Hal Bodner

Hal Bodner is the Bram Stoker Award nominated author of the best-selling gay vampire novel Bite Club and its lupine sequel The Trouble With Hairy. He says he was born in East Philadelphia because so few know where Cherry Hill, New Jersey is. The first person he ever saw was future Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, so Hal was destined to be a heavy smoker--a habit he greatly misses.He moved to West Hollywood in the 1980s and has rarely left the city since. Once he bought a place in Highland Park, an "up-and-coming" area of East L.A. After three of years watching street gangs doing drug deals in his back yard, he fled back to WeHo.His professions have included entertainment lawyer, scheduler for a 976 phone sex line, theater reviewer, and personal assistant to a television star. For several years, he owned Heavy Petting, a pet boutique where movie stars bought gold-plated water dishes and designer wardrobes for their Chihuahuas and Pomeranians.He also writes erotic paranormal romance, which he refers to as "supernatural smut," and is best known for In Flesh and Stone and For Love of the Dead. His comic gay superhero trilogy will hopefully debut in 2015 with Fabulous in Tights, followed soon by A Study in Spandex. Next is a series of mystery novellas featuring a gay detective and his Watsonian sidekick, a bordello madam.Hal married a man roughly half his age who had no idea that Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland were related. In consequence, he has discovered that the use of hair dye is rarely an adequate substitute for Viagra.