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Dominican Heat #1
Aching For It
Dominican Heat, Book One
Handsome Hollywood photographer Jesse didn’t expect to fall in love when he and fellow black gay comrades ventured on a ”sexcursion” to the Dominican Republic, where gorgeous young locals offer erotic delights for a reasonable price. But fall in love he did when he met, under the noblest circumstances, the young and hauntingly beautiful Dominican bodega worker Étienne.
A whirlwind romance of deep love and hot, steamy sex ensues, but getting his man to the States is no easy task for Jesse. He’ll do everything within his power, even a little law-breaking with the help of his devil-may-care sister, to ensure that his and Étie’s love flourishes just as hot in Southern California as it did in their island paradise.
A Romantica® gay/GLBT erotic romance from Ellora’s Cave
74 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 19, 2013
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About the author
Stanley Bennett Clay
13 books131 followersStanley Bennett Clay received 3 NAACP Theatre Awards and 3 Drama-logue Awards for writing, directing and co-producing the stage play “Ritual.” He made his film writing/directorial debut with the film version, which was voted the Jury Award at the 2000 Pan African Film Festival. Recently he wrote and directed the documentary "You Are Not Alone," and examination of depression among black gay men.
He wrote the plays “Lovers” (Theatre of Arts), wrote and composed the musical “Street Nativity” (Celebrity Centre Theatre), and wrote and starred in “Armstrong’s Kid” (Roy Arias Off-Broadway Theatre/NY).
He directed the west coast premiere of the play “Jonin’” (Estelle Harmon Theatre, Drama-logue Award/Direction), produced the GLAAD award-winning “Children of the Night” (Ebony Showcase Theatre), and produced the world premiere of “Willie & Esther” which was a Los Angeles Times Critics’ Choice and won 2 L.A. Weekly Awards, including Best Play. He most recently directed the premiere production of "B-Boy Blues: The Play" adapted from the James Earl Hardy classic novel. The production won The Audience Award at New York City's Downtown Urban Theatre Festival.
As an actor, Clay starred, guest-starred and was featured in more than fifty TV and film productions including “Good Times,” “Cheers,” “Minstrel Man,” "James Michener’s Dynasty,” “Cannonball” and “All The President’s Men.” On stage, he did leads in “Zooman and the Sign” (Drama-logue Award/NAACP Image Award Best Actor nominee) “Anna Lucasta” (NAACP Image Award Best Actor winner) and “Six Pieces of Musical Broadway” (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion). He also appeared in Albert Camus’ “Caligula” (Zodiac Theatre) Bill Duke’s “Sonata” (Theatre of Arts) and “A Hatful of Rain” (Argo Repertory Company).
He’s the author of 6 novels: “Diva” (Fleming & Sons), “In Search of Pretty Young Black Men” (Atria), “Looker” (Atria), "Aching For It" (Ellora's Cave), "Hollywood Flames" (Ellora's Cave) and "Madame Frankie" (Ellora's Cave). “Search” won the 2005 New York HOTEP Society Award for Best Gay Novel. He also co-authored “Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris.”
For ten years (1991-2001) he edited and published SBC Magazine, then the most widely distributed national monthly for the Black LGBT community. He received Genre Magazine’s Life Guard Award, The National Black Writers’ Founder’s Award, the first Black Gay and Lesbian Cultural Alliance Award, the 2008 Oakland Black Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, Blatino Oasis 2010 Award for Literature, the Indianapolis Black Pride/Brothers United Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature, and the first Better Brother Los Angeles Lifetime Achievement Award.
He lives in Manhattan, New York with his husband Reny.
He wrote the plays “Lovers” (Theatre of Arts), wrote and composed the musical “Street Nativity” (Celebrity Centre Theatre), and wrote and starred in “Armstrong’s Kid” (Roy Arias Off-Broadway Theatre/NY).
He directed the west coast premiere of the play “Jonin’” (Estelle Harmon Theatre, Drama-logue Award/Direction), produced the GLAAD award-winning “Children of the Night” (Ebony Showcase Theatre), and produced the world premiere of “Willie & Esther” which was a Los Angeles Times Critics’ Choice and won 2 L.A. Weekly Awards, including Best Play. He most recently directed the premiere production of "B-Boy Blues: The Play" adapted from the James Earl Hardy classic novel. The production won The Audience Award at New York City's Downtown Urban Theatre Festival.
As an actor, Clay starred, guest-starred and was featured in more than fifty TV and film productions including “Good Times,” “Cheers,” “Minstrel Man,” "James Michener’s Dynasty,” “Cannonball” and “All The President’s Men.” On stage, he did leads in “Zooman and the Sign” (Drama-logue Award/NAACP Image Award Best Actor nominee) “Anna Lucasta” (NAACP Image Award Best Actor winner) and “Six Pieces of Musical Broadway” (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion). He also appeared in Albert Camus’ “Caligula” (Zodiac Theatre) Bill Duke’s “Sonata” (Theatre of Arts) and “A Hatful of Rain” (Argo Repertory Company).
He’s the author of 6 novels: “Diva” (Fleming & Sons), “In Search of Pretty Young Black Men” (Atria), “Looker” (Atria), "Aching For It" (Ellora's Cave), "Hollywood Flames" (Ellora's Cave) and "Madame Frankie" (Ellora's Cave). “Search” won the 2005 New York HOTEP Society Award for Best Gay Novel. He also co-authored “Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris.”
For ten years (1991-2001) he edited and published SBC Magazine, then the most widely distributed national monthly for the Black LGBT community. He received Genre Magazine’s Life Guard Award, The National Black Writers’ Founder’s Award, the first Black Gay and Lesbian Cultural Alliance Award, the 2008 Oakland Black Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, Blatino Oasis 2010 Award for Literature, the Indianapolis Black Pride/Brothers United Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature, and the first Better Brother Los Angeles Lifetime Achievement Award.
He lives in Manhattan, New York with his husband Reny.
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July 9, 2014
Aching For It, by Stanley Bennett Clay, is a short story of long distance love between Jesse Lee Templeton III (Junie) and Etienne Saldano (Etie). This was not the reviewer’s first time reading any books written by Mr. Clay and I was disappointed.
The story begins and goes through about 60% of the book as just one lustful episode after another, without any true developed story line. Yes, there is a story of how to get these two lovers to live in the same place after their lust at first sight turns into fast love.
While reading the book, I began to feel that Mr. Clay sat with a thesaurus to find words and that many of the words were overly ambitious for the story. For example, to use the paragraph – “His surprise when he saw Edgar with Sylvester, my surprise when I realized Edgar was Etie’s ex he’d left when Edgar became a sex worker, a bugarrone, was the shocking and near fatal denouement that threatened to smother our infant love before it was fully able to breathe.” To use the word denouement to describe the possible destruction of their new love was, in my opinion, a little extreme.
It wasn’t until about 60% into the book that I began to moderately enjoy what I was reading. The book at that point began to really tell a story about getting Etie to America and how they were to accomplish that. My favorite part of the book was when Mr. Clay showed the true humanness of Junie and Etie when they talked about their fathers and the effect their upbringings had on their development as men.
While I personally did not enjoy this book, there are many others that might.
-Reviewed by Selina
The story begins and goes through about 60% of the book as just one lustful episode after another, without any true developed story line. Yes, there is a story of how to get these two lovers to live in the same place after their lust at first sight turns into fast love.
While reading the book, I began to feel that Mr. Clay sat with a thesaurus to find words and that many of the words were overly ambitious for the story. For example, to use the paragraph – “His surprise when he saw Edgar with Sylvester, my surprise when I realized Edgar was Etie’s ex he’d left when Edgar became a sex worker, a bugarrone, was the shocking and near fatal denouement that threatened to smother our infant love before it was fully able to breathe.” To use the word denouement to describe the possible destruction of their new love was, in my opinion, a little extreme.
It wasn’t until about 60% into the book that I began to moderately enjoy what I was reading. The book at that point began to really tell a story about getting Etie to America and how they were to accomplish that. My favorite part of the book was when Mr. Clay showed the true humanness of Junie and Etie when they talked about their fathers and the effect their upbringings had on their development as men.
While I personally did not enjoy this book, there are many others that might.
-Reviewed by Selina
June 16, 2013
Stanley Bennett Clay is a wordsmith extraordinaire. He has been a literary hero of mine for a while now. I won't talk about his other works that I love, like LOOKER, for ACHING FOR IT is the subject at hand. I enjoy watching porn. I don't love it for its lack of plot. As erotica is porn in written format, Clay takes it to the level it deserves. Jesse and Etie's sexual passion and interesting life experience creates a nice erotica Jambalaya. Thick. Hot. Spicy. Just the way it should be! The sex and the drama. The life lessons they learn at each other's feet...or crotch! And true to form with Clay, there is always an unexpected twist...or 2! A must read!
August 15, 2013
Rating 1 star out of 5
Supremely awful story in every way. Schizophrenic writing styles, derivative plot, and amazingly unlikable characters are just the beginning. Worthy only as an entry to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
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