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Podcast: Starship Q Star

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QSFer Meegan May has a queer sci fi fiction podcast out: Starship Q Star. “When a tone deaf space agency sends the ‘first all women and non-binary crew’ on a PR mission to Mars, they inadvertently end up the last six humans in the universe. Lead by Co-Captains (and ex-girlfriends) Aurelia and Sim, STARSHIP Q STAR follows this extremely queer crew and the last man left alive, as they quest across the galaxy in search of a new home.” Listen to the Podcast Author Bio Lauren & Meegan Co-writers, co-creators, co-wives. Collaborating since 2017, in love since 2018 – together … Read more

FOR READERS: Riding the Slipstream

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Scott: Slipstream fiction falls between speculative fiction and mainstream fiction – I think of it as similar to magical realism vs. fantasy – it’s often contemporary or literary firction with a bit of a sci-fi gloss. What’s your definition, and what are your favorite examples? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe

FOR READERS: Book Learnin’

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Scott: Have you ever learned something from a fiction book – a skill, a valuable piece of knowledge, etc? 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: In the Writing Closet?

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Denise Dechene: Does your family know you write queer fiction? And if so, do they read 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/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

The Lesfic Bard Awards: 2019 Winners

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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 Lesfic Bard Awards: 2019 Finalists

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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

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: Do People Really Do That?

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Olivia Wylie: Are there descriptions in fiction of emotions, actions, etc – e.g. fainting, blushing red-hot – that you’ve read but never seen in life? Have you ever thought ‘wait, do people do this and I’ve never noticed?’ 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

Jeff Baker, Boogieman in Lavender: Of Dracula and Dragons

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                                                            By Jeff Baker             He is one of the most famous characters in fiction, certainly the most famous vampire. He is Dracula, also known as Count Dracula. Not popular fiction’s first vampire, or even the second, but the template from which the others either followed or diverged.             And any writer, reader or fan of vampire-themed fiction should read “Dracula,” the novel from which all the movies sprang. Published in 1897 it is an epistolary novel; that is, one told through letters and journals and diary entries of the characters. Dracula himself does not appear in much of … Read more

When Carmilla Ruled the Night – Boogieman in Lavender

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Jeff Baker, Boogieman in Lavender             But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.                                                   ———from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu She prowls the night, looking for blood—and women. She sleeps in late, usually rising at one in the afternoon, but it is at night that she seeks what she truly desires. She is Carmilla, seemingly a victim of a carriage accident recovering in a neighboring castle. The residents of the castle see nothing too unusual, even as … Read more