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FOR READERS: Blurring the Gender Spectrum

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Hank T. Cannon: What books do you like where masculinity/femininity, etc. is portrayed as a continuum? Where characters don’t exist as only binary choices when it comes to gender? Where gender identity is one more piece of a complex puzzle of who characters are, alongside race, class, and sexual identity? I’ve updated and edited the original topic a bit. 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 This is a legacy chat.

FOR READERS: Vote With Your Dollar

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Nathan Smith: How consciously do you as a reader ‘vote with your dollar’? (By which I mean I try very hard to purchase and pre-order LGBTIQA and AoC authors, #ownvoices, etc.)? I’ll expand on this a bit – do you try to buy from places where authors get the best royalties? Or do you just buy whichever books appeal to you the most, wherever you find them? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! This is … Read more

FOR READERS: eBook Prices – What’s Your Sweet Spot?

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FOR READERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Wendy Rathbone: For ebooks, the prices vary a lot. Publishers tend to price higher, indies price lower. Amazon only allows a 70% royalty to indies if they price between $2.99-9.99 (and only 35% if they are lower or higher), so that is the sweet spot for authors no matter the book’s page count. But as a reader, are you deterred by higher prices? Do you want only deals, or 99 centers? What is the price range you prefer? What is the highest you’ll go before you won’t even hit the “buy” button? … Read more

FOR READERS: Covers With Secrets

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: Have you ever had that a-ha moment when reading a book, when the cover image suddenly makes sense? “Oh, it’s from that scene!” or “Ah, that’s what those squiggles are”. 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: Characters Who Cross the Spectrums

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Brian Cherry: I’d like to see more books with characters with multiple minority status, such as a gay person who is also trans, disabled, an ethnic minority, etc. Any you can recommend? 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 topic. Join the chat

FOR READERS: I Want to Live There

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Tam Ames: Which book have you had fantasies about inserting yourself as a character in that book? A world you wish you could experience for real because of characters you just adored or settings you would want to experience for yourself. 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