Welcome to the official site of R.M. Garabedian - Fiction Writer, Poet, & Photographer

PHOTO: Climbed a 10,358’ peak! Volcanic “scree” caused slipping back one foot for every two feet of elevation gained—so I guess that means I climbed a 20,716’ peak! LOL

BIO & DESCRIPTION OF MAJOR PROJECT: Spent past seven years writing seven novels—all at once! (AHHYYRR!!) It’s a literary fiction saga that centers an epic male-male love story. Two passing-for-straight leading-man actors confront the 1980s Hollywood AIDS panic, fighting to protect both their secret relationship and their ability to survive in an industry determined to root out homosexual men.

Along the way, the pair is also searching for ways to artistically thrive and affect the world for the better. (But they take many wrong and painful turns!)

Entertaining (fun, sexy chemistry between the guys and behind-the-scenes looks at bygone versions of NYC theater world and Hollywood TV & film productions and their wild characters and situations)—also, given the personal losses and dire challenges, much tragedy.

Each of the first six “Books” ends with complex suspense that makes us eager to pick up the next one. The seventh brings it all together with a dramatic emotional payoff. The saga provides an in-depth look at U.S. societal changes from 1978 to late 2020s, along with surprising personal evolutions of the characters.

Writing all seven volumes at once was a FORTUNATE thing: similar to a Beethoven symphony or a Middle Ages/Renaissance tapestry, many elements large and small have resonances from one section to another—woven in while the author was in the same creative flow. I hope readers will love the experience of reading the saga as much as I loved bringing the characters to life.

(The protagonist, one half of the love relationship, is an ex-paratrooper in the U.S. Army, hence the title, which reflects his battle-like approach to myriad obstacles.)

OTHER NEWS: Late 2025, also completed several short stories and poems and submitted them to journals. How did I do all this at once? I don’t know—but somehow I’m still alive…!