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Go West

riter and editor Julie Bozza had such a lot of fun writing a ‘Queer Weird West’ novel, , she thinks must have one queer main character who belongs to the LGBTQ+ spectrum. The story must be weird, that is has ‘a speculative fiction element, drawing on fantasy, horror, or science fiction.’ And finally the story must be set in ‘the Old West’ or set in ‘the time and place of any other frontier’.

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