Qstack News 03/11/26

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🚨News & Announcements

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'How to Plan a Novel' Writing Group: Sundays in May with MTF

Join indie author Mr. Troy Ford for an informal writing group this May to work through Reedsy Learning’s How to Plan a Novel course and talk about the lessons and your next (first?) novel. More details HERE.

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Qstack friend Gail Marlene Schwartz was interviewed on the We ❤️ Mom Jokes podcast with hosts Lalita du Perron and Smita Venkat. »»» LINK

These two funny women are brilliant, irreverent, and insightful, crème de la crème, and this episode is chock-full of their best stuff. Our conversational romp meandered between Barbie's feet, parenting fails (kicked out of a church on Christmas!), the dreaded salad spinner, and stories about Lalita's and my journey with the book we worked on together, Boyhood Reimagined.

(Special note re: the bit about the Skipper doll with breast crank…!?!)

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Our Rhiannon D'Averc of I Dream In Books has a hot take on Outrage: How to Fight for LGBTQ+ Lives by Ellen Jones over on TikTok.

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BIG THANKS AND WELCOME
to the newest supporting members of Qstack!

Helen Bishop
Jenks Farmer of Plant People
Bridget B. of Transformation Collective Space
William je Groth of LIGHT YEARS: fiction...but also true!
❤️🍊💛💚💙💜🩷🩵🤎🖤🩶

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Qstack Digest 03/11/26

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Nan Tepper, Eileen Dougharty and Slamone de Beauvoir have generously provided a full replay of last month’s Wham! Bam! Thank you! Slam! Check it out!

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Are you Ready? Am I?

What comes up when we ask ourselves vulnerable questions about what we need to understand/do/be/interrogate so that we feel like we’ve shown up the way we wanted to in this lifetime? Jae J Casella’s short, tender piece about "taking sombre stock" of ourselves is a heartfelt answer to some of these questions, revealing a nuanced distinction: opening the door to the heart is one thing, but keeping it open is quite another.

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An Interview With Sci-fi & Dystopian Writer Tasha He.

Hazel from BookStack interviews Tasha He, author of Caenogenesis, the introductory book in a trilogy about a post-apocalyptic world featuring a corrupt and controlling government. Proceeds from the novel, which will debut April 14th, will benefit Disenfranchised Writers' Voices, a nonprofit Tasha founded to support low-income and disabled writers. We thought this was a cute interview lifting up the voice of a queer activist who holds multiple intersectional identities.

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“I WRITE BECAUSE...” By Troy Ford

A "baker's dozen" of questions in search of 12 + 1 answers, courtesy of Michael Horvich. Thanks for the invite! 🩵 —MTF