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Bobby Michaels (1951 - October 30, 2011)
Oct. 30th, 2014 10:55 am
This is one of these posts I really wouldn't want to write, never. It's sad when I post of romance authors of the past, authors I knew thank to their writing, but it's really heartbreaking when I have to post about someone I really knew. Sure, I have never met Bobby Michaels face to face, but we did exchange a lot of emails, he was one of the first authors I interviewed and he was among the jurors of the first Rainbow Awards, and he was a really wonderful man. And I absolutely love his books, all of them, really to the heart. I will always miss Bobby but he will always bring me happy memories and I will always cherish his books.When I fist read one of his books, I was shocked. I was maybe a little naive on the whole man on man romance, and his novels were a mix of erotica and romance, explicit erotica, something I was not used to. I even remember another author/reviewer asking me who the hell was this woman writing such unbelievable gay romances, and I told her, "actually I'm pretty sure Bobby is a man". I didn't know Bobby at the time, but deep inside I was sure he was a man, since the way he approached gay romance was too true to be only writing. But actually it didn't matter if he was a man or a woman since the love in his novels was without genre. Bobby talked about marriage, family, and religion, always letting his bigger than world persona into his books. Believe me, I'm crying while writing this post, since I can already feel that I will miss Bobby, I will miss him so much.
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