FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Elizabeth Noble: Do you open and read author and group newsletters? I’ll expand this a bit – what makes you read an author newsletter that comes into your box? A catchy headline? Certain features? Discounts? What do you like and what don’t you like to see? 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
WELCOME to Rabid Reader Recommendations, or R3 WEDNESDAYS! We host this discussion the first Wednesday of every month; it’s a great opportunity to recommend and discuss works you have enjoyed in queer speculative fiction. For July R3, the theme is: Trans/Nonbinary! HOW IT WORKS: The works have to be QUILTBAG Speculative Fiction. They have to be related to the theme. This is a reader discussion. Don’t recommend your own works–get someone to do it for you! Please include a Goodreads link or something comparable. You can create a new comment for each recommendation if you’d like. You may also add … Read more
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Alexis Woods: Lately I’ve come across more and more authors writing under various pen names. I first ran into this with contemporary author Sierra Riley, who is also Aubrey Cullens and various others I think because there is a collective hive mind. Then there’s Noah Harris, who has several aliases, and a brother John, but is there really? I get it if you write in two opposing genres, like erotica and YA, but it can be difficult to search through a myriad of names to find books by the authors I like. … Read more
FOR READERS AND WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: Readers, did you ever want to sit down with an author and ask them how they manage to put together such amazing stories and worlds? Now’s your chance. Ask your questions, and the authors on this thread will do our best to sate your curiosity. Join the chat
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Robin Harper: Music for reading/writing~? Love it? Hate it? Ever make a playlist in preparation for either~? :D Or do you find that ONE SONG and listen to it on repeat while you read/write into the wee hours of the morning? (no comment as to whether or not I am guilty of that one >>;; ) Join the chat
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Hank T. Cannon: What do you like to read when you’re feeling off, or down? Do you want to curl up with a familiar book and familiar situations? If so, what. If you don’t like to re-read books, what do you look for in something new to help chase the blues away? 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 Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Isaac Walker-Tye: Science fiction or fantasy? Which is your preference (even if it is a slim difference), and why do you choose it (be it for the aesthetic, the plots, 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
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
WELCOME to Rabid Reader Recommendations, or R3 WEDNESDAYS! We host this discussion the first Wednesday of every month; it’s a great opportunity to recommend and discuss works you have enjoyed in queer speculative fiction. For June R3, the theme is: High Fantasy! (High Fantasy is set in an alternate world with different physics than the real world, usually including magical elements. They tend to be epochs, heroic in nature. Lord of the Rings is an example.) HOW IT WORKS: The works have to be QUILTBAG Speculative Fiction. They have to be related to the theme. This is a reader discussion. … Read more
