Susan: Your photographs are erotic, sensual, tender, sexy and downright inspiring. I picture the things I write as if they will be photos I’ll take. The same way with the scene where Ryan teaches David to swim at the country lake – the scene that gave the novel it’s name. For example, the kiss in the garden, or as I call it “the raspberry kiss” is written in such a way that every sentence could be shot as a photograph. Each scene is extremely visual and self-contained. Memorizing You is written almost like a screenplay. Then as I reread it a few years later I thought, with the right words it would be a fairly decent little story. For example my gay fairy tale, The Art Of The Heart was first plotted out to be a graphic novel that I would shoot. Most of my books actually started out as ideas for a shoot. How do you balance out the writing part of you with the visual art of photography? Do they feed each other or do the pictures feed the writing inspiration?ĭan: They do feed each other. And then you get to go off and write wonderful stories of your own as well. Susan: You’re a very fortunate man to most of us in that you get to photograph beautiful, sensual men in different settings and poses, something which we all are envious of. I asked him a couple of questions about what makes him tick. I was recently fortunate enough to interview DW Skinner -Dan Skinner – about both his photography and his writingĭan is well known to those of us in the LGBTQ writing community for his beautiful cover art and erotic photos that capture the imagination.

Memorizing You by Dan Skinner