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Me Me Monday

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Welcome to 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 I can also share it over to our FB page (as opposed to this discussion group). –If you want, send me your book announcement info at … Read more

Ever Wanna Fly With a Jetpack?

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Jetpack over Dubai

We’ve seen him fly over the Grand Canyon and in tandem with military jets, but now Jetman Yves Rossy and his protege, Jetman Vince Reffet, have taken on the surreal landscape of the city of Dubai in an HD video that feels like something out of a science fiction film, buzzing landmarks like the Burj Khalifa and the Palm Islands. Says Rossy: “That feeling of freedom in all dimensions, it’s so new. Just playing in the air with a machine that brings you in another world.”

Announcement: Theseus, by Cree Storm

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Theseus

QSFer Cree Storm has a new Fantasy book out: Hera and Aries have taken over Olympus. The other Gods have one chance to free Zeus and take his rightful place. However, in order to do so the other Gods must be willing to sacrifice their freedom for his. Theseus’s labor is to capture the bull – but this is just crazy. Taurus is thrown for a loop when he is told he is the mate to a Greek God. Theseus is amazing and keeping his hands off the man is next to impossible. However, finding out that there are rules … Read more

Submissions Week: Do’s and Don’t’s

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Welcome to our first submissions week – were we’ll talk about all things submissions. This is a great opportunity for our newer authors to learn things from our veterans – how to prepare your story (whether it’s a short story, a novella, a novel, poem etc) for submission to a publisher. OK, folks, we’re at the end of our submissions week – I’m really happy with how it turned out, and we’ll do it again next year. :) The final topic is a little broad, and is a great recap for the week – what are some of the things … Read more

Channing Tatum To Play The World’s Last Straight Man In Coming Sci-Fi Flick

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The Forever War

Warner Bros. has just snatched up The Forever War, an adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel by Joe Haldeman, with Channing Tatum set to star. The film follows William Mandella, a young student enlisted by Earth’s leaders to help fight the alien Taurans. But his travels through space create a time distortion, meaning while only a few years passes for William, centuries go by on Earth. When he returns home, he doesn’t recognize the planet, which now has one homogenous race and a new language and values. Also new: Overpopulation has led to heterosexually being outlawed. As the leader of … Read more

Announcement: Ariah, by BR Sanders

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Ariah

QSFer BR Sanders has a new fantasy book out: Ariah’s magical training has been interrupted. Forced to rely on a mentor, Dirva, who is not who he claims to be, and a teacher who is foreign and powerful, Ariah is drawn into a culture wholly different from the elven one that raised him. As his friendship with Dirva’s brother blossoms into a surprising romance, and he slowly learns how to control the dangerous magic in his blood, life finally appears to be coming together for Ariah—but love and security are cut short by a tyrannical military empire bent on expanding … Read more

Submissions Week: Blurbs and Summaries

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Welcome to our first submissions week – were we’ll talk about all things submissions. This is a great opportunity for our newer authors to learn things from our veterans – how to prepare your story (whether it’s a short story, a novella, a novel, poem etc) for submission to a publisher. Today’s topic – writing blurbs and summaries. Let me start by saying that every author I know hates writing these things, but especially they hate writing blurbs. Few things a writer has to do inspire more fear and loathing. By their very nature, shortened versions of your story tend … Read more

The Hidden Gay World of Star Trek

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Charlie Logan - photo by Matt Baume

What’s great about imaginary futures is that they’re places of potential, an escape to a place where where everything’s better, or sometimes worse. And whatever problems we have today have all been solved. Or maybe exacerbated. My guest on this week’s Sewers of Paris (a podcast about entertainment that changed the lives of gay men) is Charlie Logan. He’s the founder of the Pink Parties, a regular series of huge queer nerd gatherings that are timed to Seattle’s biggest comic and videogame conventions. Charlie started throwing Pink Parties as a way to find other gays who shared his love of … Read more

Announcement: Twisted Dreams, by Felicitas Ivey

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Twisted Dreams

DSPP author Felicitas Ivey has a new fantasy/paranormal book out: Inuzaka Keno and Samojirou Aboshi have been separated by the Egyptian sorcerer Kheper. Keno is torn following the events in Uneasy Dreams, and unable to face his lover after breaking his vow to never kill. He joins Kheper to travel up the Nile and warn the Vizier about the mysterious Darkness growing throughout the Dreamlands. Aboshi, shattered by Keno’s departure, vows to rescue his lover from Kheper, no matter the cost. Without his ability to walk in the shadows, he must sail from Nippon to Egypt with his allies Mason, … Read more

Submissions Week: Cover Letters

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Welcome to our first submissions week – were we’ll talk about all things submissions. This is a great opportunity for our newer authors to learn things from our veterans – how to prepare your story (whether it’s a short story, a novella, a novel, poem etc) for submission to a publisher. Today, your first foot in the door. The cover letter. When you send in your work, many publishers will require a cover letter – something telling the a little bit about who you are and the story you are sending in. Many will also have guidelines for this, so … Read more