Submission Call: Anathema wants speculative fiction from Queer POC, pays $50 | No deadline

Anathema: Spec from the Margins is a tri-annual speculative fiction magazine of work by indigenous LGBTQ2+ people and queer people of color. They are looking for fiction of up to 6,000 words for upcoming issues.
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Rainbow Snippets: Why is it that people avoid the people they’re crushing on?

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Here’s another snippet from Reading the Signs, a romance starring Theo, a Dutch master’s degree student in sign language linguistics. Theo’s been avoiding the object of his affection, but then one day … … Read more

Publisher warning: Authors complain of non-payment from Cool Dudes Publishing

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A number of authors have complained in private Facebook groups and pages about not receiving scheduled payments for books published through Cool Dudes Publishing. … Read more

Rainbow Snippets: Dutch culture shock in New Mexico

Here’s another snippet from Reading the Signs, a romance starring Theo, a Dutch master’s degree student in sign language linguistics. Here, we learn about his feelings of displacement while studying in New Mexico, which is so different from home. … Read more

New book by J Scott Coatsworth: Lander, part 2 of the fantasy romance series The Oberon Cycle

My friend J. Scott Coatsworth has a new MM Sci Fi book out! It’s called Lander, and it’s part two of an MM fantasy romance series that takes place in a world where people with wings are subjugated by those without. Read on for a summary, excerpt, and a chance to win free books or an Amazon gift card! … Read more

8 mistakes Americans make when writing British characters

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In this installment of Pen to Pen, a series of guest posts by authors about writing, romance and fantasy writer Rhidian Brenig Jones stops by to talk about the some differences in British English and American English that writers often miss when they’re writing in a dialect they’re not accustomed to. … Read more

New book: Resist & Triumph anthology benefits GLAAD and The Trevor Project

Some wonderful writers of LGBTQ fiction have come together to create a charity anthology, Resist and Triumph, to benefit The Trevor Project and GLAAD, and I’m happy to tell you a little bit about it here. … Read more

Review and How-To: Drive traffic to your website with MissingLettr social media management

I’ve used MissingLettr, a service for creating social media drip campaigns from your blog posts, for about the past six months to get the word out about my blog and have seen a noticeable spike in visitors. Here’s a post with my review and some how-tos on using it. … Read more