Outer Alliance Spotlight #43: Cheryl Morgan July 30, 2010
Posted by juliarios in : interviews , 3commentsWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #43. Each week the Spotlight features an ally who writes, reviews, publishes, or is in some other way involved with LGBTQI speculative fiction. Our guest this week is Cheryl Morgan, founder of Wizard’s Tower Press.
Cheryl Morgan has been active in SF fandom for many years. She edited the Hugo winning fan magazine, Emerald City, and won the Hugo for the Best Fan Writer category in 2009. Currently she’s the non-fiction editor for Clarkesworld Magazine, and part of the team behind Science Fiction Awards Watch, Convention Reporter, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards.
Her newest project, Wizard’s Tower Press, just went live this month, and aims to publish e-books as well as a non-fiction magazine, and some print anthologies. The magazine, Salon Futura, will launch its first issue in September at WorldCon, and Wizard’s Tower Press’s first anthology, Dark Spires, will be released in November to coincide with BristolCon.
Cheryl mirrors her blog on LiveJournal, and maintains a Twitter feed. She lives near Bath, UK.
Outer Alliance Spotlight #42: Sandra McDonald July 23, 2010
Posted by juliarios in : interviews , 3commentsWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #42. Each week the Spotlight features an ally who writes, reviews, publishes, or is in some other way involved with LGBTQI speculative fiction. Our guest this week is Sandra McDonald, author of Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories.
Sandra McDonald has written several short stories and novels, including “The Ghost Girls of Rumney Mill”, which was shortlisted for the Tiptree award in 2003, and the science fiction series, The Outback Stars, The Stars Down Under, and The Stars Blue Yonder. Her latest book, Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories follows the coverging paths of three people including an openly gay character and a genderqueer character.
Sandra has an MFA from the University of Southern Maine, and spent 8 years traveling the world as a Naval Officer. In addition to her personal site, she keeps a LiveJournal where she posts about writing.
Outer Alliance Meetup at Readercon July 9, 2010
Posted by juliarios in : announcements, events , add a commentNo Spotlight this week as I am busy attending Readercon in Burlington, MA. Please say hello if you see me! I’m a short white woman with long purple hair.
And the exciting thing: we’re having an Outer Alliance meetup on Sunday at 12:30. Come to the Marriott lobby and meet some of your fellow allies!
Pride Posts from June July 9, 2010
Posted by Natania in : Outer Alliance Pride Day, The Outer Alliance , 1 comment so farWe collected some pride-related posts from our members to share. Yes, it’s July, but there’s no harm in letting the pride shine all year long. That’s exactly what we’re about here at the Outer Alliance. 
Jarla Tangh – Proud of Pride in June
Chris Fletcher – Father’s Day
If you’ve written a pride-related post, and you’d like us to link from here, please just let us know in the comments. We’ll be happy to add you!
Outer Aliance Spotlight #41: John Coulthart July 3, 2010
Posted by juliarios in : interviews , add a commentWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #41. Each week the Spotlight features an ally who writes, reviews, publishes, or is in some other way involved with LGBTQI speculative fiction. Our guest this week is artist John Coulthart.
John is a gay artist and writer based in Manchester, UK. He designs and illustrates books and comics as well as creating CD and DVD cover art, and original visual art. His Psychedelic Wonderland 2010 calendar was featured on Boing Boing, and inspired his cover art for Alan Moore’s Dodgem Logic #4. He has work on display as part of the A Love Craft exhibition at Observatory in Brooklyn, New York, which will be open until the 23rd of this month.
Though he doesn’t read as much science fiction as he used to, John feels indebted to the genre for giving him queer characters he could identinfy with as a teen. He’s an Outer Alliance member because of that, and because he believes LGBTQI visibility is important. John maintains a Twitter feed and blogs on his personal site.