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History & Alternate History

New Release / Giveaway – In Light’s Shadow – Warren Rochelle

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In Light's Shadow - Warren Rochelle

Warren Rochelle has a new MM alternate history fantasy out: In Light’s Shadow. Gavin Booker, a school librarian, leads an orderly, normal life. Work, jogging, friends from work, his son every other weekend. Gavin is also a secret. He is a hybrid, or part-fairy, and in the Columbian Empire, hybrids are under an automatic death sentence. Magic is illegal. So is loving another man, another capital crime. Fairies are locked away in ghettoes, magical beasts, such as gryphons, unicorns, and pegasi are kept in zoos. Also in zoos: werewolves and other wers, centaurs, and Cheshire cats. The others, the tree … Read more

Queer Weird West Tales Anthology

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Queer Weird West Tales Anthology

QSFer Julie Bozza is the editor of a new queer western anthology: Queer Weird West Tales. Frontiers have always attracted the Other – where they find that the Other is always already there. These 22 stories explore what happens when queer characters encounter weirdness on the edge of the worlds they know. Authors include: Julie Bozza, J.A. Bryson, Dannye Chase, S.E. Denton, Miguel Flores, Adele Gardner, Roy Gray, KC Grifant, Peter Hackney, Bryn Hammond, Narrelle M Harris, Justin Warren Jackson, Toshiya Kamei, Catherine Lundoff, Bunny McFadden, Angus McIntyre, Atlin Merrick, Eleanor Musgrove, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Lauren Scharhag, Sara L. Uckelman, … Read more

New release: The Lusty Adventures of Theseus – Arthur Griffin

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The Lusty Adventures of Theseus - Arthur Griffin

QSFer Arthur Griffin has a new MM historical fantasy out: The Lusty Adventures of Theseus. The myth of Theseus and the Minotaur has never been quite this steamy! Handsome Theseus journeys to Athens to claim his birthright as heir to the throne, and along the way he meets the roguish Pirithous, who teaches him all about matters of the heart … and body. After a saucy encounter with a male nymph, they at last reach the city, and Theseus is shocked to discover his father, the king, has a tradition of sacrificing youths to the Minotaur, the monster inhabiting the … Read more

New Release: Mercury Rising – R.W.W. Greene

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New Release: Mercury Rising - R.W.W. Greene

QSFer R.W.W. Greene has a new queer alt-history sci-fi book out: Mercury Rising. Alternative history with aliens, an immortal misanthrope and SF tropes aplenty The year is 1975 – Robert Oppenheimer has invented the Atomic Engine, the first human has walked on the moon, and Jet Carson and the Eagle Seven have sacrificed their lives to stop alien invaders. Brooklyn, however, just wants to keep his head down, pay his mother’s rent, earn a little scratch of his own, and maybe get laid sometime. Simple pleasures! But life is about to get real complicated when a killer with a baseball … Read more

New Release: Perilous Passages – Edale lane

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New Release - Perilous Passages - Edale lane

QSFer Edale Lane has a new FF historical collection out, Wellington Mysteries book 2: Perilous Passages. After solving a minor case for a major payout, Stetson embarks on a trip to America with Evelyn and her burlesque company, hoping to find her long-lost father. But the inventive detective leaves with an unidentified art thief still at large. Musician Evelyn has grown to love the unique woman who bends the rules to pursue her dreams. But facing the disapproval of her family and society at large, how can their relationship move forward? Can Stetson keep her newfound love alive, or will … Read more

New Release: Deception – Grace R. Duncan

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Deception - Grace Duncan

QSFer Grace R. Duncan has a new mm historical fantasy out: Deception. Cyrus and Nadir first met as hungry orphans on Behekam’s streets at twelve years old. They became friends, then partners in the thievery that enabled them to survive, and as they passed their days together, they fell in love. When they are both taken as pleasure slaves in the opulent palace of the Malik of Neyem, love becomes more complicated. Rumors of an attempt on Malik Bathasar’s life put Cyrus and Nadir’s relationship to the test—they must pose convincingly as intimate slaves to the young malik as part … Read more

REVIEW: Firestones – Kim Fielding

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NEW RELEASE - Firestones - Kim Fielding

Genre: Fairy Tale, Dark, Historical LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: DB Get It On Amazon About The Book Born with a deformed foot and abandoned as a young child, Brand spent his youth in indentured servitude to a mediocre wizard. Now Brand is grown, but with no other prospects to support himself, he remains in his master’s employ, doing small chores and selling firestones on the bleak streets of Greynox. Until one bitterly cold day. In this dark take on a classic fairy tale, Brand encounters the most sinister of magics. With his firestones gone, can he find his way to … Read more

REVIEW: Firestones – Kim Fielding

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NEW RELEASE - Firestones - Kim Fielding

Genre: Fairy Tale, Dark, Historical LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Born with a deformed foot and abandoned as a young child, Brand spent his youth in indentured servitude to a mediocre wizard. Now Brand is grown, but with no other prospects to support himself, he remains in his master’s employ, doing small chores and selling firestones on the bleak streets of Greynox. Until one bitterly cold day. In this dark take on a classic fairy tale, Brand encounters the most sinister of magics. With his firestones gone, can he find his way to … Read more

NEW RELEASE – GIVEAWAY: Walks With Spirits – Edale Lane

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Walks with Spirits - Edale Lane

Edale Lane has a new FF historical romance out: Walks With Spirits. And there’s a giveaway! Bound by love, separated by circumstances; can two women realize their happy ending?In a time when people believed everything had a spirit, there was a two-spirit woman who chose the life of a hunter. Human beings live in the physical world, while spirits dwell in the land beyond; Walks with Spirits inhabits both. Daughter of a shaman and an herbalist-midwife, Laughing Brook holds a prominent place in her society. She is training to be a healer like her mother, but her one wish is to … Read more

NEW RELEASE: Choices – Grace R. Duncan

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Choices - Grace Duncan

QSFer Grace R. Duncan has a new MM BDSM historical fantasy out: Choices. Note: This is a rerelease. As a hayim—a wanderer—Teman values freedom over everything. He and his best friend, Jasim, are thieves for hire—until they’re caught. Given the choice between an inescapable lifetime dungeon sentence or palace pleasure slavery, they become slaves, but Teman vows to escape someday. Crown Amir Bathasar doesn’t want the throne. When Teman saves his life, Bathasar requests the intriguing slave—a first, given his disdain for slavery. He quickly falls for Teman who returns the feelings, but their fledgling relationship is strained when Bathasar’s … Read more