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A Murder Mystery Series With a Gay Couple at the Center — Here's What H.N. Hirsch Built and Why It Matters
Most murder mystery series follow a familiar template. H.N. Hirsch's Rain series does something different — placing a dynamic gay couple at the heart of the story and weaving themes of acceptance, love, and identity through a thriller narrative that works equally well as a page-turning mystery and as a quietly groundbreaking piece of inclusive storytelling. What he shares with Stacey Chillemi about the world he built in the Rain series, the creative decisions that make diversity and inclusivity feel organic rather than performative within the genre, and what inspired him to write the kind of…
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