Big Gay Fiction Podcast

In recent news of LGBTQ TV development deals, Casey McQuiston’s Red, White & Royal Blue will be coming to Amazon and a Love, Simon series will be making its way to the Disney+ streaming service. Jeff talks about seeing The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical.

I review the Netflix original series Special (it’s terrific). Jeff reviews Jay Bell’s Straight Boy.

Jeff and I discuss our trip to the LA Times Festival of Books. We also share the interviews Jeff did at the festival with Julian Winters, Kim Fielding & Venona Keyes and S.A. Stovall. Julian talks about his upcoming book How to Be Remy Cameron. Kim discusses her Stars in Peril series and Venona also tells Jeff about her co-writing with Kim. S.A. gives the origin story of her Vice City series and how she uses caricature to encourage people to read the first chapter (she also did a super cute caricature of us).

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Jeff and I kick off this week’s show with a review of the Brie Larson Netflix original movie Unicorn Store.

Jeff reviews Bad to the Bone by Nicki Bennett. I effusivley review LaQuette’s Under His Protection.

We then sit down with LaQuette and discuss her latest, Under His Protection. We find out about the story’s inspiration and how it ties into LaQuette’s other series. She also shares details on her upcoming Harlem Heat series, what got her started writing romance and details about what she does as the president for New York City’s Romance Writers of America chapter.

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Jeff opens the show talking about the work he’s doing on a holiday short story.

We remind everyone about the LA Times Festival of Books happening April 13 and 14 on the USC Campus and the authors expected to attend from Dreamspinner Press and Interlude Press.

Jeff and I talk about the series finale of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

Books reviewed this week include Arctic Sun by Annabeth Albert and Paternity Case by Gregory Ashe.

Lisa joins Jeff to recommend four speculative fiction books: The Mortal Sleep by Gregory Ashe, Prince of Air and Darkness by M.A. Grant, All Souls Near & Nigh by Hailey Turner and Not Dead Yet by Jen Burke.

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Jeff and I will be at the 2019 LA Times Festival of Books. If you’re there, be sure to say “Hi”. We discuss two great series we’ve been watching: Comedy Central’s The Other Two and Freeform’s Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists.

Books reviewed this week include Kim Fielding’s The Spy’s Love Song, Ari McKay’s Take Two and Erin McLellan’s Clean Break.

Jeff interviews Erin McLellan about Clean Break, the second book in her Farm College series, and about why it’s important for her to tell stories based in her home state of Oklahoma. They also talk about her Love Life series, what got her started writing, her author influences and the TV she likes to binge watch.

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In this episode I review Wanted-Bad Boyfriend by TA Moore and IRL: In Real Life by Lucy Lennox and Molly Maddox. Jeff reviews Diversion by Eden Winters.

Jason T. Gaffney and Kevin Held join us once again to discuss their new movie project, the romantic comedy/paranormal themed Out of Body. They recorded the audiobook of the novelization, which was written by Suzanne Brockmann. We also find out about their history-based podcast, The Bright Side with Kevin and Jason.

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Congratulations go out to authors who were nominated for the 31st Annual Lambda Literary Awards, including Kris Jacen, Christina Lee & Riley Hart and Marshall Thornton.

Jeff shares the news that the new Kickstarter for Raven Wild, the third LGBTQ+ children’s book from the team behind Promised Land, is now live.

Jeff and I review Adriana Herrera’s debut romance novel, American Dreamers. Jeff then reviews The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg and A Tangled Truth by Max Walker.

Jeff talks to Alice Winters about her In Darkness series, including the just released third book titled Deception in Darkness. They also discuss Within The Mind, which kicked off a new series earlier this year. Alice also talks about what got her into m/m romantic suspense and what else she’s got planned for this year.

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