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Pride Nights at Queen’s: Jaimie N. Shock interview
Pride Nights at Queen's welcomes Jaimie N. Shock, SFF author, journalist, editor, queer, PTSD advocate. Read our chat to find out more about Visions of Iotan, Jaimie's latest Sci-Fi novel, her beginnings with journalism and more.
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Pride Nights at Queen’s: Maxime Jaz interview
Pride Nights at Queen's welcomes Maxime Jaz, a fellow Hungary-dweller, author of queer stories. Read our chat to find out more about Fall, Maxime's debut novel, her adventurous life, her journey to self-publishing and more.
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Pride Nights at Queen’s: Matt Doyle — Ailuros: Writing in an Experimental Format
Today we welcome Matt Doyle to the blog, speaking on out-of-the-box, mixed media writing formats. If you love peeking behind the curtain of a writer's mind as much as we do, then get comfortable and read the fascinating details about Ailuros, Matt's upcoming book.
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Pride Nights at Queen’s: 7 YA/MG LGBTQ+ book – Indie Story Geek
Today we welcome S. Kaeth representing Indie Story Geek, who shares with us a list of MG and YA novels with LGBTQ+ representation. Because it doesn't matter how old you are, everyone has the right to explore their own identity and gender, and what can be better for that than books?
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Pride Nights at Queen’s: Lyra Wolf — Loki in Fishnets
Alas, June comes to an end, another month flew by and we couldn't have asked the gods for a better post to wrap up an awesome month. If that title didn't get you then all hope eludes you. Closing the curtain on Pride Month (though, stay tuned—this isn't it for Pride Nights!), author Lyra Wolf dives into Loki's queerness, which she explored in her fantasy series The Nine Worlds Rising.
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Pride Nights at Queen’s: Bjørn Larssen — We Exist
As we near the end of the month, we look back in gratitude to the authors who've made Pride Nights at Queen's possible. Looking back is as much a part of Pride as looking forward, but in our struggle to build a better future, we make the mistake of shunning the hurtful past, disdaining those who pave the way for our liberation. Often, in our ignorance and fear, we forget them. Today, we remember them. Pride Nights at Queen's welcomes Bjørn Larssen, with a fantastic guest post about his experiences of both the past, present, and future of queer.
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Pride Nights at Queen’s: Krystle Matar — Out
There's only one universal truth about Pride: it's not the same for everyone. It can be joyful, terrifying, messy, none, both, all of the above. Most of all, whatever Pride is to you, it's yours. And whatever yours is, it's got a place in the community. Day 5 of Pride Nights at Queen's is proud to celebrate that, proud to celebrate the people who make our community something immense, something ours. Read what guest Krystle Matar has to share, and don't forget to check out her awesome new release, Legacy of the Brightwash!
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Pride Nights at Queen’s: C.M. Caplan — Spectrums
Pride was never about labels nor an obligation to define oneself. In the age of the internet, where everything and everyone is connected and boundaries are more often than not violently trespassed, it is sometimes easy to let ourselves forget that. I hope today's Pride Nights at Queen's post, written by author C.M. Caplan, helps you realize the vastness of the queer experience, and somehow inspires you, whether you relate to it or not, to uphold the tenets of Pride: multitude, acceptance —especially— of the unfamiliar, respect.
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Pride Nights at Queen’s: An interview with Brittany M. Willows
Video games, anime, and cat boys. Who doesn't love them? (If you don't, get outta here! Obviously just kidding but I don't trust you. Again, kidding. We all deserve to have bad taste once in a while and I respect you for that). Day three of Pride Nights at Queen's welcomes Brittany M. Willows, author, illustrator, and thus, overall badass. Read our chat to find more about Bloody Spade, Brittany's upcoming book, and the inspirations behind it.
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3 Years in SPFBO
SPFBO 7 started off on June 1st and as many of you know, the Asylum is not a judging blog anymore. But not all of us stepped back from the competition. In this post I'd like to talk about why I made the decision of stepping back, how SPFBO affected my (blogging) life, and highlight all the gems I got to find thanks to the competition. It will be a long post, so buckle up. I'll try to keep the rambling to a minimum, but no promises...
