Tag Archives: Queer History

14Jun/24

Chris Holcombe

June 14, 2024

It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 9, Episode 23 Interview – Chris Holcombe

Chris Holcombe returns to share his Hidden Gotham series. He then teases the upcoming book 4, and shares his Pride Month Short Story!

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Chris Holcombe is the author of LGBTQ+ historical crime fiction called The Hidden Gotham Series, which showcases New York’s lively but criminally under-represented queer world of the 1920s. His first novel The Double Vice was released in 2021 to great acclaim, with Queer Writers of Crime calling it “one of the best I’ve read all year! I can’t recommend it highly enough!” His second novel The Blind Tiger was released in 2022, and it continues the story of gay speakeasy owner Dash Parker and his Queer friends in Greenwich Village and in Harlem. Readers heralded it as “honest-to-goodness pulp fiction at its gayest and most glamorous!” The third novel in the series The Devil Card was released in 2023, with readers saying it was Holcombe’s best one yet. He is currently hard at work plotting and planning the next Hidden Gotham novel. He asks that you send gin and chocolate for encouragement.

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June 16, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 25: Chris Holcombe + Our Review of ABC’s “Soul of a Nation: The Freedom to Exist!”

Chris Holcombe brings his fun energy as we talk about The Devil Card, the third in his Hidden Gotham series. We discuss his diverse cast and the real-world WTF facts from queer and prohibition history that shaped his setting. Then Baz and Vance rate and review ABC’s important “Soul of a Nation: The Freedom to Exist” and close by sharing who won their weeks!

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Chris Holcombe is the author of LGBTQ+ historical crime fiction called The Hidden Gotham Series, which showcases New York’s lively but criminally under-represented queer world of the 1920s.

He asks that you send gin and chocolate for encouragement.

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18Oct/19
Chelsey Engel author pic

Chelsey Engel

October 18, 2019

A Summer of Fever and Freedom book cover
It gives us great pleasure to welcome Chelsey Engel as the guest on Episode 238 – A Bad@$$ Lara Croft!

Chelsey Engel brings her novel, A Summer of Fever and Freedom, to the show so we can discuss how she combined her passion for queer history with her drive to fight for social justice.

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Chelsey Engel is a writer, photographer, and activist living in Pittsburgh, PA. After earning her bachelor’s degree in photojournalism from Point Park University in 2011, she began working in communications with the United Steelworkers.

Outside her work as a union thug, Chelsey freelances and volunteers for as many organizations and causes as she can, from political campaigns to community and fundraising events.

When she isn’t writing, fighting, or marching for justice, you can find her working on one of her several novels or lounging at home with her cat watching Cate Blanchett movies.

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