ATTENTION GEEKS, NERDS, & GAYMERS: The Legion of Super-Nerds is here, and we want YOU to join our Ranks! Every Tuesday at 9pm, with @charlesnordquist - brought to you by @geeksout
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EXPLORE the Realms with Adventurers old and new as a part of our D&D Division! EVOLVE your Knowledge as a member of our Comic Book Club!
Bring a friend, try something new, and have a good time! Get more details, ask questions, and connect with your fellow Legionnaires on our Discord Channel link in stories. YOUR LEGION AWAITS!
CALE PLETT is a nonbinary, genderfluid writer who lives on Treaty One Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Their YA novels span everything from high school rock bands to nightmares in the woods to reality TV gone wrong, and their poetry and short fiction can be found in a whole variety of journals. Whatever genre they’re writing, they try to create spaces where queer characters can exist safely within their identities. Wavelength, a runaway pop star YA romance, is their debut novel from Groundwood Books. Their second YA novel, The Saw Mouth, is coming out May 12, 2026 from Delacorte Press, to be followed by another standalone YA horror novel, Stranglehold, in fall 2027.
@Michelekiricha1 had an opportunity to interview Cale, which you can read on the Geeks OUT blog - link in bio!
Dawn Chen is a sapphic fantasy and horror author who grew up in Beijing, China. When she was thirteen, she moved to Germany to live with her family. Since then, she has both lived in Canada and UK. She writes in both Chinese and English, wishing nothing more than to keep writing, and has a perfectly healthy obsession with ghosts. She's the author of the Chinese queer diaspora horror short story collection Dawn's Cozy Horror Corner, the Chinese-inspired anti-British colonial sapphic fantasy The Witch Who Chases the Sun and the upcoming sapphic vampire epistolary horror novel A Vampire in Beijing.
@Michelekiricha1 had the opportunity to interview Dawn, which you can read on the Geeks OUT blog - link in bio!
Soman Chainani is the New York Times bestselling author of The School for Good and Evil, a global franchise spanning books, film, and education. The series has sold more than 4.5 million copies, been translated into 35 languages, spent over 50 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and was adapted into a major Netflix film that debuted at #1 in more than 80 countries.
A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University’s MFA film program, Chainani has visited more than 800 schools worldwide, where he champions reading as a tool for empowerment and change. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
@Michelekiricha1 had the opportunity to interview Soman, which you can read on the Geeks OUT blog - link in bio!
Samantha Chong is a versatile cross-platform storyteller. Originally from Malaysia, she knits her multilingual and diverse backgrounds into every story she weaves. Her work has been published in BBC Travel, Gastro Obscura, OpenTable, and the Guggenheim. In Sam's free time, you’ll find her eating her way through any city or losing track of time while falling down Wikipedia rabbit holes.
@Michelekiricha1 had the opportunity to interview Samantha, which you can read on the Geeks OUT blog - link in bio!
ZARA MARIELLE hails from two worlds: a Northern California hippy town and a rustic village high in the French Alps. A former ESL teacher, she loves to travel and has also lived in six different countries. Zara earned a master’s in creative writing from the University of Edinburgh in 2015. When she isn’t writing contemporary fantasy, she spends her time inventing much sillier, spontaneous content as an improv teacher and performer.
@Michelekiricha1 had the opportunity to interview Zara, which you can read on the Geeks OUT blog - link in bio!
Dr. Catherine V. Yeh is Professor of Chinese Literature and Transcultural Studies at Boston University. Her research interest is in global cultural interaction and flow in the fields of literature, media, visual and entertainment culture during the 19th and 20th centuries. She has published widely on the subject, and her books include Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals and Entertainment Culture, 1850-1910 (University of Washington Press, 2006), The Chinese Political Novel: Migration of a
World Genre (Harvard University Press, 2015) and Asia at the World’s Fairs: An Online Exhibition of Cultural Exchange (Project editor and co-author, Boston University 2018). Her current book project is Improbable Stars: Female Impersonators, Peking Opera and the Birth of Modern Star Culture in 1910s China.
Her current projects including The Dancing Goddess: Mei Lanfang in America, a current exhibition at the China Institute Gallery in New York City.
The Dancing Goddess: Mei Lanfang in America traces the performer’s U.S. tour through immersive multimedia displays, spectacular costumes, props used in the performances and rarely seen archival materials. Exhibition highlights include the earliest surviving playbill from Mei’s first performances at the age of 14 (his grandfather was a famous opera star) as well as playbills and photographs from the U.S. tour; costumes from the 1920s and 1930s with elaborate embroidery and sequins; images of Mei’s New York performance by Broadway photographer Florence Vandamm; and rare footage of Mei performing scenes from his signature roles, including Farewell My Concubine.
@michelekiricha1 had the opportunity to interview Dr. Yeh, which you can read on the Geeks OUT blog - link in bio!
Welcome Nerds, Geeks, and Gaymers!
We are The Legion, a growing community of queer nerds just like you! We gather every Tuesday @redeye_ny to share our affinity for all things Nerd!
Come Game, try something new, and get connected with the community!
Your Legion Awaits!!🫡🫡
Tesia Tsai was born in Los Angeles to immigrant parents from Taiwan. She currently teaches at Brigham Young University, and lives with her husband, two cats, and a dog in Utah. When not writing or reading, she enjoys watching Asian dramas, playing video games, and planning her next trip.
@Michelekiricha1 had the opportunity to interview Tesia, which you can read on the Geeks OUT blog - link in bio!
Thank you so much, con goers, for stopping by the Pride Lounge at BookCon yesterday! And the deepest thank you and appreciation for our amazing author panelists, who spoke on insightful topics like gender diversity in fantasy, fanfiction and community, and the landscape of webcomics. For Sunday BookCon attendees, we are going strong in Room 409 with more fun programming today.
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Dana Simpson, a native of Gig Harbor, Washington, first caught the eyes of devoted comics readers with the internet strip Ozy and Millie. After winning the 2009 Comic Strip Superstar contest, she developed the strip Phoebe and Her Unicorn (originally known as Heavenly Nostrils), which is now syndicated in newspapers worldwide.
There are twenty-two Phoebe and Her Unicorn books, including the upcoming Galactic Unicorn, all from Andrews McMeel Publishing. Ozy and Millie have two books also. All told, Simpson has sold over four million books.
@Michelekiricha1 had the opportunity to interview Dana, which you can read on the Geeks OUT blog - link in bio!
