Martin, a serious foodie familiar with New Orleans restaurant culture, branched out into the LIQUOR series, which revolved around two gay line cooks, Ricky and G-Man, who open a restaurant (the titular LIQUOR) where every dish is themed around a different type of alcohol. The final straw came when his contracted third novel, Exquisite Corpse (about a pair of gay serial killers in love), was declined by both his American and UK publishers as being "too nihilistic" and "a bloodbath without justification." While the book eventually found a publisher, this experience, along with other behind-the-scenes issues in the publishing world, drove him to seek a break from horror writing. Martin found himself feeling bored and limited by both the horror genre and negative critical reviews claiming that Martin himself was "typecast" as an author of Goth novels. Brite born May 25, 1967) is an American author.Įarly in his career, he wrote two sucessful horror novels- Lost Souls (1992) and Drawing Blood- known for their violent imagery, their baroque-verging-on- Purple Prose, and their frequently homosexual and bisexual casts of characters, as well as several similarly-themed short story collections, that appealed heavily to mid-1990s Goth sensibilities. Billy Martin (formerly known and published under the name Poppy Z.
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