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Ep:063 Justene gives updates on new novels by authors who had books she recommended in 2020.

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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 episodes are being made. Therefore, some links may not work. Be sure to check out Brad's new podcast, Queer We Are, where he interviews LGBTQ celebrities, athletes, activists, politicians, and more. You can find it at queerweare.com

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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 year for him. Writing a foreward for publication, beta reading Aussie content for US based author, acknowledgement in a published bibliography, and now a guest on this podcast.

 Some days are tougher than others, but he is connected with author friends and fellow bibliophiles, which all helps, and always hope what he does might help others.

The basis of his collection is 1700+ print titles of gay fiction, with an emphasis on gay mystery series. He is in the process of finding new homes for the bulk of this collection. Adding 9000+ e-stories since 2009. Thank goodness for ereaders with larger reading fonts and text-to-speech options.

If he has any pet-hate, it is the tendency to glamourise the newly published and he enjoys bringing to the fore covers/titles which have history.

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Judge A Book By Its Gay Cover Online Database
Judge A Book By Its Gay Cover Facebook Page
Graeme's the batchelor pad tumblr page

Undermined by Ripley Hayes

Brad's Website: https://bradshreve.com/

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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.

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Kristen's Website
Link to Kristen's Books
Kristen on Twitter
Kristen on Instagram
Unlikeable Female Characters Podcast

The Quaker by Liam McIlvanney

Brad's Website: https://bradshreve.com/

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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, Blithe House Quarterly, and numerous anthologies. For thirty years, he served as an instructor with the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. He lives with his longtime companion (no husband), artist Pietro Gamino, in West Hollywood, California, the primary setting for the Benjamin Justice series.

ReQueered Tales is reissuing Morgan’s eight Justice novels through 2024.

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Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson

The Magic Box by Scott Thrower

Fairy Tales for Unwanted Children.  A podcast by Scott Thrower

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The three year run of Queer Writers of Crime was fantastic but no new episodes are being made. Therefore, some links may not work. Be sure to check out Brad's new podcast, Queer We Are, where he interviews LGBTQ celebrities, athletes, activists, politicians, and more. You can find it at queerweare.com

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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.

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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 Page

Ann Aptaker's Website

Barbara Winkes' Website

Garrett Hutson's Website

Brad's Website: https://bradshreve.com/

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The three year run of Queer Writers of Crime was fantastic but no new episodes are being made. Therefore, some links may not work. Be sure to check out Brad's new podcast, Queer We Are, where he interviews LGBTQ celebrities, athletes, activists, politicians, and more. You can find it at queerweare.com

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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.

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Anne's website
Money Creek by Anne Laughlin
Anne on Facebook
Anne on Twitter

Out of Shadows by Michelle Arnold

The Death of a Constant Lover by Lev Raphael

Brad's Website: https://bradshreve.com/

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The three year run of Queer Writers of Crime was fantastic but no new episodes are being made. Therefore, some links may not work. Be sure to check out Brad's new podcast, Queer We Are, where he interviews LGBTQ celebrities, athletes, activists, politicians, and more. You can find it at queerweare.com

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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, out on Lake Erie on the husband's sailboat.

Burton currently lives in a historic Georgian Revival house built in 1897 in Toledo, Ohio’s Old West End with his husband and 2 spoiled Basset Hounds. Sadly, the house is not haunted as promised.

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Fools Rush In by Austin Thomas Burton
Austin's Facebook Page
Austin on Goodreads

A Taco, A T-Bird, And One Furious Night by Ann Aptaker
The Death of a Constant Lover by Lev Raphael

Brad's Website: https://bradshreve.com/

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The three year run of Queer Writers of Crime was fantastic but no new episodes are being made. Therefore, some links may not work. Be sure to check out Brad's new podcast, Queer We Are, where he interviews LGBTQ celebrities, athletes, activists, politicians, and more. You can find it at queerweare.com

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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 book in 2017, Grant has rarely gone a week without honing his writing skills. It was only more recently that he plucked up the courage to publish his work. 

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Grant's novel Away With You
Grant's Website

Poison Me Slowly by Ricky Wilks

Steam by Jay B. Laws
The Unfinished by Jay B. Laws

Brad's Website: https://bradshreve.com/

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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 Best Small Press Title.

In his third novel, The Devil Inside, a black gay businessman must figure out if the new man in his life is a dream lover or date from hell with ties to a sinister plot to demonize all homosexuals. The Devil Inside was a 2003 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Best Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, and a Gaylactic Spectrum Awards nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel.

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Randy's Website

Marshall Thornton's Night Drop
Always Anonymous Beast by Lauren Wright Douglas

Brad's Website: https://bradshreve.com/

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The three year run of Queer Writers of Crime was fantastic but no new episodes are being made. Therefore, some links may not work. Be sure to check out Brad's new podcast, Queer We Are, where he interviews LGBTQ celebrities, athletes, activists, politicians, and more. You can find it at queerweare.com

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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 wasting his time and his parents'
money and dropped out.

Moving to New York City in 1987, Frank worked in the hospitality  industry for several years while also moving from there to San Francisco and to Provincetown before returning to Texas in 1992. Making Austin his home a second time, he finally settled into a corporate job and taught himself to write code and manage projects in Austin and Washington, D.C. After ten years of being what he likes to call "a normal person" he left the security of making a living in a "real job" and decided to strike out on his own.

Spending several years traveling around the U.S. and Canada, he found himself drawn to Daytona Beach, Florida, where he now resides. His initial novel, The Unexpected Heiress, was self-published on June 1, 2016. 67 titles later, the stories keep coming, right out of thin air!

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Frank's book: This Thing Called Love: The Romantical Adventures of Whit & Eddie #7
Frank's Website

Lake on the Mountain by Jeffrey Round

Brad's Website: https://bradshreve.com/

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The three year run of Queer Writers of Crime was fantastic but no new episodes are being made. Therefore, some links may not work. Be sure to check out Brad's new podcast, Queer We Are, where he interviews LGBTQ celebrities, athletes, activists, politicians, and more. You can find it at queerweare.com