Wrote Podcast

We welcome our first Poly-Amorous Author to WROTE Podcast! He doesn't just write about it, he lives it! Dr. Redfern Jon Barrett is in the WROTE Podcast house! The Journey || Role of Polyamory in GLBT+ Culture || Importance of Polyamorous in fiction || The Expanding and expansive nature of queer identity || The differences between identifying as "gay" to "homosexual" as well as the differences between "straight" and "heterosexual" || RFQs || What's Ahead || Credits and Blooper/Outtake

We welcome our FIRST queer visual artist to the WROTE PODCAST! MICHAEL BRODERICK is in the WrotePodcast house! The journey in discovering what appealed to him in his art || Drawing what he didn't see in the world around him || Studying art vs. the Business of Art || Evolution of Book Covers as a Brand || Helping Authors understanding Cover Art as a Brand || Other works for sale || Erotic Art - Because Porn Doesn't Give Us Everything We Want || RFQs || What's Ahead || HottLead as a real thing (Vance and Baz interests are definitely piqued - STAY TUNED!!!) || End Credits and Blooper (you'll wanna hear this one gang!) PLEASE NOTE: As this is a visual artist there is a movie presentation that goes along with this engaging discussion that the media link can be found in Michael's entry at wrotepodcast.com.

We welcome LINDA LEGTERS to the Wrote Podcast this week! We discuss Linda's first queer centric novel - Connected Underneath and journey to get it published || Queer Boutique Publishers || Writing Queer Protags from an allied author position || The Fabric of Life and how were all connected despite the isolation we often feel || Community || POV in writing || Teaching college level Creative Writing and English || RFQs || What's Ahead for Linda || Credits and Blooper/Outake

We welcome author MATTHEW CHENEY to the WrotePodcast house. Journey in writing || Pulling Inspiration from the backwaters of New Hampshire || Why Short Stories || Alt History and Queering up Historical Figures/Icons || RFQs || What's Ahead || Credits and Outtake

We welcome back Brad Vance to the Wrote Podcast house! Topics on deck this week: EuroPrideCon2016 - where Brad was a featured panelist! || Importance of research when writing about tougher subject matter (mental illness or homophobia, for example) || Making the shift from MM Romance/Erotica to more mainstream fare || Reader's Expectations and Author's responsibilities in crafting novels and stories || RFQs || What's ahead (MORE Audiobooks!) || Credits and outtakes.

This week we welcome BG Thomas, Michael Murphy, J Scott Coatsworth, and Jamie Fessenden to the WROTE podcast house! This week these four prolific authors join Vance and Baz to discuss the first anniversary of Marriage Equality in the US, how they've chosen to capture that historic moment in a lovely anthology, and where we all think our rights as queer people stand. Join us for a lively and historic conversation.

Keelan Ellis is in the WROTE podcast house! The past year's journey || Character building and Politics || Socio-Economic elements to character and world building || Non-Romance Mystery writing with a gay protag || Co-writing an upcoming series || RFQs || What's Ahead || Credits and Outtakes

Wrote podcast welcomes ANDREW Q. GORDON to the house! Intro and Journey as a writer || Writing Fantasy || Language in Fantasy || Cultural Tie-ins and how we rely upon them || When exposition becomes something harder to convey || Sci Fi and Fantasy - which is harder to write || Marketing to fantasy readers || Mainstreaming Gay Authors without going into MM Romance || RFQs || What's ahead for Andrew || Credits and Outtakes

Wrote welcomes Author Richard Taylor Pearson! Richard's journey in theater and writing || Writing about theater || Surprises for a first time writer || Balancing the triple threat || Kirkus Reviews || RFQs || What's Ahead || Credits and Outtake

Baz has a total fanboy moment as JEFF JACOBSON is in the WrotePodcast house! Intro || Journey in Writing || YA Novels - what's allowed and what's not || Why YA || Sex in YA || Witch Tropes || Pluses and Minuses with Tropes || Stockholm Syndrome and Witches - Who Knew? || Baz confesses to riffing off of The Boy Who Couldn't Fly Straight much to Jeff's delight || Queer Representation in Media (TV, Movies and the like) || RFQs || The Dangers of Teaching Pulp Culture Refs to Non-English speakers || What's Ahead for Jeff || Sign off and Outtake