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M3: Me Me Monday

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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 I can also share it over to our FB page (as opposed to this discussion group). –If you want, send me your book announcement info … Read more

Promotions Week: Contests and Giveaways

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It’s time for another theme week at Queer Sci Fi. This time around, we’re talking promo. :) Here are our topics for the week: Promotions Week: Where to Get Started – making a schedule Promotions Week: What to include – Guest Post vs. Announcement vs. Cover Reveal Promotions Week: Keywords and Categories Promotions Week: Social Media and Reviews Promotions Week: Real World Promo Options Promotions Week: Contests and Giveaways Day Six: Contests and Giveaways Welcome to the last day of the Queer Sci Fi Promotions Week! I think it’s gon really well – we’ll do this again next year. Today … Read more

Harry Potter Fan Film Features Young Snape

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Harry Potter Fan Film

Snape, Lily and The Marauders have graduated Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. At a local pub, James Potter and his friends reminisce about their last seven years, and contemplate their future. All seems bright for these four friends despite the darkness that awaits them, until Snape arrives. Thinking about the war they are to join and the part Snape might play, James decides to do something about Snape once and for all. Film by Broad Strokes. Full Story at SF Signal

Promotions Week: Social Media and Reviews

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It’s time for another theme week at Queer Sci Fi. This time around, we’re talking promo. :) Here are our topics for the week: Promotions Week: Where to Get Started – making a schedule Promotions Week: What to include – Guest Post vs. Announcement vs. Cover Reveal Promotions Week: Keywords and Categories Promotions Week: Social Media and Reviews Promotions Week: Physical Promo Options Promotions Week: Contests and Giveaways Day Four: Social Media and Reviews Today we’ll tackle a couple more aspects of online promotion – social media and reviews. Social media has taken on an increasing share of overall web … Read more

Microsoft Created an AI, But She’s a Racist Homophobic Trump Supporter

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Microsoft has created a new chat bot to “learn” from the internet… but she picked up a lot of bad habits. The tech company announced the launch of Tay this week, an artificial intelligence bot that is learning to talk like millennials by analysing conversations on Twitter, Facebook and the internet… Unfortunately, when you make an AI bot that is designed to imitate the behaviour of other people on the internet… you probably need a filter of some kind. Tay was originally doing okay, learning how to have polite conversations… but after getting influenced by a few too many people … Read more

Promotions Week: Keywords and Categories

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It’s time for another theme week at Queer Sci Fi. This time around, we’re talking promo. :) Here are our topics for the week: Promotions Week: Where to Get Started – making a schedule Promotions Week: What to include – Guest Post vs. Announcement vs. Cover Reveal Promotions Week: Keywords and Categories Promotions Week: Social Media and Reviews Promotions Week: Physical Promo Options Promotions Week: Contests and Giveaways Day Three: Keywords and Categories When you’re promoting a book, there are so many things to keep track of. But one of the most basic of these is which keywords to use … Read more

Promotions Week: Guest Post vs. Announcement vs. Cover Reveal

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It’s time for another theme week at Queer Sci Fi. This time around, we’re talking promo. :) Here are our topics for the week: Promotions Week: What to include – Guest Post vs. Announcement vs. Cover Reveal Promotions Week: Keywords and categories Promotions Week: Online Promo – Social Media, Reviews and Guest Posts Promotions Week: Physical Promo Options Promotions Week: Contests and Giveaways Day Two: Guest Post vs. Announcement vs. Cover Reveal OK, so you’ve got your blog tour organizational thingy set up – your excel spreadsheet, your big notepad, or your fancy set of cocktail napkins. You’ve decided which … Read more

Promotions Week: Where to Get Started / Making a Schedule

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It’s time for another theme week at Queer Sci Fi. This time around, we’re talking promo. :) If you’re an author, you’re gonna have to promote your work at some point. And if you’re like me, you’re fairly new to the whole process, and the thought of it strikes terror in your bones. Fear not – we’re hear to help. All this week, we’ll be talking shop, asking questions and sharing info. Here are our topics for the week: Promotions Week: Where to Get Started – making a schedule Promotions Week: What to include – Guest Post vs. Announcement vs. … Read more

Would You Buy an iCar?

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Since February 2015, there have been various reports that Apple is working on a car that will “give Tesla a run for its money” after Business Insider spoke to an Apple employee with knowledge of the subject. This coupled with a sightings of cars registered to Apple, clad with sensors/cameras (which were later debunked) got everyone talking. The iCar project is codenamed ‘Titan’, according to The Wall Street Journal, which originally stated that there were “several hundred” Apple employees working on the project. With some reports describing an electric car and others describing a self-driving car, is there any truth … Read more