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Me Me Monday!

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Me Me Monday

Welcome to M3: ME ME MONDAY at our FB discussion group – your chance to pop in and tell us about your latest success. Have a new book or short story coming out? Let us know. Just sell something? Let us know so we can cheer you on. HOW IT WORKS: I’ll pin this topic to the top of our FB discussion page for the day. –Please post your announcement as a separate post so we can comment on yours specifically –Check out the other posts and congratulate and share them too! And congratulations!!!

Meet the Spider Named After Stormtroopers

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Stormtrooper Spider - Live Science

White-armored Stormtroopers in the “Star Wars” movies are practically identical and nearly impossible to tell apart. That uncanny similarity recently inspired a team of scientists who had discovered a new spider genus; the arachnids were so alike each other in size and markings that the researchers named them after the helmeted troops, calling the creatures Stormtropis. These eight-legged Stormtroopers belong to a family dubbed bald-legged spiders, which are native to South America and Central America. Like the Stormtroopers, the spiders “are very similar to each other, with some capacity for camouflage”; the sci-fi soldiers and the newfound spiders are also alike … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Stealing His Heart, by Connor Crowe

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QSFer Connor Crowe has a new MM paranormal book out: Stealing His Heart. Can the pack he’s been sent to rob become his new home, and the alpha he’s crossed own his heart? Felix is on a mission: steal a priceless artifact from the most dangerous wolves in the land. The reward? Freedom at last from the criminal syndicate that raised him and other orphaned omegas. When he stops to save a man in peril, the guards close in. Getting captured wasn’t part of the plan. Neither was meeting the intimidatingly sexy Pack Alpha. Soon, he finds himself questioning if … Read more

FOR READERS: I Liked The Other Guy Better

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Hank T. Cannon: What types of ancillary characters will keep you reading a book even though you dislike the main character? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat

TV: “Choni” Sex Scene Thrills Riverdale fans

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Queer Riverdale characters Cheryl Blossom and Toni Topaz have stunned fans with a lengthy sex scene. The CW show’s same-sex couple seemed to engage in oral sex during the scene in Wednesday’s (March 13) episode, which also saw Toni blindfold Cheryl and tie her up before apparently driving her to climax. The scene starts with security guard Toni catching Cheryl robbing La Bonne Nuit, the town’s speakeasy. Cheryl reacts with typical self-confidence, saying: “Lying in wait for me? Colour me shocked.” Full Story: Josh Jackman – Pink News

REVIEW: Warlock in Training, by TJ Nichols

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Title: Warlock in TrainingSeries: Studies in Demonology Book 1Author: TJ NicholsGenre: FantasyLGBTQ+ Category: gayPublisher: DSP PublicationsPages/Word Count: 226 pagesBuy Link: $1.99 on AmazonReviewer: Dan About the Book Angus Donohue doesn’t want to be a warlock. He believes draining demons for magic is evil, but it’s a dangerous opinion to have—his father is a powerful and well-connected warlock, and Angus is expected to follow the family tradition. His only way out is to fail the demon summoning class. Failure means expulsion from the Warlock College. Despite Angus’s best efforts to fumble the summoning, it works. Although not the way anyone expects. Angus’s … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Love Shines Through Anthology

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QSFers Kit Campbell, Siri Paulson, KD Sarge, and Erin Zarro have a new queer fantasy anthology out: Love Shines Through – FF, M/NB, and MF. The world was whole before the war. But war is a terrible thing, and terrible things are done in the name of defense and protection. And this war tore the world apart, fractured it, separated families and lives and dreams. The reasons why no longer matter, but the effects still linger. They cause pain, though the war is over. But despite the monsters and the poisons and the despair, there is a glimmer of light. … Read more

FOR WRITERS: Share Your Publishers

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: If you work with “traditional” publishers (ie: not strictly self-published), who are your favorites, and why? Note: please do not use this chat to talk about publishers you dislike. Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat

SPACE: Could Aliens Be Using Black Holes and Lasers to Zip Around the Galaxy?

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An astronomer at Columbia University has a new guess about how hypothetical alien civilizations might be invisibly navigating our galaxy: Firing lasers at binary black holes (twin black holes that orbit each other). The idea is a futuristic upgrade of a technique NASA has used for decades. Right now, spacecraft already navigate our solar system using gravity wells as slingshots. The spacecraft itself enters orbit around a planet, flings itself as close as possible to a planet or moon to pick up speed, and then uses that added energy to travel even faster toward its next destination. In doing so, … Read more

REVIEW: Imminent Dawn, by R.R. Campbell

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Imminent Dawn

Title: Imminent DawnSeries: Empathy Book OneAuthor: R.R. CampbellGenre: Sci Fi / TechnothrillerLGBTQ+ Category: LesbianPublisher: NineStar PressPages/Word Count: 364Buy Link: AmazonReviewer: CC Bridges About the Book Four people. One study. The internet-access brain implant to bind or destroy them all. Art-school dropout Chandra would do anything to apologize for her role in her wife’s coma—including enroll in the first round of human trials for an internet-access brain implant. At first, the secretive research compound is paradise, the perfect place to distract Chandra from her grief. But as she soon learns, the facility is more prison than resort, with its doctors, support staff, … Read more