A warm welcome to author Joe Cosentino , joining us today to share an character interview with Nicky & Noah , the main characters in his new audio release Drama Fraternity.
Welcome
Interview with Nicky Abbondanza and Noah Oliver, the leading characters in Drama Fraternity,
the sixth Nicky and Noah mystery by Joe Cosentino
now an audiobook performed by Griswold Addams
Welcome Nicky and Noah. Thank you for leaving Treemeadow College to speak with us at the release of your new audiobook.
Nicky: Our pleasure. There aren’t too many people left in Treemeadow. Sorry, bad murder mystery joke.
Noah: We’re happy to get out of Joe Cosentino’s brain for a bit and stretch out.
Since the readers can’t see you, what do you look like?
Noah: Nicky is tall, muscular—
Nicky: Thanks to the gym on campus.
Noah: And he has gorgeous emerald eyes, rich dark hair, a sexy Roman nose, smooth olive-colored skin, and long sideburns that I love to kiss.
Nicky: And since I was born in Kansas, I’m a true friend of Dorothy’s. Oh, I also have a nearly foot long penis. Thankfully Noah is open (pun intended) to new adventures.
And Noah?
Nicky: He’s gorgeous with long wavy blond hair that smells like strawberry fields forever, crystal blue eyes, porcelain-like skin, and a soft lean body. He’s also the most caring, considerate, and kind (try saying that three times fast) person I’ve ever known.
For any readers not familiar with your mysteries—
Nicky & Noah: Shame on them. Sorry, it’s a cute couple thing we do.
Tell them a bit about Treemeadow College.
Nicky: The college was founded by Tree and Meadow, a gay couple.
Noah: We are proud to follow in their footsteps.
Nicky: As you know, I have absolutely no ego and I always shy away from talking about myself.
Noah: (coughs)
Nicky: But I’ll say I’m an Associate Professor of Play Directing, and Noah is an Assistant Professor of Acting.
Tell us about the first five books.
Nicky: Gladly. In Drama Queen (Divine Magazine’s Readers’ Choice Award for Favorite LGBT Mystery, Humorous, and Contemporary Novel of the Year) college theatre professors are dropping like stage curtains at Treemeadow College, and amateur sleuths/college theatre professors Nicky and Noah (that’s me and my hubby) have to use our theatre skills, including impersonating other people, to figure out whodunit.
Noah: Our next four cases are Drama Muscle (Rainbow Award Honorable Mention) when we become engaged, Drama Cruise our wedding, Drama Luau when we adopt our son Taavi, and Drama Detective when Nicky’s brother Tony comes to visit. Each is self-contained cozy mystery.
Explain for the readers what you mean by a cozy mystery?
Nicky: In the case of the Nicky and Noah mysteries, the setting is warm and cozy. Treemeadow College in Vermont is the perfect setting for a cozy mystery with its white Edwardian buildings, low white stone fences, lake and mountain views, and cherry wood offices with tall leather chairs and fireplaces. Also, in our series the clues and murders (and laughs) come fast and furious, and there are enough plot twists and turns and a surprise ending to keep the pages turning faster than a conservative politician running away from an environmentalist.
Noah: At the center of our story is a touching gay romance between Nicky and me. As we fall in love, I’ve heard the readers fall in love with us.
Nicky: Who can blame them?
Tell us about your current audiobook release?
Nicky: I thought you’d never ask. In Drama Fraternity, I am directing Tight End Scream Queen, a slasher movie filmed at Treemeadow College’s football fraternity house, co-starring Noah, our son Taavi, our best friend and department chair notorious gossip Martin, and Martin’s sassy office assistant Shayla. Rounding out the cast are members of Treemeadow’s Christian football players’ fraternity along with two handsome screen stars. When the quarterback and jammer plow the wide receiver, young actors begin fading out with their scenes, Noah and I once again need to use our drama skills to figure out who is sending young hunky actors to the cutting room floor before Noah and I hit the final reel.
Can you give the readers a run down on some of the characters?
Nicky & Noah: There’s us.
And?
Nicky: We are joined by favorite regular characters like Martin, Ruben, Shayla, Taavi, long suffering Detective Manuello, and our wacky and wonderful parents.
Noah: And book six adds a number of new characters.
Nicky: Right, like Alejandro Gallo, the handsome and muscular star (who plays a vampire on TV’s Suck Off) cast as the detective in the film. There’s also hunky heartthrob (of the film Full Moon) who plays the lead role of Davey Doubt, the football team’s taunted and misunderstood tight end. And I can’t leave out the adorable and shy young screenwriter, Robert Lee, who penned Davey Doubt’s story based on his own.
Should Noah be jealous?
Nicky: Never. I’m a one-man man, and that man is Noah Oliver.
Noah: And I’d have it no other way.
And now book six is available as an audiobook.
Nicky: Yes, the audiobook is performed by Griswold Addams who also performed the audiobooks for Drama Luau and Drama Detective. Griswold did a phenomenal job playing over twenty characters in each of the audiobooks. He’s an amazingly talented performer with crackerjack comic timing. Like me.
Noah: Griswold is also incredibly professional, sweet, and wonderful to work with on every book. A fun fact is his wife is a huge Nicky and Noah mysteries fan!
Nicky: Then she’s all right in my book (wink).
How were the Nicky and Noah mysteries born?
Noah: Joe was sitting in his office at the college, where he is department chair and theatre professor, reflecting on his long, eventful day. It suddenly hit him like a fallen stage light. The theatre department on a college campus is rife with humor, romance, intrigue, mystery, and surprises.
Nicky: Isn’t that the truth!
The Nicky and Noah mysteries are quite cinematic. Rather than Logo showing reruns of Golden Girls around the clock, and Bravo airing so called reality shows, would you like to see them do The Nicky and Noah Mysteries?
Nicky: Yes! I want Matt Bomer to play me.
Noah: And Neil Patrick Harris to play me.
Nicky: They’re almost as cute as Noah and me.
Noah: I can also see Rosie O’Donnell and Bruce Willis playing my parents, and Nathan Lane as Martin’s spouse, Ruben.
Nicky: Wanda Sykes would be a riot as Martin’s office assistant, Shayla. Luke McFarlane would be perfect as my brother, Tony.
Noah: I can also see Valerie Bertinelli and Jay Leno as Nicky’s parents.
Who would play Martin Anderson?
Nicky & Noah: Joe Cosentino of course!
Nicky: He made us say that. Joe is very good at putting words into our mouths.
Who is your favorite new character in the sixth book?
Nicky: Robert Lee, the adorable, shy young screenwriter of Tight End Scream Queen. His crush on Malcolm Kahue, the hunky star of the slasher film, is touching and heartwarming.
Which new character do you like the least in book six?
Noah: I started out not liking Alejandro Gallo, the TV star playing the hot detective in the slasher film. He seems conceited and always on the make. But then I realized he was a closet gay actor terrified of losing his heart throb status if his fans were to find out the truth about him. It must have been quite a heavy burden for him to hold. It’s always so much more difficult to hide and lie than to simply be yourself.
How about you, Nicky?
Nicky: Comey Collins and Pastor Karl Bounty. I will never understand how people can use “religious freedom” to try to take away the civil rights of LGBT people and their families. Religious freedom means having the freedom to practice whatever religious you choose, not disobey the law and/or persecute others.
Which new character was the sexiest?
Nicky: Malcolm Kahue, the handsome, muscular, Hawaiian, rebel without a cause actor playing the leading role of Davey Doubt, the tight end, in the slasher film. Like Robert Lee, the screenwriter in the novel, I think readers will be quite captivated with Malcolm.
Noah: But enough about us.
Nicky: It’s never enough about us. The purchase links for the new Drama Fraternity audiobook are below, as are Joe’s contact links, including his web site.
Noah: Nicky and I love to hear from readers via Joe. He tells us everything.
Thank you, Nicky and Noah, for sharing with us today.
Nicky: It was our pleasure.
Noah: It is also our pleasure to share the audiobook of this sixth novel in our series.
Nicky: So everyone, take your front row seat. Lights, camera, action, frat house murders!
DRAMA FRATERNITY (the sixth Nicky and Noah mystery)
audiobook by Joe Cosentino, performed by Griswold Addams
Language: English
Cover Art & Design: Holly McCabe
Release date: 11/3/21
Time: 6 hours
Theatre professor Nicky Abbondanza is directing Tight End Scream Queen, a slasher movie filmed at Treemeadow College’s football fraternity house, co-starring his husband and theatre professor colleague, Noah Oliver. When young hunky cast members begin fading out with their scenes, Nicky and Noah will once again need to use their drama skills to figure out who is sending the quarterback, jammer, wide receiver, and more to the cutting room floor before Nicky and Noah hit the final reel. You will be applauding and shouting Bravo for Joe Cosentino’s fast-paced, side-splittingly funny, edge-of-your-seat entertaining sixth novel in this delightful series. Lights, camera, action, frat house murders!
Click on Audible link to hear a sample:
http://myBook.to/DramaFraternity
Joe Cosentino was voted Favorite LGBT Mystery, Humorous, and Contemporary Author of the Year by the readers of Divine Magazine for Drama Queen. He also wrote the other novels in the Nicky and Noah mystery series: Drama Muscle, Drama Cruise, Drama Luau, Drama Detective, Drama Fraternity, Drama Castle, Drama Dance, Drama Faerie, Drama Runway, Drama Christmas, Drama Pan, Drama TV; the Dreamspinner Press series: In My Heart/An Infatuation & A Shooting Star, the Bobby and Paolo Holiday Stories: A Home for the Holidays/The Perfect Gift/The First Noel, The Naked Prince and Other Tales from Fairyland and Holiday Tales from Fairyland, the Found At Last series: Finding Giorgio and Finding Armando, and the Player Piano Mysteries: The Player and The Player’s Encore; the Cozzi Cove series: Cozzi Cove: Bouncing Back, Cozzi Cove: Moving Forward, Cozzi Cove: Stepping Out, Cozzi Cove: New Beginnings, Cozzi Cove: Happy Endings (NineStar Press); and the Jana Lane mysteries: Paper Doll, Porcelain Doll, Satin Doll, China Doll, Rag Doll (The Wild Rose Press). He has appeared in principal acting roles in film, television, and theatre, opposite stars such as Bruce Willis, Rosie O’Donnell, Nathan Lane, Holland Taylor, and Jason Robards. Joe is currently Chair of the Department/Professor at a college in upstate New York, and he is happily married. Many of Joe’s books have received Favorite Book of the Month Awards and Rainbow Award Honorable Mentions.
Web site: http://www.JoeCosentino.weebly.com
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