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 #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.
Outer Alliance Spotlight #10: Chris Fletcher November 20, 2009
Posted by juliarios in : interviews, publications, queer-friendly publishers , 1 comment so farWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #10. 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 Chris Fletcher, editor of M-Brane SF.
Chris and his longtime partner Jeff moved from St. Louis, Missouri to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 2007, after the restaurant they’d run together failed financially. Chris took that failure as an opportunity to reboot his creative writing side, and in February of 2009, started the magazine, M-Brane SF.
As one of the very first people to join The Outer Alliance, Chris has been an active Outer Alliance blogger and advocate from the start. In addition to M-Brane SF, he also recently edited an anthology of queer speculative fiction called Things We Are Not, which contains several stories by other Outer Alliance members. On the horizon, slated for a June 2010 release is another anthology to be published by Hadley Rille Books called The Aether Age, which Chris is co-editing with Outer Alliance member, Brandon Bell.
Chris keeps a personal blog at mbranesf.livejournal.com and is active on Twitter as mbranesf. He has two cats names Maus and Jack.