Featured Interview With Pablo Michaels
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I am a gay, senior man married to my partner, best friend, lover, husband and soulmate for twenty years I am a native Californian born in a rural mountain town. My family moved to the suburbs of San Francisco when I was four. I studied at a number of universities, acquiring a diverse education and enjoyed many life-forming experiences. I started writing in the third grade through high school. But in college I discovered my true identity and acted on my sexual orientation as a gay man. I had many adventures working and living in San Francisco. In the 1980’s I wrote constantly while working. I inherited and now live in the house I grew up in the suburbs on a quiet country street, surrounded by a metropolis. I have one dog, Bailey, a miniature American Eskimo Husky. I write in the living room on my laptop or in our den on either my laptop or PC. I love to take breaks and go out on our upper deck, enjoying the garden surrounding me and the ranch behind us.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My mother was a primary school teacher, excelling in teaching reading and writing. So I was encouraged to perform well in school. My mother gave me good advise- people can take everything away from you but your education. I started reading when I was five and write my first book in the third grade. All through high school and college, I loved writing stories and poetry.
Pablo Michaels disguised himself as a shy, friendly heterosexual during his adolescence, fantasizing other males. Falling in love with another man his first year in college, he followed this man to another university to maintain their platonic love, while he continued in his in studies. When he had his first sexual encounter with another man, just before turning twenty-one, he exploded into gay life with lust and rage. He attempted to live his new life naturally, seeking love, ignoring the statistics of the books he read on homosexuality in high school, and proving what he had read was wrong.
Pablo Michaels is a gay man who writes gay romantic genre fiction from a gay man’s perspective. He is driven to educate and enlighten readers with the true beauty of love between men. He has published several books over the span of the last five years. He has found a new home to publish his stories with Yellow Silk Dreams, a publisher composed of a coop of authors. He grew up in a working class family that taught him the values of hard work, regardless of the profession, and helped him acquire a diverse education. The family motto is “People can take everything away from you. But they never can take away your education.” He is legally married to his soulmate, a man he has lived with for twenty years.
Pablo Michaels was born in the story, “Raging Silence”, which is included in the book, “This Beautiful Escape”. The silence raging in Pablo Michaels was his inherit sexual orientation, suppressed in his adolescent years. Through years of struggles he finds peace in his current life with his legal husband, a partnership of 20 years.
He wrote poetry and stories since third grade. When he turned twenty-one, he moved to San Francisco to work and write, experiencing more of gay life. In the 1980’s he wrote every chance he had, trying and failing miserably at publishing mainstream fiction. He published his first story, Reunion on the Trail, in 1986 in a literary magazine When the Mockingbird Sings.
After writing plays, short stories, poetry, and two novels, he began writing gay genre stories, feeling he had more knowledge and experience with gay lifestyle. Trying to publish, he went to a library seminar hosted by two published authors. Inspired by the gay writer, Scott Kemble he connected with him on the internet site for The San Francisco Bay Area Literary Arts Newsletter and Review, which published four of Pablo’s short stories.
Constantly, writing since 2004, he published his first e-book, Pagan Knights of Cambria, with Life of Riley Productions in London. Soon a mainstream story, When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again Hooray, published also. In 2012 Pablo self-published his first novel, Catnip, Rosemary, Rage and Time, combining mystery and humor in a gay, erotic romance. He continues to write more episodes in his next novel, The Deer in the Forest The plot spreads over several decades, about a man’s attempts to adapt to the world he lives, all with love, heartache, history and survival at no cost.
His latest article, Why Gay Men Retire to Palm Springs, was just published in the very popular SimplySxy.com online magazine. You can read the insightful article here. http://simplysxy.com/articles/2015/06/08/why-gay-men-retire-to-palm-springs/
Pablo retired from gardening and landscaping to devote his energy to write fiction. As a gay man he wishes to promote his writing gay genre fiction to help others understand the necessity for equal rights for LGBT people and comprehend that love between a man and a man, people of the same sex, is as natural as love between a man and a woman. Throughout his lifetime he has experienced the long battle of achieving acceptance. He has searched for a committed relationship with another man. He has loved his partner for twenty years. They were legally married in front of Harvey Milk’s bust in the rotunda of San Francisco City Hall by a judge, in 2008. Although their marriage remained legal after the passage of Proposition 8, they continued to work to repeal DOMA and Prop. 8. Throughout his life he has attempted to live and practice peace as a process for living.
His published books include the book, Blood, Sweat and Black Leather, a gay paranormal romance, published by Yellow Silk Dreams in January 2015. Affairs of Men’s Hearts, published in May 2015 by Yellow Silk Dreams is an anthology of four stories connected by the themes of gay men seeking love with another man, from wishful thinking male to male romance to gay marriage. His latest book, Jack and the Magical Beanstalk is an adult version with a gay twist of the fairy tale classic, Jack and the Beanstalk, published in December 2015 by Yellow Silk Dreams. He has rewritten his first novel, Catnip. Rosemary, Rage and Time, and its prequel, Learning to Love Again, both soon to be published. He is currently working on the sequel to Jack and the Magical Beanstalk. The working title is Climbing Another Magical Beanstalk.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love to read gay genre mysteries, especially Richard Stevenson’s, Donald Strachey detective series.. The characters are real and I relate to them as an older reader. I loved Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. I have always admire his skill and simplicity in creating a coming of age story. Both authors inspire me to create the simplicity in characters but who have depth as a real person.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Jack and the Magical Beanstalk is an adult fairy tale based on the classic with a gay twist in characters and plot. It retains the original concept and simplicity of the classic, written with erotica and romance with new characters. I loved fairy tales as a kid and wanted to create the same fun story from a gay perspective. I have added new characters. The strange old man wearing red bikini underwear trades Jack the magic beans for their prize cow Pearly White. But Jack must perform several sexual feats of acquiring the penile shaped magic bean seeds. The giant, Master, has a partner, a submissive giant, Slave. With the gold coins, Jack hires two gay farmhands, Zeke and Adam. Jack’s love interest is found with a naked man, Sam, who steals food for his ailing father. Through a number of trips up the flesh-like stem of the magical beanstalk, Jack falls in love with Sam and brings home a wealth of gold coins, a cackling hen that lays gold eggs and a harp that sings beautiful songs.
Jack, an awkward, young boy, grew up on a farm with his mother, Lorene. Fatherless from a young age, Jack and his mother sold milk from their prize winning cow, Pearly White, at the market. Jack idolized his handsome father, Bill, who sang beautiful melodies for his wife. Jack could not sing but had other talents like drawing and painting. When the farm started failing, without Jack’s father tending the crops, they had to sell Pearly White. Lorene scolded her son for selling their cow for five magical beans and sent him to bed without dinner. The next morning Jack woke up to a giant, magical beanstalk, growing up through the clouds in the sky. He knew the beanstalk was magical and so he climbed up the beanstalk, discovering a place where Giants ruled the land. Slave, the smaller giant served the larger giant, Master. After his long journey, Jack begged for food from Slave. But Master was hungry and smelled a young handsome wimp. Slave hid Jack to escape Master’s hunger. After Jack watched Master eat, he spied him counting a bag of golden coins. When Master fell asleep, Jack ran out the door with Master’s bag of golden coins, Master and Slave chased him to the giant, magical beanstalk. Before sliding down the beanstalk, Jack admired a handsome, naked man his size and age, from a distance. Jack pleased his mother with the bag of golden coins. He bought back Pearly White and hired two men, Zeke and Adam, to help on the farm. As Jack grew up, his appearance resembled that of his dad’s, attracting many men, including Zeke and Adam. The farm prospered with Jack working side by side with the two farmhands. Jack continued climbing the magical beanstalk to steal more treasures from Master and Slave. Jack met the handsome young, naked man, Sam, during the next plot to steal a golden treasure. Between saving each other from Master and Slave and finding food and treasures, Can Jack and Sam continue loving each other coming from different worlds while surviving the wrath of the giants?
Connect with the Author on their Websites and Social media profiles
Thank you for the exposure.
You are very welcome! Thanks for taking some time with us.