Current mood: chipper

Hi Everyone,
My new book My Hawaiian Song of Love: Phantom Lover Book 4 was just published at midnight. I have been very excited and nervous about this book because it is my most complex and most controversial one.
I write M/M erotic novels, but this is the first one I have written that is narrated by a woman. Katie Garrison is an optomistic young woman who moves to Hawaii and is quickly pursued by not one, but two hot Hawaiian guys...not knowing these two men are a couple in search of a woman to complete their picture of domestic bliss.
Before the purists start jumping down my throat, I want to stress that this scenario is based on an actual, true story. I met the three people involved and was surprised how happy and cohesive their union was.
The woman in the relationship is Australian and had moved to the Hawaiian Islands with her husband. Being an Australian man obsessed with Hawaii, some mutual friends thought we should meet. On a trip to Maui a couple of years ago, I looked her up and she invited me and my BFF to visit her. Married with three kids, I was surprised how young, gorgeous and full of energy she was. She came to greet us at the edge of her property on the edge of a huge tropical rainforest with her youngest son astride his pony.
We walked back through her private piece of paradise where she introduced us to her husbands.
Yep. Husbands.
Now, I am a guy that doesn't do well sharing food, let alone my men.
My BFF and I kept exchanging meaningful glances. Together 11 years, this happy trio seems to be um...well, super-hot and super romantic and the kids all seem to be well adjusted, well loved and actually, they remain the most amazing kids I have ever met.
The real "Katie" bubbles with enthusiasm and over the two years I have come to know her is a positive life force you just want to be near. How wonderful she is...you know how there are just some people who make you feel fantastic just standing near them? Well, that's how she is.
The real "Katie's" story is different from mine. Her men, who were in a relationship for years and were her best friends so she knew when they approached her about having a baby that they were a couple. They badly wanted kids. So did she. They discussed all their options and she said, "Hey, let's just jump into bed" and here they are 11 years later three people very, very much in love. Her parents are a little...confused by the arrangement but it's not something they sit around and talk about much unless nosy people like me ask them about it.
The two men who love each other and who love her, are doting partners. They are not swishy guys. If you didn't know they were a couple they don't act it unless you are in their home. Then it becomes obvious that they adore their wife, and one another and their kids.
I asked one of "Katie's" husbands about the arrangement one night after the kids were all tucked into their beds.
Flat-out, I asked him, "Do you prefer sex with women or men? Honestly?"
"Honestly," he said - and I will never forget this - "I love them both. How could I choose? It's apples and oranges. I love them both." He admitted he was bisexual when he met his man and that he'd become comfortable in his relationship with him. His partner had been married to a woman before and had a grown son but preferred sex with men, as much as he enjoyed close friendships with women.
"We like women...we discovered we liked sex with our woman. It works for us. She always has a man around the house and to be honest, the sex gets hotter. I couldn't even imagine cheating. I have two partners who are just so fantastic."
He smiled at me. "I have the best life ever."
Dang.
I admire and respect this family because they are being true to themselves. There is such an ocean of aloha when you spend time with them but I know for me, it's not something I could do. Not that they are suggesting I should.
I like men. I would be happy with one. And I know I could not share him.
The real "Katie" laughed and told me she always felt that too. As they say, never say never. But I still have to ask, could you share your man?

Aloha oe,
A.J.

Currently listening : Ka Manawa Pono By Uluwehi Guerrero Release date: 1998-07-13