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New Release 8/11/14: My Haunted Blender’s Gay Love Affair, and Other Twisted Tales

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Die Laughing. A collection of not-so-chilling tales of love and laughter from three of the genre’s masters of pulp. In The Bone Orchard, by Abigail Roux, Pinkerton investigator Ezra Johns and US Marshal Ambrose Shaw have a lot to learn about life—and the afterlife—in their quest to bring a vicious murderer to justice. Fortunately, they’ve got all the time in the world to figure it out. In City of Monsters, by Andrea Speed, an ex-investigator turned some-kind-of-shifter (he doesn’t know, but with his luck, it’s probably nothing cool) is hired to find a missing reverse tooth fairy in the hellish … Read more

A Taste of Honey Bear Anthology: Excerpt From “Barefoot” by Lillian Francis

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Editor’s Note: I’m a part of a new anthology coming out on 8/18 from Dreamspinner Press: A Taste of Honey. And while the book is not Fantasy, Sci Fi or Paranormal per se, some of the stories in it include magical realism or present-day fantasy. I hope you’ll indulge me as I share the intros to a number of these stories in the lead-up to the book’s release. :) –Scott Coming from Dreamspinner Press on August 18th – A Taste of Honey – the ultimate bear romance anthology. Guys don’t have to be in their twenties, perfectly sculpted, and hairless … Read more

Building My Own Little World

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When I was a child, my mom started me off on the Lord of the Rings… I think I was in the second grade at the time. I already knew I was something. I didn’t have a word for it – that would come much later – but I knew I was different. Tolkien’s world, though it was devoid of LGBT characters, gave me a place to escape to. Somewhere I could wander and explore and not deal with the real world for a little while. A few years later, I graduated to drawing my own maps of my own … Read more

A Taste of Honey Bear Anthology: Excerpt From “The Bear at the Bar” by J. Scott Coatsworth

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Editor’s Note: I’m a part of a new anthology coming out on 8/18 from Dreamspinner Press: A Taste of Honey. And while the book is not Fantasy, Sci Fi or Paranormal per se, some of the stories in it include magical realism or present-day fantasy. I hope you’ll indulge me as I share the intros to a number of these stories in the lead-up to the book’s release. :) –Scott Coming from Dreamspinner Press on August 18th – A Taste of Honey – the ultimate bear romance anthology. Guys don’t have to be in their twenties, perfectly sculpted, and hairless … Read more

Getting There

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We attended a reading of a play set in the early to mid 1800’s this week in downtown Sacramento. At one point in the play, one of the characters, an escaped slave, claims to have gone from the South to San Francisco, and then back to New York City, in a relatively short period of time. It was a bit unbelievable, and we later learned form the author that it was intended to cast doubt on the truthfulness of the character. But still, it got me thinking about transportation, and the role it plays in science fiction. If you ever … Read more

A Taste of Honey Bear Anthology: Excerpt From “The Bear Next Door” by Jack Byrne

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Editor’s Note: I’m a part of a new anthology coming out on 8/18 from Dreamspinner Press: A Taste of Honey. And while the book is not Fantasy, Sci Fi or Paranormal per se, some of the stories in it include magical realism or present-day fantasy. I hope you’ll indulge me as I share the intros to a number of these stories in the lead-up to the book’s release. :) –Scott Coming from Dreamspinner Press on August 18th – A Taste of Honey – the ultimate bear romance anthology. Guys don’t have to be in their twenties, perfectly sculpted, and hairless … Read more

The Shifter Revolution

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The Twilight series, love it or hate it, served to help bring shifter romance into the mainstream – it’s been fun to watch former “monsters” become romantic bad boys, from the likes of “True Blood” and “Twilight” to the lately emerging subgenre of Zombie romance, epitomized by last year’s film “Warm Bodies”. There was even an attempt to turn Frankenstein into an action hero, with Aaron Eckhart cast in the lead in “I, Frankenstein.” A quick run through the shifter romance page at Goodreads turns up horse shifters, lion shifters, bear shifters, dragon shifters and many more. If you had … Read more

A Taste of Honey Bear Anthology: Excerpt From “The Bear Fetish” by John Amory

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Editor’s Note: I’m a part of a new anthology coming out on 8/18 from Dreamspinner Press: A Taste of Honey. And while the book is not Fantasy, Sci Fi or Paranormal per se, some of the stories in it include magical realism or present-day fantasy. I hope you’ll indulge me as I share the intros to a number of these stories in the lead-up to the book’s release. :) –Scott Coming from Dreamspinner Press on August 18th – A Taste of Honey – the ultimate bear romance anthology. Guys don’t have to be in their twenties, perfectly sculpted, and hairless … Read more

My Gay Fantasies

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There are so many authors on the LGBT side that are writing Fantasy with LGBT characters now – I’d love to see some of them cross over into the mainstream market.

So who out there is writing great gay Fantasy these days? Please sound off if it’s your niche, or if you have some great titles to recommend.

Which Genre Is Best Suited to the LGBT Experience?

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I’ve been doing some promo work for the anthology The Bear at the Bar (shameless plug there) about bear romance, and it’s gotten me thinking about all the shades of the LGBT rainbow – gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender people, questioning, intersex, bears, otters, drag queens, leather daddies, gym bunnies, and so many more. I’m wondering if, of the three genres of sci fi, fantasy, and paranormal, is any one more suited than the the others for exploring the issues around the LGBT community? I’m not talking about having or exploring LGBT characters in these genres. I’m trying to get at … Read more