Author: D.H. Jonathan

I am the author of the recently published novel The "Volunteer" about a college student who reluctantly agrees to be the central figure in a sociology experiment in public nudity in order to avoid the loss of her scholarships. I grew up in Arkansas and Texas, and except for short stints living in New York City and the Denver, CO area, have spent my adult life in north Texas. I earned a master's degree in library science, but in the late 1990's, my hobby of buying computer components and building PCs from scratch landed me in the corporate IT world. I started modeling for art classes at the age of 18, and I have kept it up as a part time job ever since. It has been over 30 years now. Host Regis Philbin was certainly fascinated with my nude modeling career when I was a contestant on the ABC game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 2001. (I wound up winning $32,000.) I've written stories since elementary school, and I wrote a few novels over the years, all of which remained unpublished due to my non-diligence in submitting them to agents and editors. I recently decided to take charge of my writing career, and my debut novel The "Volunteer" was just released in the summer of 2016.

Amazon Reviews

The “Volunteer” has only been available for just a few days, but it already has a couple of Amazon reviews, including a five star one that was just posted this morning. Reader K.C. Wilder wrote:

While the expectation is that this kind of story would devolve into a male voyeur fantasy of the submissive naked woman, I was pleasantly surprised to find that Dani’s experience focused more on portraying nudity and nudism in a positive light, and it became less about “look at that naked woman” and more about “wouldn’t it be fun to be naked all the time”. I thought it was very enjoyable, and also got my pulse racing.

Thank you K.C.!

Vacation

My family and I have just returned to Texas from what was, for us, an epic vacation to Yellowstone National Park, Glacier National Park, and points in between.  After visiting both Helena and Missoula, I can say that I love western Montana.  Here’s a photo of my son taken on Going to the Sun Road in Glacier National Park.

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In literary news, The “Volunteer” is now fully available on Kindle, and it is now visible on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30799836-the-volunteer.  Please feel free to post reviews there or on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Volunteer-Novel-D-H-Jonathan/dp/1534635246).

What if…

Almost every work of fiction started off with the author asking a question starting with “What if…?”.  A little over a year ago, one such question entered my mind: What if a young college student was required to spend all of her time nude?  Several questions followed. How would people around her respond, and more importantly, how would she feel?  How could a university allow such a thing, much less require it?  And how could it even be legal? It was those questions that drove the writing of my upcoming novel The “Volunteer”.

And in case you are wondering how such a question even entered my mind, I will admit that it came to me while I was posing for a college life drawing class, a job I’ve been at for over thirty years.  And yes, I was nude at the time…