“Platonic friendships can become paradoxically romantic, and I think if society weren't so inherently homophobic, men of all sexualities could have much more honest, open and healthy relationships with each other.”

Based on the award-winning digital series—meet the ‘cosmetic genetics’: friends, lovers, and situational enemies who form a vibrant, unexpected harmony of comedy, romance, and drama.

Hector “Zario” del Rosario is excited to begin life as an openly gay man in Los Angeles, but he can’t keep his straight housemates out of his love life. After an intense breakup, his college friend Alexander organizes a high-stakes bet to find new romantic prospects for Zario.

Ellington Gomez has his hands full, usually with an assortment of beautiful women, but when he receives an SOS from his gay younger brother Marshall, it becomes clear that a little change might be the best thing for both of them.

Jericho “Jay” Kim doesn’t like staying in the same place long enough for the smell to stick, so when he moves in with struggling actor Sunji Spencer, he figures eight months, twelve tops. Only when Zario moves in does Jay manage to find an increasing amount of reasons to stay.

Pretty Dudes: The Novel brings Zario and his friends into a rich, textured new medium, combining their kaleidoscopic experiences into bold, ever-changing patterns of humor, heartbreak, and hope.

“This is beyond talk,” Ellington warns. “Your love life belongs to us. We're gonna be gay matchmakers!”

Sunji shakes his head. “That sounds wrong. We're matchmakers who are gay.”

In 2022, Calloway adapted his hit digital series into the raucous, raunchy Pretty Dudes: The Novel, featuring a deeper dive into Zario, Ellington, and their friends.

Narrated by Carlos LaTorre and produced by Pinto Media, the novel took on new life as an audiobook.
Listen now on Apple, Audible, Audiobooks.com, Bandcamp, BingeBooks, Chirp, Google Play, hoopla, IndieBound, Kobo, Walmart, Libro.FM, NOOK Audiobooks, Scribd, Spotify, and Storytel.

Already announced are three follow-up novels—Pretty Dudes: The Sequel, Pretty Dudes: The Walls of Jericho Kim, and Pretty Dudes: The Ungodly Hours.