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Author Fay Jacobs Talks Humor, Writing, and ‘Sit-Down Comedy’
Fasten your headphones for a conversation with author, humorist, activist, and sit-down comedian Fay Jacobs. We talk about her life and career, her writing, and what’s in store for the tireless writer.
Fay, a native New Yorker, has had a 35-year career in journalism, public relations & theater. As an author, Fay has five published books of humorous and activist essays. All were originally published by A&M Books, a successor to Naiad Press and are now published by Bywater Books. Fay’s first book, As I Lay Frying is in its 4th printing. A second, Fried & True won the 2008 National Federation of Press Women Book of the Year for humor.
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The Twist Podcast #138: Supreme Injustice, All the President’s Taxes, and the Week in Headlines
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose for this week’s podcast as we talk about another Supreme Court heist, Trump’s tax dodges, National Coffee Week, and the week in headlines.
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The Twist Podcast #137: RIP RBG, Selfie Madness, COVID Deniers, and the Week in Headlines (YouTube Edition Included)
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose for this week’s podcast as we talk about the loss and legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, COVID deniers, selfie madness, and the week in headlines.
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
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Book Review: My Own Words, by Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm
“My Own Words” by Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams
c.2016, Simon & Schuster
$30.00 / $39.99 Canada 374 pagesPlease and Thank You.
Those were The Magic Words you learned at your mother’s knee, the ones that opened doors and gained favors. That was also when you learned something important, as you’ll see in “My Own Words” by Ruth Bader Ginsburg (with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams): letters, when properly collected, can move mountains.
Born in working-class Brooklyn in 1933, Joan Ruth Bader was her parents’ second daughter; sadly, their eldest died of meningitis just fourteen months later.
Theirs was a close-knit neighborhood, and the family had many of the luxuries of the day. Bader attended public school a block from her home; there, because of other girls in her class who shared her first name, she started using her middle name “for more official purposes.” She was raised to be independent and was an avid reader, a notably talented storyteller, and she loved gymnastics but “was not… especially fond of math.” And since she grew up in the shadow of World War II and was Jewish, she was fully aware of anti-Semitism.
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Lee Lynch’s Amazon Trail: Nah, We Ain’t No Sissies
Guest Column
The Amazon Trail: Nah, We Ain’t No Sissies
By Lee Lynch
Photo by Sue Hardesty I have been resting. A strange activity for me, but I had no choice. I was so worn out, I remember promising myself that I would never hurry again as long as I lived. The first two of six weeks I mostly slept, or lay unmoving beside my sweetheart. Awake, I read thrillers, and when those books didn’t ease my mental and emotional exhaustion, in desperation I read Ann Rule, the master of true crime.
So many people are afflicted or have died from what my sweetheart coined trump flu; so many people have died or lost their homes to the fires around us; so many people are suffering under the current administration; so many people are fighting the loss of democracy in the United States; so many people are victims of blatant and insidious racism—I feel like a sissy to have needed rest.
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Author John Morgan Wilson Talks Writing and the 25th Anniversary Reissue of His Mystery ‘Simple Justice’
John Morgan Wilson An early standout in the gay mystery genre, author John Morgan Wilson is about to enjoy a resurgence in popularity with the 25th anniversary reissue of his first book in the Benjamin Justice series. Releasing today (September 15, 2020), the Edgar Award winning Simple Justice introduces us to Wilson’s protagonist, Benjamin Justice, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times who’s seen his career and his life crash following a scandal involving the Pulitzer Prize. I spoke with John about his career, his life in West Hollywood, and his partnership with ReQueered Tales to issue revised editions of all eight books in the Benjamin Justice series. Fasten your headphones and join us for a lively conversation.
John Morgan Wilson is an American journalist and author of crime fiction, notably the Benjamin Justice mystery novels. The books feature a reclusive ex-reporter, ruined by a Pulitzer scandal and haunted by personal loss, who operates out of West Hollywood, becoming enmeshed in murder investigations in and around Los Angeles.
Simple Justice led the series in 1996, winning the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Six of the eight Justice mysteries, including Simple Justice, were nominated for Lambda Literary Awards for Best Gay Men’s Mystery, three of them winning in that category. (Wikipedia)
“It’s 1994, an election year when violent crime is rampant, voters want action, and politicians smell blood. When a Latino teenager confesses to the murder of a pretty-boy cokehead outside a gay bar in L.A., the cops consider the case closed. But Benjamin Justice, a disgraced former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, sees something in the jailed boy others don’t. His former editor, Harry Brofsky, now toiling at the rival Los Angeles Sun, pries Justice from his alcoholic seclusion to help neophyte reporter Alexandra Templeton dig deeper into the story. But why would a seemingly decent kid confess to a brutal gang initiation killing if he wasn’t guilty? And how can Benjamin Justice possibly be trusted, given his central role in the Pulitzer scandal that destroyed his career? Snaking his way through shadowy neighborhoods and dubious suspects, he’s increasingly haunted by memories of his lover Jacques, whose death from AIDS six years earlier precipitated his fall from grace. As he unravels emotionally, Templeton attempts to solve the riddle of his dark past and ward off another meltdown as they race against a critical deadline to uncover and publish the truth.”
Coming up on the One Thing or Another Podcast
Book reviewer Terri Schlicenmeyer talks books for fall.
Humorist and author Fay Jacobs talks life in the funny (and not so funny) lane.
Matt Lubbers-Moore talks ReQueered Tales and the reissue of Grant Michaels’s ‘Time to Check Out’ (foreword by yours truly!)Enjoy the One Thing or Another Podcast on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and at OneThingOrAnotherPodast.com
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‘Beautiful Corpse: A Marshall James Thriller’ Audiobook Now Available!
Fasten your headphones! The audiobook edition of Beautiful Corpse: A Marshall James Thriller is now available. Narrated by the terrific Sean Rhead, Beautiful Corpse is the second book in the Marshall James series, to be concluded in 2021 with a final installment. It’s 1984. Marshall survived the perils of Murder at the Paisley Parrot and believes he’s living happily ever after with his detective boyfriend, Mac McElroy. Life seems perfect, until everything goes wrong …
About Beautiful Corpse: A Marshall James Thriller
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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Fee Audiobook Codes Available for All Titles!
Are you listening? I have a limited number of complimentary audiobook codes available for all of my audiobooks, including the brand new Beautiful Corpse: A Marshall James Thriller, narrated by Sean Rhead! Just click the image or HERE to email your request for a code. Please specify the title(s), and a US or UK code. You can read about them all at my Audible author’s page. So enjoy … and fasten your headphones!
Available Titles:
Beautiful Corpse: A Marshall James Thriller
A House in the Woods
Black Cat White Paws: A Maggie Dahl Thriller
Murder at the Paisley Parrot: A Marshall James Thriller
Last Room at the Cliff’s Edge
Death by Pride: A Kyle Callahan Mystery
Pride and Perilous: A Kyle Callahan Mystery
Murder at Pride Lodge: A Kyle Callahan Mystery
Stop the Car: A Kindle Single
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The Twist Podcast #136: Plastic Planet, Sergeant Loser, State of the States, and This Week’s Headlines
Mark (L) and Rick (R)
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we take a look at our planet’s plastic peril, losers and suckers in the armed forces, another state or two, and the week in headlines. Can’t find us? Just ask Alexa … And enjoy our YouTube edition for those who like to watch.
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The Twist Podcast #135: Passion Politics, Gaga Goes There, Rick Calls the Election, and This Week’s Headlines
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we talk politics and passion, Gaga’s masked-up marvel, trends, headlines, and an election prediction from Rick. Can’t find us? Just ask Alexa … And enjoy our special video edition this week.
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It’s a Killer Kindle Countdown Deal! Two Marshall James Thrillers
Along with my semi-regular Kindle eBook giveaways (August winners were just announced the morning) I’m offering free Kindle downloads of both Marshall James Thrillers. The audiobook for Beautiful Corpse, narrated by Sean Rhead, is coming out any day now. I’ll be offering free download codes to subscribers, so look for an email on that soon. In the meantime, click on over to Amazon and enjoy these two book for free for the next 5 days! And remember, reviews are a writer’s best friend! Please consider leaving one.
Beautiful Corpse: A Marshall James Thriller (Book 2)
“It was 1984. Prince ruled the airwaves. 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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And the Lucky August Giveaway Winners Are …
Another month, another great giveaway. Congratulations to Marie, Georgie, Lorna, Jackie and Linda. Each of them has won a Kindle edition of my book Black Cat White Paws: A Maggie Dahl Mystery for the month of August.
My next giveaway will be something special in October. It’s my birthday month, and my favorite holiday – Halloween! Look for details of something fabulous, with even more winners. Until then, settle back in your custom seat on the mystery train and enjoy any of my books. I’ll soon be finishing up the new Kyle Callahan Mystery after four years of waiting to hear from this fan favorite. Kyle and his husband Danny have left New York City for a life in Lambertville, New Jersey. They open a bed and breakfast, unaware that death has checked in with the rest of the guests. A true whudunit, Reservation for Murder: A Kyle Callahan Mystery will keep you guessing till the shocking finale.
Mark
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Audiobook Sample for ‘Beautiful Corpse: A Marshall James Thriller’
Very excited to sign off on this audiobook edition of ‘Beautiful Corpse: A Marshall James Thriller,’ narrated by Sean Rhead. It will be out soon, and I’ll have complimentary download codes available. Here’s a sample …
“It was 1984. Prince ruled the airwaves. 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.