Today, I'm delighted to help spread the word about a wonderful new
video book club called Club Fantasci. My good friend, fantasy author Ciara
Ballintyne, is here to explain more about this new and exciting group. I'm looking forward to it!
Club Fantasci is a new video book club in
the style of Vaginal Fantasy Hangout. If you’re familiar with Vaginal Fantasy,
you’ll know the hosts meet once a month via Google+ Hangout to review the book
of the month, and members participate in discussions via the Goodreads group
discussion boards.
Unlike Vaginal Fantasy, though, we’re not
limited to a small sub-set of speculative fiction (fantasy romance and erotica)
and will be reviewing books from the full gamut of the speculative fiction
genre, including science fiction, hard SF, militaristic SF, high/epic fantasy,
dark fantasy, dystopian, cyberpunk, steampunk, space opera, paranormal, urban
fantasy, SFF romance and erotica, and everything in between.
Membership is also open to men – not that
Vaginal Fantasy Hangout excludes men, per se, but it’s a brave man, I think,
who will admit to participating in any group the name of which includes the
word vaginal. There are a great many men who are fans of speculative
fiction – as one of very few women in the audience at a Brandon Sanderson
book-signing, I ought to know – but their interest probably doesn’t lie so much
in the fantasy romance and erotica genres. We have something to offer those men
(and the women interested in other speculative fiction genres) and at the same
time we will be including fantasy and science fiction romance and erotica.
If you love speculative fiction, of any
kind, we have something to offer you.
The first G+ Hangout is on 31 August at
7:00pm CST, and the Book of the Month for August is ‘The Night Circus’ by Erin
Morgenstern. Feel free to drop by our Facebook Page or Goodreads group and make
suggestions for future books. I’ll be revealing September’s Book of the Month
at the August G+ Hangout.
Here’s a bit more about the club:
Club
Fantasci is a book club taking the stigma out of speculative fiction. We want
to expose you to the full gamut of the speculative fiction genre, including
science fiction, hard SF, militaristic SF, high/epic fantasy, dark fantasy,
dystopian, cyberpunk, steampunk, space opera, paranormal, urban fantasy, SFF
romance and erotica, and everything in between.
We want to educate readers on good writing in speculative fiction, entertain with witty banter, and above all have a fantastic time. Fiction need not be literary to be well-written, and good writing need not be boring or mundane! We promise you we’ll do our best to bring you a good book every month, and if not, we’ll tell you why it’s not! For a bit of light fun, we’ll also be featuring a wine of the month and picking a song that best fits the book. So bring your book, keep that wineglass topped up, and don’t forget your i-pod!
We want to educate readers on good writing in speculative fiction, entertain with witty banter, and above all have a fantastic time. Fiction need not be literary to be well-written, and good writing need not be boring or mundane! We promise you we’ll do our best to bring you a good book every month, and if not, we’ll tell you why it’s not! For a bit of light fun, we’ll also be featuring a wine of the month and picking a song that best fits the book. So bring your book, keep that wineglass topped up, and don’t forget your i-pod!
Your hosts are David Lowry, Dionne Lister (author
of Shadows of the Realm), entertainment personality and model Shannon Million, and myself – your resident fantasy
writer/lawyer extraordinaire combo!
Club Fantasci is also
featuring a “Wine of the Month” – August’s pick is a 2011 “Suited Muscat” from Sort This Out Cellars
Winery in Las Vegas, NV. Club members are
entitled to a discount – check out the club Facebook page for more information.
You can learn more about us by checking out
our Website
Club Fantasci blog
- http://clubfantasci.wordpress.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ClubFanatsci
Hosts:
David Lowry - http://www.thelowryagency.com/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheLowryAgency
Twitter - https://twitter.com/lowryagency
Dionne Lister - http://dionnelisterwriter.wordpress.com/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/DionneLister
Shannon Million - https://twitter.com/ShannonMillion
Ciara Ballintyne - http://www.ciaraballintyne.com/
4 comments:
Thanks so much for your generosity in posting this, Marsha.
You're very welcome. I'm eager to see this happen, and I love the first book to be discussed--one of my favs.
I just joined - I've been hearing great things about The Night Circus from friends, and this is the perfect excuse to read it right away.
Welcome to the club, Tam! Hope you enjoy the book.
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