FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Give us your most over-the-top story of something that happened at a con you attended. 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. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe
FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Readers/Writers: What are your fave serial tale services, and why? Writers, feel free to share your current serial tales here too. 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. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: I just released a short story that’s a follow-up to a novella, and both are precursors to novel-length trilogy books – entirely by accident. Do you ever release stories in the same universe in different lengths/formats? To what end? 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 WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: How do you “recycle” your old stories? Do you re-use the ideas? Re-issue them? Submit them to new markets? Put them in new formats? Or extend shorts to novel length? 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 WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Denise Dechene: How many of your early stories are locked ina drawer somewhere? Do you ever go back and read them? Have you published any of them, and if not, why not? 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
Hey all… The judges have met to pick the contest winners, and Angel and I have gotten together to pick the anthology stories for this year’s Flash Fiction contest. We’re sharing the story and author names for the anthology picks today. Here’s the reveal schedule: 6/29: Honorable Mentions7/13: Cover Reveal7/27: Judge’s Choices8/8: Top Three Winners, Release Day I’m giving you a little taste of the cover above – still tweaking it, but we’re getting there. :) We had a great crop of stories this year – 233 in all – and winnowing it down to just 120 was a difficult … Read more
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Olivia Helling: Sometimes stories don’t work out. So how big is your story graveyard? How do you decide when to relegate a story to your graveyard? And do they ever come back from the dead? 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 Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Denise Dechene: When did you start writing and how many of your early stories are stored away on composition books or typed up waiting to see the light of day? Do you ever go back and read them, if so have you published any of them, if not why not? This is a legacy chat. Join the chat
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: We focus a lot on the gay and lesbian sides of queer speculative fiction. But how about intersex characters? Spec fic provides a fertile playground to explore all kinds of identities, and intersex characters are no exception. Sometimes they are done really well, and sometimes… Let’s focus on the good portrayals. What are your favorite speculative fiction stories with intersex characters? 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
