Queer Writers of Crime
246 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAuthor interviews with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer writers of mystery, suspense, and thriller novels. We also give crime genre LGBTQ book recommendations. Brad Shreve chats with authors to learn who they are as well as touching on their craft. This is the source to add to your list of must read LGBTQ books. Rated by Buzzfeed as one of the 20 Best Queer Podcasts in 2022. No new episodes are being made for this show but check out Brad's new show Queer We Are where he interviews LGBTQ celebrities, athletes, politicians, artists, and more.
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Derek Farrell Defines A Cozy Noir Mystery
April 20, 2021 11:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBEp:080 Derek Farrell is the author of five Danny Bird Mysteries - ‘Death of a Diva’ ‘Death of a Nobody,’ ‘Death of a Devil,’ ‘Death of an Angel’ and the novella ‘Death of a Sinner’- all published by Fahrenheit Press. The sixth in the series will be published in early 2021. Derek is married and lives with his husband in West Sussex. They have no cats dogs goats or children, though they do have every Kylie Minogue record ever recorded. Twice. QueerWritersOfCrime.com Donate: Buy me a Cup o...
Joseph R.G. DeMarco Discusses The 200 Men He Interviewed
April 13, 2021 02:00 - 59 minutes - 41.3 MBEp:079 Joseph R.G. De Marco, a native of Philadelphia,is the author of the Marco Fontana Mysteries, the newest and fifth in the series is The Vermilion Pursuit. He also writes The Vampire Inquisitor series, and the second volume, A Battle in Blood, was just released. In addition he writes the Doyle and Kord Mysteries. His plays have been produced in Philadelphia, NY, and elsewhere. His work appears in The International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family, Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinit...
Michael Nava Shares How Often He Googles Himself Each Week
April 06, 2021 04:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBEp:078 Michael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of eight novels featuring gay, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios who The New Yorker, called “a detective unlike any previous protagonist in American noir.” He is the recipient of seven Lambda Literary Awards in the gay mystery category and the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in LGBT Literature. His most recent Rios novel is Lies With Man, was published in April by Amble Press, an LGBTQ press and imprint of Bywater...
Michael Nava Shares How Often He Googles Himself
April 06, 2021 04:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBEp:078 Michael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of eight novels featuring gay, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios who The New Yorker, called “a detective unlike any previous protagonist in American noir.” He is the recipient of seven Lambda Literary Awards in the gay mystery category and the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in LGBT Literature. His most recent Rios novel is Lies With Man, was published in April by Amble Press, an LGBTQ press and imprint of Bywater...
Marco Carocari From Flying To Photographing To Writing
March 30, 2021 04:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBEp:077 Marco Carocari grew up in Switzerland, where he, over the past fifty-odd years, worked in a hardware store, traveled the globe working for the airlines, and later as an internationally published photographer, and frequently jobbed as a waiter, hotel receptionist, or manager of a professional photo studio. In 2016 he swapped snow-capped mountains, lakes, and lush, green pastures for the charm of the dry California desert, where he lives with his husband. ‘Blackout’ is his first novel. ...
William D. Prystauk Serves Up Kink Noir
March 23, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBEp:076 In the Kink Noir crime thriller series, William D. Prystauk’s first installment, Bloodletting won the Grand Jury Prize at the LA Neo Noir Novel, Film & Script Fest in 2016. In 2020, the sequels, Punishment and Debauchery, both tied for The Best Book Award at the same festival. An award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker, podcaster, marketer, and educator, Bill is also a former member of BDSM groups in both New York and Philadelphia, and he brings his knowledge of the subculture to the s...
JB Sanders & The Fine Balance Between Suspense & Humor
March 16, 2021 04:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBEp:075 JB Sanders lives with an imaginary cat, and works in computer support (you know, the day job), all in Upstate New York. He divides his time between writing humorous suspense novels, reading science fiction and urban fantasy, absorbing too much British TV (or as his roommate would say "those crappy BBC mysteries"), pondering why he didn't write a scifi or fantasy novel, and his various hobbies. No, reading isn't a hobby. It's more like a vocation. QueerWritersOfCrime.com Donate: Bu...
Wendy Heard Discusses Likeability, Being an L.A. Native, And Whether Bisexuals Exist
March 09, 2021 05:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBEp:074 Wendy Heard is the author of two adult thrillers: The Kill Club and Hunting Annabelle, which Kirkus Reviews praised as “a diabolically plotted creep show from a writer to watch.” She’s Too Pretty To Burn, which Kirkus called “a wild and satisfying romp” in a starred review, marks her YA debut. QueerWritersOfCrime.com Donate: Buy me a Cup of Coffee Wendy Heard's Website Wendy on Twitter Wendy on Instagram Bury Me When I'm Dead by Cheryl Head Queer Qulture Podcast on Spotify Br...
Jack Dickson Discusses Soap Operas, Politics & Circumcision
March 02, 2021 05:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBEp:073 Born in a small town on Scotland's West Coast, Jack Dickson is the author of nine novels and a variety of short stories – including the Jas Anderson Investigates series of crime thrillers, set on the mean streets of Glasgow, his adopted city and recently republished by ReQueered Tales. Since beginning his career in the 1990s, he has also dabbled in screenwriting, working on Scotland's flagship soap opera River City for several years. Jack now works as a playwright and continues to sha...
Jack Dickson Discusses Soap Operas, Politics & Circumcision
March 02, 2021 05:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBEp:073 Born in a small town on Scotland's West Coast, Jack Dickson is the author of nine novels and a variety of short stories – including the Jas Anderson Investigates series of crime thrillers, set on the mean streets of Glasgow, his adopted city and recently republished by ReQueered Tales. Since beginning his career in the 1990s, he has also dabbled in screenwriting, working on Scotland's flagship soap opera River City for several years. Jack now works as a playwright and continues to sha...
Eliza Lentzski - Historian by Day Author by Night
February 23, 2021 05:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBEp:072 Eliza Lentzski is the author of lesbian fiction and romance novels, including the best-selling series Winter Jacket and Don’t Call Me Hero. Although a historian by day, Eliza is passionate about fiction. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts with her wife and their cat, Charley. Although currently in New England, Eliza is a Midwest transplant; the Midwest is often the backdrop for her stories. QueerWritersOfCrime.com Donate: Buy me a Cup of Coffee Eliza Lentzski's Website Don't Call ...
Rick R. Reed & the Similarities Between Love & Horror
February 16, 2021 05:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBEp:071 Rick R. Reed is an award-winning and bestselling author of more than fifty works of published fiction. He is a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Entertainment Weekly has described his work as “heartrending and sensitive.” Lambda Literary has called him: “A writer that doesn’t disappoint…” Rick lives in Palm Springs, CA, with his husband, Bruce, and their two rescue dogs, Kodi and Joaquin. QueerWritersOfCrime.com Donate: Buy me a Cup of Coffee The Man from Milwaukee by Rick R. Ree...
Steve Neil Johnson: Many Paths Always A Writer
February 09, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBEp:070 Steve Neil Johnson is the author of the bestselling Doug Orlando mysteries, FINAL ATONEMENT (Lambda Literary Award finalist for Best Mystery) and FALSE CONFESSIONS, for which one critic said “Johnson may very well turn out to be our queer Raymond Chandler.” The Orlando books grew out of his experiences working for the District Attorney of Brooklyn. While living in New York he also worked with AIDS researchers in the early days of the epidemic. Since moving to Los Angeles over thir...
Is Edwin Hill Talented or Lucky?
February 02, 2021 05:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBEp:069 Edwin Hill’s critically-acclaimed crime novels include Watch Her, The Missing Ones, and Little Comfort. He has been nominated for Edgar and Agatha Awards, featured in Us Magazine, received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal, and was recognized as one of “Six Crime Writers to Watch” in Mystery Scene magazine. He lives in Roslindale, Massachusetts with his partner Michael and his favorite reviewer, their lab Edith Ann, who likes his first drafts enough t...
Gregory Ashe & C.S. Poe are a Dynamic Writing Duo
January 26, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBEp: 068 Popular authors C.S. Poe and Gregory Ashe put their heads together and co-wrote A Friend in the Dark: (An Auden O'Callaghan Mystery) QueerWritersOfCrime.com C.S. Poe is a Lambda Literary and two-time EPIC award finalist, and a FAPA award-winning author of gay mystery, romance, and speculative fiction. She resides in New York City and is an avid fan of coffee, reading, and cats. C.S. is an alumna of the School of Visual Arts. Her debut novel, The Mystery of Nevermore, was publish...
Timothy Jay Smith Turns His Thrilling Life Into Thrilling Fiction
January 19, 2021 11:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBEp:067 Raised crisscrossing America pulling a small green trailer behind the family car, Timothy Jay Smith developed a ceaseless wanderlust that has taken him around the world many times. En route, he’s found the characters that people his work. Polish cops and Greek fishermen, mercenaries and arms dealers, child prostitutes and wannabe terrorists, Indian Chiefs and Indian tailors: he hung with them all in an unparalleled international career that saw him smuggle banned plays from behind the...
Marshall Thornton Cashes Out
January 12, 2021 06:00 - 42 minutes - 29.6 MBEp:066 Marshall Thornton writes two popular mystery series, the Boystown Mysteries and the Pinx Video Mysteries. For which he has won three Lambda Awards. His romantic comedy, Femme was also a 2016 Lambda finalist for Best Gay Romance. Other books include My Favorite Uncle, The Ghost Slept Over and Masc, the sequel to Femme. He is a member of Mystery Writers of America. QueerWritersOfCrime.com Leave A Review Marshall Thornton's Website Cash Out by Marshall Thornton Cliffhanger by Ulysses...
Michelle Arnold From Telling Stories To Writing Stories
January 05, 2021 05:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBEp:065 Michelle Arnold grew up in the Midwest, graduating from the University of Illinois in 2004. She’s been making up stories for as long as she can remember and began writing them down sporadically when she was about six. At the age of 17, she finally decided to get more serious about writing stories down, and has been addicted to writing ever since! Michelle currently lives in Illinois with her cat and works in special education. Her hobbies include reading and geeking out over stuff. Sh...
J.S. Strange Talks Mystery Novels And Zombies Too
December 29, 2020 05:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBEp:064 J.S. Strange is an author from Wales, United Kingdom. He writes crime, mystery and horror. His first novels, published in 2016 and 2017, were set in an apocalyptic London. His up-coming novel, titled Murder on the Rocks, is the first in a cozy crime mystery series, featuring a leading gay male detective. Murder on the Rocks was written by Strange for many reasons. One of those reasons was a lack of representation within the crime genre, particularly with detectives and sleuths. Str...
Justene's Extravaganza Book Recommendations
December 22, 2020 05:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBEp:063 Justene gives updates on new novels by authors who had books she recommended in 2020. queerwritersofcrime.com Requeered Tales Website Authors Mentioned In This Episode: Marshall Thornton Frank W. Butterfield Gregory Ashe C.S. Poe Garrick Jones Timothy Jay Smith Dharma Kelleher Mark McNease (Books) Mark McNease (Podcast) Olivier Bosman L M Krier David S. Pederson Russ Thomas Brad's Website: https://bradshreve.com/ The three year run of Queer Writers of Crime was fantastic but no ...
Justene's Extravaganza Book Recommendations
December 22, 2020 05:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBEp:063 Justene gives updates on new novels by authors who had books she recommended in 2020. queerwritersofcrime.com Requeered Tales Website Authors Mentioned In This Episode: Marshall Thornton Frank W. Butterfield Gregory Ashe C.S. Poe Garrick Jones Timothy Jay Smith Dharma Kelleher Mark McNease (Books) Mark McNease (Podcast) Olivier Bosman L M Krier David S. Pederson Russ Thomas Brad's Website: https://bradshreve.com/ The three year run of Queer Writers of Crime was fantastic but no ...
Graeme Cheater And His Amazing Library of 26,000 Gay Novels
December 15, 2020 08:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBEp:062 Books & reading have been Graeme's life, working in libraries for over 50 years, and sometime as a bookseller. Having had to take medical retirement earlier than expected he now has the luxury of reading when he can, daily cover posts to organise himself, and maintaining an online catalogue, to help him concentrate on the familiar. And of course always trolling sites for new releases, the next big read, the next new read and those fave. authors & series. 2020 has been an amazing ye...
Is Kristen Lepionka An Unlikeable Female Character?
December 08, 2020 05:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBEp:061 Kristen Lepionka is the author of the Roxane Weary mystery series. Her debut, The Last Place You Look, won the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. novel and was also nominated for Anthony and Macavity Awards. What You Want to See won Shamus and Goldie Awards. She is a cofounder of the feminist podcast Unlikeable Female Characters. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her partner and two cats. queerwritersofcrime.com Kristen's Website Link to Kristen's Books Kristen on Twitter Kristen on I...
Is John Morgan Wilson Iconic?
December 01, 2020 05:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBEp:60 John Morgan Wilson is a veteran journalist, TV news and documentary writer, and fiction writer. Simple Justice (1996) launched his Benjamin Justice mystery series, earning an Edgar Allan Poe Award (AKA “the Edgar”) from Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel. Three other Justice titles in the eight-book series won Lambda Literary Awards for best gay men’s mystery; six were nominated. His short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Maga...
Interviews After The Interviews Holiday Special
November 24, 2020 05:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBEp:059 It's Thanksgiving holiday week in the U.S.A, Brad runs through a series of quick questions from guests on previous episodes. These were asked after their full interview. Justene announces a button is finally on webpage for our list of all books mentioned on the show. Hint: The link is at the top of the website. queerwritersofcrime.com Following are this week's guests: Cheryl Head's Website Dharma Kelleher's Website Christopher Rice's Website Greg Herren's Amazon Page David L...
Let Anne Laughlin Take You To Money Creek
November 17, 2020 05:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBEp:058 Anne Laughlin has written six novels for Bold Strokes Books. She is the recipient of four Goldie Awards and has been short-listed three times for a Lammy Award. She's attended writing residencies at Ragdale, Vermont Studio Center, and others. Anne's short story, It Only Occured to Me Lately was a finalist in the Saints and Sinners short fiction contest. She has been previously named an emerging writer by the Lambda Literary Foundation. Her most recent novel is Money Creek. queerwrite...
Austin Thomas Burton And His Bartender Sleuth
November 10, 2020 06:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBEp:057 Long-time San Diego resident, Austin Thomas Burton grew up the youngest of 7 in a small college town that couldn’t decide if it was Southern, Midwestern or just wouldn’t fit in anywhere. That static childhood resulted in a restless need to see the country and the world. His interests are widely varied and often in conflict with one another, but chances are he’s reading a book at the moment or if the weather's good, working on his "fun" car, a 1976 Jaguar XJC, or if the weather's gre...
Austin Thomas Burton And His Bartender Sleuth
November 10, 2020 06:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBEp:057 Long-time San Diego resident, Austin Thomas Burton grew up the youngest of 7 in a small college town that couldn’t decide if it was Southern, Midwestern or just wouldn’t fit in anywhere. That static childhood resulted in a restless need to see the country and the world. His interests are widely varied and often in conflict with one another, but chances are he’s reading a book at the moment or if the weather's good, working on his "fun" car, a 1976 Jaguar XJC, or if the weather's gre...
Grant Atherton and One Killer of a Little Town
November 03, 2020 04:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBEp:056 Grant Atherton lives in a small sleepy town on the east coast of England after moving down from London ten years ago. The fictional town of Elders Edge in his books is based very much on his home town with a few minor changes to suit the plots. He’s been a writer for most of his life, starting at the age of five when his primary school teacher would pay him with a pack of jelly beans for each of his stories about talking animals. In the intervening years until the release of his fir...
Randy Boyd: Novelist and Activist for Race Relations and AIDS Survivors
October 27, 2020 04:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBEp:055 Randy Boyd has been a professional writer his entire adult life. His four novels have been nominated for five Lambda Literary Awards and all feature main characters who are black, gay and living with HIV/AIDS. Two of them are mystery/thrillers. In his first novel, Uprising, three famous but closeted celebrities plot to assassinate a homophobic US Senator, while a straight FBI agent goes undercover to stop them. Uprising was a 1999 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Best Men’s Mystery a...
Frank W. Butterfield Adds a Suspense in His Whit and Eddie Series
October 20, 2020 07:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBEp:054 Frank W. Butterfield is the Amazon best-selling author of 67 (and counting) self-published novels, novellas, and short stories. Born in Lubbock, Texas, Frank grew up there, in the Dallas area, and under the pine and cypress surrounding Caddo Lake. A Westerner, he graduated from Lubbock High School in 1984. He was fortunate to be an exchange student in La Serena, Chile, in the second half of 1982. He attended the University of Texas in Austin and, after three semesters, realized he wa...
Dieter Moitzi: Author and Book Reviewer
October 13, 2020 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBEp:053 Born in the early 70s, Dieter grew up in a little village in Austria. At the age of 18, he moved to Vienna to get his master’s degree in Political Sciences, French, and Spanish. Today, he is living in Paris, France, with his boyfriend and works as a graphic designer. In his spare time, he writes, reads, cooks fancy recipes, takes photos, and travels. He is more a hoodie/jeans/sneakers kind of guy than a suit-and-tie chap. So far, he has published two short-story collections, three poe...
Lev Raphael With More Murder In Academia
October 06, 2020 04:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBEp:052 Lev Raphael has wanted to be an author since he was in second grade, and he's not only achieved his dream, he's published twenty-six books in genres from memoir to mystery to erotic vampire tale; had his work translated into fifteen languages; seen one sell close to 300,000 copies. He also appeared in two documentaries. queerwritersofcrime.com Raphael's The Death of a Constant Lover Author website: http://www.levraphael.com Teaching/editing/mentoring website: http://www.writewithout...
Greg Herren Is Not A Horrible Person
September 29, 2020 04:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBEp:051 Greg Herren is an American writer and editor, who publishes work in a variety of genres, including mystery novels, young adult literature and erotica. He publishes work both as Greg Herren and under the pseudonym Todd Gregory. His novel Murder in the Rue Chartres won a Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Mystery category at the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards, and his anthology Love, Bourbon Street: Reflections of New Orleans, co-edited with Paul J. Willis, won in the anthologies category at...
Garrick Jones With More Mystery From Down Under
September 22, 2020 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBEp:050 After a thirty year career as a professional opera singer, performing as a soloist in opera houses and in concert halls all over the world, I took up a position as lecturer in music in Australia in 1999, at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music, which is now part of CQUniversity. Brought up in Australia, between the bush and the beaches of the Eastern suburbs, I retired in 2015 and now live in the tropics, writing, gardening, and finally finding time to enjoy life and to re-...
Christopher Rice, New York Times Bestselling Author And Fabulous Podcast Host
September 15, 2020 04:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBEp:049 By the age of 30, Christopher Rice had published four New York Times bestselling thrillers, received a Lambda Literary Award and been declared one of People Magazine’s Sexiest Men Alive. His two novels of dark supernatural suspense, THE HEAVENS RISE and THE VINES, were both finalists for the Bram Stoker Award. He recently entered the erotic romance genre with three works in all new series called The Desire Exchange. They include THE FLAME, THE SURRENDER GATE and KISS THE FLAME. His de...
The Rootless Wanderer, Olivier Bosman
September 08, 2020 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBEp:048 Born to Dutch parents and raised in Colombia and England, Oilvier Bosman is a rootless wanderer with itchy feet. He’s spent the last few years living and working in The Netherlands, Czech Republic, Sudan and Bulgaria, and has every confidence he will now finally be able to settle down among the olive groves of Andalucia. He’s an avid reader and film fan (in fact, his study is overflowing with his various dvd collections!) Olivier did an MA in creative writing for film and television...
Olivier Bosman: The Rootless Wanderer
September 08, 2020 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBEp:048 Born to Dutch parents and raised in Colombia and England, Oilvier Bosman is a rootless wanderer with itchy feet. He’s spent the last few years living and working in The Netherlands, Czech Republic, Sudan and Bulgaria, and has every confidence he will now finally be able to settle down among the olive groves of Andalucia. He’s an avid reader and film fan (in fact, his study is overflowing with his various dvd collections!) Olivier did an MA in creative writing for film and television...
Ellen Hart: LGBTQ's "Answer to Agatha Christie."
September 01, 2020 04:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBEp:047 Often called the LGBTQ’s “answer to Agatha Christie,” Ellen Hart is the author of thirty-five crime novels in two different series. She is a six-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery, a four-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Best Popular Fiction, a three-time winner of the Golden Crown Literary Award, a recipient of the Alice B Medal, and was made a laureate of the Saint at the Saints & Sinners Literary Festival in New Orleans in 2005. In 2010, ...
David Lennon and New Orleans Mysteries
August 25, 2020 04:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBEp:046 David was born and raised in the Boston area, though he was fortunate to live in San Diego in the 3rd and 4th grades, where he was bullied into losing his "horrible" accent. His family moved a lot, but he considers his hometown to be Weston, MA, even though he was only there for 5 years of school. He's published nine books, including seven featuring New Orleans-based detectives Michel Doucette and Alexandra "Sassy" Jones. The most recent, DEJA VIEUX, was published in May. He's a 5-ti...
New Orleans Mysteries With David Lennon
August 25, 2020 04:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBEp:046 David was born and raised in the Boston area, though he was fortunate to live in San Diego in the 3rd and 4th grades, where he was bullied into losing his "horrible" accent. His family moved a lot, but he considers his hometown to be Weston, MA, even though he was only there for 5 years of school. He's published nine books, including seven featuring New Orleans-based detectives Michel Doucette and Alexandra "Sassy" Jones. The most recent, DEJA VIEUX, was published in May. He's a 5-ti...
Richard Stevenson: Nearly 40 Years With Donald Strachey
August 18, 2020 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBEp:045 Born 1938 Lock Haven, PA, Richard Stevenson graduated Lock Haven State College, did graduate work in American lit at Penn State. He joined the Peace Corps and fled grad school to teach English in Ethiopia 1962-64---He says it's the best thing he ever did. Worked as Peace Corps program evaluator around the world 1964-67. Ran the anti-poverty program in Pittsfield, MA, 1968-71. Free-lance writer after that. Wrote for magazines and newspapers, including 15 years as an editorial write...
Keyboards and Cameras With Laury A. Egan
August 11, 2020 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBEp:044 : Laury A. Egan is the author of the madcap gay comedy, Fabulous! An Opera Buffa; an LGTBQ suspense set in Venice, Jenny Kidd; a mystery-romance, A Bittersweet Tale; a YA novel, The Outcast Oracle; a collection, Fog and Other Stories; and two forthcoming novels, The Swimmer and Wave in D Minor. Four volumes of poetry have appeared in limited edition, and forty stories and poems have been published in literary journals. Her visits to Mykonos inspired The Ungodly Hour, and her fine art...
Laury A. Egan, Keyboards and Cameras
August 11, 2020 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBEp:044 : Laury A. Egan is the author of the madcap gay comedy, Fabulous! An Opera Buffa; an LGTBQ suspense set in Venice, Jenny Kidd; a mystery-romance, A Bittersweet Tale; a YA novel, The Outcast Oracle; a collection, Fog and Other Stories; and two forthcoming novels, The Swimmer and Wave in D Minor. Four volumes of poetry have appeared in limited edition, and forty stories and poems have been published in literary journals. Her visits to Mykonos inspired The Ungodly Hour, and her fine art...
Laury A. Egan, Keyboards and Cameras
August 11, 2020 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBEp:044 : Laury A. Egan is the author of the madcap gay comedy, Fabulous! An Opera Buffa; an LGTBQ suspense set in Venice, Jenny Kidd; a mystery-romance, A Bittersweet Tale; a YA novel, The Outcast Oracle; a collection, Fog and Other Stories; and two forthcoming novels, The Swimmer and Wave in D Minor. Four volumes of poetry have appeared in limited edition, and forty stories and poems have been published in literary journals. Her visits to Mykonos inspired The Ungodly Hour, and her fine art...
Robert Innes' Impossible Crimes
August 04, 2020 04:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBEp:043 Robert Innes is the author of The Blake Harte Mysteries - a series of head scratching and impossible crimes. When he's not trying to work out how to commit seemingly perfect murders and building up a worrying Google search history, Robert can be found at his local slimming group, wondering why eating three pizzas in the space of a week hasn't resulted in a weight loss. Since the creation of the Blake Harte mystery series in November 2016, each book has become a best seller in LGBT m...
Impossible Crimes With Robert Innes
August 04, 2020 04:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBEp:043 Robert Innes is the author of The Blake Harte Mysteries - a series of head scratching and impossible crimes. When he's not trying to work out how to commit seemingly perfect murders and building up a worrying Google search history, Robert can be found at his local slimming group, wondering why eating three pizzas in the space of a week hasn't resulted in a weight loss. Since the creation of the Blake Harte mystery series in November 2016, each book has become a best seller in LGBT m...
So Many Balls In The Air With Mark Zubro
July 28, 2020 04:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBEp:042 Mark Zubro is the author of thirty-seven novels and eight short stories. His book A Simple Suburban Murder won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men's mystery. Eight others of his books have been nominated. One of the keys in Zubro’s mysteries is you do not want to be a person who is racist, sexist, homophobic, or a school administrator. If you are any of those, it is likely you are the corpse, or, at the least, it can be fairly well guaranteed that bad things will happen to you ...
Mark Zubro: So Many Balls in the Air
July 28, 2020 04:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBEp:042 Mark Zubro is the author of thirty-seven novels and eight short stories. His book A Simple Suburban Murder won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men's mystery. Eight others of his books have been nominated. One of the keys in Zubro’s mysteries is you do not want to be a person who is racist, sexist, homophobic, or a school administrator. If you are any of those, it is likely you are the corpse, or, at the least, it can be fairly well guaranteed that bad things will happen to you ...
Digging Deeper Into Emendare With R.E. Bradshaw
July 21, 2020 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22.7 MBEp:041 R.E. Bradshaw is a Four-time Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Mystery—Rainey Nights (2012), Molly: House on Fire (2013), The Rainey Season (2014), and Relatively Rainey (2016)—and 2013 Rainbow Awards First Runner-up for Best Lesbian Novel, Out on the Panhandle, author R. E. Bradshaw began publishing in August of 2010. Before beginning a full-time writing career, she worked in professional theatre and also taught at both university and high school levels. A native of North Carolina, t...