Ep:100 Michael Craft was in episode #1 and returns for #100 Michael Craft is the author of seventeen novels, four of which have been honored as finalists for Lambda Literary Awards. His 2019 mystery, ChoirMaster, was a Gold Winner of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award. His prize-winning short fiction has appeared in British as well as American literary journals. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles, and now lives in Rancho Mirage, California, near Palm Springs, which provided the setting for his recently anthologized short story, VIP Check-In, as well as his earlier Claire Gray mystery novels.www.michaelcraft.com www.historybriefs.comWROTE PodcastUnlikeable Female CharactersBig Gay Fiction Podcastbradshreve.comReQueered Tales

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Michael Craft On The Dark Side Of A Sunny Place

Ep:099 Award-winning author, C. L. Brees, was born and raised in rural Indiana, a place where the environment was a bit too restrictive to contain his overactive imagination. He needed a place where he could expand his horizons.  In 2011, after relocating to Maryland, he followed his passion for forensics and law enforcement and enrolled at the University of Baltimore. Four years later he earned not only a B.S. in Police Studies but also an M.S. in Cyber Forensics.C.L. Brees WebsiteC.L. Brees Amazon Author PageC.L. Brees on FacebookMurder Most Lovely by Hank Edwards and  Deanna WadsworthCash Out by Marshall ThorntonThe Postscript Murders by Elly GriffithsPaul Rudd Video of the WeekHistory Briefs Podcastbradshreve.comRequeered Tales.com

C.L. Brees Takes Us To Saskatchewan

Ep:098 Garrett Hutson writes upmarket mysteries and historical spy fiction, driven by characters who are moving and unforgettable. He lives in Indianapolis with his husband, four adorable dogs, two odd-ball cats, and more fish than you can count. You can usually find him reading about history, and day-dreaming about being there. This is where his stories are born, and he hopes they transport you the way his imagination transports him. Garret Hutson&apos;s WebsiteNo Accidental Death by Garrett HutsonGarrett on TwitterGarrett on FacebookJames Patterson&apos;s Instinct SeriesPaul Rudd Video of the WeekHistory Briefs Podcastbradshreve.comRequeered Tales.com

Garrett Hutson Discusses The Ebb And Flow Of LGBTQ Acceptance

Ep:097 Lucy Sussex is a New Zealand-born writer living in Australia. Her award-winning work covers many genres, from children’s books to horror. She began in science fiction, and has published internationally and in translation. She has worked as a librarian, researcher, editor and weekly review columnist for newspapers. Her literary archaeology (unearthing unjustly forgotten writers) work includes Women Writers and Detectives in C19th Crime Fiction: the mothers of the mystery genre (Palgrave).  In 2015 she published the prize-winning Blockbuster! (Text Publishing) about Fergus Hume’s 1886 The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne and the biggest selling detective novel of the 1800s. Hume was a rival of Conan Doyle, who hated the book; he was also blackmailed for being gay. Currently she is completing a co-written biography of detective writer Mary Fortune and her criminal son George.QueerWritersOfCrime.comBlockbuster!: by Lucy Sussex on Amazon USABlockbuster!: by Lucy Sussex on Amazon AUSA Density of Souls by Christopher RiceChristopher & Eric Podcast  Paul Rudd Video of the Week History Briefs Podcastbradshreve.comRequeered Tales.com

Lucy Sussex On An 1800s Blockbuster Crime Novel

Ep:096 John Copenhaver’s historical crime novel, Dodging and Burning, won the 2019 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel and garnered Anthony, Strand Critics, Barry, and Lambda Literary Award nominations. His second novel, The Savage Kind, arrives in October 2021. Copenhaver writes a crime fiction review column for Lambda Literary called “Blacklight,” cohosts on the House of Mystery Radio Show, and is the six-time recipient of Artist Fellowships from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He’s a Larry Neal awardee, and his work has appeared in CrimeReads, Electric Lit, Glitterwolf, PANK, New York Journal of Books, Washington Independent Review of Books, and others. He has taught high school English for nearly twenty years. John grew up in the mountains of southwestern Virginia and currently lives in Richmond, VA, with his husband, artist Jeffery Paul (Herrity). QueerWritersOfCrime.comjohncopenhaver.comJohn on FacebookJohn on Twitter @johncopenhaverJohn on Instagram @johncope74The Savage Kind by John Copenhaver on BookshopThe Chicken Asylum by Fred HunterPaul Rudd Video of the Weekbradshreve.comRequeered Tales.com

John Copenhaver And The Creepy Things Society Did To Us

Ep:095 Marko Realmonte spent more than 20 years working in the film and television industry working as a writer, publicist, and photographer. His writing credits include working on the Academy Awards for ABC and being the head writer on game shows including High Rollers and dozens of TV pilots for all the major studios.  He is currently a professional script reader for several production companies and A-list film directors. In 2019 he wrote a sequel script to “Call Me By Your Name” titled “Elio’s Song.”  His first queer novel, Murder at White Oak, was published in 2019. Since then he has published 2 more novels in his Jake Weston Mystery series. The Butcher of Oxford and The Michaelmas Killer which was released in July 2021.Marko tries to write positive queer role models for a Young Adult audience, while still giving them surprise endings and exciting, twisty, whodunnits to solve.Jeff Adams from The Big Gay Fiction Podcast pays a special visit to talk about his show and his Young Adult Spy Series, Codename: Winger QueerWritersOfCrime.comMarko Realmonte&apos;s WebsiteThe Michaelmas Killer by Marko RealmonteThe Big Gay Fiction PodcastCodename: Winger series by Jeff AdamsPaul Rudd Video of the Weekbradshreve.comRequeered Tales.com

Marko Realmonte And Jeff Adams - Marko Takes Us Beneath The Streets of Oxford, Plus Jeff From The Big Gay Fiction Podcast Visits

Ep:094  From the outback to the opera. 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, Garrick 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, he retired in 2015 and now lives in the tropics, writing, gardening, and finally finding time to enjoy life and to re–establish a connection with who he is  after a very busy career on the stage and as an academic.QueerWritersOfCrime.comQueer Writers of Crime New Facebook PageDonate: Buy me a Cup of CoffeeGarrick Jones WebsitePurchase The Gilded Madonna in AustraliaPurchase The Gilded Madonna In the U.S.A.Purchase The Gilded Madonna in the U.K.Gregory Ashe Amazon PagePaul Rudd Video Of The Week bradshreve.comRequeered Tales.com

Garrick Jones On Men Who Won't Talk About It

Ep:093 Chris Holcombe is an author of LGBTQ+ historical crime fiction. The Double Vice is the first novel in his Hidden Gotham series, which showcases New York’s lively but criminally under-represented queer world of the 1920s. He is also an award-winning songwriter, winning “Best Folk Song” at the 2009 Hollywood Music in Media Awards, as well as an accomplished brand strategist in marketing and advertising. He lives with his husband in New York, where he is hard at work on the next Hidden Gotham novel The Blind Tiger.Queer Writers of Crime Live on Saturday July 24th 3pm EDT ListenLive on Tune In RadioLive on Pride48 WebsiteDonate: Buy me a Cup of CoffeeChris Holcombe&apos;s WebsiteThe Double Vice by Chris Holcombe on AmazonChris on InstagramThe Hanged Man by A.R. FianoPaul Rudd Video of the WeekBrad Shreve&apos;s WebsiteRequeered Tales.com

Chris Holcombe Presents 1926 New York LGBTQ+ Style

Ep:092  Meredith Doench is the author of the Luce Hansen thriller series. Her work has appeared in literary journals such as Hayden&apos;s Ferry Review, Women&apos;s Studies Quarterly, and Gertrude. Her nonfiction essay "South Carolina, 2012" was nominated for a 2019 Pushcart Prize by The Tahoma Literary Review. She served as a fiction editor at Camera Obscura: Journal of Literature and Photography. Meredith lives in Ohio where she teaches creative writing, literature, and composition at the University of Dayton. QueerWritersOfCrime.comQueer Writers of Crime New Facebook PageDonate: Buy me a Cup of CoffeeMeredith Doench&apos;s WebsiteDeadeye available at Bold Stroke BooksForsaken Trust available at Bold Stroke BooksCrossed available at Bold Stroke BooksMurder at the Armory by B.K. AsburyPaul Rudd Video of the WeekBrad Shreve&apos;s WebsiteRequeered Tales.com

Meredith Doench And Her Favorite Prison To Visit

Ep:091 Christopher Murphy is an activist, artist and author of the breakout thriller, Where The Boys Are, and The Other Side of the Mirror. Christopher is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University and the Hurston/Wright Foundation. As a graphic designer/copywriter/marketer by day and author by night, Christopher can usually be found creating and designing behind the bright neon glow of his laptop. When he’s not writing, he enjoys traveling to new destinations. He is a shameless thrill-seeker, lover of roller coasters and all things that go fast. Christopher lives and works out of his home in Las Vegas with “the hubs” and their two dogs, and is currently writing his next novel.QueerWritersOfCrime.comQueer Writers of Crime New Facebook PageDonate: Buy me a Cup of CoffeeChristopher Murphy&apos;s WebsiteThe Other Side of the Mirror by Christopher MurphyChristopher on InstagramChristopher on FacebookPalm Springs NoirBrad Shreve&apos;s WebsiteRequeered Tales.com

Christopher Murphy The Thrill Seeking Author

Ep:090 Ann McMan is the author of twelve novels and two collections of short stories. She is a two-time Lambda Literary Award winner, a nine-time winner of Golden Crown Literary Society Awards, a three-time IPPY medalist, a Foreword Indies finalist, and a recipient of the Alice B. Medal for her outstanding body of work. She resides in Winston-Salem, NC with her wife, Salem West, two precocious dogs, and an exhaustive supply of vacuum cleaner bags.QueerWritersOfCrime.comQueer Writers of Crime New Facebook PageDonate: Buy me a Cup of CoffeeAnn McMan&apos;s WebsiteAnn on TwitterAnn on FacebookGalileo by Ann McMan on Bywater BooksGalileo on AmazonGalileo on AudibleHallowed Murder by Ellen HuntBrad Shreve&apos;s WebsiteRequeered Tales.com

Ann McMan There's No Subject She Won't Touch

Ep:089 Dean Klinkenberg is a proud Midwesterner who has lived his entire life in Flyover Country, although in 7 different places. After he set aside his ambitions to become a professional bowler, he went to college in La Crosse, Wisconsin, then on to St. Louis where he earned a PhD, met his future husband, and found a city to call home. He settled into an academic career where he set out to make the world a somewhat better place for people living on the margins: the homeless, people struggling with drug addiction, people living with HIV. After a dozen years, though, and a career careening toward middle management, he’d had enough and quit to search for a new path. He was passionate about travel and the Mississippi River, so he combined those interests by writing about travel in the heart of the US. A few years later, he stretched his skills by writing his first novel, a mystery featuring openly gay travel writer named Frank Dodge. The series has grown to four books, and Klinkenberg looks forward to finding new ways to put Dodge in awkward and difficult positions to see how he finds a way out. Dodge, after all, confronts many of the same challenges we all face: figuring out who we are and what we want, feuding with people who don’t share our view of the world, and trying to hold on to those nuggets of happiness as long as we can. QueerWritersOfCrime.comDonate: Buy me a Cup of CoffeeDean Klinkenberg&apos;s WebsiteDean&apos;s Non-Fiction WebsiteKeeping Secrets in St. Louis by Dean KlinkenbergConscious Bias by Alexi VeniceDryland&apos;s End by Felice PicanoTAGS Podcast - Talk About Gay SexThe Last Flight by Julie ClarkBrad Shreve&apos;s WebsiteRequeered Tales.com

Dean Klinkenberg Presents Ragtime and Murder

Ep:088 - Shane K Morton is a best-selling own voices author of LGBT romance, mystery and YA. Showing the LGBTQIA human condition in his work is important to him because visibility is everything. He writes darker horror/mystery under the name Sean Azinsalt. Before writing novels, he was a playwright and musical theatre actor who has performed in all 50 United States as well as three countries. His films have played at film festivals around the country. He is married to his husband and they have been together for twenty years. When not writing Shane can be found at a film festival or singing cabaret in a dark dive bar.QueerWritersOfCrime.comDonate: Buy me a Cup of CoffeeShane K. Morton&apos;s Drag Queen Detective Series on AmazonSean Azinsalt Amazon PageShane&apos;s Facebook GroupShane on BookBubDeath Trick by Richard StevensonLong Live The Queen by Jon R. SwankBrad Shreve&apos;s WebsiteRequeered Tales.com

Shane K. Morton's Drag Queens Aren't A Drag

Ep:087 Mia P. Manansala (she/her) is a writer and certified book coach from Chicago who loves books, baking, and bad-ass women. She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora, queerness, and her millennial love for pop culture. Her debut novel, ARSENIC AND ADOBO, came out May 4, 2021 with Berkley/Penguin Random House. A lover of all things geeky, Mia spends her days procrasti-baking, playing JRPGs and dating sims, reading cozy mysteries and diverse romance, and cuddling her dogs Gumiho, Max Power, and Bayley Banks (RIP) (bonus points if you get all the references).QueerWritersOfCrime.comDonate: Buy me a Cup of CoffeeMia Manansala&apos;s WebsiteMia on TwitterMia on InstagramMia on FacebookPride Book Fest 2021 LinksThe Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas Brad Shreve&apos;s WebsiteRequeered Tales.com

Mia Manansala Serves A Killer Dish

Ep:086 Lev Raphael is the author and co-author of 27 books in a dozen genres from memoir to mystery.  His first book of short stories, Dancing on Tisha B&apos;Av, won a Lambda Literary Award. He’s published hundreds of stories, essays, articles, and book reviews in a wide range of newspapers, magazines and journals. Lev has also won Amelia’s Reed Smith Fiction Prize and International Quarterly’s Crossing Boundaries Prize for Innovative Prose, awarded by novelist D.M. Thomas, author of The White Hotel.  His suspense novel Assault with a Deadly Lie was a Midwest Book Award finalist.Lev’s fiction and essays have appeared in over 24 anthologies in the U.S. and England, and they are taught at colleges and universities around the country—which means he&apos;s become homework. His fiction has been analyzed in scholarly journals, books, and at academic conferences.  He&apos;s been a newspaper columnist and book reviewer, produced his own radio talk show, and reviewed books for newspapers, magazines, public radio stations, online magazines and websites. You can connect with him on Facebook or Twitter, his author website, or his Write Without Borders website, where he mentors authors online. QueerWritersOfCrime.comDonate: Buy me a Cup of CoffeeLev Raphael&apos;s WebsiteLev&apos;s Writer Mentoring Site, Write Without BordersCold Was The Ground by B.A. Black Brad Shreve&apos;s WebsiteRequeered Tales.com

Lev Raphael And The Department Of Death

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