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Podcast Pick: The Love and Luck Podcast (Australia’s First LGBT Audio Drama Podcast)
Having recently started a new short-form podcast, I was curious to see what else was out there and I happened upon this gem. I don’t know why it was included in a list of short-form shows but it’s a winner, and just in time for Pride month! Very sweet, I think you’ll love it. – Mark/Editor
“Love and Luck is a fictional radio play podcast, told via voicemails and set in present day Melbourne, Australia. A slice of life queer romance story with a touch of magic, it follows the relationship between two men, Jason and Kane, as their love grows both for each other and their community.
You can listen to Love and Luck via your favourite podcast app, here on the website, or even over on youtube, where episodes are captioned!”
Among the Reviews
“In a world full of true crime podcasts and anti-heroes and dark storylines, Love and Luck is a breath of fresh air. After just a few episodes, I’ve found the acting superb, the characters endearing and relatable, and the script wonderfully observed.”
— Peter Wells, podcast critic for the Sydney Morning Herald
“There’s something to be said for an explicitly kind show that won’t end in trauma. There’s something therapeutic in being able to wait for a narrative to unfold without the constant worry that it’s going to turn tragic. There’s something healing in being faced with constant news of your community facing more and more peril, and having something like Love and Luck to remind you that sometimes, things do end well.”
— Wil Williams, reviewer at Podcast Problems
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My Interview on House of Mystery Radio Show with Host Alan Warren and Julie Saville
You can hear my interview on the House of Mystery Radio Show and podcast with Alan Warren and Julie Saville at the 16.17 mark. Listen as we talk about my newest book, Beautiful Corpse: A Marshall James Thriller, and about my life and writing. You can also download the episode directly HERE.
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Guest Rick Rose Talks Lockdown Playlists, Best TV Binge Bets, and My Return to The Twist Podcast
Fasten your headphones as Rick Rose and I take a look back at the month of May and a look forward to the future. We talk lockdown playlists, best recommendations for TV binging, politics, culture, and my return to co-hosting The Twist Podcast. Enjoy the YouTube edition of this, too … seeing is believing.
Enjoy the One Thing or Another Podcast on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify iHeart Radio, SoundCloud and at OneThingOrAnotherPodast.com
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Looking At Life Through Rainbow Glasses
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Book Review: Half Broke: A Memoir, by Ginger Gaffney
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm“Half Broke: A Memoir” by Ginger Gaffney
c.2020, Norton $25.95 / $34.95 Canada 272 pagesThe last time you went riding, the weather was perfect.
Did you notice that? Or were you thinking about something, some niggling issue, a thorny problem that needed to be solved from the back of a saddle? They say that the outside of a horse is good for the inside of a man. In “Half Broke” by Ginger Gaffney, the same goes for the inside of a woman.
She knew she wasn’t going to get paid for the job.
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Narrator Sean Rhead to Voice ‘Beautiful Corpse: A Marshall James Thriller’
So exciting! I’ve hired narrator Sean Rhead for the audiobook version of ‘Beautiful Corpse: A Marshall James Thriller.’ He’s got the chops and the voice, and I know he’s going to make a great Marshall. I also know from some fans of the books that they can’t wait to find out what happens with Marshall and Mac all these years later … if Mac is even still alive. So patience, murder fans, I’m looking forward to finding out myself in the third installment coming out next year. Meanwhile, listen for the audiobook this August.
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Sunny Day Escape (Slideshow)
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‘Beautiful Corpse: A Marshall James Thriller’ Now a Goodreads Giveaway! Enter to Win
I’ve enjoyed getting the word out and finding new readers with Goodreads giveaways, and my newest thriller is no exception. ENTER HERE for a chance to win one of 100 eBook copies given away May 20.
About Beautiful Corpse: A Marshall James Thriller
“It was 1984. Prince ruled the airways. The Los Angeles Olympics had come and gone, taking with it a spotlight that had shone harshly on the city’s night crawlers and left them thankful for the the shadows. AIDS was spreading its dark, black, wings over us all, and I was a happy guy. At least I thought I was, until things took a sudden turn for the deadly.” – Marshall James
It’s been over a year since Marshall James first became intimately familiar with murder. He’s six months sober now and happily living with the love of his life, LAPD Detective Mac McElroy. Despite the coming storm of AIDS and its devastating toll on the world Marshall knows, his dark days seem to be behind him. Then one night he says the wrong thing, storms out in anger, and walks straight into a nightmare. Someone is setting him up to take the fall for a beautiful corpse. But who would do something so evil, and so planned? Within hours he finds himself running from the police and the mob, and running toward a killer he must apprehend before the only chance left is no chance at all.
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One Thing or Another: The Old Normal
By Mark McNeaseIt’s always One Thing or Another… a lighthearted look at aging, life, and the absurdities of it all.
I believe we will look back on this time, perhaps calling it The Great Pandemic of 2020, or something equally grand to match a cataclysm of such scale, and view it as a before-and-after moment in our lives. We have those throughout our journeys on Earth, when the paths we’re on are disturbed by eruptions or implosions, or deaths that leave us without parts of ourselves: a parent abandons us to the whims of human existence, a loved one says goodbye for the last time, or doesn’t manage to say anything at all before a final breath.
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Take a Bite of the Apple Books Promo! Free Codes for Select Books
That’s right! I have a limited number of free download codes for several of my ebooks in the Apple Books store. Take your pick and send an email to mademarkpublishing AT outlook.com to request a code. Be sure to specify the title you’d like and the country you’re in! Keep reading for book descriptions and links to check them out at Apple Books. Also, if you prefer a good listen, my audiobooks are there, too!
Codes are available for:
Murder At The Paisley Parrot: A Marshall James Thriller (Book 1)
Http://Books.Apple.Com/Us/Book/Id1498909349
The year was 1983. The bar was the Paisley Parrot in Hollywood, a gay, mob-run dive where people came to drink and few of them remembered the night before. Marshall loves his job as a bartender there. But one night, among the regulars, a killer arrives. Body by body, death by death, Marshall finds himself pulled into a web of murder, deceit and crime, with a psychopath waiting at the center of it all. Marshall falls for the cop who’s investigating him, not knowing if their relationship will survive or even if he’ll come out of this alive. Find out before last call comes around, in Murder at the Paisley Parrot.
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Walking the Pandemic #2: Stockton, NJ
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From the Archives: 6 Questions for Author Paula Martinac
By Mark McNeaseEight years of LGBTSr have given me a rich archive of interviews, reviews, podcasts and content. Here’s a ‘6 Questions’ interview from 2018 with author Paula Martinac. Her most recent novel, Clio Rising, was released by Bywater Books in April, 2019.
Paula Martinac I recently had the pleasure of interviewing author Paula Martinac. Her latest novel, The Ada Decades, tells the story of Ada Shook, a librarian who begins the book as a child discovering a shocking postcard image in her father’s possession, and ends seven decades later as a reluctant witness to history. Told in eleven interconnected stories, the novel examines issues of race, class, and the slow climb toward LGBT equality in a pre-Stonewall world.
See Paula’s in-depth answers to ‘6 Questions’ below, and mark your calendars: I’ll be chatting with Paula on a podcast sometime in the next month or two. I’m excited to continue our conversation. For now …
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Jean Ryan Kitten Painting Hanging On Our Wall
