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FOR READERS: What Moves You to Recommend a Book?

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Ryane Chatman: When someone suggests a book but gives no reason as to why, I want to know why this book moved them to suggest it. Did it make you tingle, make you think, make you throw your tablet (figuratively)? 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

FOR READERS: The Title Did It

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Denise Dechene: A lot of readers talk about covers. That the reason they picked the book up and read the blurb was because the cover grabbed them. My question is what about the title of the book? Have you picked up and read the blurb on a book because the title grabbed you and you had to know what the book was about? Has a title of a book made you turn away and not want to read the book? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join … Read more

FOR READERS: Living In The Scene

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer MK Mancos: If you could live inside or experience any scene in any book for a day, what book, what scene? 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

FOR WRITERS: I Hate That Book

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Denise Dechene: Have you written a book, published it, readers love it and the characters only to realize that you hate the book or parts of what you have written? Join the chat

FOR READERS: Do You Ever “Hate Read”?

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Hank T. Cannon: “I Can’t Quit You:” What do you do when you want to throw a book across the room? Do you continue to read it to see if it gets better? Do you just put it down? Or do you “hate read” it so you can talk about how much you hate it to your friends for small talk at coffee? 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

FOR READERS: Books Into Movies

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Hank T. Cannon: Do you look forward to movie versions of your favorite print works? What adaptions have worked for you? Which ones did not? Why? 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

FOR READERS: What Book Changed You?

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Robin Harper: What book has changed you the most? The one that you can point to and say without a doubt that you were not the same person you were before you started reading it. Which one altered your perspective of the world, of yourself, or even changed the path your life was heading down? Tell me about the power of stories! 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