FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Aidee Ladnier: Do book awards or big author endorsements on the cover make you more likely to pick up a new (to you) author’s book? 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/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf
We were fortunate to be asked to announce the winners of the 2019 Lesfic Bard Awards. Look for the Gay Scribe Awards in 2021! Here are the finalists, by category: Action Adventure Compound Interest by Annette Mori The kick-ass women in The Organization are back and they have their sights set on a few new recruits. Not everyone is jumping for joy at the choices, considering subterfuge is front and center in the games the new recruits have been playing. Dani is supposed to get her happily ever after, but she’s not sure what’s real anymore including Candy’s feelings for … Read more
We were fortunate to be asked to announce the winners of the 2019 Lesfic Bard Awards. Look for the Gay Scribe Awards in 2021! Here are the winners, by category: Action Adventure Over the Crescent Moon by Karen D. Badger Makaya Kapule and Spencer Bennet are from vastly different backgrounds…Makaya from Hawaii and Spencer from Vermont. They met and fell in love as members of the National Fencing Team. On hiatus from their grueling training schedule, Makaya and Spencer fly to Hawaii to attend her sister’s traditional Hawai’ian wedding, at which, Spencer meets Makaya’s family for the first time. While … Read more
The 2016 Philip K. Dick Award nominees have been announced: Consider by Kristy Acevedo (Jolly Fish) Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens by Eleanor Arnason (Aqueduct) The Mercy Journals by Claudia Casper (Arsenal Pulp) Unpronounceable by Susan diRende (Aqueduct) Graft by Matt Hill (Angry Robot) Super Extra Grande by Yoss (Restless) The award is presented annually to a distinguished work of science fiction originally published in paperback form in the United States from the previous calendar year. First prize and any special citations will be announced on Friday, April 14, 20176 at Norwescon 40 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Seattle Airport, SeaTac, Washington. By Dave Post – Full Story at … Read more