FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Olivia Wylie: Are there descriptions in fiction of emotions, actions, etc – e.g. fainting, blushing red-hot – that you’ve read but never … Read more
By Jeff Baker He is one of the most famous characters in fiction, certainly the most famous vampire. He is Dracula, also known as Count Dracula. Not … Read more
Jeff Baker, Boogieman in Lavender But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as … Read more
By Jeff Baker Not every writer writes short-stories. The form has been described as “difficult” and “challenging.” Some fiction writers don’t write short-stories. I write almost nothing but short-stories. I … Read more
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: Are we past telling ‘coming-out’ stories? Or is there a way we can make them fresh? Writers: This is … Read more
I haven’t read every story by Ray Bradbury, but Graham George Barber may have. Barber contacted me to point out that Ray Bradbury did write at least two more … Read more
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Tam Ames: What do you permit yourself to explore in your fiction that you would be afraid to explore in RL? Join … Read more
QSFer Justin Rodriguez has a new queer alternate history book out: Movement of The New Age is a visionary science fiction drama that takes place in an alternate world where … Read more
E. L. Reedy & A. M. Wade have a new YA Paranormal book out: Bound by a dark act of hate and despair, high school freshmen, Andrew and Kiernan, learn … Read more
For today’s topic, and my last post for 2017, I thought we could discuss some of our favourite LGBT writers from history. I know a huge number of my favourite writers from the past were LGBT. Many are the obvious, famous names such as Tennessee Williams, Oscar Wilde, Rimbaud, and Verlaine. Not to mention Marlowe and Shakespeare, if you go along with the suppositions about the two of them.