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Me Me Monday!

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Welcome to 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 at … Read more

News: Matt Baume – The Best Gay Halloween Flicks

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Death Becomes Her

“Happy Halloween! By all means, go out and party. But what if you’re a grumpy loner like me and all you want is a nice quiet spooky evening at home? Well, what better way to spend a dark and stormy night than with a creepy, scary, or generally disturbing movie. Last week I asked a bunch of folks on Twitter and Facebook to recommend some of their favorite Halloweeny films, and I get some spooktactular suggestions. I gathered up my favorites, threw away the raisins, and now here are your best bets for a scary film fest.” Full Story at … Read more

Ever Wanted to Date a Big Sexy Gay Green Monster?

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For some reason, nobody’s invented Grindr for orcs yet, but we have the next best thing in Tusks, a dating simulator for big gay green monsters. The game perfectly captures that feeling of being a scary creature, feared by the rest of the world, and then finding your tribe. Even when we feel monstrous, it’s okay when we can be monsters together. Full Story at LGBTQ Nation

What Will Humans Look Like in 1,000 Years?

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Humans have evolved over thousands of years to have a variety of traits that proved increasingly beneficial to the species as a whole. However, these mutations take thousands of years to develop and reach a critical mass. Which begs the question, how will humans 1,000 years from now be different than us? Science vloggers Mitch and Greg of ASAPScience look at ways humans may respond to climate change, technology’s increasing ability to mimic the human brain, the necessity of space colonization and the danger of artificial selection in their latest video. See the Full Story at Towleroad.com

News: The Queer Power of Witches

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Endorra

Who’s your favorite famous witch? Fun-loving Madame Mim? The Sinister Grand High Witch? It’s so hard to pick. In a new video, Matt Baume explains the queer power of witches. “I believe they share a magic, unspoken bond with queer people,” explains Baume. “Witches are powerful women who step outside their gender roles to wield incredible control…ordinary people don’t understand them…they’re outcasts…eternal outsiders…they have to learn to be fearless and brave on their own.” See the Full Story at the LGBT Weekly

News: “Star Wars – The Force Awakens” Poster and Trailer

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens

It’s finally happened. We’re now just close enough to the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens that we’re getting teasers for new trailers—and we couldn’t be more excited. In two clips released ahead of tonight’s debut of the latest Force Awakens trailer, we see just a brief moment of Finn (John Boyega) and Poe (Oscar Isaac) apparently gearing up for battle and Rey (Daisy Ridley), Poe, Finn, and BB-8 all giving long, thoughtful looks. (There’s also that now-familiar shot of Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren wielding his amazing lightsaber, which never gets old.) See the Full Story at Wired

News: NASA Probe Sends Spectacular Images of Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus

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NASA’s Cassini probe just sent back some amazing photos of Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth-largest, ice-covered moon. Enceladus was recently confirmed to have a global underground ocean under its icy crust. The moon is 500 km in diameter. It also has geysers that erupt from holes in its crust. The new photos offer closer views than ever before. Full Story at Towleroad.com

China Joins Search For Alien Civilizations

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China Telescope

China is constructing what will be the world’s largest radio telescope. The Independent reports: Assembly of the five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, began in July and is expected to be completed in 2016. Once finished, the reflector dish of the telescope will be 500 metres in diameter, replacing Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory, only 300 meters in diameter, as the world’s largest. The wider the dish, the more effective the telescope becomes at picking up weak messages from outer space. Nan Rendong, the chief scientist of the FAST project, told the Xinhua news agency: “A radio telescope is like a … Read more