Showing posts with label Goodbye to Spacefreighters Lounge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goodbye to Spacefreighters Lounge. Show all posts

Monday, January 2, 2023

Spacefreighters Lounge Signing Off

This blog was created in May 2007 by aspiring Science Fiction Romance writer, Laurie A. Green, and it continued for well over 15 years. 

It is the last of the original Science Fiction Romance blogs created in that era, outlasting many by nearly a decade. Its most popular post garnered some 36,000 reads! (A research piece about the Andromeda Galaxy.)

It has been a joint blog of up to five SFR writers or authors for most of that run. During that time, many of us became first time authors and have since published numerous books, and become award-winning and/or bestselling writers. Over the years, my talented co-bloggers included Donna S. Frelick, Greta van der Rol, K.M. Fawcett, E. G. Manetti, Pippa Jay, and Sharon Lynn Fisher, as well as too many guest bloggers to list. 

But times change and so do trends, especially in the world of social media.

It's now time for the Spacefreighters Lounge crew to say goodbye.

Thanks to those who have faithfully followed our blog through the years, and to those who dropped in from time-to-time to read our content or say hello. Most of our content will remain available for an undetermined time. Use the search function on the right sidebar if you're looking for a particular topic or topics. If it has to do with SFR -- or writing in general -- there's probably a blog or five about it.

We appreciate all the comments, shares and support since 2007. We hope this blog gave something back to the Science Fiction Romance community that brought it to life.

Wishing you all the best, and every success, in 2023 and beyond.


Friday, December 16, 2022

AN END LEADS TO NEW BEGINNINGS

Time for a new boost.
As we approach the end of 2022 and await the start of a new year, it’s time to jettison any spent fuel pods and boost our rockets with fresh ones. Getting new clothes for Christmas? Go through your closets and donate older, unworn items. Redecorating the living room? Give that dumpy couch to Goodwill before your new furniture is delivered. Santa bringing a ton of stuff for the kids? Have them go through their baby toys to donate before Christmas morning to make room in their toy boxes.

As for me, the changes here at the end of the year have more to do with business, and they are both a little sadder and a little more exciting at the same time. After a solid run of 15 years, this blog, founded by author Laurie A. Green, is closing. I was a co-blogger here on Spacefreighters Lounge every week for 13 of those years, after meeting Laurie at the 2009 Romance Writers of America convention in Washington D.C. Our association took us through our early days of seeking publication, to cover reveals, book launches, RWA upheaval, and more. This week’s post will be my last, and the end comes with some nostalgia for the good old days.

Kudos to Laurie for the many hours she spent trying to wrangle the technical details of the blog and herd the cats that were her co-bloggers and guest authors. She put in all those hours in between trying to write her own books (and manage a full-time job in the early years, too). Laurie is hereby awarded the Golden Bottle of Aspirin Trophy for her stellar efforts!

I’ll miss the old blog, but I won’t stop blogging. I’ll continue at my personal blog, Across the Multiverse, on my website every Thursday (which also posts on Goodreads), because, of course, I have plenty to say about science, romance, and the world at large. I hope all you regular readers of Spacefreighters will join me there.

One other change I am much happier to announce: I have left the increasingly hostile Twitterverse for the friendlier social media environment at Mastodon.online. Links to all my blog posts, podcasts and author announcements will be posted there at @donnafrelick@mastodon.online. Come follow me there!

Goodbye, Spacefreighters, and happy spacefaring to all,

Donna