{"id":514,"date":"2014-08-26T09:54:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T13:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beydeckard.com\/blog\/?p=514"},"modified":"2014-08-26T12:10:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T16:10:25","slug":"interviewed-by-jamie-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/interviewed-by-jamie-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Interviewed by Jamie Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bey Deckard is new on the scene of writing. His first novel Caged is holding the attention of many of its readers, keeping the pages turning. Readers are eagerly awaiting whatever he has planned next!<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Jamie Lake,\u00a0author of\u00a0the The Trainer<\/a>\u00a0as well as\u00a0Boyfriend for Rent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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JL: What started your interest in writing m\/m fiction?<\/strong><\/p>\n

BD: My interest in writing fiction came first. I sat down and wrote a few chapters of something with the intention of simply describing a romantic\/sexual relationship to see if I could make a story out of it. The fact that the two central protagonists were male wasn\u2019t something that had really occurred to me until someone (who had read it) referred to it as homoerotic.<\/p>\n

Read the whole interview at Jamie Lake's blog<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bey Deckard is new on the scene of writing. His first novel Caged is holding the attention of many of its readers, keeping the pages turning. Readers are eagerly awaiting whatever he has planned next! \u2014Jamie Lake,\u00a0author of\u00a0the The Trainer\u00a0as well as\u00a0Boyfriend for Rent.   JL: What started your interest in writing m\/m fiction? BD: My interest in writing fiction came first. I sat down and wrote a few chapters of something with the intention of simply describing a romantic\/sexual relationship to see if I could make a story out of it. The fact that the two central protagonists were … <\/p>\n

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