FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: For readers & writers – tell us about made-up holidays you’ve read or created in speculative fiction books. 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
QSFer Lou Sylvre has a new MM fantasy romance out: The Wizard’s Kiss. When worlds collide a shifter joins a warrior’s mission; anything might happen—even love. Valentine’s Day short story, a shifter and a warrior A magical romantic comedy (including a hungry dragon) Undeniable attraction and sweet romance Laugh out loud humor A Lou Sylvre happy ending On Valentine’s Day, a lonely shifter flies over the Okanogan Wilderness looking for adventure, knowing romance is the one thing he’s least likely to find out there. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself blasted from the sky only to land on a … Read more
QSFer K.L. Noone has a new MM holiday paranormal/fantasy romance out (bi/gay): Frost & Raine. A Frost spirit who runs a coffee shop. A Cupid who works as a divorce lawyer. And magic in the air … Raine’s never been a conventional Cupid. He likes organization, his job as a successful lawyer, and black coffee, and he dislikes messiness, physical and emotional. He tries hard not to use his powers or manipulate anyone’s desires, and he’s not planning to fall in love himself — and he wouldn’t trust it if someone fell in love with him. But the owner of … Read more
FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Readers, on this most holiest of love days, share your fave Valentine’s Day spec fic reads. Writers, what have you written (sci-fi, fantasy, paranormal, or horror)? 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 WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Yesterday we asked readers to share their fave queer spec fic winter holiday tales. Now we’re asking our authors! Short description and link, please. 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 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
“This is a strange Christmas Eve…” –Winston Churchill, from Christmas speech to Congress in U.S., December 1941. There have been grim times in this country before, but there has not been a Christmas like this one. The darkness has covered the commercial glitter. In person events are cancelled. Families are celebrating the holidays separately. LGBT people are not really strangers to this sort of thing. People on their own, chosen families, making do or having something really traditional, this is how many of us have lived our lives. I have been seriously fortunate, having accepting family and good friends. I’ve … Read more
QSFer Lee Colgin has a new MM paranormal Christmas book out: “A Bridge to Love.” And there’s a giveaway! Everyone knows a proper troll must never leave his post. Arlo is thrilled to have his own bridge to guard, though it’s a lonely job. A troll should enjoy being alone, but Arlo has never been very good at being a troll. He longs for companionship, but guards that secret like he guards his bridge. Toby, a cheerful wolf shifter, serves as a messenger between villages. When his route is suddenly blocked by a fearsome troll, he must charm his way … Read more
QSFer Gillian St. Kevern has a new queer holiday gothic paranormal romance out (bi/trans): “The Christmas Party.” Tidings of comfort and—ghosts? As the solitary inhabitant of a notoriously haunted house, Micah Evanovich is braced for another miserable Christmas. He passes his days playing the piano, brooding on his failure to produce a sonata worthy of the woman he loved, and hiding from the world. When a wilful heiress decides his house is the perfect location for her spooky Christmas soiree, Micah’s very existence is threatened. Will the party provide Micah with the chance to put his past behind him—or further … Read more
FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: On this American Turkey Day, share your favorite spec fic books featuring Thanksgiving meals (queer or otherwise). Writers, feel free to share your own works. 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