Tag Archives: lesbian

28Jun/24

Terry Wolverton

Featured Guest, , , , ,

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.

Follow and support:

Mentioned in this episode:

Bio:

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.

This Podcast episode is available on these channels (in order alphabetical):
Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayiHeartRadioSpotifyTuneIn

Or Listen Right Here:

Or via YouTube Here:

12Apr/24

Wendy Whitman

Featured Guest, Pride Short, , ,

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!

Follow and support:

Mentioned in this episode:

Bio:

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.

This Podcast episode is available on these channels (in order alphabetical):
Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayiHeartRadioSpotifyTuneIn

Or Listen Right Here:

Or Watch on YouTube:

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPkj1xqd2DQ[/embedyt]

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!

Follow and support Wendy:

Mentioned in this episode:

Bio:
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.

This Podcast episode is available on these channels (in order alphabetical):
Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayiHeartRadioSpotifyStitcherTuneIn

Or Listen Right Here:

OR Watch on YouTube:

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rapf76kz-Ug[/embedyt]

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!

Follow Wendy and support her work:

Mentioned in this episode:

Bio:

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.

This Podcast episode is available on these channels (in order alphabetical):

Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayiHeartRadioSpotifyStitcherTuneIn

Or Listen Right Here:

OR Watch on YouTube: 

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVLSOauYQaw[/embedyt]

 

16Feb/24

J.M. Redmann

Featured Guest, , , , , , ,

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.

Follow and support:

Mentioned in this episode:

Bio:

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.

This Podcast episode is available on these channels (in order alphabetical):
Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayiHeartRadioSpotifyTuneIn

Or Listen Right Here:

Or on our YouTube Channel:

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx8guPfdUGU[/embedyt]

10Nov/23

Judy Kiehart

Featured Guest, , ,

November 10, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 8, Episode 47 Interview – Judy Kiehart

Judy Kiehart introduces us to her memoir Calico Lane, and shares her journey through other people’s expectations on her life to where she arrived at the life that’s authentically her own.

Follow and support:

Mentioned in this episode:

Bio:

When Judy was little her mom told her, “Stop making things up.” She didn’t listen. In fact, she cannot remember a time when there wasn’t a story rambling around in her head leading her to scribble an idea into a notebook, a diary, or onto loose-leaf paper.

For a long time, the ideas remained scribbles. As the years passed, some of the ideas were crafted into short stories. Some of the short stories were adapted for the stage. Then, the scribbles became memory triggers for her latest journey: her memoir: Calico Lane.

This Podcast episode is available on these channels (in order alphabetical):
Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayiHeartRadioSpotifyTuneIn

Or Listen Right Here:

Or Watch on YouTube:

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRQx5ey1s1Y[/embedyt]

15Sep/23

C Spencer

Featured Guest, , ,

September 15, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 8, Episode 39 Interview – C. Spencer

C. Spencer joins us to discuss her latest novel, So It Went Like This. We talk about contained settings and getting away to find one’s self!

Follow and support:

Mentioned in this episode:

Bio:

C. Spencer grew up in Southern California during the 70s and 80s—watching Disneyland fireworks off her balcony and ditching school to hit Tower Records and thrift shops on Melrose Avenue. She spent two years as an art major in college only to switch mid-way to English Literature, which led to her unnatural obsession with Hester Prynne, Lady Brett Ashley, and Henry David Thoreau’s lifestyle of resistance.

After graduating, she packed her car and moved to Burlington, Vermont sight unseen, living in the land of maple syrup and snowboarding for the next ten years. She currently resides in Western Massachusetts. She’s worked as a copywriter and editor since 2001. In 2013, she began writing fiction on the side.

This Podcast episode is available on these channels (in order alphabetical):
Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayiHeartRadioSpotifyTuneIn

Or Listen Right Here:

Or Watch on YouTube:

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFcpFjBM0MY[/embedyt]

03Mar/23

Zoe Briskey

Featured Guest, , , , , ,

March 3, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 9: Zoe Briskey + our “Spoiler Alert” review!

Zoe Briskey, an exhilirating electronic pop artist from NYC, joins us to share her upcoming single, Better Than Ur Boyfriend! She then tells the hilarious story of the song’s origin, and closes with highlighting her hilarious TikTok adventures! Then we review Spoiler Alert and share what won our weeks!

Follow and support Zoe Briskey:

Mentioned in this episode:

Bio:

Hailing from New York City, Zoe Briskey is one of the most exhilarating electronic-pop artists of this generation. Musically she synthesizes mainstream pop with an experimental electronic touch, invoking names like Charli XCX and Halsey. Her clever and caring nature can be felt through her lyrics, which center around queer love and the discovery and empowerment of oneself.

Self built, self funded, and entirely self produced, Zoe can be found touring worldwide. She is intoxicating to be around, unabashed in who she is, and unafraid to be herself, both in life and in her music. Zoe also runs a TikTok that focuses on the LGBTQIA+ community, for which she has a strong commitment to representing and staying in close touch with.

This Podcast episode is available on these channels (in order alphabetical):
Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayiHeartRadioSpotifyStitcherTuneIn

Or Listen Right Here:

OR Watch on YouTube:

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I0yK2fyCvI[/embedyt]

10Feb/23

Annie Krabbenschmidt

Featured Guest, , , ,

February 10, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 6: Annie Krabbenschmidt + our “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” review!

Annie Krabbenschmidt, author of Fred: An unbecoming woman, joins us to discuss a lifetime of coming out, identity, acceptance, and media influence. Then Liz Faraim joins us to review Portrait of a Lady on Fire!

Follow and support Annie Krabbenschmidt:

Mentioned in this episode:

Bio:

Annie (she/they) is living in their native San Francisco. She teaches 10th grade English and her debut book came out this spring.

This Podcast episode is available on these channels (in order alphabetical):
Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayiHeartRadioSpotifyStitcherTuneIn

Or Listen Right Here:

OR Watch on YouTube:

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk4JW3_yaVw[/embedyt]

 

 

 

03Feb/23

Melanie Mitzner

Featured Guest, , , , , , ,

February 3, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 5: Melanie Mitzner + our “Everything Everywhere All at Once” review!

Melanie Mitzner, author of the novel Slow Reveal, joins us to discuss building intimacy and trust in relationships and how that mirrors art, as well as capturing the 90s and NYC in her novel. She even reads a powerful 2-minute excerpt. Then Liz Faraim joins us to review Everything Everywhere All at Once!

Follow and support Melanie Mitzner:

Follow and support Inanna Publishing:

Mentioned in this episode:

Bio:

Slow Reveal was published by York University’s Inanna Publications in May 2022, a Best of Women’s Fiction Debut 2022 and Fiction Bestseller at Berkeley distributor SPD Books. An excerpt of her novel Too Good To Be True was published in the Harrington Lesbian Quarterly. Her screenplay Zero Gravity was awarded an Edward Albee Fellowship. A finalist in the Writers Guild East Foundation Fellowships for her screenplay Dodge and Burn, her screenplays In The Name of Love and Out to Lunch were finalists in the Houston Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. She received a fellowship from M.E.T. Theater and was awarded fiction grants from Vermont Studio Center and Summer Literary Seminars. As a journalist, she covered the tech industry, television production and visual effects. Her recent work appears in Wine Spectator, Gay and Lesbian Review,Vol1Brooklyn, Bloom and San Francisco Bay Times. Interviews and excerpts are on Open-Book, Rainbow Country radio show syndicated and podcast across Canada, Glad Day Bookshop TV and Hasty Booklist.

This Podcast episode is available on these channels (in order alphabetical):
Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayiHeartRadioSpotifyStitcherTuneIn

Or Listen Right Here:

OR Watch on YouTube:

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQk9kprnAaI[/embedyt]

 

 

05Aug/22

Ellie Johnson

Featured Guest, , , , ,

August 5, 2022

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 7, Episode 31 – Ellie Johnson + Our Review of The Lake!

Ellie Johnson shares how her experience on a 450 mile canoe trip lead to writing The Barrens with her father, Kurt Johnson. We discuss a bit about coming out, co-writing with a family member, and the importance of storytelling. Then Baz and Vance review The Lake and share who won the week for them!

Follow and support:

Mentioned in this episode:

Bio:
Ellie Johnson paddled the 450-mile Thelon River with three other women at the age of seventeen. The novel is based in part on that canoe trip as well as her real-life experiences growing up as a gay woman. Ellie is a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota and lives in St. Paul.

This Podcast episode is available on these channels (in order alphabetical):

Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayiHeartRadioSpotifyStitcherTuneIn

Or Listen Right Here:

OR Watch on YouTube:

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S4b04CAPb8[/embedyt]

06May/22

Laury A. Egan

Featured Guest, , , , , ,

May 6, 2022

It gives us great pleasure to welcome Laury A. Egan as the guest on Season 7, Episode 14 – I Got to Write the Lyrics!

Laury A. Egan joins us to share her recent novels, Wave in D Minor and Doublecrossed. We talk about artistic solitude, sexual ambivalence, psychological suspense, and revenge!

Follow and support:

Mentioned in this episode:

Bio:
Laury A. Egan is a prolific author. She’s written young adult and adult fiction in multiple genres, including comedy, mystery, psychological suspense, and poetry… and many of her works seem to include the messy realism of romance. Living on the northern coast of New Jersey, she is also a fine arts photographer and former book designer.

This Podcast episode is available on these channels (in order alphabetical):

Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayiHeartRadioSpotifyStitcherTuneIn

Or Listen Right Here:

OR Watch on YouTube:

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nib8dkzZYQo[/embedyt]