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On this episode of Booked!, host Dalia Hamilton sits down with a Pride Panel of three authors, Jeffrey Dale Lofton, Carli J. Corson, and Emma-Claire Sunday, to discuss How to Write Queer Characters and Stories.

This episode was recorded live on June 18th as part of the Doylestown Bookshop's Lit Lab Writing Workshop Summer Series.

Featuring the voices of bookseller and Events Assistant Dalia Hamilton, Jeffrey Dale Lofton, Carli J. Corson, and Emma-Claire Sunday.

Produced by Logan Ford

Theme music by Logan Ford

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Order a signed copy of The Duke's Sister and I by Emma-Claire Sunday here, as stock allows (request a signed copy in the order comments).

Order The Fortune Hunter's Guide to Love by Emma-Claire Sunday here (on sale July 29, 2025).

Book Recommendations in this episode:

Nail Polish Is Too for Boys! by Emma-Claire Sunday

Monk and Robot: A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

T. J. Klune

The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson

Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion by Bushra Rehman

Let's Get Back to the Party by Zak Salih

Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It by Greg Marshall

The Slip by Lucas Schaefer

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