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FOR WRITERS: You Should Be Doing This. Maybe.

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Hank Cannon: This is going to be a sensitive topic for writers. When some self-pubbers talk about what “should” be done that requires outlays of money, the engagement of staff, social contacts, and the like that you just don’t have, how does it make you feel? Do you just want to give up since you don’t have several hundred to a thousand dollars to dump into these things before publishing? Do you just shrug and do the best that you can with what you have? Join the chat

FOR WRITERS: Imagining the Cover

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Hank T. Cannon: When do you start thinking about cover imagery? Is it something that percolates while you write? Are some images just immediately stuck in your head from the beginning of the project? Or maybe the project is inspired by a particular piece of imagery. Or, is it something that comes when it’s time to publish? Join the chat

FOR WRITERS: Adapting Your Work

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Hank Cannon: Writers: Do you consider “pre-adapting” your work for eventual translation into another medium? Do you make voice and point of view choices that can make something easier to film, as opposed to requiring a lot of reworking? Is this something worthy to take into consideration, or is it just a pipe dream not to be entertained? Join the chat

Out of the Past – LGBTQ Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Before 1970

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Welcome! Out of the Past will be a regular column discussing the history of LGBTQ+ science fiction, fantasy and horror literature from the earliest years of the genre to the more recent present (many thanks to Queer Sci-Fi for hosting me and to Scott for suggesting it). While portrayals of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) characters didn’t become relatively common in science fiction, fantasy or horror until after the early successes of the Gay Liberation Movement in the 1970s, that didn’t mean that there was “no there there, ” to borrow a phrase from Gertrude Stein. Of course, most … Read more

FOR WRITERS: Tropes and Stereotypes

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Isaac Walker-Tye: Tropes and stereotypes are both good and bad, depending who you ask. Do you try to prefer to avoid them, or subvert stereotypes and tropes when putting together characters, or do you feel some stereotypes and tropes aren’t bad and exist for a reason? If so, what ones? Join the chat