Don Schecter

No awards yet, just hundreds of satisfied readers I retired to Texas to write, as I wish I had done all my life. Starting in 2000, my work appeared in magazines and on internet sites under the name Tecumseh. HEIGHTS OF PASSION (2009), my first collection, is fifteen stories focusing on the mature gay man. I found so much more to say on the topic, I published a second volume of sixteen stories, OUT OF THE BOX, a year later. DISCOVERY OF FIRE (2011) comprised seven longer tales. LOVE WANTED, WILL TRAVEL, published in 2012, is Volume 4 of the series and is a look at the lighter problems of gay men of all ages. These stories are chock-full of sex but NOT erotic fiction. I try to show real people dealing with real life situations. Sex is only part of their lives. A COMPLEMENT OF LOVERS was published in 2013. Set in 1962, it's a love story between an indecisive young man named Rodney, and Meg, a girl who knows what she wants. If you are tired of romances with stereotypical heroes and heroines, this is for you. THE ROAD TO FRANKFURT, published in 2014, is the sequel to A COMPLEMENT OF LOVERS and follows Meg and Rodney through the tumultuous '60s as they strive to discover who they really are, how each affects the other's life, and what they want for a future. UNCOUPLED, 2015, is part 3 of the Complement of Lovers series. It shows Rod and Meg steering their relationship into the early '70s. Now with two children, Meg seeks more tangible forms of independence while Rod continues to decode his sexual identity.