I’ll be speaking on a panel next Saturday, November 9th 5pm at Bent-con in Los Angeles, along with authors Diane Anderson-Mitchell, Jess Faraday, Daniel W. Kelly, and Felice Picano.

The title of our program is: Qweirdos! LGBT Voices for a Generation of Gay Geeks and Freaks.

I never considered myself a geek before, at least not with a capital G, until I got into researching Atlantis. Now that I can happily hold my own in conversations about the origins of Aquaman, the Bimini theory versus the Thera theory, and Lewis Spence’s concept of the Atlantean Culture Complex, I think I have qualified for that title.

Here’s a description of our program from the Bent-con website:

Forget circuit parties and lesbian golf events. The Qweirdo is a fresh gay subculture obsessed with comic conventions, the SyFy Network, Harry Potter, True Blood, and drag queen midnight movies. A panel of Bold Strokes Books authors considers why an LGBTQ community is emerging so strongly in genres usually dominated by straight geeks who can’t get dates, why general horror, sci-fi, and fantasy fiction aren’t enough and we need LGBTQ voices in the genres, finding our audience, and more.

Sound like your idea of a good time? Come join us, and while you’re at the con, stop by the Bold Strokes Books table to get an autographed copy of The Seventh Pleiade.