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Photography by Erin Raven

I felt my heart crack slowly like a pomegranate, spilling its seeds.

Faun, Trebor Healey

Set in the Mexican-American community of East LA, Trebor Healey's Faun is an urban fantasy, a new fairy tale about pagan earth spirit, lust and faith, Los Angeles and history. As Gilberto Rubio enters puberty, he finds his body transforming, but not in the same way as his classmates. He is alarmed by the emergence of horn nubs, extreme hair growth on his legs, and the warping of his feet into hooves, to say nothing of how he's making everyone around him horny. His Catholic mother fears for his eternal soul and falls under the sway of that most nefarious of fixers, the exorcist. Meanwhile online, Gilberto grows desperate and encounters an odd wise man who hints of satyrs and centaurs. And so begins the next phase of his journey of discovery and self-acceptance. Sexy, funny, and spell-binding, Faun is a tale quite unlike any other and offers Healey's lyrical, witty and thoughtful prose in the service of mythology, antiquity and earth sexuality - all in the guise of comic misadventure.

This past Monday, June 16, 2014 (the day after Father’s Day this year), I had the honor and pleasure of going to the Barnes & Noble Booksellers store on West 82nd Street and Broadway in the Upper West Side section of Manhattan to see Jerry Mahoney, yet another WordPress-blogger-turned-published-author, read from his new book, Mommy Man: How I Went from Mild-Mannered Geek to Gay Superdad.

Now, for…

In my life, and especially after coming out of the closet, I have had the opportunity to meet various openly Gay Male published authors.

And two of my many favorites are THE Trebor Healey and Tom Cardamone.

In fact, I had the honor and pleasure of attending a book reading that co-starred both of them one year ago, this month.

I originally published this on my primary blog, “This Is Who I AM” and…