Ep: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 new episod...
Dec 22, 2020•20 min•Ep. 63
Ep: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 y...
Dec 15, 2020•44 min•Ep. 62
Ep: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 Instagr...
Dec 08, 2020•42 min•Ep. 61
Ep: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 Magazine...
Dec 01, 2020•41 min•Ep. 60
Ep: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 Lennon's Amazon...
Nov 24, 2020•21 min•Ep. 59
Ep: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. queerwritersofc...
Nov 17, 2020•45 min•Ep. 58
Ep: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 great, ou...
Nov 10, 2020•43 min•Ep. 57
Ep: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 first boo...
Nov 03, 2020•39 min•Ep. 56
Ep: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 and B...
Oct 27, 2020•41 min•Ep. 55
Ep: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 was was...
Oct 20, 2020•44 min•Ep. 54
Ep: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 poetry ...
Oct 13, 2020•44 min•Ep. 53
Ep: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.writewithoutborder...
Oct 06, 2020•42 min•Ep. 52
Ep: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 t...
Sep 29, 2020•48 min•Ep. 51
Ep: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-estab...
Sep 22, 2020•45 min•Ep. 50
Ep: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 debut ...
Sep 15, 2020•59 min•Ep. 49
Ep: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 at th...
Sep 08, 2020•46 min•Ep. 48
Ep: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, El...
Sep 01, 2020•42 min•Ep. 47
Ep: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-time La...
Aug 25, 2020•36 min•Ep. 46
Ep: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 writer at The...
Aug 18, 2020•37 min•Ep. 45
Ep: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 a...
Aug 11, 2020•37 min•Ep. 44
Ep: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 mystery...
Aug 04, 2020•42 min•Ep. 43
Ep: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 by t...
Jul 28, 2020•39 min•Ep. 42
Ep: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, the s...
Jul 21, 2020•33 min•Ep. 41
Ep:040 Cheryl Head spent twenty years in public television and radio before turning to fiction writing. Her award-winning first novel, Long Way Home, is a story of the experience of black soldiers in America’s segregated war-time army and features two black, gay men. Head writes the Charlie Mack Motown Mysteries whose female PI protagonist is queer and black. Head is Director of Inclusion at the Golden Crown Literary Society. Its mission is to increase the visibility of lesbian-themed literature...
Jul 14, 2020•39 min•Ep. 40
Ep:039 Ann Aptaker’s “Cantor Gold” crime/mystery novels have won Lambda Literary and Goldie Awards. Her short stories have appeared in two editions of the crime anthology Fedora, Switchblade Magazine’s Stiletto Heeled issue , and will be featured in the Mickey Finn crime anthology , releasing in the Fall of 2020 from Down & Out Books. She is one of only six authors invited by Down & Out Books to provide a novella for the second season their crime series, Guns & Tacos, releasing in Oc...
Jul 02, 2020•40 min•Ep. 39
Ep:038 Dharma Kelleher writes gritty crime fiction with a feminist kick and is one of the only openly transgender authors in the genre. She writes the Jinx Ballou Bounty Hunter series and the Shea Stevens Outlaw Biker series. Her work has also appeared in anthologies and on Shotgun Honey. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, the International Thriller Writers, and the Alliance of Independent Authors. She lives in Arizona with her wife and her feline overlords. New Release: Blood Sisters (Shea St...
Jun 25, 2020•39 min•Ep. 38
Ep:037 Bud Gundy is Lambda Literary Award finalist and an Executive Producer and on-air host at KQED , the PBS and NPR affiliate for Northern California. In 2003, he received an Emmy Award for producing the documentary Lonely Island: Hidden Alcatraz . He won his second Emmy Award in 2016 for directing the KQED News special, State of Surveillance . He's been nominated for two other works. Bud grew up in North Olmsted, Ohio, a western suburb of Cleveland. He attended St. Edward High School, gradua...
Jun 18, 2020•38 min•Ep. 37
Ep:036 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 author website: http://www.levraphael.com Teaching/editing/mentoring website: http://www.writewithoutborders.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/levraph...
Jun 11, 2020•43 min•Ep. 36
Ep:035 Barbara Winkes writes suspense and romance with lesbian characters at the center. She has always loved stories in which women persevere and lift each other up. Expect high drama and happy endings. Women loving women always take the lead. Barbara lives in Québec, Canada, with her wife. queerwritersofcrime.com Website: https://barbarawinkes.wordpress.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/barbarawinkes The Necessary Deaths by David C. Dawson A Body on the Hill by Brad Shreve requeeredtales.com T...
Jun 04, 2020•37 min•Ep. 35
Ep:034 Author of nearly ninety titles of classic Male/Male fiction featuring twisty mystery, kickass adventure, and unapologetic man-on-man romance, JOSH LANYON’S work has been translated into eleven languages. Her FBI thriller Fair Game was the first Male/Male title to be published by Harlequin Mondadori, then the largest romance publisher in Italy. Stranger on the Shore (Harper Collins Italia) was the first M/M title to be published in print. In 2016 Fatal Shadows placed #5 in Japan’s annual B...
May 28, 2020•44 min•Ep. 34
