Outer Alliance Spotlight #28: Spring Break! April 2, 2010
Posted by juliarios in : links , add a commentWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #28. Normally, the Spotlight features an ally who writes, reviews, publishes, or is in some other way involved with LGBTQI speculative fiction. This Friday, however, marks the first of a two week break from the norm. Spring is here, and your faithful correspondent is overwhelmed with travel plans, so instead of interviews, you’ll get some links to April appropriate content elsewhere on the web.
First, Outer Alliance member Angela Korra’ti is leading a Drollerie Press Blog Tour for the month of April, all about fools and tricksters. One of the other contributors is Angelia Sparrow, too, so it’s awash in OA goodness.
Second, April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Sexual assault affects people of all orientations, and it’s all too common. If you’re interested in learning more, or helping educate others about this, check out some of the resources at the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s SAAM site.
Third, to help spread awareness and raise funds for rape crisis centers, Jim C. Hines is giving away a signed advance reader copy of his book, Red Hood’s Revenge. Jim is asking for people to donate to RAINN, or a local rape crisis center, but donations are not required in order to enter his drawing.
Support rape crisis centers and enter to win an Advance Copy of Red Hood’s Revenge, by Jim C. Hines.
That’s all for this week! The Spotlight will return next Friday with more Springtastic links, and then we’ll go back to our usual interview schedule.
Outer Alliance Spotlight #12: Angela Korra’ti December 4, 2009
Posted by juliarios in : interviews , 2commentsWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #12. 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 Angela Korra’ti, author of the urban fantasy novel, Faerie Blood.
Angela’s first urban fantasy novel, Faerie Blood was released in May of 2009 through Drollerie Press, and she is currently at work on the sequel, Bone Walker. Another story set in the same world (but in a different time period) came out in November, 2009 as part of the Civil War fantasy anthology, Defiance.
As a bisexual writer, Angela feels that promoting queer speculative fiction as part of a larger group is a powerful and necessary thing. While she believes that queer SF/F is gaining more mainstream acceptance, she knows that there’s still a long road ahead. She hopes that her contributions will help foster acceptance in and out of the genre by demonstrating that LGBTQI people are indeed people.
Angela lives with her partner in Kenmore, Washington, and works in downtown Seattle as a web page tester for Big Fish Games. She plays several instruments including the flute, piccolo, guitar, mandolin, and bouzouki, and she is particularly interested in Atlantic Canadian Folk music. In addition to blogging and holding drawings for free things on her official site, she is on Twitter as annathepiper, and she keeps a personal journal at annathepiper.org. (more…)