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FOR WRITERS: Favorite Interview Questions

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Cia Nordwell: Let’s make a list of interview questions we love to be asked. These can be standard questions, or fun ones with a twist. We have an existing list here: https://www.queerscifi.com/knowledge-base/interview-questions/ We’ll add some of these to it. 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: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABV MeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

SPACE: Meet Arrokoth, the Most Distant Object Ever Explored

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Arrokoth - Live Science

Hopefully you weren’t too attached to “2014 MU69,” because the most distant object ever explored has a new name. The 21-mile-wide (34 kilometers) body visited by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on Jan. 1 is now officially known as Arrokoth, a term that means “sky” in the Powhatan/Algonquian language, mission team members announced today (Nov. 12). “The name ‘Arrokoth’ reflects the inspiration of looking to the skies and wondering about the stars and worlds beyond our own,” New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado, said in a statement. “That desire to learn is … Read more

REVIEW: Absolute Heart, by Michael Vance Gurley

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Absolute Heart

Title: Absolute Heart Series: Infernal Instruments of the Dragons Book One Author: Michael Vance Gurley Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Publisher: Harmony Ink Press Pages: 288 Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book As the British Empire builds power based on new clockwork and steam technology, Ireland draws its might from its potent magical traditions. Only two boys with little in common can end the fighting between the two nations and prevent a terrible worldwide war. Gavin Haveland’s dreams are in the sky with the airships, while his reality as a High Councilman’s son … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Delta Star, by Iris Sword

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Delta Star - iris Sword

QSFer Iris Sword has a new MM sci fi romance out, book two in the Delta Rangers series: “Delta Star.” Space Rangers Xa’baar Ilaura and Haltrax Vuron, of the ice planet Deltrax, have found their fated mate. After years of protecting the universe, they decide to retire and start a family. The only problem? Victorio Chu is a fugitive on the run. Marriage freed Victorio from indentured servitude on Tieqiú 9. But as the bounty on his head resurfaces, Victorio has to make a choice—flee or fight? Haltrax struggles to abandon the law to protect his husband. Xa’baar must keep … Read more

FOR READERS & WRITERS: I Can Hear You

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Candra Blaire: Character voices: as readers what do you hear in your head? As writers what do you hear when you are writing? Writers: This is a reader and 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: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABV MeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

SPACE: Jupiter for Trans Rights?

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What’s that up in the sky? Is it a bird? A plane? It’s Jupiter saying, at the top of its gas-filled lungs, “trans rights!” The fifth planet from the sun has made the groundbreaking decision to come out in favour of trans rights. Jupiter was snapped in UV light by the Hubble Telescope late last year, but has gone viral again in a tweet from a trans activist who tagged a photo of the planet with: “Jupiter says trans rights.” Full Story From Pink News

FILM: Queerbaiting in Frozen 2? Elsa Won’t Come Out.

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Frozen 2 Queerbaiting?

Frozen 2 co-director Jennifer Lee dashed the hopes of some fans for an LGBTQ princess, suggesting that Elsa won’t have any kind of a romantic relationship in the sequel to the hit animated film. Said Lee at a round-table discussion at the Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank: “When we started making the first part, in the very beginning, when we were grounding ourselves in the characters, we did some personality tests to ask real deep questions about who the characters are and what are they wrestling with. One thing that came out clear was that she wasn’t ready for … Read more

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 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!!!

REVIEW: Marked Yours, by Elizabeth Noble

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Marked Yours - Elizabeth Noble

Title: Marked Yours Series: Sentries Book One Author: Elizabeth Noble Genre: Sci Fi, Dystopian LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Publisher: JMS Books LLC Pages: 218 Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book When one society fell, assaulted by natural disaster, in its place rose another, molded into something entirely different. Protectorates were divided by beliefs and distance. Slavery was accepted and threats both natural and supernatural were commonplace. This became a world where sentries were needed. Trained almost from infanthood, these tough men and women lived in a society within a society. They were warriors and protectors, … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Beware Mohawks Bearing Gifts, by SA Collins

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Beware Mohawks Bearing Gifts - SA Collins

QSFer SA Collins has a new queer alt-earth sci fi book out, book one in the Cove Chronicles: “Beware Mohawks Bearing Gifts.” It’s 1847, New York. William Matthias Hallett is a fashionable dandy of the Manhattan social set. His life is laid out before him: a world of soirees, riches and luxury. Yet all he wants to do is find an adventure so deliciously wicked that it would satiate his soul for an eternity. So, disguised in a lower-class manner, into the notorious Five Points he goes, seeking that spark of adventure. That is until it greets him in the … Read more