FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Scott: What are your spec fic guilty pleasures (books, TV or film) and why? 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: https://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: https://bit.ly/2mjg8lf
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Scott: In honor of Father’s Day, let’s talk about spec fic stories with fathers. Good ones, bad ones (I’m looking at you, Vader) and everything in-between. Share your favorite reads. 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: https://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: https://bit.ly/2mjg8lf
FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Writers, in your speculative fiction, have you ever come up with alternate names for days, months and years? How and why? Readers, your fave examples? 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: https://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: https://bit.ly/2mjg8lf
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: https://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: https://bit.ly/2mjg8lf
QSFer E.D.E. Bell has a new queer humorous fantasy book out (non-binary+): Just Bart. Bart is just a simple folk trying to get by. With a posse comprisin’ of a sparkle-loving horse, an unsettled ghost, and a magic old whiskey bottle, they wander from town to town in search of some needed coin, and maybe a brighter day. Warnings: Alcohol, Mental Health (see edebell.com/content for more) Get It At Amazon | Publisher | B&N | Kobo | Bookshop.org Excerpt The bar was pretty crowded, and they weren’t going to use up a space for two folk, so they sat near … Read more
Mark David Campbell has a new MM alternate universe book out: Eating the Moon. “What if there were a place nobody else knows about—a secret place—where everyone is queer?” That’s the question Guy, a lonely elderly gay anthropologist, asks Richard, his young psychiatrist, as he searches for his tolerable truth. During each session, Guy recalls surviving the sinking of a cargo ship and being washed ashore on an uncharted tropical island alongside the ship’s first mate, Luca. There, the two young men discover a world counter to everything they have ever known—a complex society in which almost everyone is homosexual. … Read more
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Jennifer Lavoie: Have you ever picked up a random spec fic book to read and found surprise queer characters? What books were a delightful surprise? 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: https://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: https://bit.ly/2mjg8lf
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Scott: Which speculative fiction world would you like to spend one day in, and what would you do there? 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: https://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: https://bit.ly/2mjg8lf
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Kris Masters: What was the first spec fic book that made you hooked on reading? 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: https://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: https://bit.ly/2mjg8lf
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: https://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: https://bit.ly/2mjg8lf