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13Jun/25

Patricia Grayhall

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June 13, 2025

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 10, Episode 22: Patricia Grayhall!

Patricia Grayhall returns to share her new romance: A Place for Us. We dive into connecting with lost loves, building a life together in the face of obstacles, and endings that bring happiness and hope!

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Patricia Grayhall is a medical doctor and author of the award-winning memoir, Making the Rounds; Defying Norms in Love and Medicine and a romance novel, Golden Years and Silver Linings, with wife and author Linda M. Ford. She has authored articles in Queer Forty, The Gay and Lesbian Review, The Millions, Lesbian Game Changers, The Seattle Lesbian, and Seattle Magazine, and has been interviewed on NPR.

Currently, Patricia is working on her third novel, an environmental crime novel. All of her novels are inspired by real-life experiences, one of the advantages of being an older author. Patricia lives with the love of her life on an island in the Pacific Northwest where she enjoys other people’s dogs and occasional sightings of orca, eagles, otters, and black bears.

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January 20, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 3: Patricia Grayhall + Sense8 review part 3!

Patricia Grayhall, author of the memoir Making the Rounds: Defying Norms in Love and Medicine, joins us to discuss her training to become a doctor before Roe v Wade, and her lifelong lessons about sustaining relationships. Then Albert Nothlit returns for part 3 of our review of Sense8’s first season!

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Patricia Grayhall is a retired medical doctor and author of Making the Rounds; Defying Norms in Love and Medicine that garnered a starred review in Kirkus Reviews, as well as positive reviews from Katherine Forrest and Radclyffe. She’s published articles in Queer Forty, The Gay and Lesbian Review, The Millions, Lesbian Game Changers, The Seattle Lesbian, and Seattle Magazine. In addition to a recent NPR interview, her book is among Kirkus Reviews’ Best Indie Books of 2022.

Patricia lives with the love of her life on an island in the Pacific Northwest where she enjoys other people’s dogs, big nature, and her second career as an author.

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09May/25

Margaret Gardiner

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May 9, 2025

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 10, Episode 16: Margaret Gardiner!

Margaret Gardiner shares her novel Damaged Beauty: Joey Superstar. We discuss being raised to be silent, finding one’s way through damage toward healing, and the dark side of fame!

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Model. Speaker. Panelist. Host. Journalist. Author.
Margaret Gardiner became an international cover girl at 16, Miss Universe at 18, and ultimately, the fashion editor at goldenglobes.com.
She’s worked with A-list stars from Angelina Jolie to Zendaya. She knows what it is like to be on the red carpet, in the spotlight – and what goes on behind the scenes.
With a degree in psychology, and a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion, her debut novel is for every person who has ever been made to feel less.

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11Apr/25

Elizabeth Costello

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April 11, 2025

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 10, Episode 12: Elizabeth Costello!

Elizabeth Costello joins shares her debut novel: The Good War. We discuss writing feminist, noir, coming-of-age fiction, and then introduce Portland’s Ekphraestival, bringing writers and visual artists together.

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Elizabeth Costello is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. Her publications include the poetry chapbook RELIC and arts and culture writing for SF Weekly and 7×7. She works (remotely) as an editor for UC Berkeley and co-founded the ekphraestival, a generative exchange among visual artists and poets that culminates in readings and exhibitions in April, national poetry month. Her debut novel, The Good War, is out now from Regal House and was described by Publishers Weekly as “dark and intense…lyrical…Moody and atmospheric, this gritty tale is worth a look.”

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31Jan/25

Rob Osler

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January 31, 2025

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 10, Episode 5: Rob Osler!

Rob Osler returns to share the first book in his Harriet Morrow Investigates series: The Case of the Missing Maid. We discuss the parallels between the Progressive Era (1890-1920) and current events, writing an exemplary and queer woman in a historic setting, and the unfolding of the series.

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Rob Osler writes traditional mysteries featuring LGBTQ+ main characters. Believing that relatability is as important as representation, he strives to showcase our shared humanity across individual identities. Rob’s just-released historical novel THE CASE OF THE MISSING MAID is a USA Today Bestseller, earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly, and is an Amazon Editors Pick for Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense. His other work has been a finalist for the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, Lefty, and Macavity Awards, a CrimeReads Best of the Year, and a winner of the Mystery Writers of America Robert L. Fish Award. After living in Boise, Chicago, and Seattle, Rob resides in California with his husband and a tall gray cat.

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March 8, 2024

It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 9, Episode 10 Interview – Rob Osler

Rob Osler returns to share his latest Hayden & Friends Mystery, Cirque du Slay! We discuss the importance of characters living their authentic lives and the growth of the “quozy” genre!

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Rob is a member of Mystery Writers of America, the Authors’ Guild, Sisters in Crime, and Queer Crime Writers. He is a graduate in philosophy from the University of Puget Sound and earned a master’s degree in business from the University of Washington’s Foster School.

After many years living in Chicago and Seattle, he resides in California with his long-time partner and a tall, gray cat.

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May 12, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 20: Rob Osler + Our Review of And Then We Danced!

Rob Osler brings his energy to the show to discuss his “quozy” mystery, Devil’s Chew Toy. He shares his 2-minute pitch poem and we discuss what it means to be queer in the cozy genre. Then Baz and Vance discuss the foreign film And Then We Danced, followed by who won their weeks!

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Rob writes traditional mysteries featuring LGBTQ+ main characters. His novel Devil’s Chew Toy was a 2023 Left Coast Crime Finalist for Best Debut Mystery and an Agatha Awards Finalist for Best First Novel and named a 2022 Year’s Best by Crime Reads, BOLO Books, PopSugar, and Book Riot. The sequel to Devil’s Chew Toy, titled Cirque du Slay, comes out March 9, 2024. His first publication, Analogue, (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine), won the 2022 Mystery Writers of America Robert L Fish Award for best short story by a debut author as part of the Edgar Awards. Forthcoming works include Miss Direction in Ellery Queen’s September/October edition, and Red Shoes in the Brutal and Strange, an anthology based on Elvis Costello songs from Down & Out Books, Jan 2024. Also on the horizon is The Case of the Missing Maid, book one in a new historical series featuring a queer female detective in Chicago in the Progressive Era from Kensington Books.

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03Jan/25

J.M. Frey

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January 3, 2025

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 10, Episode 1: J.M. Frey!

J.M. Frey helps us ring in the New Year by sharing her recent novel: Time & Tide. We discuss time travel and time slip stories, the Regency/Georgian era, and lesbian/bi romances, all while keeping an eye on causality of changing the first lesbian kiss in literature.

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J.M. is an author, screenwriter, and lapsed academic. With an MA in Communications and Culture, she’s appeared in podcasts, documentaries, and on radio and television to discuss all things geeky through the lens of academia. She also has an addiction to scarves, Doctor Who, and tea, which may or may not all be related. Her life’s ambition is to have stepped foot on every continent (only 3 left!)

J.M.’s also a professionally trained actor who takes absolute delight in weird stories, over the top performances, and quirky characters. She’s played everything from Marmee to the Red Queen, Jane Eyre to Annie, and dozens of strange creatures and earnest heroines as a voice actor.

Her debut novel Triptych was nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards, won the San Francisco Book Festival award for SF/F, was nominated for a 2011 CBC Bookie, was named one of The Advocate’s Best Overlooked Books of 2011, and garnered both a starred review and a place among the Best Books of 2011 from Publishers Weekly.

Her sophomore novel, an epic-length feminist meta-fantasy titled The Untold Tale, (book one of the Accidental Turn Series), debuted December 2015, and was followed up by The Forgotten Tale in 2016 and The Silenced Tale in December 2017. The Skylark’s Song, book one of The Skylark’s Saga, a steampunk action novel about a girl vigilante and her mysterious rocketpack, soared into bookstores in 2018, and was followed up by The Skylark’s Sacrifice in September 2019. The Skylark’s Saga was signed to a shopping agreement for an animation series in 2018. All six of these novels were reprinted under Frey’s personal backlist imprint Here There Be in late 2023.

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01Nov/24

Elisabeth Nonas

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November 1, 2024

It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 9, Episode 42 Interview: Elisabeth Nonas

Elisabeth Nonas joins us to share her novel Grace Period. It leads to conversations about aging, losing a spouse, teaching writing, and connecting to the stories you want to tell!

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Her earlier novels focused on how lesbians form community and create family. Given that her first book appeared in 1985 when she was in her mid-30s, she clearly has different concerns as she ages and her life continues to unfold. These were what sparked Grace Period.

Born and raised in New York City, and despite believing she’d never leave, she moved to Los Angeles after N.Y.U. graduate film school and stayed for eighteen years—long enough to think that sixty degrees felt cold. In July 1995 she followed her heart and moved back east to Ithaca, New York.

In January 1996, when she wasn’t chipping ice off her car, she taught two introductory screenwriting classes in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. That ultimately led to a full-time position. In her twenty-five years there, she taught all levels of screenwriting, developed courses in adaptation, writing for video games and emerging media, and, her favorite, “Story: From Cave Paintings to Emerging Media.” She felt incredibly lucky to be teaching writing in a time of expanded narrative delivery.

Elisabeth retired from teaching in December 2019 and continues to live in Ithaca, NY, with her spouse, Nancy K. Bereano, founding publisher and editor of Firebrand Books.

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25Oct/24

Catherine Lundoff QoSP

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October 25, 2024

It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 9, Episode 41 Interview: Catherine Lundoff of Queen of Swords Press

Catherine Ludoff of Queen of Swords Press returns to share her latest Wolves of Wolf’s Point series updates, as well as some of the latest offerings from Queen of Swords Press authors Michael Merriam, Melissa Scott, Lisa A. Barnett, Amy Griswold, and others!

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Catherine Lundoff is the publisher at Queen of Swords Press, a small Minneapolis-based press specializing in fiction from out of this world. The Queen of Swords catalogue includes the Vogel Award-winning dapper lesbian capybara pirate tales of The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper by A.J. Fitzwater, the Lambda Literary Award-winning Lynes & Mathey duology by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold as well as the Astreiant Series by Melissa Scott and Lisa A.Barnett, plus books by Heather Rose Jones, Michael Merriam, Jennie Goloboy, Dee Holloway and some of Catherine’s own work, including her Wolves of Wolf’s Point series and her short fiction collections Out of This World and Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic.

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October 15, 2021

It gives us great pleasure to welcome Catherine Lundoff & Queen of Swords Press as the guest on Season 6, Episode 41 – There’s a Fair Amount of Juggling!

Catherine Lundoff from Queen of Swords Press joins us to talk about their upcoming releases, what they look for in a submission, and touch on author involvement in marketing!

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Catherine Lundoff is a transplanted Brooklynite who lives in Minneapolis with her wife Jana, an amazingly talented book artist, and the two cats that own them. When not writing, she works as a professional computer geek. In former lives, Catherine owned a feminist bookstore (Grassroots Books in Iowa City) and has lived in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Mexico. She was once a professional archaeologist and before that, worked at a bar in St. Louis that laid claim to having the world’s largest collection of Elvis memorabilia outside Memphis. Catherine started writing professionally in 1996 while in law school. She sold the first story she ever wrote and quit law school a week later; she has not looked back since. In addition to writing and editing, Catherine is also the publisher at Queen of Swords Press.

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28Jun/24

Terry Wolverton

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June 28, 2024

It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 9, Episode 25 Interview – Terry Wolverton

Terry Wolverton joins us to share her novel Season of Eclipse. We discuss how her hero goes from living a life of privilege to being in witness protection and having to confront the issues of her own identity. We also go into how Detroit shapes that journey and introduces people into her life that she didn’t know she needed.

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Terry Wolverton was born in Cocoa Beach, Florida. When she was just a year old, she left Florida with her mother and moved to Detroit, where she grew up and started college before transferring to the University of Toronto where she majored in Theater and Women’s Studies. Ever since then, she’s been both a student of and strong voice for feminism and the arts.

After moving to Los Angeles, Terry was instrumental in several endeavors including the Lesbian Art Project, the Incest Awareness Project, the Great American Lesbian Art Show, and a white-women’s anti-racism consciousness-raising group.

In 1982, Terry established a consulting business, Consult’Her, working with nonprofits, small businesses, and individual artists on issues related to vision, planning, resource development, marketing, and human resources. In 1997, she founded Writers At Work, a creative writing center where she continues to teach several weekly workshops in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, and to provide creative consultations to writers. She is also Affiliate Faculty in the MFA Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles.

She’s authored eleven books and is a certified instructor of Kundalini Yoga.

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12Apr/24

Wendy Whitman

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April 12, 2024

It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 9, Episode 15 Interview – Wendy Whitman

Wendy Whitman returns to share her crime series that started in Premonition following the heroine, then followed the killer in Retribution. Then she drops that she’s working on the third book!

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Wendy Whitman has a unique background through her decades-long work as an executive and producer for Court TV and HLN, covering almost every major high-profile murder case in America. Through her knowledge of the most detailed aspects of the crimes, Ms. Whitman has become an expert on the subject of murder in America. Before attending Boston University School of Law, Whitman worked for comedians Lily Tomlin and George Carlin. After graduating from law school, the author embarked on what turned out to be a twenty-year career in television covering crime.

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July 25, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 32 Pride Short: Wendy Whitman

We catch Wendy Whitman on release day for her followup serial killer thriller, Retribution! This time, she’s applied her background expertise toward inviting you into the mind of the murderer!

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Wendy Whitman has a unique background. Before attending Boston University School of Law, she worked for comedians Lily Tomlin and George Carlin. After graduating from law school, Wendy embarked on what turned out to be a twenty-year career in television covering crime. Because of her decades-long work as an executive and producer for Court TV and HLN, where she covered in detail almost every major high-profile murder case in the U.S., she has become an expert on the subject of murder in America. Wendy received three Telly Awards and 2 GLAAD nominations during her tenure at Court TV.

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January 28, 2022

It gives us great pleasure to welcome Wendy Whitman as the guest on Season 7, Episode 04 – Revenge!

Wendy Whitman shares how her 20-year career producing crime on television led to her first novel, Premonition!

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Wendy Whitman has a unique background. Before attending Boston University School of Law, she worked for comedians Lily Tomlin and George Carlin. After graduating from law school, Wendy embarked on what turned out to be a twenty-year career in television covering crime. Because of her decades-long work as an executive and producer for Court TV and HLN, where she covered in detail almost every major high-profile murder case in the U.S., she has become an expert on the subject of murder in America. Wendy received three Telly Awards and a GLAAD nomination during her tenure at Court TV.

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16Feb/24

J.M. Redmann

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February 16, 2024

It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 9, Episode 7 Interview – J.M. Redmann

J.M. Redmann joins us to share her latest Micky Knight Mystery, Transitory. We discuss why it was important to have a gritty, noir, lesbian detective in the world, as well as the growth of the series.

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J.M. Redmann is the author of a mystery series featuring New Orleans private detective Michele ‘Micky’ Knight. Her books have made the American Library Association GLBT Roundtable’s 2013 Over the Rainbow list, and have won a Fore Word Gold First Place mystery award, and her book LAW & DESIRE was an Editor’s Choice of the San Francisco Chronicle and a recommended book on NPR’s Fresh Air.

Her books have been translated into Spanish, German, Dutch, Norwegian and Hebrew. Redmann lives in an historic neighborhood in New Orleans, at the edge of the area that flooded.

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