Question: What do you get if you cross LGBTQ+ and crime?
Answer: the CWA National Crime Reading Month “Bring Crime Out of the Closet” blogathon!
Joking aside, the NCRM is taking place throughout June and to help celebrate, Charlie Cochrane, Clare London and I have organised a blogathon for the entire month (and possibly beyond).
There’ll be lots of authors, plus readers and other affiliated creatives (including the three of us), all blogging on a range of topics including whether they were aware of gay characters in the old crime classics; the first crime book they read featuring a gay main character; or why they put LGBTQ+ main characters into their own books.
With a brand new post every day throughout June it promises to be both fascinating and entertaining. So if you want a bit of intrigue with your morning cornflakes, why not bookmark/follow the blog so you don’t miss any of the posts? Things kick off with a shotgun bang tomorrow (Thursday) and my own post (on Louise Welsh’s The Cutting Room) is scheduled for June 12th. You can find it all here.