FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Scott: Readers, bring me your favorite queer speculative fiction winter holiday tales – Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, Christmas, Solstice, New Year’s… and why you love them. Links please! 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
QSFer Matti McClean has a new MM steampunk romance out (Bi, Gay, Reference to trans character): “The Cypher.” Penner had always considered his life ordinary-but when his lover Chess receives a divine revelation that can’t be explained, he finds himself on the run from mysterious forces. Upending their idyllic life in a small town, Chess propels them on a journey to find answers to deep questions that plague his thoughts and his sanity. Partnering with Fred, a boisterous sky pirate with an enigmatic past, they head out to find the answers they need on her airship. But the closer they … Read more
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Are you submitting on the spec fic magazine circuit (Amazon, Analog, Fiyah, etc)? Any success? Any tips for your fellow pilgrims? 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 Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Valerie Mikles: Is there a spec-fic book you read that started a change in your life, but that you can no longer read because of how you changed? 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 Today’s reader topic comes from QSFers Olivia Wylie and J. Scott Coatsworth: I hear it all the time – where are the books with older characters? They do exist! Readers, share your favorite spec fic reads with protagonists over 50. 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
QSFer Z Jeffries has a new queer sci fi book out (bi, lesbian, non-binary): “Chase: The Boy Who Hid.” Don’t hide from your feelings. Hide from the giant robot trying to kill you. I always knew I inherited my grandad’s mind for science, but when he’s missing so long he’s declared dead, I get his spot in a top-secret government game of hide and seek. The military camouflage challenge, DARPA’s game where shapeshifters, mechs, and telepaths hide from a robot seeker, is where Grandad vanished. To find out what happened to him, I’ll have to play along – stop going … Read more
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFers Scott and Ryane: What are your favorite inclusive spec fic magazines and journals, and 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: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf
QSFer Kim Fielding has a new MM paranormal holiday tale: “The Solstice Kings.” Miles Thorsen’s adopted family is… unusual. But that’s not why he fled after graduating from college. Now, after ten years of restless wandering, he returns home for the winter holiday celebration. The solstice is a time of change, and perhaps it’s time for Miles to face who he is, who he loves… and who he’ll become. Get It At Amazon Excerpt The potted lavender was dying. Miles had known it would; he’d warned Andy that their north-facing apartment wouldn’t give the plant enough light. But Andy had … Read more
FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: What are your favorite spec fic tales (queer or otherwise) featuring humankind’s best friend? Writers, write any? Writers: This is a reader & 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 Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Louise Auty: What jobs or professions do wish you’d see more often in speculative fiction? 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