Larry Wilson, Jr. is an accomplished author of several books, The King of Erotica I: the Throne  and The King of Erotica II: the Crown. Tired of the issues that a sexually liberated man faces with the publishing industry, Larry took control of his image and his writing and self-published his first book. That book sold over 2,500 copies online in just five months.

Larry accomplished this feat by leveraging  his talent and  reputation that he had built in gay market. In his books Larry addresses his bisexuality, sexuality and the black church and sexuality in the black family. The books are fictional; however, Larry does expose the exploitation that he personally experienced and that exist in the black environment today.

In Larry's own words....

When I looked in the mirror this morning, what reflected back wasn't Langston Hughes. When I smiled, what reflected back wasn't Alice Walker. I looked around; I didn't see the Color Purple. I may not have Oprah Winfrey's money nor have an estate built next door to Bill Gates. I may still catch the Metro Bus and walk around broke. I may still be looking for a job. I may have gone to prison ten years ago.  I may have a past. I may not be what Mama preferred. I may not be talking to my brothers, and probably never will again. I may not drive a flashy car and on my fingers may not gleam the brilliance of materialistic jewelry. I may be a lot of things in your mind and I may not live up to your expectations. I may have done some things that disappointed you, and half of the people I know say I'm out of control because I'm out of THEIR control. I may sleep late into the day and bump Janet Jackson from my SONY walkman at night. I may not be perfect.  My shit may not stink. But there's one thing no one can take from me. I'm the first one in my generation of people to be published. I'm the first to make a national magazine and newspaper. I'm the first to be Poet of the Month. I'm the first and only. To say I arrived as an author/poet on crystal stairs would be to deny all the hell I endured to make it here. Family stood in my way. Cousins bashed and talked about me so badly I distanced myself and haven't lost any sleep. I never verbally let them know of the things that were whispered about me. Friends turned on me because I don't talk or act the way they want me to.  Others cling to me, hoping my books take off. Little do they know I am aware of the sharks in my waters? I didn't let that stopped me. Before my books were published the niggahs on the block denounced me. "Boy picks up a basketball or slang some weed. Niggahs in the Hood don't write, we survive." I nearly listen end. I would throw my manuscripts away just to, days later, dig them out. Satan knew what I was to become as an adult, that's why he tried to destroy me as a child. And when he failed, when I survived his full aerial assaults, he wore my family members like dark cloaks and tried to destroy and dismantle me emotionally, spiritually and physically. I've become a little bitter because of it.  Around me are walls made of steel reinforced to trigger the warrior in me whenever battle rams rummage my terrain. I worked really hard, sacrificed a lot. I went though suicide attempts, jail, scandal and scorn to arrive at the point I'm at in my life. Before all of this I was a normal negro from Gould's, Florida. No particular direction in my life. Never thought of writing a book but I did write for leisure and to free my mind of the ghetto's slavish chains that kept me shackled. I been through a lot of abuse as a kid which fuels every character that I ever created. Father had never been there for me and for years I wrote down the thoughts my anger so masterfully created. I have taken control of my writing and honed my skill. I have been poet of the month on so many online forums I lost count after twenty. I have written my life and my soul in my Myspace Blogs. I have amassed a following that come to me because, no matter if it makes me look good or bad, I write from the soul. Because of my sexuality doors were slammed in my face. I sent letter after query letter to publishing houses, more doors slammed. So I took charge and did it myself.  I told myself what can Larry Wilson do that's different from all the other authors out there? I created the King of Erotica I: the Throne, which was intended to be a promotional book I was going to give away for free, to show people who I was and what I represented. Half of the book was erotic sexual short stories exploring why people have the type of sex the way they do. And the other half showcased my knack for poetry. To make a long story short, in four months I sold over 4,500 copies of my first book, was featured in the Express Newspaper with a full page article and was picked by CLIK magazine as one of the Top 20 Most Eligible Bachelors in America, beating out thousands of men.

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INTERVIEW

Larry I have a few questions to ask you during this interview for our readers please feel free to answer if I ask something you don't want to answer just say no comment.

Dewey: At this present time how old are you?

Larry: 30

Dewey: Would you conceder your self gay?

Larry: I consider myself Human. Gay is a label and I don't like labels at all. Labels limit that you are.

Dewey: How did you come into this life style?

Larry: Well I was sexually abused on a grand scale for four years as a kid. So it was by force. After it ended, after I was manufactured, I was set loose to live as a confused teenager. Part of it was because I wanted a father figure. I never knew my real father. And I hated being alone. Now as a man I accept what I am.

Dewey: What are your goals in life and what you plan to accomplish In the next five years from now?

Larry: Well there's a quote I live by. Two of them. One is a Guinean Proverb. He who does not cultivate his field will die of hunger. And Harriet Tubman. When I found I had crossed dat line I looked at mah hands to see if I was de same person. I apply that to everything I do. EVERYTHING! My goal is to keep writing the books people love and can relate to. Another goal of mine is to feed starving kids. I just joined an agency that sends money to them so they can eat and get the proper medical care. I'd rather starve to death as long as I know a child overseas is being fed. I've always been passionate about those things. I plan on accomplishing my goals by keeping my computer on and being true to my heart and myself. I write 13 hours a day, 6 days a week.

Dewey: Are you presently in a (Same-Sex Relationship)?

Larry: No.

Dewey: I read on another site you posted you was introduce to the lifestyle because of a relative and became a sex slave so to speak? Will you tell the reader in your own words how all that came about.

Larry: Well, he wasn't a relative. He was my ex step father. I went through four years of being tied to bed railings with leather belts and raped, whipped for no reason, emotionally and spiritually broken. He taught me things a 6 year old I shouldn't have known about until I was about 18. All I had was a journal and a pencil and dictionary to get me through those horrible days. Even as a kid I won short story contest and poetry slams. I hid it every ribbon and threw away every trophy because I was scared of writing and the power it gave me. When I was ten years old two elder female cousins, a little after my ex step dad got hooked on drugs (and Mom threw him out), took my virginity. So I went through eight more months of banging two older women and I was forced to be quiet about it. I actually thought God put me here to be people's sex slave. This was in the early 80's.

Dewey: How did you start off to get funding or funds to write you're books?  

Larry: Well writing is free. No funding required. I wrote 46 books to date and over 9,000 pieces of poetry. I did numerous things to get my voice heard because I got tired of publishing houses telling me, "You're are an amazing writer, but you're bisexual." I did a couple films with Thug Zilla. That lasted, what, about a week or two and I got out of it really quickly when I saw how we're basically exploited for little to no money. One film I did with him I still didn't get paid for but the experience taught me something that money can't buy. Friends who believed in me forked the money and sent editors and people in the publishing business in my direction through Myspace. It was a very grueling process, a lot of rejection and a lot of heartbreak. It took three years but I did it and it's paid off big time.

Dewey: When you were in the porn business and life style was you a bottom or top etc?

Larry: A bottom.

Dewey: You mention in the interview the king of porn Thug Zilla introduce you to porn and that is where you started to get the funds to publish your books?

Larry: Nah. He didn't introduce me to it. I never knew he existed until the first day I shot a film with him, which someone else was supposed to do but the person didn't show up. He's good people. I didn't get paid much from them, but it was enough to get me to where I needed to be.

Dewey: I did an interview with Thug Zilla a few weeks ago he's a dear friend that I treasure a lot and now I've added you as a friend. Can you tell the reads when you doing porn with Thug Zilla what was it like and your friendship with him today?

Larry: Well I hated it. Half the time somebody stood in the background moaning for me and it's all a bunch of editing and cut and paste. To me it was a bunch of acting because the entire time I was a) miserable and my heart wasn't in it at all, if you really look closely. I was praying to God the entire time without telling anyone on the set and b) I had a goal. I wanted to self-publish my own books so I did what I had to do. On screen he's the big bag thug but in person he has a heart of gold. I have a lot of love for him. I respect him. I got the chance to go grocery shopping with him and to laugh, hang out, and see him be a real black man off camera. He's blunt and so am I. He doesn't fear living and I don't either. That's what attracted me to him. He's a lot of fun to be around. Just putting grocery up in the counters with him the same day we shot the film showed me an entirely different person. He didn't seem like the King of Porn. I liked that a lot. He never mixed business with pleasure. He is the one person I can truly say knows how to keep the two separate. I will always respect and have love for him until my dying day.

Dewey: I know you get a lot of hate mail etc. what do you have to say to all the haters out there?

Larry: LOL. I'm like Katt Williams when it comes to haters. The more the merrier. Honestly, I don't get a lot of hate mail. Just a few individuals make seven and eight different screen names, posing as other people. They hate that I gave up on porn after two weeks and actually published two books. They hate that I never gave them any play or ass. They hate that author Shani's "Mocha Chocolate" anthology, featuring one of my short stories, will be in book stores in about three more weeks. March of 2008. They hate I was CLIK magazines top 25 Sexiest, Most Eligible Bachelor based on my writing. They hate that I am the king of Erotica and the name has been trademarked, lived up to and can't be duplicated or stopped and that I don't have to have sex or take off my clothes to sell books. That's what they hate. But then again, they don't really hate it, they love it. They just express their love in a negative way.

Dewey: Do you presently have sex with men today?

Larry: LOL. You're nosey, aren't you? LOL. I have sex with people, period. I love women and men equally.

Dewey: Most men are ashamed to take nude pictures and post them for others to see. What is your view on this and do you have new picture of yourself on the web?

Larry: Men who take nude pictures are doing them. Who am I to judge or speak on that? Have I taken nude pictures? Yea, when I did the film with Thug Zilla. But that's years behind me. I'm sure they're floating around out there somewhere. It doesn't bother me. If people want to drool over the shell of a man I used to be three years ago then more power to you. They're stagnated, I'm elevating. They get off on those pictures. I'm writing novels and preparing my future. I'm presently in college getting a B.A. in Journalism.

Dewey: Are you available to do motivational speak and to be scheduled. If so how can our readers reach you to book you? 

Larry: I'm always available for that. I did three about two weeks ago at three different colleges. They know my lifestyle, the porn stuff and all. I openly talk about it and because of it the gay community in itself has embraced me. I use it as stepping stones to get me to a certain peak the haters can't brush with their fingernails. They can reach me through my email, kingoferotica305@aol.com or dapharoah69@yahoo.com.

Dewey: Larry my friend would there be anything else you would like to say or mention before this interview ends?

Larry: Let people talk. Just means you're doing something right. I don't focus on that. I have a life to live and I'm living it. Doors are opening for me and I'm walking through. Live life for you. Do you. When you start worrying about people, events and places then in your heart something is lacking. Fill it with positive people, family and friends. Bob from the Hood will keep you more grounded than a person who only likes you because you made a film or write a book. People come and go but a real friend comes and goes with you. Keep God first. We all sin so let God worry about that and don't worry about people in glass houses with locked closets. We all mess up, we all fall on our faces but occasionally look up and realize God is always there.

Closing: Thank you Larry for your time and doing this interview with me, my prayers will be with you and remember you have gained a new friend. The readers and I will look forward to your books as you publish them much love and god bless you.