writers
FOR READERS: Supporting Your Authors
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Robin Harper: You know them, you love them! You pound the pre-order button, wish them a Happy Book Release Day on FB! You wake up and roll over to buy their books the moment they’re dropped and kid yourself that you’ll only read the first chapter then go to sleep and end up staying up all night wibbling over their creations~. You Love These Authors!!! How do you support your favorite authors? Writing is not a six-figure income and with the power of social media, you are able to follow your author’s … Read more
FOR READERS: Does It Matter If They’re Not on Social Media?
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Benjamin van der Wel: These days many writers have web sites, FB pages, blogs, etc., and there isn’t much they’re not willing to talk about. On the other hand there are writers who are quite remote or that prefer not to be known. Does either situation affect whether you’d read one of their works or not? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! This is a legacy chat. Join the chat
FOR BOTH: Evolving Historical Cultures
FOR WRITERS & READERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer SA Collins: Amazons and other similar “historical” cultures – from a writing craft standpoint, why do we freeze these cultures in time, and not let them evolve with their own form of science/magic that would take them out of the stone/bronze age? Would these evolved cultures wouldn’t have created and moved past such historical weapons? What makes us, as an evolved society, think that a culturally rich environment can’t make leaps and epic discoveries if they are equally competent in education and technology? Black Panther demonstrates this well. How can … Read more
FOR WRITERS: Citizens of the World?
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Victoria Stagg Elliott: How do you see changes in citizenship rules, laws and regulations playing out in science fiction? For example, I’m a dual national (UK/US) because I was born in 1969 in Britain to a British parent and a U.S. parent. Britain has changed its citizenship rules since. The U.S. has also changed how people become U.S. citizens over the years. I have one friend whose German father was recently told he is actually Russian because of border changes over the years. When I was living in Cambodia, an expat couple … Read more
