My Writings

In 2005, I didn't have a book deal. Or an agent to find me one. The only thing I had were a few files on my computer called "My Pet Virus: The Book" and a dream. (And HIV.) Still, I was looking ahead of the book and dreaming of the story on the big screen: and on the...

I posted a blog several months ago about the passing of my first HIV doc, Dr. Lyman Fisher. In this month's Poz, I wrote a column about him, you can read it below, and check out the new issue HERE. Poz Magazine, Nov 2007 Medical Leave by Shawn Decker Shawn Decker...

This month I get started on my next book. Finally. I wrote something last January about starting later that month. Then a month or two later I wrote about starting after the spring semester of speaking/traveling was done. But the problem with starting a book is that...

It's Memorial Day. And I'm blogging about myself. Not sure if that's what my grandfathers fought for in WWII, or the reason why a generation of new soldiers are slogging it out in Iraq and Afghanistan, but that's how it is going down this year. When I was a kid I...

In writing a book, a lot of things end up in the crap heap, never to be read and usually for good reason. The following exclusion, however, is an homage to my teen and pre-teen love of slasher flicks and horror movies that didn't make it into the book, but isn't half...

In my memoir, My Pet Virus, I wrote a bit about my buddies in Bella Morte and how they played Earth Angel at me and Gwenn's wedding. Well, they've finally added the song to their MySpace profile, so go give it a listen! Every once in awhile my Google Alert catches a...

Shawn's MY PET VIRUS Book Tour Photo Blog (NOTE: Photos originally posted on this entry were on old web site, which is now defunct- my apologies for lack of photos on this entry! -SD) Well the book tour is over. But thanks to digital photography, the memories will...