work that pushes the boundaries without apologies—from today's hottest contemporary writers.
“Some of the best short fiction can be fairly brutal on the sensibilities. Mix in an element of gay erotica with taboo subjects and you've got Velvet Mafia. The editors tout their online anthology of dark stories as 'dangerous, contemporary queer fiction'. That it is. It's also pretty well written, though you might want to shower after you finish reading.” —Unzipped
  
Founder and Co-Coordinator for Project: QueerLit
There is a very important and much-needed niche in publishing—support of creative alternative and queer literary voices—being underserved. More corporate monsters are taking control and less innovative books are being created, distributed, and stocked. Over 70% of the book publishing industry is controlled by a very small group of large multi-media corporations. Similarly, independent and LGBTIQ bookstores are closing at an alarming rate owing to large bookstore chains cornering the market. Like our country's shrinking media options, the book industry is facing similar pains. Queer authors, or authors who work with queer or alternative or "subversive" themes, are finding it increasingly harder to get represented, let alone published. Project: QueerLit intends to bring media attention to these authors and their work, hopefully opening doors for publication for many of them during each contest period.
Read about the Project: QueerLit 2004 Finalists and Winners here.
Read about the Project: QueerLit 2006 Finalists and Winners here.
Read about the Project: QueerLit 2008 contest here.
Anthology Editor
I'm the editor (or co-editor) of the following multi-author
anthologies:
Alter. Boys: New Queer Men's Fiction
(co-edited with Sven Davisson, Suspect Thoughts Press, 2008)
The Best of the Best Meat Erotica
(Suspect Thoughts Press, 2002)
The Big Book of Erotic Ghost Stories
(Bookspan/Venus Book Club, 2004) and (Blue Moon Books, 2005)
I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage
(Winner—2004 Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction Anthology)
(co-edited with Ian Philips, Suspect Thoughts Press, 2004)
Invert(e): flagrantly queer culture, politics, sex, and dish
(co-edited with Ian Philips, Suspect Thoughts Press, 2008)
Law of Desire: Tales of Gay Male Lust and
Obsession
(co-edited with Ian Philips, Alyson Books, 2004)
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Essays
on Queer Sexuality and Desire
(Finalist—2003 Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction Anthology, Boheme
Press, 2003)
(available in Greek translation through Colourful
Planet Publications—forthcoming, 2008)
Love Under Foot: An Erotic Celebration
of Feet
(co-edited with M. Christian, Southern Tier Editions—Haworth Press, 2004)
Men of Mystery: Homoerotic Tales of Intrigue
and Suspense
(Finalist—2007 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Anthology)
(co-edited with Sean Meriwether, Southern Tier Editions—Haworth
Press, 2007)
Of the Flesh: Dangerous New Fiction
(Winner of two 2002 Erotic Authors Association Awards, Suspect Thoughts
Press, 2001)
Out of Control: Hot, Trashy, Man-on-Man Erotica
(Suspect Thoughts Press, 2005)
PORN!: Dirty Gay Erotica
(co-edited with Ian Philips, Southern Tier Editions—Haworth Press, 2007)
Sodom & Me: Queers on Fundamentalism
(co-edited with Ian Philips, Suspect Thoughts Press, 2008)
Son of PORN!: More Dirty Gay Erotica
(co-edited with Ian Philips, Southern Tier Editions—Haworth Press, TBD)
Purchase them at your favorite book store!
You can also order them through our amazing AlternaQueerBooks.com.
Author
I'm the author of the short fiction collection, Johnny Was & Other Tall Tales, (with a foreword by M. Christian).
Look at the beautiful cover by the amazing Shane Luitjens! Or is it: the amazing cover by the beautiful Shame Luitjens?!
A Featured Alternate Selection
of InsightOut Book Club
Johnny Was & Other Tall Tales available in Greek translation
through Colourful Planet Publications (forthcoming, 2008)
“Hopeless romantics and hardened perverts, beware. Greg Wharton's spare but
lyrical accounts of love gone—where else but wrong?—will wring your heart
dry. His characters yearn and fuck and fuck up among the ruins that Eros has
made of Everyman's suburbs, schools, parks, highways, and motels. Reading
these stories, you may forget what the difference is between laughter and
tears; arousal and regret.” —Patrick Califia, author of Mortal Companion
More information on Johnny Was & Other Tall Tales here.
Read the story “Blood Oranges and Cotton Candy” from Johnny Was at Velvet Mafia.
Read the story “Gravity” from Johnny Was at Velvet Mafia.
Read an interview with me and my honey Ian about I Do/I Don't here.
Read a naughty conversation between me and Ian about Out of Control here.
Read a short funny conversation between me and Ian about our collections here.
Read a longer version of the same here.
Purchase it at your favorite bookstore.
You can also order it through our amazing AlternaQueerBooks.com.
Noted short fiction publications include the anthologies:
5 Minute Erotica (edited by Carol Queen, Running Press)
Bad Boys (edited by Paul J. Willis and M. Christian, Alyson Books)
Best Bondage Erotica 2 (edited by Alison Tyler, Cleis Press)
Best Fetish Erotica (edited by Cara Bruce, Cleis Press)
Best Gay Erotica 2004 (ed. by Richard Labonte, sel. by Kirk Read, Cleis Press)
Best Gay Erotica 2005 (ed. by Richard Labonte, sel. by William Mann, Cleis Press)
Best of Friction (edited by Jesse Grant and Austin Foxxe, Alyson Books)
Best S/M Erotica (edited by M. Christian, Black Books)
Best S/M Erotica 2 (edited by M. Christian, Bookspan, Venus Book Club)
Buttmen (edited by Alan Bell, West Beach Books)
Entangled Lives (edited by Marilyn Jaye Lewis, Alyson Books)
Friction 5 (edited by Jesse Grant and Austin Foxxe, Alyson Books)
From Porn to Poetry 2 (edited by Susannah Indigo and Brian Peters, Samba Mountain)
ISO Calendar of Days (edited by Greg Herren, InsightOut Book Club)
Kink (edited by Paul J. Willis and Ron Jackson, STARbooks Press)
Lucious (edited by Alison Tyler, Cleis Press)
Men, Amplified (edited by Michael Huxley, STARbooks Press)
Quickies 2 (edited by James C. Johnstone, Arsenal Pulp Press)
Roughed Up (edited by Simon Sheppard & M. Christian, Alyson Books)
Sex and Laughter (edited by Susannah Indigo, Samba Mountain)
Sex Buddies (edited by Paul J. Willis, Alyson Books)
Sick (edited by John Lawson, Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Shadows of the Night (edited by Greg Herren, Southern Tier Editions—Haworth Press)
Skin & Ink (edited by Jim Gladstone, Alyson Books)
Trans Figures (edited by M. Christian, Southern Tier Editions—Haworth Press)
View to a Thrill (edited by Paul J. Willis, STARbooks Press)
Villains & Vixens (edited by Jamie Joy Gatto & M. Christian, Renaissance E Books)
Wet Nightmares, Wet Dreams (edited by Michael Huxley, STARbooks Press)
The Wildest Ones (edited by M. Christian, STARbooks Press)
Awards/Honors
Honor-2004 Out magazine's "Out 100-Top Gay Success Stories of 2004"
Winner-2004 Bay Guardian's Best of the Bay Award for
Best, Brand-New, Badass, Superqueer Press: Suspect Thoughts Press
Winner-2004 Lambda Literary Award for
LGBT Nonfiction Anthology: I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage
Winner-2002 Erotic Authors Association Award for
Best Erotic Multiple Author Anthology: Of the Flesh
Runner Up-2005 The Rauxa Prize for Erotic Writing
“A short, sharp shock. Wowza. The prose is charged with the associative fire of the ecstatic.
I'll have it in mind next time I order something sticky from Dixie Queen.”
—Steve Almond, 2005 Rauxa Prize Judge
on “Gravity” by Greg Wharton
Finalist-2007 Lambda Literary Award for
LGBT Anthology: Men of Mystery
Finalist-2004 London's Erotic Award for Writer of the Year
Finalist-2004 Lambda Literary Award for
Independent LGBT Press: Suspect Thoughts Press
Finalist-2003 Lambda Literary Award for
LGBT Nonfiction Anthology: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Finalist-2003 Lambda Literary Award for
Independent LGBT Press: Suspect Thoughts Press
Finalist-2003 Erotic Authors Association Award for
Best Erotic Multiple Author Anthology: The Best of the Best Meat Erotica
We got hitched!
Ian Philips and Greg Wharton were married
on February 19, 2004 at San Francisco's City Hall.
We got annulled!
On August 12, 2004, the California Supreme Court voids our marriage
and those of more than 3,950 other newlyweds...
Now that's hetrosexual privilege!
Wedding pictures here.
Greg Wharton lives in San Francisco with author Ian Philips, his partner in thought and so many other crimes against nature, their cats Chloe and Notch, and a lot of books.
 
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All author photography by Jack Slomovits
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