I started writing as a hobby in high school but never published any of my works. I started performing in drag in the early 90's, but stopped performing when my mother passed away from Cancer in 1996. Shortly after I met my husband, Steve, and returned to college in my mid 30's for web development.
I returned to Drag Performing in 2013 as a creative outlet for my depression after Steve passed from a blood clot to the lung at the age of 45 in 2009. I went through a tough fight to overcome my depression and still battle it to this day. My second story has the echo of what I went through and how I felt after he passed away.
In 2016, I developed weakness in my legs which limited my performing drag until the doctors figure out what is causing it and find a way to correct it. Confined to using a walker and wheelchair, I needed something else to help fight the depression. I started reading some of my old works that I still had and began to start typing out new story ideas.
On August 23, 2016, I published my first e-book to Amazon Kindle while I was out on a medical leave from my full-time job. I followed that with my second book on September 2, 2016 just before I went back to work again. Both are short stories of gay fiction. On April 3, 2017 I made both of my first two works available in paperback versions. Both were a little rushed and I will be rewriting them both and putting them into a compilation novel when I have one or two more stories to add to it.
After two years of writing while working and doing the occasional drag show, I released my 3rd book which is a little longer and involved a lot of research to get the concept to my liking. "The Last Druid: The Family Secret" was released on March 29, 2019. I made the Kindle version FREE to anyone who buys a paperback version of the book.
Gay fiction is the genre I chose because, as a gay man, it is what I know and where my heart goes. My 3rd book is a story of magical fantasy. None of what I write is stronger than a PG-13 movie. I will be working on more stories and compiling some of my old short stories into more books. I write fiction but not adult oriented material. I want to show my readers that being gay is not about sex, but about emotional love.
I am still working on making my legs stronger again but I have returned to performing in drag (limited engagements only right now). I love the spotlight and looking fierce in my Rock 'N' Roll Goth mode!
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A.J. Davis
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