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Me Me Monday

December 16, 2019 by scott

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 and our MeWe 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!!!

FOR READERS: What I Want

December 14, 2019 by scott

FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer A. Catherine Noon: What kinds of stories do you want to see more of? Reading trends and tastes change, especially in times of turmoil; I’m curious how your tastes have changed, if at all. Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABV MeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

Me Me Monday!

December 9, 2019 by scott

The Fourth (Semi) Annual Me Me Awards

December 8, 2019 by scott

Today the winners of the Rainbow Awards are being announced. I want to give a hearty congratulations to everyone who won – this is your day. You buckled down and worked hard, and it’s a wonderful thing that you won the award. Oh, I know, it’s an honor to be nominated, right? And yeah, it actually kind of is, because it means someone thought highly enough of you and your work to put me up next to all of those other great authors. But for everyone who didn’t win the award today (and even for those of you who did), … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Shadows of the Past, by Matt Doyle

December 2, 2019December 1, 2019 by scott

QSFer Matt Doyle has a new lesbian sci fi mystery out: “Shadows of the Past.” Shadows of the Past is the new novella collection set in The Cassie Tam Files universe! Enjoy two new stories that follow PI Cassie Tam and her girlfriend Lori Redwood as they deal with the fallout from LV48. This book is part of a series and needs to be read in sequence. A Week in New Hopeland When Lori Redwood agrees to help out her girlfriend, PI Cassie Tam, by going undercover at a local shipping firm, she gets more than she bargained for. Her … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Darkness Conquered, by Riley S. Keene

November 29, 2019November 29, 2019 by scott

QSFer Riley S. Keene has a new queer LitRPG book out tomorrow: “Darkness Conquered.” In the False Lands, one’s demise is always one’s own making. Tanisha Richards, known as Koest in dARkness: Online, has fought tooth and nail to overcome the AI’s challenges. But this new zone is something else. With traps springing, mazes baring her way, and new creatures Tanisha has never seen before, it almost feels like Otekah wants the survivors of DeDust Three to fail. Too bad Tanisha is filled with determination. She will see that her friends escape the False Lands… or die trying. Darkness Conquered … Read more

Me Me Black Friday

November 29, 2019 by scott

Welcome to the fifth edition of ME ME BLACK FRIDAY! We know many of you have books on sale today, so this is your chance to tell the rest of us about them! For this edition, it does NOT need to be a new book or story – it just needs to be on sale. 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). And congratulations!!!

Me Me Monday!

November 25, 2019 by scott

A Post From The Stone Age – Boogieman In Lavender

November 14, 2019November 13, 2019 by Jeff Baker

Stone Knives and Bearskins By Jeff Baker Our computers are down as I write this. At least, the modem and Internet are out. (Word processor still works.) Should have it back up sometime tomorrow. For the weekend we’ve been basically living in the 1970s, except with cable. It says a lot that I capitalized “Internet” above. We’ve come to depend on this thing. A lot. It has helped me get some of my writing published professionally and a lot of it posted. (It also brought my husband and I together but that’s another story.) We’ve had the T.V. on … Read more

TV Was 10.2% Queer This Year

November 13, 2019 by scott

GLAAD’s recently released annual study of LGBTQ characters on TV found that 10.2% of regular characters on broadcast scripted primetime television this season are LGBTQ — meeting GLAAD’s 2018 goal of reaching a 10% threshold by 2020. GLAAD now wants to reach 25% by 2025. But reaching GLAAD’s 2018 goal came about largely thanks to just four very influential TV producers: Greg Berlanti, Lena Waithe, Ryan Murphy, and ally Shonda Rhimes. Together, the LGBTQ characters in their 22 shows account for 14% of all LGBTQ representation on broadcast scripted primetime TV. “While we celebrate the outstanding projects from these creators, … Read more