Meet:
RP Andrews, erotic gay male fiction author
What are your 2 favorite careers?
I spent most of my
professional career in New York Fort Lauderdale
But I have to confess my
most fun job was being a male escort “rent boy” for a month at an age when most
men are content with their TV remotes in their lap. I rationalized I was doing
it to get an idea how hustlers thought for my next book at the time, a m/m
erotic romantic thriller, “Not in it For the Love.” But I have to say I also
did for kicks and actually had some customers, not all dogs either, but a few
good looking business men in town for the night who didn’t want to waste time
looking for fun. What’s the turn-on? Somebody wants you bad enough he’ll PAY
for you.
I can say I am now
retired from all three of my “professions.”
What are some of your other favorite activities?
The
gym, six days a week, to keep my shit together, the beach (I also have a
screened-in, heated pool in my backyard), blogging about gay culture, its
triumphs and its stupidities, writing fiction where you create your own world,
and, hey, sex. I ain’t dead yet. They say write about what you know and all my
books and characters are based on my experiences, not fantasy.
What
is the hardest thing you ever had to do?
Watching
my dogs die. I have six buried up at my summer home in rural PA and another
three in urns in my living room on the oak sideboard I inherited from my
grandmother. As many times as it happens, when you lose one it’s always like
your first time. Total, unconditional love – that’s what my current trio, two
doxies and a terrier-mix I got at a no-kill shelter give to me every day. Can
you say that about people?
Favorite music, song or band
I’m
a Baby Boomer so, hands down, classic Motown, especially Marvin Gaye and Tammy
Terrell. I can still remember when I heard Tami had collapsed in Marvin’s arms
right on stage at a concert; she died soon after of a brain tumor. I recently
caught the Broadway show, “Motown the Musical” when it was on tour here in
Lauderdale – loved it.
When
I write, I play classical music in the background. They say, it’s good for
getting the creative juices flowing, and actually a stirring symphony really
gets my motor running when I’m writing a steamy, m/m sex scene.
Are you usually late, early or right on
time?
Early, maybe because I’m a Type A, though I’ve tried to de-Type A myself since I retired. It dates from my school days – I was on the Dean’s list every semester of my undergraduate and graduate work – and certainly it helped me when I worked in PR, even teaching. Pre-planning and being ahead of everyone else is critical for survival in the real world.
Are you happy with your life for the
most part right now?
Absolutely! I’ve had two
successful professional careers, PR and teaching, am financially comfortable,
have my health, have a long time partner who I fight with every day, achieved
my lifelong wet dream of becoming a published author, am still sexual
desirable, and live in the closest thing to paradise in the continental United
States - South Florida. So what’s not to like?
I remember a few years ago
at a reunion back in New York of my old hospital cronies, I said to the
Director of Rehab, “You know, I’ve done just about everything I wanted to do,
so if I died tomorrow, it would be with a smile on my face.” P.S.: I’m still
here.
If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Well, I did most of my
traveling – Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Latin America for all the archeological
stuff, plus Australia Italy
But if there was any place
I’d like to go back to, it would Italy for its diversity of culture - every
city is unique – and Australia for a lifestyle much like ours here in South
Florida and for its hot looking guys that keep hitting up on the phone apps.
(Is it true distance makes the heart grow fonder?)
What do you think would be the hardest
venture for you to give up on?
Stop writing or pursuing a
book I believed in but I felt might not be popular with the public or the
industry. But if you’re truly a writer, you write for you, maybe for the money
if you need to make a living which is not my case, but definitely for yourself,
not for people to adore you or impress a publisher or critic.
His latest works of serious gay fiction include:
The Czar of Wilton Drive
Author: RP Andrews
Genre: Gay fiction
The
Czar of Wilton Drive,
is the story of Jonathan Antonucci, a 21 year old, barely-out-the-closet gay
man from suburban New York Fort Lauderdale
Flying down to Lauderdale to claim his bequest, Jon encounters Uncle
Charlie’s dubious friends and business associates, and is immediately submerged
in Lauderdale’s scene of unbridled sex and heavy drugs. He also discovers his
great uncle’s memoirs which reveal truths not only about Jon’s own past but
also what may have really happened to his uncle.
Not In it For The Love, set at the turn of the new millennium.
Josh, a young street-smart Florida drifter is
snatched from his dead-end existence as a male hustler in a cheap Key Largo
motel by Bishop, a Wall Street power broker who sets him up as his trophy boy
in Manhattan
There, Josh, after leading a promiscuous lifestyle within New York City
Buy Guys, RP Andrews’ newest novella scheduled for release late
spring, 2015, is the story of Blaze and Pete, two young, gay handsome drifters
with nothing, and nothing to lose. Blaze convinces Pete, who is falling in love
with him, to leave dreary New Jersey and lead
free and easy lives as male prostitutes in sunny Fort Lauderdale
RP Andrews’ daily social commentary blog on gay life in America
Confessions of a
Str8Gay Man is RP Andrews’ unvarnished, unorthodox views of Modern Gay America
which are often counter to today’s political correct gay media. In addition,
there is Furry
Man’s Journal, his
erotic memoirs as a hirsute gay man as told through his experiences with the
dozen iconic men in his life
AUTHOR BIO:
RP Andrews spent most of his life in New York City
as a public relations executive before relocating to Fort Lauderdale
All his works of erotic gay fiction and non-fiction are available on amazon.com and Barnes and Noble; and other select publishers’ sites.
His first work of erotic gay fiction, a collection of edgy short stories
called Basic Butch,
was originally published by San Francisco-based GLBT Publishers in 2008. Basic
Butch features characters who go down life paths that, in the end, they wish
they had never explored.
AUTHOR LINKS:
Website:
http://www.rpandrewsgayfiction.com/
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/RPAndrews1
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