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19Jun/20

Maram Taibah

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June 19, 2020

It gives us great pleasure to welcome Maram Taibah as the guest on Episode 273 – A Scene With A Lot of Potatoes!

Maram Taibah, children’s fantasy author, shares her recent releases, The Road to Elephants and Weathernose – a steampunk fantasy for kids!

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Maram Taibah is a novelist, screenwriter and blogger. She is the author of two novellas, The Road to Elephants and Weathernose, and the writer/director of two short films. Maram is currently working on an exciting fantasy novel.

She’s been a mentor to many writers in Saudi Arabia through workshops, coaching programs, and online events.

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12Jun/20

Jo Quenell

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June 12, 2020

It gives us great pleasure to welcome Jo Quenell as the guest on Episode 272 – Transgressive Trashy Stuff!

Jo Quenell joins us for a fun look at their current release, The Mud Ballad, their current anthology, Bleak Friday, and a talk about various subgenres of horror.

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Jo Quenell uses They/them and She/her pronouns. Their short fiction has been featured in Zombie Punks Fuck Off, Dark Moon Digest, Bleak Friday, When the Sirens Have Faded, and LAZERMALL. They are the author of THE MUD BALLAD.

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05Jun/20

Afterlife

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June 5, 2020

It gives us great pleasure to welcome Tuffy Stanley as the guest (along with Baz) on Episode 271 – Depend on That!

Tuffy Stanley and our very own Baz have started a new YouTube channel called Afterlife to discuss queer life after the age of 30. Vance tries to keep them on task, but silliness and giggles ensue.

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22May/20

Amara Lynn

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May 22, 2020

It gives us great pleasure to welcome Amara Lynn back as the guest on Episode 269 – It’s Fun To Be Trash!

Amara Lynn returns to discuss their Masks series, life as an indie author, and their growing LGBTQ writer-themed Twitter hashtags!

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Amara Lynn has always been a quiet daydreamer. Coming up with characters and worlds since childhood, Amara eventually found an outlet in writing. Amara loves anything to do with pirates, villains and superheroes, and angels and demons.

Amara is addicted to music and gets the most inspiration from moving songs and lyrics. When not writing, Amara usually reads, listens to podcasts, watches anime, plays a video game here and there (but mostly collects them), and takes way too many cat pictures.

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October 4, 2019

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It gives us great pleasure to welcome Amara Lynn as the guest on Episode 236 – Arrr Matey!

Amara Lynn joins us to discuss their new novel, Into the Deep, a m/m pirate merman story, and share their drive to make Twitter friendlier using LGBTQ hashtags!

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Amara Lynn has always been a quiet daydreamer. Coming up with characters and worlds since childhood, Amara eventually found an outlet in writing. Amara loves anything to do with pirates, villains and superheroes, and angels and demons.

Amara is addicted to music and gets the most inspiration from moving songs and lyrics. When not writing, Amara usually reads, listens to podcasts, watches anime, plays a video game here and there (but mostly collects them), and takes way too many cat pictures.

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08May/20

Delphia Baisden

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May 8, 2020


It gives us great pleasure to welcome Delphia Baisden back as the guest on Episode 267 – Probably to My Own Detriment!

Delphia Baisden returns with her latest release, Blind Faith. We also discuss mental illness and how she weaves it into her works.

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Delphia Baisden is a proud indie author. In 2016, she finally decided to use her passion for writing to tell the love stories of her heart and hasn’t stopped since. She is an avid rock ‘n’ roll fan who feels most comfortable in a band tee and a pair of jeans. She currently lives in a small town near Columbus, Ohio, with her mom, Lola.

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March 22, 2019


It gives us great pleasure to welcome Delphia Baisden as the guest on Episode 208 – A New Jewel in My Crown!

New indie author, Delphia Baisden, joins us to discuss her first novel, Credence, and tough topics like surviving sexual abuse. A very worthwhile conversation that needs to be had in the #metoo era.

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Delphia Baisden is a first-time indie author. In 2016, she finally decided to use her passion for writing to tell the love stories of her heart. She is an avid rock ‘n’ roll fan who feels most comfortable in a band tee and a pair of jeans. She currently lives in a small town near Columbus, Ohio, with her mom, Lola, and their three cats, Cassy, Maggie, and Charlie.

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10Apr/20

Reuben ‘Tihi’ Hayslett

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April 10, 2020


It gives us great pleasure to welcome Reuben ‘Tihi’ Hayslett as the guest on Episode 263 – Become A Shapeshifter!

Reuben ‘Tihi’ Hayslett debuts his first novel, Dark Corners. We discuss the fine lines between fully fleshed out queer PoC characters and the paper doll variety previously taking up the mainstream media.

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Debut author Reuben “Tihi” Hayslett confronts identity politics, racism and homophobia in his debut short story collection “Dark Corners,” (89 pages) which has been selected by Kirkus Reviews as best book of the year (2019). Reuben, himself Multiracial, fundamentally centers “Dark Corners” on QPOC (queer people of color) as protagonists in ways often not seen in mainstream media, producing a book that is “intersectional” fiction, meaning politics, political identity, race, and sexual orientation are interwoven within each story.

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03Apr/20

Silencio Marquez

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April 3, 2020


It gives us great pleasure to welcome Silencio Marquez as the guest on Episode 262 – Everybody Loves Dragons!

Silencio Marquez joins us to discuss their new release Soul of a Vampire, and the role social media can play in these social distancing era.

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Writer published by Black Dog Publishing. A Latina with a love for the supernatural, her latest release is Soul of the Vampire. She loves both reading and writing books.!

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20Mar/20

Nerdistry

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March 20, 2020

Join Baz and Vance on Episode 260 – Nerdistry!

The hosts discuss the current Covid-19 situation, some coping ideas, and then drift into a discussion on all things Trek.

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February 22, 2019

Join Baz and Vance on Episode 204 – The State of the Queerverse

In a week with no guest, co-hosts Vance and Baz discuss the state of queerdom across media.

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September 23, 2016

Join Baz and Vance  on episode 076: The Crossroads of Queer Storytelling!

This week your hosts Baz and Vance step away from books and examine how the spectrum of diverse characters is handled in comics, on television, in movies, and in music.

 

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13Mar/20

Brent Hartinger

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March 13, 2020


It gives us great pleasure to welcome Brent Hartinger back as the guest on Episode 259 – On A Journey To A Greater Destination!

Brent Hartinger, playwright, screenwriter and novelist, returns to discuss his latest release, Otto Digmore Decision, his career as a writer, and the decision he and his husband Michael made to become digital nomads.

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BRENT HARTINGER is an author and screenwriter. He wrote the YA classic, Geography Club (2003), which was adapted as a 2013 feature film costarring Scott Bakula, and is now being developed as a television series. He’s since published thirteen more novels and had ten of his screenplays optioned by producers. Project Pay Day, based on his novel and screenplay, will be released in 2020. He has won both the Lambda and GLAAD Media Award, and been nominated for the Edgar Award. He has no permanent address, but instead continuously travels the world with his husband, writer Michael Jensen.

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December 9, 2016

It gives us great pleasure to announce Brent Hartinger and Tim O’Leary as the guests on episode 088: Cockshrubbery!  They join us to talk about LGBTQ Film and Television from an insider’s perspective and the increasing need for diversity.

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For the last twenty years, Brent Hartinger has made his living writing just about everything that involves words: novels, screenplays, plays, web content, even greeting cards. These days, he writes in lots of genres in many different mediums. His latest project is a dark and edgy gay teen book — part horror, part puzzle box thriller — called Three Truths and a Lie (published by Simon & Schuster).
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Tim O’Leary is a Los Angeles-based screenwriter, ghostwriter, author, and playwright. On his website, timolearyonline.com, you will find news about his latest projects, including his various webseries and the next book in his adults-only Greek myth book series, The Lusty Journey of Perseus.

 

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January 1, 2016

 TheGeographyClub-webTheThingIDidntKnow-webBarefootInTheCityOfBrokenDreams-webTheRoadToAmazing-web It gives us great pleasure to announce Brent Hartinger as the guest on Episodes 037 and 038: Prank Phone Calls, part 1 and 2.
Join us as we talk with Brent about why being a goof with friends is the most cherished memory, his journey from writing YA into Adult novels, and having a book optioned for film.
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06Mar/20
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Julia McBryant

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March 6, 2020


It gives us great pleasure to welcome Julia McBryant back as the guest on Episode 258 – I Can Say That On Here Right?

Julia McBryant returns to share her latest works, A Low Country Lovers bundle, a gay-boys-drama titled Masked Boys, and her first lesbian fiction Never Have I Ever. She then drops some wisdom of the ages!

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Julia McBryant is, as the saying goes, Southern born, Southern bred, and when she dies, she’ll be Southern dead. Julia likes to play with her German Shepherds and hike, especially in the North Carolina mountains. When she isn’t writing, she’s writing. She is grateful her husband tolerates both her and her affinity for glitter.

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November 15, 2019


It gives us great pleasure to welcome Julia McBryant as the guest on Episode 242 – I Can’t Believe I’m Telling You This!

Julia McBryant joins us for a hysterical and thought provoking conversation about her recent release, Beautiful Boys, and her journey into M/M Romance.

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Julia McBryant is, as the saying goes, Southern born, Southern bred, and when she dies, she’ll be Southern dead. Julia likes to play with her German Shepherds and hike, especially in the North Carolina mountains. When she isn’t writing, she’s writing. She is grateful her husband tolerates both her and her affinity for glitter.

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