I write LGBTQ historical fiction, mostly with some sort of relationship running through the story. I’d be lying if I said I wrote romances in the traditional meaning of the m/m romance genre. However, there’s always a beating heart running through my stories, and not more than one or two men finding each other one way or another.
Young Adult mystery author Pete “PJ” Penwell and his partner, television actor John Paul “JP” Broadway, are both having a bit of a lull in their careers as they hit their mid-thirties. It’s led to their being the hosts of HDTV’s Domestic Partners on Home Design where they work together to renovate and restore (not remodel) historic homes. The demand for an earlier season has them scrambling for a new property which is why they have so eagerly taken on a home in the Detroit suburb of Pleasant Woods.
KRL interviews a lot of actors and others involved in local theatre and film, and during Pride Month we especially like to highlight artists in the LGBTQ+ community. This week we are interviewing Robert Jerome Pagan who has done a little bit of everything in the theatre and film world and has won awards for his work.
Noah, you are truly the Watson to Nicky’s Sherlock Holmes.
I always thought they were a gay couple.
Congratulations on the release of the fourteenth novel in your award-winning and popular Nicky and Noah gay cozy comedy mystery series.
Most days, Pie Girl Daisy Ellery parks her Pies Before Guys bakery van in front of Frank’s Roadside Diner selling her flaky, handmade creations. Through word-of-mouth referrals, Daisy also bakes customized pies for those needing her help to eliminate abusive problems. While her witchy family lineage gives Daisy the ability to bake emotional strength and hope into her pies for those who need it, it also bestows upon her the capability to add in far more lethal results.
Last night I was invited to a wedding open house/reception for friends of mine. It was a wonderful time. Many members of the West Michigan Gay Men’s Chorus, which my husband sings with, were in attendance, and we had a great time chatting and wishing the happy couple well.
The protagonist of my first novel, Steadying the Ark, published this spring by Bella Books, is Mackenzie Wilson, a young gay sex-crimes prosecutor. At the time I wrote the first draft of the book, I was in fact myself a young gay sex-crimes prosecutor, and I think that many people, especially those who know me a little bit but not well, assume that Mack is an autobiographical character, but nothing could be further from the truth.
Having just produced the valley premiere of Sarah Ruhl's brilliant work, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, to rave reviews, we've returned with another valley premiere, Bare: a Pop Opera. This beautiful, poignant and ultimately timely piece follows a group of high school seniors at a Catholic boarding school facing issues of sexuality and personal identity.
In early 2014, I wrote to the publishing company MLR in the hopes they could put me in touch with Richard Stevenson. I had fallen in love with his Donald Strachey series and had just finished collecting the first editions of his books and had hoped he would be willing to sign them for me. Laura was kind enough to forward my email on to him, but unfortunately, he was in Cambodia at the time, as he often was during winter.
It’s just over a year since I wrote to Kings River Life about my foray into writing murder mysteries set in a small town in Wales. When I wrote last, I was about to publish the second in my series of books about DI Daniel Owen. Book six in the series will be released on 31 March. It’s called An Allotment of Time, and it tells the story of how Daniel deals with leaving the police, and forges a new identity for himself. Of course, it’s a murder mystery as well because what’s the point of a book without a body or two scattered around the small north Wales town of Melin Tywyll?
