When writing, what themes do you feel passionate about?

Family and friends have politely asked why I can’t write something a bit more mainstream. If you look at the stories, though, they are mainstream. A college student takes a vacation and comes to terms with his sexuality. Hmm. Never heard that one before. Now we have the sequel. A college student has a heck of a time finding love. Does it get more mainstream than that? The difference is that instead of your teen sex comedy where the main characters happen to be straight, we now have a teen sex comedy where the main character happens to be gay.

It’s important to me to keep writing stories dealing with characters who are gay because I’m also demonstrating that there are similarities between them and their straight counterparts. We may very well be more alike than not, yet that belief is a difficult one for some people to realize. Another theme that emerges in the sequel and is carried over into the book I’m currently writing is a relationship between two people of different cultures, American and Chinese, which mirrors the relationship I’ve been in for the past 13 years.

Both of these themes are a bit of a rarity in literature and as long as I feel I have something to say about them, I’ll continue to write with them in mind.

Do you have a website/blog where readers may learn more about you and your work?

I do. I actually had a professional business design my new site: www.KageAlan.com, and I maintain a MySpace page where I blog on a fairly regular basis,www.MySpace.com/KageAlan.

Thanks for stopping by! It was a pleasure to have you here!

My pleasure.