M.A. Thompson is a Ph.D. in American Studies who escaped the tentacles of academe, only to fall into the grasp of not one, but two literary agents, neither of whom, in spite of unstinted effort, wa...view moreM.A. Thompson is a Ph.D. in American Studies who escaped the tentacles of academe, only to fall into the grasp of not one, but two literary agents, neither of whom, in spite of unstinted effort, was able to convince, or coerce, a “traditional” publisher to take a chance on a manuscript about anonymous public sex, illegal drugs, a lupine boy, and two men living with two cats. Consequently, subsequent manuscripts by Thompson have focused on sugar daddies and rent boys, lifeguards of color, and backstage adultery on Broadway – all of which might soon find their way to Xlibris.view less