Rayme Michaels

RAYME MICHAELS'S first book came out in 2012: a Rabelaisian comedy entitled "Incorrigibility." His second book (released that same year) is a dark, gory, romantic vampire thriller called "Red Love," which won Honourable Mention at the top of the list for General Fiction at the 2014 London Book Festival. Both books are novellas, as is his fourth book, "Even on Mars," which is a futuristic, science-fiction sex comedy that was released in 2018. His third book, "Screw the Devil’s Daiquiri," is his first full-length novel, a semi-autobiographical, dark, urban comedy meets psychological drama, which he wrote in 2012 and which was published in 2014 by Melange Books. In 2019, he released "The Chaos Café," his second full-length novel, which is also a dark comedy and arguably his most philosophical work thus far. Both novels are very existential and can fit into the genre of magical realism. His first book of short stories, entitled "Spirals of Orange and Black," was released in 2020, as was his first book of poetry, "Number Seven and One: Poetry, Prose and Polemics." In 2023, he published a philosophy paper entitled "Merleau-Ponty and Nagarjuna—Ethics Within the Self of the No-Self" in the "Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour."

Michaels became a bookworm at the age of eight and has been influenced by, and continues to enjoy, a wide variety of writing that ranges from the solemn to the satirical, the serious to the jovial, both in fiction and nonfiction, contemporary and old. This invariably comes out in his writing, since his literary interests are very broad. After high school, he studied theatre arts performance and radio broadcasting in college, and then did an Honours BA in philosophy with a minor in psychology. He then went on to complete a master’s degree in philosophy while working as a teaching assistant.

As an existential thinker, he is fascinated by the human mind and the human predicament, yet, as a Rabelaisian man, laughter and joy are what fuel him. Oh, and his first name is pronounced with two syllables. The “e” isn’t silent.

His podcast interview promoting "Spirals of Orange and Black": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW08qs0pM80

The podcast interview he did for "The Chaos Cafe": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRyTC7Lf4vc

The one he did in 2018, promoting his fourth book, "Even on Mars": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZX9GJh1xsU

You can also check out this radio interview he did with Stu Taylor back in September of 2015, promoting his first three books, but namely his semi-autobiographical magnum opus, "Screw the Devil's Daiquiri." He talks a lot about himself in it, especially since "Screw the Devil's Daiquiri" is semi-autobiographical. One part of what he was saying became distorted and inaudible due to the connection, but he wrote it out in the description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6OJYn9GhwI

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