Podcasts by Queer Writers of Crime

Queer Writers of Crime

Author interviews with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer writers of mystery, suspense, and thriller novels. We also give crime genre LGBTQ book recommendations. Brad Shreve chats with authors to learn who they are as well as touching on their craft. This is the source to add to your list of must read LGBTQ books. Rated by Buzzfeed as one of the 20 Best Queer Podcasts in 2022. No new episodes are being made for this show but check out Brad's new show Queer We Are where he interviews LGBTQ celebrities, athletes, politicians, artists, and more.

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Queer Writers of Crime
Special Episode: Interviews After the Interviews II from 2022-01-25T00:00

Ep:101 There are two things that make this episode special. First, this is the second Interview After the Interview episode where Brad runs through a series of quick questions from eight previou...

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Michael Craft On The Dark Side Of A Sunny Place from 2021-09-07T00:00

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 201...

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C.L. Brees Takes Us To Saskatchewan from 2021-08-30T17:00

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 w...

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Garrett Hutson Discusses The Ebb And Flow Of LGBTQ Acceptance from 2021-08-24T04:00

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, ...

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Lucy Sussex On An 1800s Blockbuster Crime Novel from 2021-08-16T21:00

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 i...

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John Copenhaver And The Creepy Things Society Did To Us from 2021-08-10T03:00

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 Li...

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Marko Realmonte And Jeff Adams - Marko Takes Us Beneath The Streets of Oxford, Plus Jeff From The Big Gay Fiction Podcast Visits from 2021-08-03T04:00

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 A...

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Garrick Jones On Men Who Won't Talk About It from 2021-07-27T02:00

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...

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Chris Holcombe Presents 1926 New York LGBTQ+ Style from 2021-07-20T10:00

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-repr...

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Meredith Doench And Her Favorite Prison To Visit from 2021-07-13T02:00

Ep:092  Meredith Doench is the author of the Luce Hansen thriller series. Her work has appeared in literary journals such as Hayden's Ferry Review, Women's Studies Quarter...

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Christopher Murphy The Thrill Seeking Author from 2021-07-06T00:00

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 Uni...

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Ann McMan There's No Subject She Won't Touch from 2021-06-28T23:00

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, ...

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Dean Klinkenberg Presents Ragtime and Murder from 2021-06-22T07:00

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...

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Shane K. Morton's Drag Queens Aren't A Drag from 2021-06-15T06:00

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....

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Mia Manansala Serves A Killer Dish from 2021-06-08T00:00

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 dia...

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Lev Raphael And The Department Of Death from 2021-06-01T00:00

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'Av, won a Lambda Literary Award. He...

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Barbara Wilson, A Trailblazer from 2021-05-25T00:00

Ep:085 Barbara Wilson is the author of seven previous mysteries, including Gaudí Afternoon, which introduced translator-sleuth Cassandra Reilly and was made into a movie starring Judy D...

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Alan R. Warren, Radio Host of House Of Mystery, And Author Of 12 True Crime Books from 2021-05-17T23:00

Ep:084 Alan R. Warren is the author of 12 published True crime Books, 5 of them have been Number 1 Best Sellers and has produced & hosted in several radio markets including KKNW 1150 A.M. Se...

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P.J. Vernon And Not So Fun Thrills At A Bathhouse from 2021-05-11T00:00

Ep:083 P. J. Vernon was born in South Carolina. Called a "rising star thriller writer" by Library Journal, Vernon's debut, When You Find Me, was both an Audible Plus #1 Listen and...

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Tammy Bird: Define Happily Ever After? from 2021-05-04T00:00

Ep:082 Some people buy a fancy sports car or fly to faraway lands when they hit middle age. Tammy Bird started writing fiction with strong female protagonists. A literature professor by trade, s...

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Robyn Gigl: Was it Murder or Self Defense? from 2021-04-27T00:00

Ep:081 Robyn Gigl, the author of BY WAY OF SORROW, is an attorney, author and activist who has been honored by the ACLU-NJ and the NJ Pride Network for her work on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community...

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Derek Farrell Defines A Cozy Noir Mystery from 2021-04-20T07:00

Ep:080 Derek Farrell is the author of five Danny Bird Mysteries - ‘Death of a Diva’ ‘Death of a Nobody,’ ‘Death of a Devil,’ ‘Death of an Angel’ and the novella ‘Death of a Sinner’- all publishe...

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Joseph R.G. DeMarco Discusses The 200 Men He Interviewed from 2021-04-12T22:00

Ep:079 Joseph R.G.  De Marco, a native of Philadelphia,is the author of the Marco Fontana Mysteries, the newest and fifth in the series is The Vermilion Pursuit. ...

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Michael Nava Shares How Often He Googles Himself from 2021-04-06T00:00

Ep:078 Michael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of eight novels featuring gay, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios who The New Yorker, called “a detective unlike...

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Marco Carocari From Flying To Photographing To Writing from 2021-03-30T00:00

Ep:077 Marco Carocari grew up in Switzerland, where he, over the past fifty-odd years, worked in a hardware store, traveled the globe working for the airlines, and later as an internationally pu...

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William D. Prystauk Serves Up Kink Noir from 2021-03-23T00:00

Ep:076 In the Kink Noir crime thriller series, William D. Prystauk’s first installment, Bloodletting  won the Grand Jury Prize at the LA Neo Noir Novel, Film & Script Fest ...

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JB Sanders&The Fine Balance Between Suspense&Humor from 2021-03-16T00:00

Ep:075  JB Sanders lives with an imaginary cat, and works in computer support (you know, the day job), all in Upstate New York. He divides his time between writing humorous suspense novels, read...

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Wendy Heard Discusses Likeability, Being an L.A. Native, And Whether Bisexuals Exist from 2021-03-09T00:00

Ep:074 Wendy Heard is the author of two adult thrillers: The Kill Club and Hunting Annabelle, which Kirkus Reviews praised as “a diabolically plotted creep show from a writer to watch.” She’s To...

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Jack Dickson Discusses Soap Operas, Politics&Circumcision from 2021-03-02T00:00

Ep:073 Born in a small town on Scotland's West Coast, Jack Dickson is the author of nine novels and a variety of short stories – including the Jas Anderson Investigates series of c...

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Eliza Lentzski - Historian by Day Author by Night from 2021-02-23T00:00

Ep:072 Eliza Lentzski is the author of lesbian fiction and romance novels, including the best-selling series Winter Jacket and Don’t Call Me Hero. Although a historian by day, ...

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Rick R. Reed&the Similarities Between Love&Horror from 2021-02-16T00:00

Ep:071 Rick R. Reed is an award-winning and bestselling author of more than fifty works of published fiction. He is a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Entertainment Weekly has described his work ...

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Steve Neil Johnson: Many Paths Always A Writer from 2021-02-09T00:00

Ep:070  Steve Neil Johnson is the author of the bestselling Doug Orlando mysteries, FINAL ATONEMENT (Lambda Literary Award finalist for Best Mystery) and FALSE CONFESSIONS, for which one critic ...

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Is Edwin Hill Talented or Lucky? from 2021-02-02T00:00

Ep:069 Edwin Hill’s critically-acclaimed crime novels include Watch Her, Listen

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David Lennon and New Orleans Mysteries from 2020-08-25T00:00

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...

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Richard Stevenson: Nearly 40 Years With Donald Strachey from 2020-08-18T00:00

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 E...

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Laury A. Egan, Keyboards and Cameras from 2020-08-11T00:00

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 Bitterswee...

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Robert Innes'Impossible Crimes from 2020-08-04T00:00

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 perfec...

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Mark Zubro: So Many Balls in the Air from 2020-07-28T00:00

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 h...

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R.E. Bradshaw Digs Deeper Into Emendare from 2020-07-21T00:00

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 R...

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Cheryl Head and Mysteries In Motown from 2020-07-14T00:00

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 bl...

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Ann Aptaker is Writing Gold from 2020-07-02T00:00

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...

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Dharma Kelleher Gritty Crime Fiction from 2020-06-25T00:00

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 Sh...

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Bud Gundy Emmy Award Winner And Lambda Literary Award Finalist from 2020-06-18T00:00

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 200...

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Lev Raphael Proves Dreams Do Come True from 2020-06-11T01:00

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 er...

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Barbara Winkes High Drama and Happy Endings from 2020-06-04T00:00

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...

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Josh Lanyon Nearly Ninety Books And Counting from 2020-05-28T00:00

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 e...

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Meg Perry An End Of An Era And A New Beginning from 2020-05-21T00:00

Ep:033 Meg Perry is an academic librarian in East Central Florida with a subject specialty in health sciences. She lives on a barrier island two blocks from the beach, which is awesome during th...

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Garrett Hutson Little Known LGBTQ History And More Fun from 2020-05-14T00:00

Ep:032 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, ...

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Jess Faraday Difficult Characters And Victorian Life from 2020-05-07T00:00

Ep:031 Jess Faraday is an award-winning writer and editor of mystery and suspense. Her first novel, The Affair of the Porcelain Dog, was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award, and her third, F...

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Brittany Cournoyer And How To Know You're Reading Her Novels from 2020-04-30T00:00

Ep:030 Brittany was born in a small town in Alabama and moved to Indiana when she was thirteen years old. She currently resides there and works as an operator at a local hospital. When she isn&a...

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Special Round Table Discussion: Gay Crime Fiction - Our Past, Present, and Future from 2020-04-23T00:00

Ep:029 RE Bradshaw, John Copenhaver, Greg Herren, and Dharma Kelleher join in a round table discussion about the current state of LGBTQ crime fiction.

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Marko Realmonte With Some Hollywood Gossip, Screenwriting, And His Jake Weston Series from 2020-04-02T00:00

Ep:026 Marko Realmonte worked for more than 20 years in the entertainment industry in Hollywood as a writer and studio publicist primarily at Disney/Touchstone. As a script doctor, he worked on ...

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David C. Dawson: Mysteries, Thrillers, Gay Relationships, And The Gay Men's Choir from 2020-03-26T00:00

Ep:025 David C Dawson writes contemporary thrillers featuring gay men in love. He’s an award winning author, journalist and documentary maker.

His latest book is Heroes in Love, p...

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Dal Maclean And Her Bitter Legacy Series from 2020-03-19T00:00

Ep:024  Dal Maclean comes from the north of Scotland. Her background is in journalism, and she has an undying passion for history, the more scandalous the better. Dal has lived in Asia and worke...

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Mark McNease Discusses His New Marshall James Thriller, Podcasting And More from 2020-03-12T00:00

Ep:023 Mark McNease chats with Brad Shreve about his new Marshall James Thriller, his Kyle Callahan Mysteries, podcasting, living senior, and more.

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The Man Behind the Author: Former Police Officer and Consultant, Brian King-Sharp from 2020-01-09T00:00

Ep:014 Brian King-Sharp served 16 years as a police officer and law enforcement administrator and currently consults writer's of crime fiction. He shares some fascinating stories of his tim...

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Don Travis New Mexico Both Past and Present from 2020-01-02T00:00

Ep:013 Don Travis is the pseudonym for Don Morgan, who discusses his BJ Vinson Mystery series and his latest release, The Voxlightner Scandal. He also shares a Native-American series he...

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Best LGBTQ Mysteries of 2019 from 2019-12-26T00:00

Ep:012 Justene provides her selection of the best LGBTQ mystery novels of 2019, plus Brad gives one too. Listen in and add some books to your must reads list.
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Ep:011 Andrew Schulz discusses his novel The Homos of Harmony Haven. A non-traditional humorous soap style mystery with drama, love affairs and plenty of backstabbing. Justene reviews <...

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Rediscovering Queer Mysteries with Matt Lubbers-Moore from ReQueered Tales from 2019-12-12T00:00

Ep:010 A conversation with Matt Lubbers-Moore about the history of gay mystery fiction and the purpose of ReQueered Tales, which is to republish out of print LGBTQ novels. Justene reviews Th...

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Garrick Jones: From Opera to Author from 2019-12-05T00:00

Ep:009 Garrick Jones talks about his latest mystery, Australia's Son. He also shares about his career as an opera singer and transitioning to writing after he retired. Justene revi...

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Jon Michaelsen, author of the Kendall Parker Mystery Series from 2019-11-28T00:00

Ep:008 Jon Michaelsen shares about The Deadwood Murders, the second book in his Kendall Parker Series. He also discusses creating the Gay Mystery-Thriller-Suspense Fiction group on Face...

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Gregory Ashe On The Future of Hazard and Somerset from 2019-11-21T00:00

Ep:007 Gregory Ashe talks about the end of the first arc of his Hazard and Somerset series and what to expect as their story continues, interacting with fans, and the other two series he writes....

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R.E. Bradshaw Discusses Her Novel Emendare and Much More from 2019-11-14T00:00

Ep:006 R.E. Bradshaw discusses the differences between Emendare and her other novels, lesbian fiction, politics, the environment and much more. Justene reviews The Stuffed Coffin by Die...

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Marshall Thornton Shares What To Expect After Boystown from 2019-11-07T00:00

Ep:005 Marshall Thornton's Boystown Mystery series novels, which are on sale, are coming to an end. He gives us details about the series, and what to expect in the future, including if ther...

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Frank W. Butterfield Balances Three Series At Once from 2019-10-31T00:00

Ep:004 Author Frank W. Butterfield discusses his three series: The Nick William's Mysteries, the Daytona Beach Books, and The Romantical Adventures of Whit & Eddie. Justene rev...

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C.S. Poe, author of Mystery of the Bones, discusses her Snow&Winter series from 2019-10-24T00:00

Ep:003 C.S. Poe discusses Mystery of the Bones, the final novel in her Snow & Winter series. Justene gives her review of the Robert Innes novel, Harte.