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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

FOR READERS: How Long is Too Long? How Short is Too Short?

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Denise Dechene: I don’t read a book based on how long or short it is. That being said I know a lot of people do. Do you like short books, long books or don’t care? 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

Boogieman In Lavender: On Beyond Cisgender: Books for High School

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On Beyond Cisgender: Books For High School                                                By Jeff Baker    A. M.  (Amy) Leibowitz has grumbled on Facebook about the “Old Dead White (mostly/presumed) Cis Hetero Male Literature Canon,” and how high-schoolers mainly read books from the aforementioned canon. No authors of color. Rarely any women. “Only literary fiction and other genres are typically not only disallowed but actively sneered at.” A. M. goes on to ask that if you could add any 4 books to a high school literature curriculum (one for each year of US High School) which would you add and why? Among the Facebook users … Read more

FOR WRITERS & READERS: National Week of Trans Awareness

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: It’s “National Week Of Trans Awareness,” so readers, share your fave books with trans characters, and writers (whether you are trans or not), share your books that include them. Writers: This is a writer AND reader 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 READERS: WTF?

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Ryane Chatman: Readers, what are your favorite what the f*** books? Why? Please include links. 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: Thrifty Faves

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Ryane Chatman: Readers, we all have thrifty moments. Let’s create a thread of your queer spec fic favorites for 3.99 or less! 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 & READERS: Making the Dish

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Hank T. Cannon: Have you ever written or read a spec fic story where food descriptions are a significant part of the story and then tried to make the dish or an approximation? Hobbit Recipes! Writers: This is a writer and reader 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

FOR READERS: Hooks in Books

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Danielle Flory: What kind of hooks do you look for in Book One of any given series to keep you coming back for all the sequels? 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: Things That Make You Go Hmmm…

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Ryane Chatman: Readers: Have you ever read something that you that caused you to question life, the universe, everything? 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