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Month: September 2017

Me Me Monday!

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Welcome to M3: ME ME MONDAY at our FB discussion group – your chance to pop in and tell us about your latest success. Have a new book or short story coming out? Let us know. Just sell something? Let us know so we can cheer you on. HOW IT WORKS: I’ll pin this topic to the top of our FB discussion page for the day. –Please post your announcement as a separate post so we can comment on yours specifically –Check out the other posts and congratulate and share them too! And congratulations!!!

DC Comics Honored For Queer Inclusivity

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Queer superheroes like Batwoman are earning DC Entertainment, one of the largest comic book and superhero entities, a prestigious award. GLSEN, the national organization championing LGBTI students and issues in K-12, is giving its Visionary Award to DC. The award will be presented at the GLSEN Respect Awards on 20 October at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. The award ceremony began in 2004 and honors individuals and corporations who have made a significant impact on youth in the community. The ceremony takes place in both Los Angeles and New York every year. Previously, the Visionary Award has gone … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Heart of Darkness, by Angello Adrien

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Heart of Darkness

QSFer Angello Adrien has a new MM paranormal book out: Valentino Celestine, private detective and Human Consort, is going through some changes in his life. His best friend and Guardian is leaving Philadelphia to become the new faery queen, and her replacement is a vampire named Aladar, who Valentino loathes. In spite of his feelings toward Aladar, Valentino finds himself becoming close to the hot were-puma, Robert, who’s one of Aladar’s guards. Strange murders suddenly begin occurring around the city, and as the body count starts to rise, Valentino must use his wits and powers to find the murderer—or murderers—before … Read more

FOR READERS: What Do You Want?

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Kari Trenten: What do you look for in a book? It’s a bit of a broad question, so I’ll narrow it down a bit. What is it that is most important to you in a book – the thing that makes it so you can’t put it down? Is good characterization the thing? A tight plot? The pacing? Characters like you? What elements make the perfect book, in your humble opinion? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Ardulum: Second Don, by J.S. Fields

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QSFer J.S. Fields has a new FF sci fi book out: The Charted Systems are in pieces. Mercy’s Pledge is destroyed, and her captain dead. With no homes to return to, the remaining crew sets off on a journey to find the mythical planet of Ardulum—a planet where Emn might find her people, and Neek the answers she’s long sought. Finding the planet, however, brings a host of uncomfortable truths about Ardulum’s vision for the galaxy and Neek’s role in a religion that refuses to release her. Neek must balance her planet’s past and the unchecked power of the Ardulans … Read more

FOR WRITERS: I Know That Place!

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: I’m just wrapping up my ongoing serial project, which is set here in Sacramento. I have used the names of local businesses (restaurants, stores, etc) rather liberally, but some friends have advised me against this for potential libel issues. I’m planning to release a book version of the story next year, and am wondering whether I should change the business names to something fictitious. On the one hand, I love the local cachet the names give. On the other hand, I don’t wanna be sued. What is your experience … Read more

Fans: Show Wonder Woman’s Bisexuality in Next Film

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“Wonder Woman” fans want the upcoming sequel to honor canon and make the Amazonian warrior princess bisexual. Writer Greg Rucka confirmed that the Amazons of Themyscira engage in same-sex relationships in the comics. Gianna Collier-Pitts, GLAAD Campus Ambassador at New York University, penned the petition asking for that bisexual representation to be included in the films. “We are oversexualized and underrepresented. We are called greedy, dishonest, and confused. We are the least likely to come out and the most likely to suffer from depression and anxiety, on top of experiencing higher rates of sexual/intimate partner violence. We are made to … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Stone Cold, by Rory ni Coileain

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Stone Cold

QSFer Rory ni Coileain has a new MM fantasy book out: In Stone Cold, the eighth title in the Rainbow-Award-nominated M/M paranormal Soulshares series, Maelduin Guaire is a Fae with a mission. An obsession, really. He’s trained his entire life to become the greatest scian-damhsa, blade-dancer, the Fae have ever known, for the sole purpose of killing the blade-dancer who murdered his father and gave House Guaire its reputation as the Cursed House. Now he’s followed Tiernan Guaire through the Pattern to the human world, to fulfill his oath or die trying… but the passage has cost him all his … Read more

FOR READERS: What I Don’t Like In a Cover

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Alexis Woods: What visual on a cover might turn you off to reading a book? Maybe it’s a cover model who has been way over-used? Maybe a bad font? Too much going on? Without naming book titles, what on a cover has made you turn a blind eye or gloss over a book? 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