FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Scott: I’m reading an epic sci-fi cli-fi tale, and while I’m enjoying it, it’s taking forever to get through it at 656 pages. So how long is too long for you in a novel, and what’s just about right? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe
QSFer Lea Falls has a new queer dark epic fantasy out, The Forgotten Splinters Chronicles book 1: Goddess of Limbo. Free will is a relic of the past. Souls have a prewritten path to heaven. If they miss it, they are doomed to roam the lost realm of limbo as splinters of their former selves or worse—as demons. Their only hope is the reaper Alames, whose own soul shattered when her celestial lover, Balthos, usurped their creators to make them gods. In her absence, he builds a pantheon of monsters and tricks the mortals, whom he blames for his grief, … Read more
Title: Travelers Series: Nel Bently Book 1 Author: V.S. Holmes Genre: Sci Fi LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian Publisher: Amphibian Press Pages: 235 Reviewer: CC Get It On Amazon About The Book No one fights dirtier than an archaeologist. Foul-mouthed Dr. Nel Bently has every archaeologist’s dream: a pristine site, new crew, and a private patron to fund her passion for dirt. With her trowel barely into the dry earth of Chile’s coast, however, Nel learns their work is being sabotaged. The local activists Los Pobladores take issue with anyone brave or stubborn enough to set boots on their land. Nel refuses … Read more
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Trevor Barton: Who’s a size queen? Does anyone stop at a thousand pages and think, no, this book is too big? Or are door stops more enticing because the heavier they are, the more effective? Do you think the author has to have struck creative gold to write so much for one story? Or is it more, ‘man, they should seriously have found a better editor or publisher or spent more time at their desk making friends with the mouse and delete button’? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are … Read more