Hey all, We’re looking for some bloggers for this site – folks who want to do any of the following: Writing tips for LGBT sci fi, fantasy, supernatural writers Trendspotting Reviews of LGBT sci fi, fantasy, supernatural books Announcements of forthcoming or just released works in these areas If you’re interested in participating in our community, please let me know at scott@queerscifi.com. :) –Scott
One of our new members, Griffin Garcon, just had his work published recently: Demi Gidealis is a child both gifted and enchanted. People use him as a psychic hound to hunt down objects and runaways. He resents that role but can’t help following the whispering trails of energy no one else seems to be aware of. His mysterious mother of another world, thought dead by everyone both haunts and helps him along the way. He grows up to learn lots of thrilling things about himself and face the stunning secrets of his origin. Just as he is planning to have … Read more
I’m starting off on what’s sort of a re-write and sort of a re-imagining of a WIP I’ve had around for a long time. First, a little history. I started writing Oberon back in the nineties, It was my first attempt to really merge my gay identity with my love for sci fi, and I got maybe five scenes in before I left it to sit on the shelf, along with the rest of my writing career. Fast-forward to last year. I’d picked up my writing again after a decade’s hiatus, and came across this interesting little bit of a … Read more
I’ve decided to take the advice of my friend Jackson Cordd and let one of my short stories become a novel. Well, actually, three novels. It started out as a story fragment I’d written years ago, and picked up again last year to work on. It decided at first that it wanted to be a novel, and then finally that it wanted to be a trilogy – the first time I;ve sat down to plan out a three book arc. I’d written about 12,000 words when I stopped work a couple months ago on it to focus on some other … Read more
Have you ever had a story that you wrote, oh, I dunno, ages ago, with a straight protagonist, that you’ve decided to turn gay? You know, one of those in the back of your filing cabinet that you dusted off and decided to give a fresh new take? I’ve got a novel I wrote 15 years ago – that I’m considering overhauling – including making the primary relationship a gay romance instead of a man and a woman. I’m a bit conflicted about it for two reasons: 1) I like my characters. I tend to kinda fall in love with … Read more
Growing up, I read my first Fantasy books – the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, starting in second grade. Not long after, I read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. They were two very different experiences, and I loved them both. Ever since, I’ve found myself reading a little hard sci fi, and then bouncing over to the other pole and reading a great epic fantasy novel. It’s a little like eating a salty dinner and washing it down with wild cherry pepsi. But I’ve also learned to love that middle ground – the fusion of sci fi and fantasy. It’s fairly … Read more
I’ve never been good at short stories. For starters, I generally used to sit down and just start writing without an endpoint in mind. While it’s fun to have no idea where your story is going (it’s just like being a reader!) you end up with a whole bunch of half finished stories and a few that never seem to end. For a long time, when I tried to intentionally write a short story, I had a hard time reining it in. At a minimum, they seemed to want to become novellas… there just wasn’t a way to tell my … Read more
Up until the last year, most of the stories I had written had been “straight” sci fi (pardon the pun) or fantasy – stories that relied on the sci fi or fantasy plot as the main driver of the story. Oh sure, they usually had a gay character or two, but not always as the main character, and even when they were, usually without a major “romance”. Then I discovered Dreamspinner Press and their upcoming anthology submissions page. I decided to try my hand at writing some short stories that were MM romance with a sci fi or supernatural twist. … Read more
Just ran across a great site yesterday via Facebook: thenewsGayper.com is an online publication that comes out twice a month on a Sunday to provide LGBT readers with Arts & Entertainment related news, trends, businesses, people and information they may not find through regular channels. Our goal is to be a one stop shop for ALL things LGBT both here in our nation and abroad. We’ll strive to feature new, unusual and interesting stories about LGBT people, events and businesses that will touch our lives through Entertainment and the Arts. Our world is ever-changing and the LGBT community has worked … Read more