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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

Announcement: Pact Arcanum, by Arshad Ahsanuddin

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QSFer Arshad Ahsanuddin has a new paranormal graphic novel coming out on 8/31: For millennia, the Sentinels have hunted the vampires with steel and magic… Alexandria, Egypt, 2008. Antonio is the Wind of Fire, the strongest Sentinel of that element, the most powerful spellcaster of his generation. Edgar is a capable Fire Sentinel in his own right, and serves as Antonio’s lieutenant. Together, the two of them were chosen for a very special mission: to scout out the vampires’ greatest citadel in preparation for the Sentinels’ final assault. Their actions that night will set in motion a destructive chain of … Read more

Television: First African-American Gay Superhero Joins Arrow

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First African-American Gay Superhero Joins Arrow Arrow, the popular CW series that follows DC’s Green Arrow, has cast Echo Kellum as Mr. Terrific and announced the show’s version of the superhero will be gay, Variety confirms… …Executive producer Greg Berlanti told Out magazine last year that he plans to continue to explore new ways of introducing gay characters to this series and The Flash, which has also featured gay heroes and villains, such as David Singh (Patrick Sabongui) and the Pied Piper (Andy Mientus). See the article here

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

Discussion: Connecting With Your Public

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Today’s topic comes from QSFer Angel Martinez: Connecting with a physical readership – where and how do you do it? (And readers, where do you go looking for your writers?) It’s a great question. As writers, we spend a huge amount of time at the keyboard (or for the old school folks among us, at the typewriter or writing pad) putting together our works to share with the world. But at some point, we have to emerge from our writer caves to engage with the fans. Or sometimes even to find some. So how do you do it? Are you … Read more

Angel’s Bits: Little Things Add Up – Monetizing Your Blog

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It’s Friday and time for another little installment of Angel’s Bits. This week, Scott and I have been talking about a subject that might be new to some of you and concerning which some of you will be old and experienced hands – monetizing your blog. Sounds like an odd bit of corporate market-speak, I know, but it boils down to how your blog can make money for you. Tons of money? Probably not, unless you have a wildly well-visited site. But you know what? All those nickles and dimes add up. Little bits can help you fund marketing and … Read more

Discussion: Genre Specific Blogs

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Today’s discussion question is from QSFer Andrew Q. Gordon, who has a beautiful Fantasy series out and is looking for some advice. I have a question for the group about genre specific blogs and Blog Tours. I have a list of the 50 ‘the best’ SFF blogs, but that’s like looking in the yellow pages (for us old folks – using Google for you youngins). Does anyone have a good list or even just a good sight or two that is genre specific? It doesn’t need to be LGBTQ SFF, just SFF. And since I’m on the topic, what about … Read more

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

Angel’s Bits: Crowds Send Me Screaming or Introvert Conference-going

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Scott and I just returned from Rainbow Con in Tampa this week, which was a fabulous time, but we just did a podcast on the Con with the 3M/Musketeers. Instead, I thought I’d talk about cons in general. Many of you are probably veteran con-goers and will be able to add advice from your own experiences for those QSF’ers (like Scott) who aren’t so familiar with cons. Crowds Send Me Screaming or Introvert Conference-going Conference season! It’s really a year-round thing these days but most of the important events for LGBT authors seem to happen throughout the summer and fall. … Read more

Article: Read The Best Gay Speculative Fiction of the Year!

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What do you think? Have you read anything by these authors? Read The Best Gay Speculative Fiction of the Year! Want to explore some strange new worlds that are genuinely new? Then you’re in luck—because Wilde Stories: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction has just been published! Here’s the full TOC: “The Love of the Emperor Is Divine” by Tom Cardamone “The Vampire of Xanthos” by Andrew Warburton “The True Alchemist” by Sonya Taaffe “The Mortuaries” by Katharine Duckett “What Glistens Back” by Sunny Moraine “Passion, Like a Voice—That Buds” by Steve Berman “True North” by Chaz Brenchley “The Oily … Read more