I was going to title this: Getting there may be Half the fun, but it's all the Pain.. but I couldn't fit that in with the true purpose of this blog post, so.. you get it here instead.
So, in and out of the hospital, as they try different things to manage my pain and to deal with my blood pressure. I try to tell them they're both related, because, well, DUH.. but eh. what can you do.
Except bitch about it a lot.
However, I want to make this more then yet another "FozzieBare is not happy about his health" post, so I decided to put some effort into this post (for a change, I can hear the snarkers say in the back..)
Here's some of the authors I really enjoy. Some of them are still producing new content, others have stopped writing, some of them have disappeared, and sadly, some of them are no longer with us. But I wanted to start a discussion on what authors you love, and hopefully we can all tell each other stories that may have slipped by that would make good reading.
Jay Cantrell I've mentioned Jay as a great author before. He writes long epic tales that manage to be both hot AND full of realistic story-telling. Daze in the Valley is my favorite, but seriously, I don't think you can go wrong with any of his work.
Warlord He had several EPIC stories going, including Wild West, Warlord, Scout and the Sea Cruise series (Fun fact: Scout was the impetus to start writing Free Trader Mary's Dream). Sadly, he's drifted away from writing, and a lot of his stories are still unfinished. Here's hoping someday we will have a finish to them.
Colt45: unlike Warlord, most of his stories are complete. The Sea King series and the Mayhem series are my favorites, and I hope someday we will see a Mayhem 5, where Tink finally gets her man (Read the Mayhem series to understand that reference).
SirNathan: For those of you with a BDSM type kink, SirNathan has some GREAT stories that can guide you into that world. A lot of those stories tend to replace telling a believable story with wild acts, both of a non-consensual and consensual manner that would require a doctor's visit, if not a lengthy hospital stay or worse. So, amongst the more "hardcore" stories, this is a welcome break. My personal favorite is Culture Shock. If you ever wanted to understand a submissive's nature and how they get into the lifestyle, you MUST read it.
Don Lockwood . Want a bunch of nice, sweet, stories about believeable, relateable people? Look no further. He's no longer writing, at least that I know of.. (he originally posted under another name), but I still re-read Dance of a Lifetime AT LEAST once a year.
Also, one of the greatest compliments I ever got while writing was when I mentioned I had released one of my first stories (It's My Party) on SOL. He said to me "Foz, this is the kind of story I like to write!" and it was high praise.
Al Steiner Got a few hours/days/weeks to kill? Re-read his books. Some of them are actually out on Amazon now (the Intemperance series), and I think he was one of the first "re-run history" authors here on SOL with Doing It All Over, which is my favorite work.
bluedragon: There are long stories, and there are smutty stories, and then there's bluedragon, who writes both very well. I joked one time that you can tell if you're the lead character in a bluedragon story if your genitalia is about to fall off, not from disease, but from overuse ;)
To prevent this from being multiple pages of fanboy gushing in one post (so, I can spread it out), I'll mention some of the other authors that I like, and will go into more detail in a future post.
Lazlo Zalezac
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The Night Hawk (Kelly! Once More With Feelings! Why didn't I do the full link.. ok.. stop gushing Foz, you can tell them more later.)
Douglas Fox
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