Outer Alliance Spotlight #84: OA Podcast #9 July 14, 2011
Posted by juliarios in : interviews, news, Outer Alliance Podcast , 2commentsWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #84. The Spotlight features news about (and sometimes interviews with) allies who are active in supporting and celebrating LGBTQI speculative fiction. This week we’ve got the ninth Outer Alliance Podcast episode for you!
This month our guest is Kelly Jennings, author of the novel, Broken Slate, which is out now through Crossed Genres. Kelly talks about successful slave revolts, the trials and tribulations of being a socialist and atheist English professor in Arkansas, and lots of other interesting things. After the interview, she reads an excerpt for us, too.
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Notes:
Farewell to Wayne Hergenroder
One of the fan Guests of Honor from this year’s Gaylaxicon (featured here previously in the special OA Mini Podcast) has passed away. He will be much missed. If you have thoughts or memories to share with us, please leave a comment here or on the google group.
Find Kelly Online at her personal blog and at FanSci, the group science fiction and fantasy blog she shares with Barbara Ann Wright and Marilou Goodwin. You can buy Broken Slate in print or e-format through various venues. Crossed Genres has all the details.
Kelly’s Recommended Resources on Slavery
*The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James
*Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild
*Slavery by Another Name by Douglas Blackmon
*Born in Slavery: Narratives from the Federal Writers Project 1936-1938 (an online resource)
*Ta-Nehisi Coates’s blog at The Atlantic.
Reminder: Next Month is our Writer and Critic episode!
Do check out the stories we’ll be discussing if you can.
*The Writer & the Critic (in case you want to start listening to one of my favorite podcasts right away).
*I recommended Hal Duncan‘s Spectrum winning story, “The Behold of the Eye”. Read it for free online, buy it in Wilde Stories 2009, or listen to it for free at Podcastle.
*Kirstyn recommended Kim Westwood‘s story, “Nightship”. Buy it in Dreaming Again, or listen to it free at Terra Incognita. I listened to it this month, and really enjoyed Kim Westwood’s reading.
*Ian Recommended Peter M. Ball‘s novellas, Horn and Bleed. Buy them in print or e-book format from Twelfth Planet Press, or get the instant dowload e-book versions from Smashwords. Trigger warning! Horn contains graphic sexual violence. Bleed does not (though it isn’t non-violent, generally), and it explains all the necessary backstory if you want to be up to speed for our discussion, but can’t deal with the other content.
Outer Alliance Spotlight #81: OA Podcast #8 June 22, 2011
Posted by juliarios in : announcements, interviews, links, news, Outer Alliance Podcast , 1 comment so farWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #81. The Spotlight features news about (and sometimes interviews with) allies who are active in supporting and celebrating LGBTQI speculative fiction. This week we’ve got the eighth Outer Alliance Podcast episode for you!
This month we have tons of news and two interview guests. David Levine talks about a few of his many short stories, and Dennis Upkins talks about his debut YA novel, Hollowstone.
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Notes
On the Amina Arraf and Paula Brooks Hoaxes:
*The OA post I made about this last week: Are All Gay Girls Secretly Men?
*Liz Henry at BlogHer: Warnings and Question about Paula Brooks.
*Ben Rosenbaumguest posting on Liz Henry’s personal blog about when it’s okay to pretend to be someone else, and why it’s not when it’s not.
*Liz Henry on her own blog: Notes on Sockpuppetry and Astroturfing (explaining some internet jargon related to hoaxes, and the mechanics of how people perpetrate hoaxes.
*Daniel Nassar at Gay Middle East: The Impact of Audacity: The Amina Story and its Effect on the LGBT People of Syria and (with Sami Hamwi) From Damascus With Love: Blogging in a Totalitarian State.
*Britta Froelicher at The Washington Post: Britta Froelicher, wife of ‘A Gay Girl in Damascus,’ caught in her husband’s ‘hurricane’.
And because it bears repeating in writing: Trans women are not pretending to be women. Trans and genderqueer/questioning people who do not feel safe revealing their identities and need a pseudonymous online identity in which to explore that are not the people who are doing damage here. There’s a giant difference between that sort of thing and the Amina and Paula hoaxes. I think Ben Rosenbaum’s post above does a good job of exploring when and why pretending to be someone you’re not is harmful, so that’s a great place to start if you aren’t sure.
On Feminism and Gender Bias in SF:
*The OA post from a couple of weeks ago: Outer Alliance Spotlight #80: Feminism.
*The SF Signal interview (and large comments thread): MIND MELD: What’s The Importance of ‘The Russ Pledge’ For Science Fiction Today?
*Athena Andreadis voices her frustration: Why I Won’t Be Taking the Joanna Russ Pledge. (Note the comments. I was glad to see Nicola stopping in, and I particularly liked what JGStewart had to say–I feel that’s one of the great reasons for promoting things like the Joanna Russ pledge. You just never know when a basic step like that will reach a particular person and lead to more openness and consideration.)
*Ann Leckie on editorial bias in seven parts! This is a really great in depth look at bias, building on the things she said at WisCon on the editorial bias panel: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Congratulations to Sacchi Green for winning a Goldie!
On The Writer & the Critic/OA Crossover Episode:
*The Writer & the Critic (in case you want to start listening to one of my favorite podcasts right away).
*I recommended Hal Duncan‘s Spectrum winning story, “The Behold of the Eye”. Read it for free online, buy it in Wilde Stories 2009, or listen to it for free at Podcastle.
*Kirstyn recommended Kim Westwood‘s story, “Nightship”. Buy it in Dreaming Again, or listen to it free at Terra Incognita.
*Ian Recommended Peter M. Ball‘s novellas, Horn and Bleed. Buy them in print or e-book format from Twlefth Planet Press, or get the instant dowload e-book versions from Smashwords.
Warning for anyone who has trigger issues with sexual violence: Horn does contain some graphic rape, which triggered me. I did like the story and find it worth reading, but I would have probably done a bit better if I had known going in that I was going to be reading about graphic rape. It’s not victim-blamey, and it is very much intrinsic to the plot, but you know, it’s still violent and awful because rape is violent and awful. “Nightship” also deals with sexual violence, but it maintains a distance that left me feeling okay. You may have different safe zones and boundaries than I do, though, so I thought I’d mention both. I still recommend these stories to anyone who feels up to reading them before our August episode. I just wanted to give any unsuspecting survivors a heads up about the potential triggers.
On David Levine:
*“At the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of Uncle Teco’s Homebrew Gravitics Club” — Subverting the sexy blonde stereotype character. Free online!
*”Second Chance” and many other free online stories are linked from David’s bibliography page.
*The 100th issue of Realms of Fantasy contains David’s lesbian plumber story, “Tides of the Heart”. Buy it in print or in digital format.
*David’s short story collection, Space Magic, is available through Wheatland Press.
*David’s Mars Journal chronicling his experience at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah. Available together with the journals of David’s other Mars research team members as a book, The Mars Diaries.
On Dennis Upkins:
*Denny’s website, where he blogs all about Hollowstone.
*Hollowstone as an e-book at Parker Publishing.
*Hollowstone in print at Amazon.
*Lee Thompson Young is Denny’s top pick for actors who might play Hollowstone’s main character, Noah, on the big screen.
*Denny is also on LiveJournal as Neo_Prodigy.
Okay, that wraps this monster episode up! If you have feedback, please leave a comment, or e-mail me at julia@juliarios.com. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Outer Alliance Spotlight #79: OA Podcast #7 May 27, 2011
Posted by juliarios in : events, interviews, news, Outer Alliance Podcast , 6commentsWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #79. The Spotlight features news about (and sometimes interviews with) allies who are active in supporting and celebrating LGBTQI speculative fiction. This week we’ve got the seventh Outer Alliance Podcast episode for you!
This is the big Outlantacon/Gaylaxicon tour episode. I basically spent my con weekend talking to fascinating people about their projects and their Outlantacon/Gaylaxicon experiences. It’s a great sampling of the con population, from gamers to cosplayers to writers to fans (and beyond!).
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Notes:
Congratulations to the Award Winners! Steve Berman, Lynne Jamncek, Catherine Lundoff, Melissa Scott, Hal Duncan, and Sandra McDonald all deserve heaps of congratulations.
Sandra’s Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories just won the Lambda for Best LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror. You can buy that at Wizard’s Tower Press by following the link above.
Joan Slonczewski is a professor of microbiology and a science fiction author. You can find out more about both of those things at her website.
Michael Liebmann is a voice actor and filker. You can hear some of his voice work over at Starship Excelsior, and check out his filking at GAFilk, the Georgia Filking Convention.
Hushicho is a writer, artist and occasional Go-Go dancer. You can learn more about his work at his website.
Alex Martin is a gay gamer and gamecaster. You can follow his gamecasts on YouTube (and talk to him about playing an all gay game of League of Legends).
Dennis Upkins is the author of Hollowstone, a queer YA boarding school ghost story, which will be out next month through Parker Publishing. You can find out more about that at his website.
Catherine Lundoff is a writer and editor, who just made the Gaylactic Spectrum Award shortlist for best other works for the anthology she edited, Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades. Find out more about all her work at her website.
Rob Gates is the director of the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards.
Casey Fiesler is a PhD Student, Clarion graduate, and part of the YA lit track staff for Dragon*Con, you can find out more about her here.
JoSelle Vanderhooft is a writer and editor. You can learn more about her at her website.
Warren Rochelle is a fantasy author and has been part of the Spectrum judging process for several years now. His website is here.
Sara Amis is a writer, and mom to the awesome sixteen-year-old Raven, who joined us for this interview. Sara has a story and a poem (the one she read aloud on this podcast, in fact) in Southern Fried Weirdness: Reconstruction, which is a charity anthology to benefit tornado relief efforts in Alabama and Georgia. Since Sara’s hometown was flattened by a recent tornado, this is a pretty personal cause for her.
Dale Everett is one of the hosts of Prometheus Unchained, an LGBT radio show. You can find out more about that at flamingfreedom.com, and if you feel so inclined, you can download past episodes, like the one broadcast live during Gaylaxicon, which features calls from Angelia Sparrow and JoSelle Vanderhooft.
Lee Martindale is a writer, editor, warrior, and bard. Her latest anthology, The Ladies of Trade Town, will be launched at A-Kon 22 in June. You can find out more about Lee and all her projects at harphaven.net.
Em Elliot is an activist with Georgia Equality, and an avid costumer. SHe works to promote safety, fairness, and opportunity for LGBTQI people in Georgia. To find out more about how to help with that, visit the Georgia Equality website.
My Flickr set from Outlantacon/Gaylaxicon has photos of many of the people mentioned in this podcast (including one of Em in costume, and one of me being fabulous with Hushicho).
If you have feedback, leave a comment, tell us on the google group, or e-mail me at julia@juliarios.com.
Gaylactic Spectrum Awards and Outlantacon/Gaylaxicon Mini OA Podcast Special May 16, 2011
Posted by juliarios in : announcements, events, interviews, news, Outer Alliance Podcast , 4commentsFresh from Outlantacon/Gaylaxicon, here is a special mini OA Podcast update for you! In this short (about 7 minutes long) episode, we congratulate the winners of the Gaylactic Spectrum Award for short fiction, and talk to fan guests of honor Wayne Hergenroder and Don Schermerhorn about Mobicon.
Mobicon is happening this weekend, the 20th-22nd in Mobile, Alabama. It’s got all sorts of exciting programming lined up, and all the proceeds go to benefit the Bay Area Food Bank.
There will be a much bigger fabulous Gaylaxicon episode coming up on the 27th with lots of interviews and awesomeness, but this is a little sneak preview to whet your appetite (and entice any Mobile, Alabama area locals to attend Mobicon this weekend!).
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Rob Gates announced the winners for the 2010 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards in the categories of Short Fiction and Best Other Work on Saturday night. Congratulations to all the winners, and to everyone who made the shortlist!
The two winning short stories were:
“The Behold of the Eye” by Hal Duncan, which appeared in Lone Star Stories, and was reprinted in Wilde Stories 2009 (edited by Steve Berman). If you’re a fan of audio fiction, you can also listen to it at PodCastle.
“The Rocky Side of the Sky” by Melissa Scott, which appeared in Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures (edited by Lynne Jamneck).
And here’s the shortlist of notable works:
*”Angels Alone” by Carolyn Ives Gilman in Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures
*”Behind the Curtain” by Joel Lane in Dark Horizons, Issue 22, also available in Wilde Stories 2009
*”The Bloomsbury Nudes” by Jameson Currier in Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet (edited by Vince Liaguno and Chad Helder), also available in Wilde Stories 2009
*”City of the Dead” by Kate Welsh in Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories (edited by Catherine Lundoff)
*Firooz and his Brother” by Alex Jeffers in the May 2008 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction, also available in Wilde Stories 2009
*”Here Lies the Last Lesbian Rental in East Vancouver” by Amber Dawn in Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire (edited by Amber Dawn)
*”I’m Your Violence” by Lee Thomas in Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet
*”In Circles” by Aurelia T. Evans in Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire
*In the Night Street Baths” by Chaz Brenchley in Lace and Blade (edited by Deborah J. Ross)
*”One Horse Town” by Melissa Scott in Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories
*”Parts” by Kal Cobalt in Wired Hard 4 (Edited by Lauren Burka and Cecilia Tan)
*”Remember” by Astrid Amara in Tangle (edited by Nicole Kimberling)
*The Succession Knoorikios Khnum” by Zachary Jernigan in Wired Hard 4
*”Waiting Tables and Time” by Lyn McConchie in Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories
Best Other Works:
*Were the World Mine, a film by Tom Gustafson.
*Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories (edited by Catherine Lundoff)
*Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures (edited by Lynne Jamneck)
*Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet (edited by Vince Liaguno and Chad Helder)
*Wilde Stories 2009 (edited by Steve Berman)
Congratulations to all!
Outer Alliance Spotlight #72: OA Podcast #6 April 15, 2011
Posted by juliarios in : interviews, Outer Alliance Podcast , 4commentsWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #72. The Spotlight features news about (and sometimes interviews with) allies who are active in supporting and celebrating LGBTQI speculative fiction. This week we’ve got the sixth Outer Alliance Podcast episode for you!
In this episode, Cheryl Morgan joins me to talk about Wizard’s Tower Press and trans characters in spec fic, and Elizabeth Bear joins me to talk about her new subscription service and all her other ongoing projects (and there’s a special guest appearance by the Giant Ridiculous Dog).
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Notes:
Books Cheryl sells include:
*Bob the Book by David Pratt (in which a gay book lives happily in a bookstore until someone comes along and buys his partner–oh noes!).
*Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories by Sandra McDonald (featuring a transwoman who does all sorts of extraordinary things). This one’s on sale because it’s a Lambda Finalist.
*Wilde Stories 2010 edited by Steve Berman (gay spec fic anthology). This one is also part of the Lambda sale.
*Goblin Tales by Jim Hines (the first author-published book Wizard’s Tower has carried).
*White Queen by Gwyneth Jones (the first in the Aleutian Trilogy–if you buy all three together, there’s a discount, too).
Books not available through Wizard’s Tower Press, but which Cheryl recommends include:
*Supervillainz by Alicia Goranson (set in the Boston area trans community).
*Living With Ghosts by Kari Sperring (on the Tiptree shortlist, and featuring a feminized male protagonist).
*Brasyl by Ian McDonald (who will be a guest of honor along with Bear at Eurocon in June).
Explanations for some miscellaneous stuff Cheryl and I mentioned:
*Cheryl’s post about the Ibis Reader (a web-based e-reader for people like me who haven’t got a dedicated e-book device like the Kindle).
*THE…. Sodomite Hal Duncan!! (Because Hal is awesome and owns the hatemail like nobody’s business).
*Australian Podcasts (hello, Australia!): The Writer and the Critic, Galactic Suburbia, Notes from Coode Street.
*Clarkesworld (where Cheryl is the Non-Fiction Editor).
*Lauren Beukes and Angelia Sparrow (whose names we have historically mispronounced–oops).
Small Presses or authors who want to sell their books in Cheryl’s store should write her at info@wizardstowerpress.com.
Bear’s Creatively Funded Projects:
*You can sign up at her LiveJournal or on her Facebook Fan Page for the subscription service and/or to get a hand-decorated postcard story.
*Shadow Unit (the virtual television show about unrealistically sexy FBI agents who fight monsters, and who may in fact be monsters themselves).
*Veronique is Visiting From Paris (A collaborative story told in 12 postcards, featuring text by Bear, and Photos by Kyle Cassidy).
Bear’s Traditionally Published Books Mentioned in This Episode:
*The Jacob’s Ladder Trilogy–Dust, Chill, and Grail (Arthurian fantasy tropes revisited in deep space with a lot of chewy explorations of gender).
*The Edda of Burdens–All the Windwracked Stars, By the Mountain Bound, and The Sea Thy Mistress (science fantasy trilogy in an alternate world where Norse magic is real, and they have technology, too). By the Mountain Bound stands alone as the “Big Gay Norse Fantasy” with hot gay Vikings who have, uh, magic swords…
*New Amsterdam is the first in the Vampyr series, and is available in e-book format at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. The White City is the third in the series, but makes sense if you’ve read New Amsterdam. Seven for a Secret is the second in that series, but takes place later than the events of The White City.
*A Companion to Wolves (co-written with Sarah Monette) is an animal companion fantasy, which features giant, telepathic wolves, and a lot of sex (but not that kind of sex!). The sequel, The Tempering of Men, is coming in August.
*Carnival (SF set on a world run by radical lesbian separatists in a future where nanites have eaten all the white people, which means that, no, Vincent isn’t a white guy, even if he does have reddish hair and freckles).
*The Jenny Casey Books–Hammered, Scardown, and Worldwired (in which all the major characters are bicultural, and several of them are also queer).
Miscellaneous Stuff Explained!
*Marc Bolan of T-Rex (who inspired David Bowie to write the song, “Lady Stardust”).
*Patti Smith’s Just Kids (where she tells the story of her first meeting with Allen Ginsberg).
*The Turkey City Lexicon explains Burly Detective Syndrome (and a bunch of other literary pitfalls).
*70s feminist science fiction: The Female Man by Joanna Russ, Walk to the End of the World by Suzy McKee Charnas, and the works of Jo Clayton.
*The previous interview with Bear about Chill and other exciting stuff is Outer Alliance Spotlight #22.
*Gratuitous photo of the Giant Ridiculous Dog (in case you were wondering what that mysterious barking entity looks like, the answer is: a giant muppet!).
That’s it for this time! If you have feedback, please leave a comment, or e-mail me at julia@juliarios.com. I’d love to hear from you.
Outer Alliance podcast #69: OA Podcast #5 March 18, 2011
Posted by juliarios in : events, interviews, news, Outer Alliance Podcast , 3commentsWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #69. The Spotlight features news about (and sometimes interviews with) allies who are active in supporting and celebrating LGBTQI speculative fiction. This week we’ve got the fifth Outer Alliance Podcast episode for you!
In this episode, Catherine Lundoff, Jean Marie Ward, and Lisa Nohealani Morton talk to me about Hellebore and Rue, an anthology about lesbian magic users. After the interview, Catherine reads a selection of teasers from the book, and Jean Marie reads an excerpt of her contribution.
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Notes:
Angela Korra’ti’s post about her plans to raise money for disaster relief in Japan is here.
This year’s Lambda Award Finalists are listed here. Congratulations to everyone, especially OA members, Steve Berman, Katharine Beutner, and Sandra McDonald!
MidSouthCon is happening next weekend in Memphis, Tennessee. I’ll be there along with OA member, Angelia Sparrow. if you’re nearby, come say hi!
The Rainbow Book Fair is also happening next weekend in New York. It’s a big and free LGBT book event, and Craig Laurence Gidney, Nora Olsen and Kat Lively will all be there!
Lisa’s poem in Strange Horizons is “How to Bake a Cake From Scratch”.
Viable Paradise, the writing workshop where Lisa and I first met, is open for applications until the 15th of June.
Catherine’s reading last Friday (we recorded the interview on Sunday the 13th) took place at Dreamhaven Books in Minneapolis. If you’re in the Twin Cities area, and want to support an awesome indie bookstore, that’s a great place to go.
Finally, in addition to all the cons Catherine and Jean Marie listed, Lisa says she’ll be at WorldCon in Reno this August, so if you’re there, say hello!
Thanks for listening, and please do feel free to leave feedback here, on the google group, or by e-mailing me at julia@juliarios.com. I’d love to hear from you.
Outer Alliance Spotlight #65: OA Podcast #4 February 14, 2011
Posted by juliarios in : interviews, Outer Alliance Podcast, publications , 2commentsWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #65. The Spotlight features news about (and sometimes interviews with) allies who are active in supporting and celebrating LGBTQI speculative fiction. This week we’ve got the fourth Outer Alliance Podcast episode for you!
In this episode, Nora Olsen talks to me about her book, The End: Five Queer Kids Save the World, and Brandon Bell and Frank Ard talk to me about Fantastique Unfettered. After the interviews, Nora reads from her book, and I read an excerpt of Frank’s story.
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Notes:
Nora’s book is available through Prizm Books, and you can sign up to win a free copy by filling out this form. The End was originally written during National Novel Writing Month. If after hearing this interview you’re interested in creating your own emergency survival kit, Jim Macdonald has a great guide for you.
Brandon’s current major fiction project is a novella called Elegant Threat, which will be available soon in a double issue of M-Brane SF.
Frank’s stories are listed here, including links to those available online, and information about upcoming releases, like “Chickadee” in the Jazz Age anthology Jaym Gates and Erika Holt are putting together.
Submit to Fantastique Unfettered‘s second issue through the end of February. Guidelines are available here, and you can learn more about the Creative Commons license here.
Resoures for writers: Brandon mentioned Absolute Write, a website where writers share advice and information about the publishing world, and Frank waxed ecstatic about the Clarion West Writers Workshop (and the Leslie and Neile he mentioned are Leslie Howle and Neile Graham). Clarion West is open for submissions until the first of March.
Thanks for listening, and please do feel free to leave feedback here, on the google group, or by e-mailing me at julia@juliarios.com. I’d love to hear from you.
Outer Alliance Spotlight #63: OA Podcast #3 January 21, 2011
Posted by juliarios in : interviews, Outer Alliance Podcast, publications, submissions , add a commentWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #63. The Spotlight features news about (and sometimes interviews with) allies who are active in supporting and celebrating LGBTQI speculative fiction. This week we’ve got the third Outer Alliance Podcast episode for you!
In this episode, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Amal El-Mohtar, and Mike Allen join me to talk about Steam Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories. Mike and Amal also read excerpts of their stories after the interview. This podcast episode does contain a bit of profanity as well as some mentions of a certain part of male anatomy (yes, in an excerpt of a story about lesbians–the irony has not escaped us), so if that kind of thing puts you off, be forewarned. I hope you’ll decide to listen, though, as these three have a lot of really interesting things to say about editing, what they like to see in reviews, encouraging diversity, and how to pronounce Amal’s name, among other things.
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Notes:
JoSelle is co-editing Hellebore and Rue with Catherine Lundoff. This anthology about lesbian magic users is forthcoming from Drollerie Press. JoSelle also edited Sleeping Beauty Indeed, an anthology of lesbian fairy tales available through Lethe Press.
Mike Allen is the former president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, editor of the poetry magazine, Mythic Delirium, and of the Clockwork Phoenix anthologies.
Amal El-Mohtar co-edits Goblin Fruit with Jessica Wick. She’s also a Rhysling winning poet. Amal and Jess officially own Mike since they bestowed a fabulous poetry hat (seen below) upon him. The woman peeking over Mike’s shoulder is his wife, Anita, who added embellishments to the hat.
Photo by Anjeli Stewart
The critically objective review of Steam Powered, which we referred to twice during the interview is by Rush-That-Speaks, and can be found here.
Art inspired by Steam Powered includes work by Tooth-And-Claw, these teasers by Shweta Narayan, and jewelry by JoSelle.
Amal’s story, “To Follow the Waves” is available in full on Podcastle #139, read by Marguerite Croft.
Guidelines for Steam Powered 2 are available here
Thanks for listening, and please do feel free to leave feedback here, on the google group, or by e-mailing me at julia@juliarios.com. I’d love to hear from you.
Outer Alliance Spotlight #60: OA Podcast #2 December 17, 2010
Posted by juliarios in : interviews, links, news, Outer Alliance Podcast, publications , 4commentsWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #60. The Spotlight features news about (and sometimes interviews with) allies who are active in supporting and celebrating LGBTQI speculative fiction. This week we’ve got the second Outer Alliance Podcast episode for you!
In this episode, Natania Barron talks about her work and how she started the Outer Alliance, Lynn Flewelling talks about writing sex scenes and teaching a writing workshop on a cruise ship, and we have an excerpt of Georgina Bruce’s story from Aether Age: Helios.
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Notes:
Gender Playful Marketplace is collecting startup funds over here.
Elisa Rolle hosted the 2010 Rainbow Awards, which recognized works by several Outer Alliance members. Congratulations, winners!
Hayden Thorne’s historical fantasy comedy (not a problem novel!) Desmond and Garrick Book One is available now at Prizm books.
Natania Barron’s website has all kinds of info about her fiction and non-fiction. Go there to find out all about stories available now and coming soon.
Lynn Flewelling has links to signups for the cruise workshop and place to buy her work (including the sexy Nightrunner short story collection that flustered prim and proper me in the interview) over on her website.
Aether Age: Helios is out now. You can find out more at Aether-Age.com. Author Georgina Bruce maintains a blog at thebeardedlady.wordpress.com, and you can learn more about narrator T.C. Parmalee at Aural Spice.
Thanks for listening, and please do feel free to leave feedback here, on the google group, or by e-mailing me at julia@juliarios.com. I’d love to hear from you.
Outer Alliance Spotlight #54: Introducing the Outer Alliance Podcast November 5, 2010
Posted by juliarios in : announcements, events, interviews, Outer Alliance Podcast , add a commentWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #54. The Spotlight features news about (and sometimes interviews with) allies who are active in supporting and celebrating LGBTQI speculative fiction. This week we’re pleased to launch the Outer Alliance Podcast!
We’ll put up a new episode each month with news, events, interviews, listener feedback, and possibly even other forms of LGBTQI speculative fiction related audio goodness. You can subscribe to the podcast RSS feed here or use this link to subscribe with iTunes. You can also hit play on the embedded player in this post and listen to the podcast on the web, or visit the individual episode page to download this episode as an MP3 without subscribing.
Below are some links to sites and events mentioned in the first podcast episode.
For information about OutlantaCon, Gaylaxicon 2011, and this weekend’s Outlantacon game day, visit outlantacon.org.
Sara M. Harvey’s Dressed Just Write event will be held at the Two Roads Cafe in Lebanon, Tennessee on Saturday the 13th of November from 3:00-5:00. Her Spotlight interview is here.
OryCon 32 is also happening next weekend in Portland, Oregon, and OA member Craig Laurence Gidney will be in attendance along with some other awesome guests.
Hadley Rille Books is giving away a Kindle 3G. Register once for free, and get another entry each time you order (or pre-order) books like Aether Age: Helios.
Edward DeGruy is president of the Atlanta Outworlders, and a member of Starfleet International. He is the guest liason for Outlantacon, and consuite director for Chattacon. He also works Dragon*Con, and may be working MidSouthCon in 2011. His band has music for you at hyperdrivemusiconline.com.
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