It gives us great pleasure to present Season 11, Episode 27: Charles Close!
Charles Close shares The Blood Thief 1: The Short Happy Life of Alex Rose. We discuss serendipity, gratitude, taking action in life, world-building, vampires, and human-level stories told as big supernatural adventures.
Bio:
Charles Lawrence Close III got his first published novel rolling during the pandemic when he should have been working on his capstone project for his master’s degree at Johns Hopkins in NGO management. He wrote enough to fill two books and still managed to pull straight A’s and graduate with high honors. The Blood Thief, Vol. 1: The Short Happy Life of Alex Rose is sort of his first book. He also wrote a Jack Kerouac style novel about his crazy times living in Mexico and Russia, but he felt it was a little self-indulgent and will probably revise it at some point when he gets all the fictional characters that are spinning around in his brain a home on paper. The next edition of Alex Rose’s adventures is well on the way with The Blood Thief, Vol. 2: My Own Personal Bethlehem coming out soon!
He cares deeply about giving back to the community and believes that doing unto others as you would have them do to you is the best way to live. When he isn’t volunteering for a nonprofit, you can find him skating Pride parades with a synchronized dance crew, practicing jian-fa, learning the piano or turntables, and climbing cliffs and gym walls like a savagely dazzling, inappropriately velvet-wearing creature of the night.
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It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 9, Episode 29 Interview – Jerry Wheeler
Jerry Wheeler returns to share his 23-year project, the novel Mercedes General. We discuss the fact that though it’s framed as a series of short stories separated by years at a time, the thread follows the lives of his two main characters and their relationship!
Jerry L. Wheeler is an editor of gay fiction and erotica whose own fiction and essays have been awarded a spot on the shortlist for the Lambda Literary Award. He lives in Denver, CO where he maintains his review blog Out In Print, continues his editing business Write and Shine, and keeps writing.
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November 19, 2021
It gives us great pleasure to welcome Jerry Wheeler back as the guest on Season 6, Episode 46 – Google Maps & Jehovah’s Witnesses!
Jerry Wheeler returns to share his first full-length novel, Pangs. We discuss a new pantheon of vampire, being lost in darkness, and the ebb and flow of creativity.
Jerry L. Wheeler is the editor of seven anthologies of gay erotica. His own collection of short fiction and essays, “Strawberries and Other Erotic Fruits” was awarded a spot on the shortlist for the Lambda Literary Award. He has also been Lammy-shortlisted for “Tented: Gay Erotic Tales From Under the Big Top” (2010) and “The Bears of Winter” (2014). He lives and writes in Denver CO, maintaining his review blog, “Out In Print: Queer Book Reviews” and his own editing business, Write And Shine. He’s recently published his first novel.
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May 29, 2020
It gives us great pleasure to welcome Jerry L. Wheeler back as the guest on Episode 270 – I Don’t Have Any Wisdom!
Author and editor Jerry L. Wheeler joins us to discuss his revamping of his back catalog, and how he’s trying to stay creative in this lockdown era.
Jerry L. Wheeler is the editor of seven anthologies of gay erotica for Bold Strokes Books, Wilde City Press, and other publishers. His own collection of short fiction and essays, “Strawberries and Other Erotic Fruits” was awarded a spot on the shortlist for the Lambda Literary Award and has recently been re-published. He has also been Lammy-shortlisted for “Tented: Gay Erotic Tales From Under the Big Top” (2010) and “The Bears of Winter” (2014). He lives and writes in Denver CO, maintaining his review blog, “Out In Print: Queer Book Reviews” (https://outinprintblog.wordpress.com/) and his own editing business, Write And Shine (https://jerrywheelerblog.wordpress.com/).
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February 10, 2017
It gives us great pleasure to announce Jerry Wheeler as the guest on episode 097: Going Down Editing Holes!
This week author Jerry Wheeler returns to talk about the re-opening of his review site Out in Print: Queer Book Reviews, the status of Queer literature in general, a bit about the life of the editor, and we have a good bit of fun.
Jerry L. Wheeler is the editor of the Lambda Literary Award finalist Tented: Gay Erotic Tales from Under the Big Top (Lethe Press, 2010) as well as Riding the Rails: Locomotive Lust and Carnal Cabooses, The Dirty Diner: Gay Erotica on the Menu, and is the author of Strawberries and Other Erotic Fruits (Lethe Press, 2012), also a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He’s working on his first novel, The Dead Book.
He lives, works and writes in Denver CO, where he misspends time in fleeting encounters with men best described as trashy. Some on work release programs. Despite this, he heads a freelance editorial service, Write and Shine. Please feel free to contact him at his website, www.jerrywheeleronline.com.
Furry men with tats and shady backgrounds please step to the front of the line!
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November 4, 2016
It gives us great pleasure to announce Jerry Wheeler as the guest on episode 082: Work For It!
This week author Jerry Wheeler pulls into the depot to talk about erotica vs romance, his role as an editor, his own writing and being a Lambda finalist, and his audio narration career.
Jerry L. Wheeler is the editor of the Lambda Literary Award finalist Tented: Gay Erotic Tales from Under the Big Top (Lethe Press, 2010) as well as Riding the Rails: Locomotive Lust and Carnal Cabooses, The Dirty Diner: Gay Erotica on the Menu, and is the author of Strawberries and Other Erotic Fruits (Lethe Press, 2012), also a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He’s working on his first novel, The Dead Book.
He lives, works and writes in Denver CO, where he misspends time in fleeting encounters with men best described as trashy. Some on work release programs. Despite this, he heads a freelance editorial service, Write and Shine. Please feel free to contact him at his website, www.jerrywheeleronline.com.
Furry men with tats and shady backgrounds please step to the front of the line!
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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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It gives us great pleasure to present Season 11, Episode 27: Charles Close!
