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Rainbow Awards Honorable Mentions!

I’m thrilled to have not one but three honorable mention notices from the Rainbow Awards (which means I *could* be in contention for a win. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. The first is for River City: “I absolutely loved The River City Chronicles. The author acknowledges Armistead Maupin in the Foreword, but truthfully, I loved this book way more than Maupin. I figured out fairly early on where some of the plot points were headed, but it didn’t matter. It was just lovely to be immersed in this world. If only this was ‘book 1’ then I could … Read more

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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Belinda McBride

Belinda McBride

Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today, Belinda McBride – Belinda is an award-winning, top selling author of erotic romance, speculative fiction and LGBTQ romance. She lives in far Northern California with her family and a pack of Siberian Huskies.  Thanks so much, Belinda, for joining me! JSC: If you could sit down with one other writer, living or dead, who would you choose, and what would you ask them?  Bel: Gosh, that’s a hard one. I’ve been lucky … Read more

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INTERVIEW: Briandaniel Oglesby

Briandaniel Oglesby

I met Briandaniel a few weeks ago at the annual Playwrights Revolution – a staged reading of four plays that Sacamento’s Capital Stage puts on every summer. Brian’s play “Basement Demons and Trailer Saints” stood out, not just because of the stellar cast of actors who put it on in less than a day, but for the fascinating writing and super-LGBTQ+ group of characters he’d created. So afterwards I screwed up my courage and went to talk to him, hopeful that I could get him to do an interview for QSF (which I will also share on my own blog). … Read more

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POINT OF VIEW: Dreamspinner

Dreamspinner

There’s a lot of stuff swirling around Dreamspinner Press these days. I don’t want to rehash the various issues here – if you’re connected to Dreamspinner in some way, you are probably aware of them already. I also don’t intend to get into specific author complaints against the press. Each of us has our own experience with Dreamspinner, and it’s not my intent to either validate or invalidate them. What I can speak to is my own experience with Dreamspinner Press and its employees. I first became aware of Dreamspinner via my husband Mark, who is an avid gay fiction/mm … Read more

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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Assaph Mehr

Assaph Mehr

Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today, Assaph Mehr – Assaph has been a bibliophile since he learnt to read at the age of five, and a Romanophile ever since he first got his hands on Asterix, way back in elementary school. This exacerbated when his parents took him on a trip to Rome and Italy – he whinged horribly when they dragged him to “yet another church with baby angels on the ceiling”, yet was happy to skip … Read more

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REVIEW: Homecoming

Margaret review Homecoming

Margaret McGaffey Fisk at Tales to Tide You Over reviews “Homecoming”: “…there’s so much to explore within this world that it left me full of questions … The novella reaches a satisfying conclusion, and the author’s sure to find other tales waiting if he chooses to return.” See the full review here Grab the book here

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ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: The Stones of Power Series, by M.D. Grimm

The Stones of Power

Check out this amazing MM fantasy series from M.D. Grimm – “The Stones of Power.” About the Series: Lord Morgorth is a dark mage on the planet Karishian. His peers consider him a villain, but there is more to him than they choose to understand. Cursed by a dark destiny and tormented by painful memories of the past, Morgorth struggles to find his place in the world. Far from innocent, Morgorth has teetered between embracing his destiny and fighting against it his entire life. A decision that is made easier when Aishe comes into his life. Aishe is a creature … Read more

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I’m In a Journal!

Indian Journal of Health, Sexuality & Culture

Hey all… I was recently asked to provide my perspective for a queer-themed issue of the Indian Journal of Health, Sexuality & Culture: I’ve been a part of the queer writing fiction community for more than thirty years, starting with a queer writing group on AOL that I took over in the early nineties and continuing up to the present. I founded and ran the Queer Sci-Fi site and Facebook Group, and have had the chance to see the growth of Queer speculative fiction first-hand.The roots of queer speculative fiction reach way back. Samuel Delaney, Joanna Russ, and Elizabeth A. … Read more

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POINT OF VIEW: Winning the Draft

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I’m in my happy place. 🙂 I just finished the first draft of “Dropnauts: Redemption Book One” (I know, this one has had more names than Diddy) last week. I’m in the middle of the second draft, and that’s one of my favorite parts of writing. Why, you ask? Because: I don’t have to push my poor little writer’s brain to be extra creative and come up with all sorts of new things, like I do in first draft. The story is still fresh to me – in fact, it’s the first time I actually get to take a step … Read more

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Interview: Love Romance Reads

Hey all… I’m featured over at LRR today. A sample: What kind of research do you do when you set out to write a new book? It really depends on the story. For one sci fi tale about climate change, Mark and I actually visited the parts of San Francisco where the story takes place and walked the route to see what a 25 foot increase in sea level would do to the city. That was a fun trip! For my story “Slow Thaw,” set in Antarctica, I scoured the web for sites to tell me what life was like … Read more