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 #58: Delicious Link Soup December 3, 2010
Posted by juliarios in : links, news , 9commentsWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #58. The Spotlight features news about (and sometimes interviews with) allies who are active in supporting and celebrating LGBTQI speculative fiction. It’s chilly in the Northern Hemisphere, so this week, we’ve got delicious link soup to keep you warm.
Wednesday was World AIDS Day
Treatment, awareness, and acceptance have come a long way in the past 25 years, but AIDS is still a major problem worldwide. YA author Libba Bray posted a thoughtful essay about her own experiences losing loved ones to the disease. I’ll warn you right now that it made me tear up in a coffee shop, but it was worth the chagrin.
If you’re unfamiliar with Libba’s work, and are interested in reading YA speculative fiction with queer content, you might check out her short story, “Primate the Prom” in 21 Proms, the Gemma Doyle trilogy (which starts with A Great and Terrible Beauty), or her latest novel, Going Bovine.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards Fundraiser
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards aim to recognize the hard work and talent of translators who bring us stories we might not otherwise be able to read. They’re hoping to raise $2,000 to use as prize money. Anyone who makes a donation between now and the 14th of January will be entered into a drawing to win books and other exciting prizes.
A Few Exciting New Releases This Week
*Zombiality: a queer bent on the undead is edited by Bill Tucker, and contains a story by Angelia Sparrow.
*Crossed Genres released their first novel this week. R. J. Astruc’s A Festival of Skeletons is available in print and e-book formats.
*Monday was the release day for Aether Age: Helios, edited by Chris Fletcher and Brandon Bell. Chris is also one of the people behind the newly released 2020 Visions anthology.
Awesome Queer Content in Comics
And finally, here’s something to spark some conversation here in the comments, or over dinner tonight with your non-virtual friends. Neo_Prodigy has made a list of 25 awesome queer comics characters, which is great, but non-exhaustive. What do you think? Agree? Disagree? Have additional favorites? And can anyone out there think of any trans, intersex, or asexual comic book characters?
Outer Alliance Spotlight #38: M. S. Corley June 11, 2010
Posted by juliarios in : interviews , 1 comment so farWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #38. Each Friday, 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 M. S. Corley, cover and interior artist for The Aether Age: Helios.
M. S. Corley is a straight ally who has been creating visual art since he was a small child. Back in the day, he spent a lot of time drawing pictures of characters from Mega Man, but more recently he created a bit of an internet splash with his series of retro Harry Potter book covers. Now he’s teamed up with Brandon Bell to work on Aether Age: Helios.
M. S. is a full time freelance artist, who enjoys reading–favorite authors include H. P. Lovecraft and William Hope Hodgson–and playing video games. He is currently working on some illustrations for Dungeons & Dragons Adventure books (among other things). He lives with his wife in Kirkland, Washington. He shares his artwork on his blog, Flickr, and deviantART.
Outer Alliance Spotlight #36: Brandon Bell May 28, 2010
Posted by juliarios in : interviews , add a commentWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #36. Each Friday, 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 Brandon Bell, Outer Alliance founding member, and co-editor of The Aether Age: Helios.
Brandon is a straight ally who is ethically opposed to any group having lesser rights than the majority. His work has appeared in several places including M-Brane SF, Byzarium, Everyday Weirdness, and Return to Luna. Together with Chris Fletcher of M-Brane, Brandon is editing an anthology, The Aether Age: Helios, which is due out this Summer.
Brandon is a Rissho Kosei-kai Buddhist who lives in the Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas area with his wife and daughters. His favorite movie is The Night of the Iguana, and his favorite book is Zod Wallop by William Browning Spencer. In addition to his blog, he maintains a Twitter feed as @Nithska.