Also see Kody Boye K.J. Boye is a contemporary fiction writer currently living in Austin, Texas. Having grown up gay in the conservative north, much of his fiction revolves around the isolation that gay men feel from inside their own minds rather than that of society. My Dead Boyfriend is his debut into the genre field. His first novel, The Beauty that is Us, will be released in late 2012. If you would like to learn more about K.J., you can visit him online at thecontemporarywriter.blogspot.com.