David M Hancock

David M. Hancock is a writer living in New York City. He has worked as a web editor for CBS News, and before that was a reporter for The Miami Herald and several Texas newspapers.

David M. Hancock has spent decades trying to decipher the mysterious powers of the authors he especially admires: Ursula K. Le Guin, D.M. Thomas, Roger Zelazny, Philip Pullman, Borges, Garcia Marquez and so many more. You can tell by that list that sci-fi and magical realism are close to his heart.

Only recently has the author felt ready to tell his own stories. Or as Georgia O'Keeffe once said, to make his unknown, known. He's grateful to Amazon.com for this platform to share his writing.

David M. Hancock follows two pole stars in his own writing endeavors:

1. That a writer must tell the story that only he or she can tell.

2. In the late 1970s, an interviewer asked the playwright Tennessee Williams what advice he would give to young writers. Hancock remembers Mr. Williams' words because he wrote them down in his journal: "I hope he follows his heart, baby. His poor, frightened heart."

In April 2014 David M. Hancock collected his gay-themed speculative fiction in "The Man Who Lost His Gayness".

Sexy speculative fiction where magic is manifest and disaster lurks in every trick gone bad. Twisted tales of the boudoir told with kind, if sharply-barbed, wit.

In March 2015, he released "Tricks Gone Bad," an erotic tapestry of fact and fiction that begins and ends with a real-life murder in the Chihuahua desert. Cunningly told moments moored in the suspension of consequences required for sex with strangers.

All comments welcomed at davidmhancock@abysmalantics.com. Visit the publishing web site www.AbysmalAntics.com for updates.