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Review: Fragments of Us – Niranjan

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Fragments of Us - Niranjan

Genre: Fantasy Reviewer: Estora Amazon (Paperback) | B&N | Google Play | Indigo | Itch.io | Kobo About The Book A Doomed Love. An Inexorable Law. An impending war and buried secrets. Keylin, daughter of Lord Giles, goes from a noblewoman about to be married to the love of her life to a slave, owning not even her own person. The laws of Castrial are binding, and even nobles are not exempt from it. The man who has brought her father to justice is also the man who owns Keylin: Alaric, the Shield of Castrial. Bertram, her erstwhile fiancé is desperate and willing to do anything to save the woman … Read more

New Release: Fire’s Ally – D. M. Kannapan

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Fire's Ally - D. M. Kannapan

D. M. Kannapan has a new YA fantasy cli-fi book out: Fire’s Ally. For most of her life, Eleg has been obsessed with the eerie, persistent, wildfire claiming parts of her home. No amount of rain seems to be able to put it out. She belongs to a gentle, bookish society, and her people have been fighting the fire back for decades. But they are not ready for the turmoil it is about to unleash. Eleg understands the fire better than most. She has already once failed to protect the innocent in its path. Though she would rather be alone … Read more

Review: The Last Boy on Earth – West Ambrose

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Review: The Last Boy on Earth - West Ambrose

Genre: Queer Speculative Fiction, Post-Anthropocene, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Slipstream LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Gender Fluid Reviewer: Ulysses Get It On Amazon About The Book Two boys, alike and undying, from borderless Illyrial, where we [de]lay our post- anthropocene: Julian and Vern are equally lost and differently, tenderly, iridescent pearls; one in the deep sea and the other by the sandy shores, encroaching. Julian, an unlikely passenger aboard an undersea ship with no destination and captained by a madman, seeks to unfold the past by throwing himself into new liaisons with beautiful men and creatures. Still learning how to swim, Vern kicks frantically against … Read more

Sources of Inspiration: Company

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There’s nothing quite like company that encourages me, sees something special in my writing. Sometimes an appreciative reader spots something I’m completely unaware of, or helps me develop ideas by their own response to a character. Sometimes my companions give me space, time to write, gifts I cannot appreciate enough. Sometimes they’re artists themselves, offering up ideas, a spark of insight, which becomes a story, a poem, or a line of dialogue. Our best moments are when we inspire each other, bouncing ideas off each other, trying to catch them and transform them into something which grows and grows beyond … Read more

New Release: Tales of the Quiet Kitty Box Set – Camille Anthony

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Tales of the Quiet Kitty - Camille Anthony

QSFer Camille Anthony has a new queer sci-fi book out (bi, non-binary, trans): Tales of the Quiet Kitty. These futuristic sci-fi tales are anything but quiet. Board the Quiet Kitty Waveship and travel with Brant Sel, a Sh’Bahkyr Tygyr and his crew: Bevel-leveB, a Medusoid Jenari with a sentient cock, and Willa, a Sprite from the wounded planet Sparkle. Brought together by fate, these three have common goals — to rescue and gather their lost peoples so they can take down the corrupt, brutal Corporation, run by the most evil beings in the three Galaxies… Humans. Royalties go to The … Read more

New Release: Claimed – Ashlynn Monroe

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Claimed - Ashlynn Monroe

QSFer Ashlynn Monroe has a new queer sci-fi book out (bisexual, non-binary, trans, multiple partners): Claimed. Lexa never really knew what it meant to live until she was condemned to die. Framed for a crime she’d never even contemplated, Lexa Mercer’s doing thirty days or death on the Intergalactic Broadcasting Channel’s hit reality show Nariasma. She owes her life to one of the show’s hottest contestants — and a ghost of a man no one is supposed to know exists. Roan of the Northlands is a man made famous by enduring his sentence on the space station Nariasma. Lexa has … Read more

Why Jeff Baker, Boogieman In Lavender, Is Writing Two Novellas At Once. (May 12, 2026)

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Why I’m Writing Two Novellas At Once by Jeff Baker I am a terrible procrastinator. (Okay, okay. Actually I’m a very good procrastinator.) I’m a great putter-offer, especially about writing. So, when I tried to start writing regularly years and years ago I told myself that I would only work on one story at a time. That had been my problem for many years; plenty of false starts, including some very good beginnings, but very few were finished. In that, I probably was like a lot of wannabe writers who have a trunk-full (or file-full) of half-finished stories, (if even … Read more

New Release: Return and Restore – Karenna Colcroft

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Return and Restore - Karenna Colcroft

QSFer Karenna Colcroft has a new MM paranormal romance out: Return and Restore. On full moon night, a stranger invades the Nova Scotia home of werewolf mates Quinn Boucher and Malachi Powers—a stranger who has victimized Quinn in the past. Malachi fights to defend his young mate, but the stranger isn’t acting of his own accord. Secured in a cell at the home of the Anax, ruler of Canada’s werewolves, the intruder is murdered by one of the Anax’s guards. With his dying breath, he delivers a message to Quinn: Return to his home province of Manitoba to face his … Read more

New Release: Symbiosis: Salvation – Mark Z. Harrondale

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Symbiosis: Salvation - Mark Z. Harrondale

QSFer Mark Z. Harrondale has a new dystopian sci-fi tale with an MM romance subplot out: Symbiosis: Salvation. In a society where every thought is watched, the most dangerous thing you can do is wonder. The Web is gone, and the truth with it. In Echelon, MindLink connects every mind to SOLACE, an artificial superintelligence that believes, with absolute certainty, it is keeping humanity safe. T.A.D. dissolved the nations, the languages, the borders. It calls itself progress. But progress has always had owners. Nineteen-year-old Riel has never been Integrated. In a world where that should be impossible, he has survived … Read more

New Release: Her Runaway Lady – BJ Sikes

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Her Runaway Lady - BJ Sikes

BJ Sikes has a new sapphic historical steampunk romance out: Her Runaway Lady. Solange doesn’t have time for love. She’s too busy working her way up in the Parisian millinery trade. Her goal: to become rich and lift her family out of poverty. So when a beautiful aristo whirls into the millinery fascinated by hat making, Solange isn’t interested. Or so she tells herself. Louise-Marie hates the fancy parties she’s dragged to at Versailles, hates the idea of marrying anyone, but loves hat-making. Running away from home to become a milliner seemed like a good idea but the life of a … Read more