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scavola

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Born

in The United States

August 11

Website

http://byscavola.blogspot.com

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by_scavola

Genre

Gay & Lesbian, Fantasy

Member Since

October 2011

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https://www.goodreads.com/scavola

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People have (legitimate) issues with my "bio" so let's just cut the carp (or most of it). I live in a state where there are protections from being fired for being FAT but not for being gay. I work for a company that has a "morals clause" and uses it. I write gay porn. You do the math . . .

UPDATE: I pulled my books from sale and shut down my blog to sanitize things further. This is ridiculous, but I can't risk the connection personally.

Why scavola and why a lion? To make a short story long . . . "scaevola" was a Roman soldier who was, supposedly, the first functionally and acceptingly left-handed person, (google him, there's a story there!) and I have a background in Latin. My books are shifter / anthropomorphic, so I joined furaffinity to f People have (legitimate) issues with my "bio" so let's just cut the carp (or most of it). I live in a state where there are protections from being fired for being FAT but not for being gay. I work for a company that has a "morals clause" and uses it. I write gay porn. You do the math . . .

UPDATE: I pulled my books from sale and shut down my blog to sanitize things further. This is ridiculous, but I can't risk the connection personally.

Why scavola and why a lion? To make a short story long . . . "scaevola" was a Roman soldier who was, supposedly, the first functionally and acceptingly left-handed person, (google him, there's a story there!) and I have a background in Latin. My books are shifter / anthropomorphic, so I joined furaffinity to find an artist for the book covers. Being a Leo, I chose a lion as my "fursona". My profile picture, which I drew, actually has my face under there..

So maybe this will help new members of my group, G/G - gay fiction for gay men, from going to Moderator Don because WTF is a scavola? (Not that I mind them going to Don just the, deservedly, WTF? part).

My old bio:

I'm scavola, as you know me now, a lion. Well, not 'on all fours' as we say, but 'standing tall on my hind legs'. My human form, I don't use much, as lions are proud and majestic creatures and humans, once you reach a certain age, just get old and fat. I've written a few books so far that are available on amazon.com, the 'Duke' series as I call it, Duke – Book 1: Alpha Rising, Book 2: Genevieve's Tale, and Book 3: Transformations, that's where I come in to the series.

Getting to know them, I was so impressed by their story that I had to write it down. It follows them from the time Duke had to tell Mike his secret, that he could 'change' into a black German Shepherd, to their experience with Genevieve, a hundred-year old tortoise, to their joining the Israeli military as part of their compulsory service, where I met them. We stay in touch, so hopefully there'll be more adventures to come.

I love Duke and his world, and I hope you do too. ...more

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	Alpha Rising (Duke, #1) by scavola (Goodreads Author), Jailbird (Illustrator) 3.23 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transformations (Duke, #3) by scavola (Goodreads Author), Jailbird (Illustrator) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Genevieve's Tale (Duke, #2) by scavola (Goodreads Author), Jailbird (Illustrator) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder and Espionage (ATL Engineering, Season 1) by scavola (Goodreads Author), James Melinae 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Beautiful Waste of Flesh (ATL Engineering, Season 2) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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blog gone!

goodreads had me remove my linked blog because it contained, (can you belive it), adult content!

the link to my blog is on my profile, or you can just click HERE

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“Don’t start right off writing the ‘Great American Novel’, that's too much pressure and you'll get disappointed; start with porn, it’s fun and a good way to get your feet wet.”
― scavola

tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-craft, writing-process

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“life is what happens while you're waiting for your dreams to come true . . .”
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“It's a sure sign of getting older when nearly every topic begins with, "I used to.”
― Gerry Burnie, Nor All Thy Tears: Journey to Big Sky

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“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
― Charlotte Brontë

tags: companionship, loneliness, marriage, single, spinsterhood

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“Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story told for perversity's sake, and all the better for that; the image created because an artist gets tired of reasons sometimes, and wants to dredge up some picture he's been haunted by, and parade it like a new tattoo. I go with it, readily.”
― Clive Barker

tags: perversity, writing-advice, writing-craft

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“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: comma, misattributed-gustave-flaubert, proofreading

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