scott Hi all… We’re continuing to expand the features on the Queer Sci Fi site. I’ve just added a free reads section – and to start it off, I added my own story Re-Life. If you have any free sci fi, fantasy, or paranormal works you’d like to have included, we can link to them on your site or another, or host them here on their own page. Works do not need to be exclusive to our site. If you want to add one, please email me at scott@queerscifi.com. :)
As anyone who visits this blog regularly (or even looks at my Facebook page) will know, I recently had a short story accepted into a Dreamspinner anthology. It’s a thrilling first for me, but once the excitement wore off, I started wondering how to promote it – I mean, it’s great to be published, but what good is it if no one ever reads your masterpiece? I’m new to the writing promotion game, though I’ve been on FB, Twitter, Google + and Pinterest for years promoting my day job. I’ve seen some great ideas in the groups I’m a part … Read more
This book review is more centered on the author than the book. I love Jordan Castillo Price. She “bends the rules” of gay romantic fiction. But I couldn’t help but think as I read this great book, that this wasn’t a romance. I’d hesitate to say if it was super explicit or not. It was gay science fiction for sure, but I probably wouldn’t label it MMM, or even MMM Romance. Why does this bother me? This labeling? Good question. I think that this labeling possibly affects Price’s image and her work. She’s on the edge of these genres (science … Read more
In my wanderings through the LGBT sci fi community, I’m finding that there’s a whole lot out there these days melding sci fi themes with MM romance. While I think that’s wonderful and an amazing thing, I also find very little that’s straight (pardon the pun) sci fi that includes LGBT characters, but is not centered around an MM (or FF) romance. Don’t get me wrong – there’s a lot of great sci fi out there (Angel Martinez, Amy Lane, I’m looking at you) that gets the sci fi right and includes the romance too. But I come at this … Read more
Rating: 4.25 stars out of 5 When Robert Belton and his brothers left home to make their fortune in the Klondike gold fields, they never imagined where their gold fever and poor judgement would take them. Amid betrayals and gambling debts, only Robert is left to survive in Seattle and he does so by becoming a prostitute. Robert hopes to save enough money to make it over the Chilkoot Trail into the Yukon and join the hunt for gold. Dr. John Fauth is on sabbatical from his teaching post at the university in Chicago. Dr. Fauth carries a precious machine … Read more
Some great news this morning – my free story “Re-Kife” just went up on the Gay Sci Fi Books site, thanks to Ashlyn Forge. The story is part of a group of free stories on the theme “Clash of Clutures” – in this case, what happens when you wake up 500 years in the future, and nothing is the same? Check it out here: http://www.gayscifibooks.com/re-life/ And see all the free reads on the site here: http://www.gayscifibooks.com/category/free-reads/
Rating: 4.25 stars out of 5 Steampunk Historical When Robert Belton and his brothers left home to make their fortune in the Klondike gold fields, they never imagined where their gold fever and poor judgement would take them. Amid betrayals and gambling debts, only Robert is left to survive in Seattle and he does so by becoming a prostitute. Robert hopes to save enough money to make it over the Chilkoot Trail into the Yukon and join the hunt for gold. Dr. John Fauth is on sabbatical from his teaching post at the university in Chicago. Dr. Fauth carries a … Read more