Thomas S. Roche Biography

Thomas Roche has been writing professionally since age 19. He sold his first novel, a fine 200-page opus entitled All the Way in the Hay, to a shady New York publisher during the glory days of one-handed publishing. It would be another three years before his first "legitimate" (ie, non-porn) professional publication, a short story entitled "The Beast With Blood Red Eyes" that appeared in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine.

Since then, Roche has sold over 400 stories under various names, around 3/4 of them in the erotica field and the remainder in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror, dark fantasy, and crime-noir, often with erotic elements. That's reasonably fitting, since many of his erotic stories have crime, horror, or fantasy aspects.

Additionally, another three dozen or so erotic novels have followed that inaugural volume, spawned from his unholy fingers (he tends to lose track) under various pseudonyms including, most famously, N.T. Morley. Under that name, he has written 16 novels of erotic dominance and submission and edited two anthologies.

He has edited or coedited a total of 7 anthologies, including four books of horror (Sons of Darkness, Brothers of the Night, In the Shadow of the Gargoyle and Graven Images) and three of crime-noir erotica (the Noirotica series). In addition, he has authored or coauthored three erotic short story collections (Dark Matter, His, and Hers). Many of his own short stories mingle the themes of crime-noir, gothic and horror fiction with explicit eroticism and sexual imagery.

He has scripted one BDSM instructional video (Whip Smart, Sexpositive Productions, 2004) and one comic story published in Glenn Danzig's Verotika. One of his works, "Memorandum," was recently adapted for the stage in London. His fiction has been translated into Turkish, German, French, Danish, Dutch, and Italian.

Roche's nonfiction work has appeared in a wide variety of web and print publications, giving him more than 400 professionally published articles, essays, reviews, and interviews to his credit. He was a product reviews editor and staff writer at www.gettingit.com, the nonfiction editor at www.gothic.net, a staff writer at www.libida.com, the editor of Good Vibes Magazine at Good Vibrations, and the Books Editor at Universal Studios' now-defunct www.13thstreet.com. Currently he is the Managing Editor of Eros Zine, an online magazine specializing in erotica, fetish, and dark sexuality.

In addition to his editing and writing work, Roche served as Marketing Manager of San Francisco's women-owned erotic boutique, Good Vibrations, from 2001-2004. Prior to that, he worked in the field of medical advertising and medical education for six years. Roche has also worked in the field of sexuality education for more than 10 years as a staff instructor at San Francisco Sex Information, a nonprofit educational service.

He maintains a website at www.skidroche.com and dueling blogs at http://thomasroche.livejournal.com and http://pulpfriction.typepad.com.