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ANNOUNCEMENT: Archie’s Accidental Kidnapping, by Toni Griffin

Archie's Accidental Kidnapping

QSFer Toni Griffin has a new MM paranormal book out: Long nights hunting supernatural beings means little time for love in Adze’s life. He and his pack mates are what protects Melbourne, and Australia, from the things that go bump in the night—very real spirits and demons who prey on humans. Every day Archie’s life is consumed by work as he desperately tries to pay back his student debt and a loan a boyfriend took out in his name. Tired and alone, he dreams of a future with someone to love and hold him through the night. One fateful encounter … Read more

FOR READERS: Don’t Give Away the Story!

Spoiler Alert

FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Denise Dechene: I’ve noticed a trend of blurbs being long. After reading them you feel like why read the book the plot is already known. Is there an algorithm or blue print for writing blurbs? Do you think too many blurbs are giving away their story? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat

ANNOUNCEMENT: Fixit (Comic Adaptation), by Erik Schubach

Fixit comic

QSFer Erik Schubach has a new FF sci fi comic book out: Fixit, she’s out of this world… This comic book follows Fixit, a worker on the surface of Tau Ceti Prime. She is an ace mechanic who keeps the automated harvesting machines in good running order. She has never missed a quota in her efforts help to feed all the people “topside” in the giant floating cities in the sky. She has to make her first trip to the technologically advanced cities for the first time in her life to make an emergency shipment to New Terra City because … Read more

FOR READERS: Platypus or Tentacled Monster?

Platypus - Pixabay

FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer K.S. Trenten: Platypus or tentacled monster? Yes, it’s a silly topic. I’m just curious what we’ll all say. Let’s broaden this out a bit. What’s the wildest non-human or human-shifter type of character you’ve run across? And fave book featuring said type of character? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat

COMICS: New Member of The Avengers is Gay and Latino

Living Lightning

Marvel have announced that their famous Avengers team will be gaining a new member. Miguel Santos, also known as Living Lightning, will be joining the famous team in a 2018 storyline called “No Surrender,” which will run weekly from Avengers issue #675 to #690. Living Lightning first appeared in 1990, when he battled a terrorist group called the Legion of Living Lighting, gaining the power to control and turn into lightning, and his superhero name. Though he had previously dated women, it was during the Great Lakes Avengers series that he came out as gay, when he mistakenly thought their … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Hound, by Caleb James

Hound

QSFer Caleb James has a new queer fantasy book out: The human and fey worlds plummet toward an ancient war. Enter two unlikely lovers, a myth, and a mad queen hell-bent on conquest and revenge. Fire Marshal Finn Hulain, tormented by the death of his best friend and an unrequited love, is tossed from the world he knows into the upside-down realm of the fey. Dr. Redmond Fall, psychiatrist to the deadliest criminals in the Unsee, awakes to find the brutal Queen May deposited within the walls of his hospital for a bit of therapy. While May would like to … Read more

Now You Too Can Hear the Golden Record – On Vinyl

NASA Golden Record

Earthlings can now order their very own vinyl version of the “Voyager Golden Record,” which NASA sent into deep space decades ago in an attempt to reach intelligent life. The soundtrack has been available on SoundCloud and came out as a CD in 1992. Now, Ozma Records is preparing to release it on vinyl as early as January through distributor Light in the Attic, reports The Washington Post. It’s already available for preorder. Two sets of the phonograph album — with images and instructions in symbolic language — were rocketed into space in 1977, one aboard the Voyager 1 and … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Seven Tricks, by K.S. Trenten

Seven Tricks

QSFer K.S. Trenten has a new MM holiday fantasy out: Some say a mouse king has seven heads. Hah, trust a human to get our legends wrong. A mouse prince must perform seven tricks before the twelve days of Christmas are up. It’s how he wins his crown, but I’ve got my whiskers set on something else. A stiff beauty with a magnificent jaw, waiting for me under the holiday shrub. I caught his scent in a dream, which I’ve been sniffing after ever since. Scamper with me through my adventures and misadventures, dodging traps, cats, and giants, while I … Read more

Making Astrology Queer – Gay Star News

Colin Bedell

Colin Bedell, a self-described gay Gemini Twin from Long Island, New York, is on a mission to make astrology more inclusive of queer identities. ‘The soul has no gender,’ Bedell recently told Refinery29. ‘We have to move beyond body and sexual identification if we’re going to be integrous with this spiritual system.’ Bedell began studying astrology at age 12. ‘I’ve always had a pull to the metaphysical, mythological, and mystical. And astrology stands at that intersection beautifully,’ he tells GSN. By age 18, Bedell began chart analysis. And at age 27, he opened his own professional astrology practice, QueerCosmos. Bedell … Read more