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FOR READERS: It’s Me!

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Michael Williams: What’s the first book, film, or TV show where you saw your identity and your own experience represented? Or has it not happened yet? 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

FOR READERS: keeping Track of My pretties

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Denise Dechene: Do you catalogue your books (eBooks and paperbacks/hardcovers)? If so what app do you use? 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

FOR WRITERS: Reading My Own Books

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Wendy Rathbone: Do you re-read your own books after they’ve been published? And I don’t mean re-reading to make notes for a sequel, I mean re-reading months or even years later, just because. 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/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

FOR READERS: Reading Diversity

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Ryane Chatman: As a reader what do you do to increase your reading diversity? Author wise and character wise? 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

FOR READERS: My New Fave

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: Who’s your latest new favorite queer spec fic author and why? Share a link to their 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

FOR READERS: Your Favorite Underappreciated Book

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Ryane Chatman: What’s your favorite under-appreciated spec fic novel? 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

FOR READERS: reading the Virus

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Scott: Are you one of the folks who runs toward this crisis by reading fiction or watching shows and films about viruses and epidemics? If so, which ones do you find most compelling? 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

FOR READERS & WRITERS: Easter Reads!

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Share your favorite Easter-themed spec fic books (fantasy, sci fi, paranormal or horror), queer or otherwise, with links. Writers, share your own too. 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

FOR WRITERS: Book Size Queens

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Trevor Barton: Who’s a size queen? Does anyone stop at a thousand pages and think, no, this book is too big? Or are door stops more enticing because the heavier they are, the more effective? Do you think the author has to have struck creative gold to write so much for one story? Or is it more, ‘man, they should seriously have found a better editor or publisher or spent more time at their desk making friends with the mouse and delete button’? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are … Read more