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Ep: 133 Before his death, Richards Stevenson wrote what he hoped would be the first novel in a new series Knock Off the Hat: A Clifford Waterman Gay Philly Mystery. In this episode Philip shares his thoughts about the novel, plus he and Brad chat a bit about Richard's life. Before the episode wraps up Brad shares exciting news with Philip.

Podcast Website:   www.queerwritersofcrime.com

Knock Off the Hat by Richard Stevenson
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Amble Press Website
https://www.bywaterbooks.com/amble-press/

Tribute to Richard Stevenson
https://www.bywaterbooks.com/our-lost-brother/

ReQueered Tales  requeeredtales.com
Re-publishing award-winning, post-Stonewall gay and lesbian fiction — with a focus on mystery, literary and horror/sci-fi genres.

Brad's Website: bradshreve.com

Kindly give to The Trevor Project  https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
a much-needed charity focusing not only suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth, but also helps to get answers and information to support them and connect with an international community of LGBTQ youth aged 13 - 24.

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: 132 Ann and Brad discuss her protagonist Canton Gold's background, her life of crime, why she leads a life of crime, and lesbian life in the 1950s.

Podcast Website:   www.queerwritersofcrime.com

Hunting Gold by Ann Aptaker
On Bywater Books
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On Amazon
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On Barnes & Noble
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Ann's Website
http://www.annaptaker.com/

Ann Aptaker’s Cantor Gold crime/mystery series has been the recipient of Lambda Literary and multiple Goldie Awards. Her short stories have appeared in two editions of the crime anthology Fedora, Switchblade Magazine’s Stiletto Heeled issue, the Mickey Finn crime anthologies, and The Black Cat Mystery Magazine. Her flash fiction, “Rockin’ Dyke Roll,” is featured in the Goldie winning anthology Our Happy Hours: LGBT Voices From The Gay Bars. 

Culminating a career as a curator for museums and galleries, Ann is currently an art writer for various New York clients. When not writing about murder and mayhem or indulging in her passion for art, there’s nothing Ann likes better than the pleasures of ice cream and old movies.

Brad's Website: bradshreve.com

Kindly give to The Trevor Project  https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
a much-needed charity focusing not only suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth, but also helps to get answers and information to support them and connect with an international community of LGBTQ youth aged 13 - 24.

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: 131 David S. Pederson, Lev Raphael, and Brad Shreve, offer suggestions for your reading pleasure.
 
 Podcast Website:   www.queerwritersofcrime.com
 
David S. Pederson Recommends
Somewhere Over Lorain Road by Bud Gundy
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Lev Raphael Recommendations
By Justin Evans
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Brad Shreve Recommends
Dead Letters from Paradise by Ann McMan
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Brad's Website:
bradshreve.com

ReQueered Tales e-publish award-winning, offer post-Stonewall gay and lesbian fiction:
 https://requeeredtales.com/

Kindly give to The Trevor Project, a much-needed charity focusing not only suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth, but also helps to get answers and information to support them and connect with an international community of LGBTQ youth aged 13 - 24.
thetrevorproject.org 

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: 130 Lev Raphael returns to talk with Brad about having his full Nick Hoffman Academia Mystery Series republished, historical misquotes, research, the joy of mingling with other mystery authors, and more.

Podcast Website:   www.queerwritersofcrime.com

Get a Kindle Paperwhite:
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Burning Down the House by Lev Raphael:
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Lev's Website:
levraphael.com

ReQueered Tales
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Lev Raphael is the author of 25 books, including two novels about holocaust survivors, Winter Eyes and The German Money, and three memoirs, Journeys & Arrivals, Writing a Jewish Life, and My Germany. Raphael's fiction has been widely anthologized in the U.S. and Britain, most recently in the anthology Promised Lands, which contains Lev's latest story featuring a child of holocaust survivors: "Money."

Born and raised in New York City, he received his MFA in Creative Writing and English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he won the Harvey Swados Fiction Prize, awarded by renowned editor Martha Foley for a Holocaust-themed story later published in Redbook. Winner of the Reed Smith Fiction Prize and International Quarterly's Prize for Innovative Prose (judged by D. M. Thomas), Raphael holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Michigan State University. Raphael taught at the university level in New York, Massachusetts and Michigan for 13 years and the first course he designed was a multi-disciplinary study of the Holocaust. He left teaching in 1988 to write and review full-time. He is currently a guest assistant professor at Michigan State University where he teaches creative writing, popular literature, and Jewish-American literature.

Brad's Website: bradshreve.com

Kindly give to The Trevor Project, a much-needed charity focusing not only suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth, but also helps to get answers and information to support them and connect with an international community of LGBTQ youth aged 13 - 24.
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

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: 129 Justene shares with Brad a novel by Maya MacGregor she believes is a contender for upcoming awards. A contemporary queer novel, full of diversity, a suspicious death, and a spirit who helps solve the crime. 

Podcast Website:   www.queerwritersofcrime.com

The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor:
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Brad's Website: bradshreve.com

Support Requeered Tales  re-publishing award-winning, post-Stonewall gay and lesbian fiction — with a focus on mystery, literary and horror/sci-fi genres.
requeeredtales.com

Kindly give to The Trevor Project, a much-needed charity focusing not only suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth, but also helps to get answers and information to support them and connect with an international community of LGBTQ youth aged 13 - 24.
thetrevorproject.org

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: 128 Laury A. Egan, and Brad Shreve discuss the diversity in the type of stories she writes, her passion for the visual arts, writing both psychological suspense and humor, and being a humanist.

 she doesn't write a series, and her latest novel Doublecrossed.

Podcast Website:   www.queerwritersofcrime.com

Doublecrossed by Laury A. Egan
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Laury's website: http://www.lauryaegan.com/

Laury's Blog: https://lauryaeganblog.wordpress.com/

Laury A. Egan is the author of (fiction) Wave in D Minor, Doublecrossed, Turnabout, The Swimmer, A Bittersweet Tale, The Ungodly Hour, The Outcast Oracle, Fog and Other Stories, Jenny Kidd, and Fabulous! An Opera Buffa; (poetry) Beneath the Li

Brad's Website: bradshreve.com

Support Requeered Tales  re-publishing award-winning, post-Stonewall gay and lesbian fiction — with a focus on mystery, literary and horror/sci-fi genres.
requeeredtales.com

Kindly give to The Trevor Project, a much-needed charity focusing not only suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth, but also helps to get answers and information to support them and connect with an international community of LGBTQ youth aged 13 - 24.
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

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: 127 Philip's June book recommendation is a book by Catherine Maiorisi that passes The Shreve Test. A High Standard Brad Insists in All Series novels.

Podcast Website:   www.queerwritersofcrime.com

Legacy in the Blood by Catherine Maiorisi
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Brad's Website: bradshreve.com

Support Requeered Tales  re-publishing award-winning, post-Stonewall gay and lesbian fiction — with a focus on mystery, literary and horror/sci-fi genres.
requeeredtales.com

Kindly give to The Trevor Project, a much-needed charity focusing not only suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth, but also helps to get answers and information to support them and connect with an international community of LGBTQ youth aged 13 - 24.
thetrevorproject.org

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: 126 David S. Pederson and Brad discuss the love of writing dialogue, Phoenix life in the 1940s, and having a zest for life despite a series of disturbing events.

Podcast Website:
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Murder on Monte Vista by David S. Pederson
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Detective Heath Barrington Mystery Series by David S. Pederson
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David's website:
davidspeterson.com

David S. Pederson lives in the southwest with his husband Alan and two sweet cats.

 A film noir and mystery enthusiast, David is the author of the Detective Heath Barrington murder mystery series, including Death Checks In and Death Takes a Bow (Both Lambda Literary Award Finalists).  His most recent mystery, released in March of 2022, is Murder on Monte Vista.

Brad's Website:
bradshreve.com

Support Requeered Tales  re-publishing award-winning, post-Stonewall gay and lesbian fiction — with a focus on mystery, literary and horror/sci-fi genres.
requeeredtales.com

Kindly give to The Trevor Project, a much-needed charity focusing not only suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth, but also helps to get answers and information to support them, and connect with an international community of LGBTQ youth aged 13 - 24.
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

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: 125 Dharma Kelleher, Bud Gundy, Anthony Bidulka, and Meredith Doench give suggestions for readers.

Podcast Website:   www.queerwritersofcrime.com

Dharma Kelleher Recommends
Robyn Gigl - Survivor's Guilt by Robyn Gigl
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Bud Gundy Recommends
A Body in a Bathhouse by Brad Shreve
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Anthony Bidulka Recommends These Canadian Authors
The Joanne Kilbourn series by Gail Bowen
https://amzn.to/3P5bBeU

The Detective Paul Lane Series by Gary Ryan
https://amzn.to/3vQXOB8

The Ava Lee Series by Ian Hamilton
https://amzn.to/39N5I63

Meredith Doench Recommends
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
https://amzn.to/39AqtSc

Brad's Website: bradshreve.com

Kindly give to The Trevor Project, a much-needed charity focusing not only suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth, but also helps to get answers and information to support them and connect with an international community of LGBTQ youth aged 13 - 24.
thetrevorproject.org

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: 124 Brad Shreve had planned to give a book recommendation but decided to offer a sample of his current work in progress. He's having great fun writing the novel and hopes that comes through when you listen in. Feel free to leave a voice message or send an email and let him know what you think.

Podcast Website:
www.queerwritersofcrime.com

The Mitch O'Reilly Mystery Series by Brad Shreve
https://amzn.to/3vZd92u

Attitude Magazine Article on gay bears
https://bit.ly/3P9Jknr

Brad's Website:
bradshreve.com

Kindly give to The Trevor Project, a much-needed charity focusing not only suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth, but also helps to get answers and information to support them, and connect with an international community of LGBTQ youth aged 13 - 24.
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

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