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Allusions: LGBTQ Writing

Allusion, the creating of characters and stories from the best writers of LGBTQ are interviewed here. Find out how they get the ideas for the books that they have written and the process behind their writing. No question is out of bounds in this series and it"s nothing you"ll hear anywhere else!Host/Creator - Alan R. Warren from the House of Mystery Radio Show on NBC! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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45:45

D.C. Chambers - The Last Goodbye: Sonny Noir's Story

Allusions: LGBTQ Writing ·

2022/11/13

The Last Goodbye shows a complex relationship between twenty-five-year-old Sonny Noir, a gay man feeling beaten by the system, and forty-two-year-old Jacqueline Svenson Skylar, a newly transplanted wealthy New York socialite who recently moved to Chicago carrying a lifetime of unhappiness on her shoulders. Sonny Noir’s Story opens with a riveting quadruple homicide at the Miami International Airport on February 13, 1981, which the news media quickly labeled as the “Friday the 13th Massacre at MIA.”

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55:28

Andy Gallo - Better Be Sure: An Out for You MM...

Allusions: LGBTQ Writing ·

2022/11/13

Bring a guy to the fraternity formal? Pfft. Easy. Won’t be him kicked out of the house. So what if his luck with guys on campus has been Horrendous? Ed Knowles is Jack’s winning ticket. Tall, handsome, hardworking—and he doesn’t go to Harrison.With every stolen look, every secret kiss, every clandestine touch Ed becomes more than just an answer to a bet.These cloak-and-dagger meetings that set Jack on fire? They mask one tiny, enormous obstacle:Ed’s not out. Can’t attend the dance.What does Jack do

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53:09

Garrick Jones - The Seventh of December: The...

Allusions: LGBTQ Writing ·

2022/11/13

As bombs rain down over London during the Blitz, Major Tommy Haupner negotiates the rubble-filled streets of Bloomsbury on his way to perform at a socialite party. The explosive event of the evening is not his virtuosic violin playing, but the 'almost-blond' American who not only insults him, but then steals his heart.The Seventh of December follows a few months in the lives of two Intelligence agents in the early part of World War Two. Set against the backdrop of war-torn occupied Europe, Tommy and

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54:09

Garrick Jones - Gilded Madonna

Allusions: LGBTQ Writing ·

2022/11/13

Halloran pulled the sheet down to the man's waist. What I saw made me take a deep breath: the man's throat was cut so deeply his head looked like it had almost been severed."If you tell me this man was found in the public toilet behind the grandstand of Coogee Oval opposite where I live, I might just need a chair," I said.Clyde Smith's quiet, happy life, in love for the first time, working as a private detective and journalist, is suddenly thrown into disarray by the appearance, after a three year

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51:33

Garrick Jones - X for Extortion: 14 Manchester Square

Allusions: LGBTQ Writing ·

2022/11/13

“There’s no deal unless you tell me who killed Lucretia, Thomas! For the love of God, I have to know—”“She was shot by an assassin.”“But who was this assassin? Who shot her?” he demanded again angrily, leaning forward over the table.“I did,” I said, after a suitably dramatic pause.He threw his head back and laughed loudly, his arms crossed on his chest. “You?” he said once he’d regained his breath. “You? Thomas Haupner, the violinist? The would-be army officer from some stupid, derelict relic of the

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52:39

Austin Thomas Burton - Fools Rush In (A Horatio...

Allusions: LGBTQ Writing ·

2022/11/13

A decades-old body is found in the decaying San Diego landmark, The Aztec Hotel. Horatio "Rush" Storms, struggling bar owner, is dragged into finding out who it was and why they wound up in the closet, literally. Duplicitous drag royalty, childhood heroines gone wrong and unreliable police keep getting in Rush's way while a series of gay-bashings keeps everyone on edge. San Diego in the early 1990's isn't all sand and surf like the tourism brochures say and Rush needs to balance keeping promises

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53:28

Daniel M. Jaffe - The Genealogy of Understanding

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2022/11/13

Is ancient Torah relevant to the social issues of today? InThe Genealogy of Understanding, Matt Klein, a contemporary Jewish Scheherazade, questions whether Torah can illuminate and guide responses to religious conflict and prejudice, to such issues as intermarriage, infidelity, and prejudice that threaten to splinter families in the suburban New Jersey community of his upbringing. He first examines the private lives of his congregation's unfaithful rabbi, of a friend contemplating intermarriage, of

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44:30

Cody Renegar - Changing the Stars: A Memoir

Allusions: LGBTQ Writing ·

2022/11/13

A powerful true story about how a boy survived and then overcame his family’s multigenerational cycle of violence, neglect, and sexual abuse: Despite the odds against him, Cody Renegar grew up and became a loving father and husband, successful hairstylist, and respected artist.Raised by a substance-abusing single mother, at six Cody and his four siblings were placed into the foster care system in Arkansas, leading to a series of placements in homes where he endured unspeakable abuse and neglect

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52:56

Gregory Ashe - Wayward

Allusions: LGBTQ Writing ·

2022/11/13

Emery Hazard is trying to plan his wedding, even though his fiancé, John-Henry Somerset, isn’t exactly making things easy for him. To be fair, Somers has been distracted lately; his father is running for mayor in a hotly contested election, and their hometown is splintering under the weight of divisive politics.In a matter of hours, those poisonous politics invade Hazard’s life in a way he couldn’t have imagined. Glenn Somerset, Somers’s father, shows up on their doorstep, and he wants two things:

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55:04

Gregory Ashe - A Friend in the Dark (An Auden &...

Allusions: LGBTQ Writing ·

2022/11/13

Rufus O’Callaghan has eked out a living on the streets of New York City by helping the police put away criminals as a confidential informant. But when Rufus shows up for an arranged meeting and finds his handler dead, his already-uncertain life is thrown into a tailspin. Now someone is trying to kill Rufus too, and he’s determined to find out why.After leaving the Army under less than desirable circumstances, Sam Auden has drifted from town to town, hitching rides and catching Greyhounds, until he

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48:23

Barbara Wilson - Not the Real Jupiter: A Cassandra...

Allusions: LGBTQ Writing ·

2022/11/13

Join traveling translator Cassandra Reilly as she solves a new mystery in Lambda Literary Award winner Barbara Wilson’s series about the London-based, Irish-American sleuth. In Not the Real Jupiter Cassandra is translating two manuscripts from Spanish. One of them is a collection of stories of speculative fiction by her old friend, the Uruguayan writer Luisa Montiflores. When editorial complications threaten its publication by an independent press in Portland, Cassandra travels from Luisa’s

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40:14

Tim Barela - The complete Leonard & Larry Collection

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2022/11/13

Tim Barela’sLeonard & Larry are back!The Complete Leonard & Larry Collectioncontains every Leonard & Larry strip, from their first appearance in Gay Comix, to The Advocate and Frontiers magazine. Strip creatorTim Barelagave voice to a generation of LGBTQ people. Whether we were gay, straight, into music, or into leather, we could see our lives mirrored in the sometimes crazy but always loving Leonard & Larry universe.The Complete Leonard & Larry Collectioncontains all the strips

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37:33

Mark McNease - Beautiful Corpse

Allusions: LGBTQ Writing ·

2022/11/13

“It was 1984. Prince ruled the airwaves. The Los Angeles Olympics had come and gone, taking with it a spotlight that had shone harshly on the city’s night crawlers and left them thankful for the shadows. AIDS was spreading its dark, black, wings over us all, and I was a happy guy. At least I thought I was, until things took a sudden turn for the deadly.” - Marshall JamesIt’s been over a year since Marshall James first became intimately familiar with murder. He’s six months sober now and happily

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36:47

Sean Michael - First Bloom

Allusions: LGBTQ Writing ·

2022/11/13

Joey works as a janitor at Dick and Rock’s gym. He’s been there since his parents kicked him out for being gay. He’s happy at his job and loyal to the men who were there for him when he needed them most.Erik is a master’s student and competitive swimmer who started going to the gym after a hand-gliding accident. He’s trying to recover and get his mojo back.Joey’s been mooning over the handsome Erik for months now, but hasn’t had the guts to walk up to him. With Dick’s encouragement, he finally

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41:24

Marshall Thornton - Cashout

Allusions: LGBTQ Writing ·

2022/11/13

It's Easter 1993, and the gang is going to Las Vegas for Angie's surprise wedding. Noah is attempting to recover from a bad bout of the flu--and his disastrous Valentine's Day, and is not all that excited to meet his new relatives: Cotton Preston and his three grown daughters. They're staying at Lucky Days casino, a hotel with notorious mob connections... and family connections. It's only then that Noah and his friends realize his future step-father might just be a mob lawyer. Things get worse from

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35:38

Alan Wild - Hope & Despair : Full Circle (5280...

Allusions: LGBTQ Writing ·

2022/11/13

When Noah Blain opens his front door, his mind is still on the aging mother he has just helped move into assisted care. But on the threshold, a horror scene awaits.Blood and body parts are strewn through Noah’s hallway and there is no one else in sight. At least, until Oliver Thaddeus shows up.Having escaped California after losing his job as a private investigator, Oliver has returned to Denver, Colorado after blackmailing his ex-lover (and ex-boss) for the cool sum of $14.5M.Eager to start his own

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42:26

Patricia Logan- Clean Up on Aisle Mine (A Spy Like Me...

Allusions: LGBTQ Writing ·

2022/11/13

Former CIA operative, Damon Thorne, is a fixer. He cleans up messes other people make of their lives to forget the wreckage his own has become. Whether it means retrieving a drug addict whose family is being blackmailed or rescuing a furball who’s the subject of a custody dispute, Damon just gets things done.When the job means kidnapping the wild son of a prominent Senator in an election year, it should come with hazard pay.From the day Jude Chenoweth was born into wealth and position, his father

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49:06

Adam Stevens - Rainbow Reader

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2022/11/13

The name of the book clearly defines the story of one boy’s sexual awakening. It gives the account of the crisis that leads him onto the streets following his parents’ realization he is gay. Growing up gay had been hard on Georgie. The multitude of beatings, the battle wounds and bruises, the forced religion to exorcise the un-pure, unholy demons from his purely homosexual soul, culminating in his escape and eventual discovery by an old friend who takes him under his wing, showing him what love is

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53:49

Michael Jensen - Man & Beast (The Savage Land Book 1)

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2022/11/13

The year is 1797, and 24-year-old John Chapman is lost on the American frontier with winter falling fast. Near death, he stumbles upon a lone cabin, and the owner, a rugged but sexy frontiersman named Daniel McQuay, agrees to let John winter over.John and Daniel quickly find themselves drawn to each other, the sex between them unlike anything John has ever known. But as the weeks turn into snowbound months, Daniel begins to change into someone brutish, and the line between man and beast

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53:02

Jeffrey Round - Lion's Head Revisited: A Dan Sharp...

Allusions: LGBTQ Writing ·

2022/11/13

A case brings PI Dan Sharp to the northern Ontario wilderness, where he has to face his own dark past.When a four-year-old autistic boy disappears on a camping trip, his mother is reluctant to involve the police. Instead, she calls in private investigator Dan Sharp after a ransom demand arrives.On investigating, Dan learns there are plenty of people who might be responsible for the kidnapping. Among them are an ex-husband who wrongly believed the boy was his son; the boy’s surrogate mother, now a

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