Romance
Announcement: Travels Through the Scarlet Equinox anthology
Mischief Corner Books has a new anthology out, and it features four QSFers: The Autumnal Equinox—when the trees dress in their formal scarlet and gold and the crisp air whispers of chance and change, when bright days turn into sudden storms and the veil between reality and imagination thins. Join the Mischief Corner authors as they share stories evoking this often unpredictable time of year. A Bear’s Bear by Toni Griffin Matthew Warner’s been a Chicago Bears fan as far back as he can remember. What other team was a young bear shifter from the Smokey Mountains supposed to root … Read more
Announcement: Emerald: Good and Evil, by M.D. Grimm
QSFer MD Grimm has a new fantasy book out: Home. Family. Those words often invoke a sense of love and comfort. But for the dark mage Morgorth, they mean hate and pain. As the seventh son of a seventh son, many believe Morgorth’s destiny is to become the Destroyer. His father embraced such a future and trained Morgorth through torture and fear to become his weapon. Morgorth managed to escape his father’s cruelty, but not the nightmares that still haunt him. For many years he’s lived with the stain of his father’s savagery, but now he must confront his nightmares … Read more
Announcement: Becomes the Rose, by Pelaam
QSFer Pelaam has a new paranormal book out: Although Tarin’s long-term relationship ended recently, he still decides to go on the long-planned camping trip with his ex. Since the relationship had been comfortable but nothing earthshaking, they both enjoyed camping, and they’d moved back to just friends easily enough, there was no reason not to. But when he wakes up after an argument about sharing a bed, he finds his ex gone–with the car–leaving him miles from the nearest bus route back to Auckland and only his two feet to get him there. Despite detailed instructions from his hostess, Tarin … Read more
Announcement: Jimmy’s Erotic Adventure, by Perie Wolford
QSFer Perie Wolford has a new sci fi book out: Jimmy the time-traveler, while trying to solve a time-riddle his late father left for him, gets accidentally flung back in time, to the year 1871, the days of the Wild West, landing squarely in the middle of a valley of death. He stumbles into a pack of gun-toting rustlers, who capture him. To Jimmyís luck though, the youngest of the rustlers, Kit Fisher, is not like the rest of his folks. Excerpt Jimmy landed on his butt, smack-dab in the middle of a barren desert, hissing and cursing under his … Read more
Announcement: Cardinal Sins, by Lissa Kasey
QSFer Lissa Kasey has a new paranormal/fantasy book out: Paris Hansworth, star whore turned senator and the most powerful man in City M, has been hiding his terminal illness for years. Searching for a way to reverse the toxic environment that’s killing him, Paris stumbles upon a lost research facility, and a merman named Rain. Years alone have made Rain long for companionship, and the beautiful man on the other side of the glass intrigues him. But Rain speaks the wrong language, and is decades out of touch. He isn’t quite sure what to think of the new environment he’s … Read more
Announcement: Haven’s Revenge, by Phetra H. Novak
Phetra H. Novak has a new paranormal book out: Haven Naranjo is a proud Caddo Indian, with a frightening past. He was a mere fifteen year old boy when he found his parents, part of his tribe, and his high school sweetheart slaughtered by a wereman gone mad. Falling victim to a system that is not always prepared to deal with a shattered young mind, Haven finally gives up on himself. He grows up to be bitter and hateful toward the creatures he hate. Werewolves. Alexander Prescott is the younger of the two Prescott boys and comes from a large … Read more
Ana’s Spoons: Female Characters in Harry Potter
Today is our monthly FF takeover of the QSF site. :) Here’s Ana‘s kick-off for the discussion today: I don’t like Harry Potter. No, that’s not exactly correct. I’ve read all of the books multiple times, visited the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios, and indulged in some top-secret fan fiction involving Professor McGonagall and her cane. (I write kinky spanky stories, and the one after-the-fact mention of an expected caning fueled many a happy secret fantasy.) I love Minerva McGonagall. Plus, the woman can change into a cat and go where she wills. What’s not to love? … Read more
Announcement: Raider Captured, by JJ Lore
QSFer JJ Lore has a new sci fi book out, and she stopped by to share a guest post with us on the blog today: Sci-Fi Love, or, Spock Was My Babysitter I grew up loving science fiction. As a child of the 80’s I was eagerly first in line for all sorts of classic sci-fi films like the Star Wars trilogy, Robocop, and Aliens in the theatres. I first saw Blade Runner over Christmas break on a VHS (!) tape and now my holidays aren’t complete without another viewing. I also read sci-fi, gobbling up Asimov and Bradbury along … Read more
Announcement: The Prince’s Consort, by Antonia Aquilante
QSFer Antonia Aquilante has a new fantasy book out: Legends tell of large cats defending the principality of Tournai, but such creatures have been lost to time. Or have they? Prince Philip inherited the throne at a young age, and since then, his life has centered around ruling his country and resisting those pressuring him to take a wife and conceive an heir—forcing him to hide his attraction to men. When kind-hearted Amory is offered to the prince in exchange for more time for Amory’s father to complete a commission, both Philip and Amory are horrified. But Philip agrees to … Read more