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ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Dragon Soldier – Mell Eight

Dragon Soldier - Mell Eight

Mell Eight has a new MM paranormal YA book out, Supernatural Consultant Book 5: “Dragon Soldier.” The aftermath of the last battle has left Nickel weak in bed and grounded for the next decade. Despite being in trouble, Nickel wants to return to the battle against the enemy as soon as he can, but thoughts of Platinum, the dragon helping to nurse him back to health, keep distracting him. Platinum can’t believe how much his life has changed. He went from being a lonely fugitive on the run to part of a family in only hours. The last few days … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Emily Corn Discovering Darkness – Page Wooller and Ali Vermeeren

Emily Corn Discovering Darkness - Page Wooller And Ali Vermeeren

Page Wooller and Ali Vermeeren have a new queer coming-of-age fantasy book out: “Emily Corn Discovering Darkness.” She has no friends. She has no parents. Emily Corn has been brought up in total isolation. But why? She uncovers a secret which forces answers and breaks the shield protecting her identity. And now they hunt her. Writer Page Wooller and artist Ali Vermeeren deliver a complex coming of age tale set against the impending destruction of Earth. Emily must accept who she is, or we all die. Note: This is a book suitable for 12+ yr olds and fills a need for more … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Dragon Directive – Mell Eight

Dragon Detective

QSFer Mell Eight has a new MM paranormal YA book out: Dragon Detective. And there’s a giveaway! Nickel might be a water elemental dragon, but even he has limits—and the sudden rain storms, hail, and snow in midsummer are way over the line. Luckily, he works for Dane’s Supernatural Consulting firm and can use those resources to figure out who keeps mucking with the weather and get them to stop. Soon Nickel realizes he isn’t the only one searching for the weather worker: the enemy he has been hunting for ten years has finally reappeared, and it’s a race to … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Hawthorn Academy: Year One – D.R. Perry

Hawthorn Academy: Year One - D.R. Perry

QSFer D.R. Perry has a new coming of age ace/gay fantasy book out: “Hawthorn Academy: Book One.” If ultimate power corrupts, how does one learn to be incorruptible? I’m Aliyah Morgenstern. All of my life, I grew up on tales of my great-grandfather’s magic bringing light and healing to the world.  Then, I bonded with my dragonet Ember on my sixteenth birthday, which means I’ll be scary powerful someday.  There’s one problem. Mom’s kept secrets that everyone at my new school seems to know.  Turns out, I’ve got an infamously criminal uncle and now everyone’s waiting for me to do something … Read more

FOR READERS & WRITERS: Defining YA / NA

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: How do you define YA/NA, especially in spec fic? What is and isn’t appropriate for young adult, and for new adult? Writers: This is a reader and writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

ANNOUNCEMENT: Rhonda Wray: Raptor Wrangler – Charon Dunn and Sally Smith

Rhonda Wray: Raptor Wrangler

Charon Dunn and Sally Smith has a new queer YA action-adventure dinosaur tale out: “Rhonda Wray: Raptor Wrangler.” Rhonda’s favorite boy band is trapped on a dinosaur planet, and only she can save them! Warnings: Dinosaur-related violence; cannibal alien traffickers (and a couple of non-explicitly-described, off-camera pedos who meet with a horrible fate); nonsexual flirting Get It At Amazon Excerpt She trilled at them clumsily. They trilled back, expertly. Correcting her. Chattering and commenting, the way miniraptors sometimes did. They could be terrible pets for people who liked peace and quiet, but Rhonda was the kind of person who tended … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: The Bachmann family Secret – damien Serbu

The Bachmann Family Secret - Damien Serbu

QSFer Damien Serbu has a new MM YA Paranormal book out: “The Bachmann Family Secret.” And there’s a giveaway! Jaret Bachmann travels with his family to his beloved grandfather’s funeral with a heavy heart and, more troubling, premonitions of something evil lurking at the Bachmann ancestral home. But no one believes that he sees ghosts. Grappling with his sexuality, a ghost that wants him out of the way, and the loss of his grandfather, Jaret must protect his family and come to terms with powers hidden deep within himself. NineStar Press | Amazon Giveaway One lucky winner will receive a $10.00 NineStar … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Dragon Dilemma – Mell Eight

Dragon Dilemma - Mell Eight

QSFer Mell Eight has a new MM paranormal YA tale out: “Dragon Dilemma.” And there’s a giveaway! Dane hasn’t spoken with his mother in years and he’s never met his father. But somehow his mother finds out about Mercury and the kits anyway, and it’s difficult to throw one’s mother out when she happens to be a powerful, dangerous witch. She isn’t the only uninvited guest, and the others are even less likely to take no for an answer—and much more likely to leave everyone dead if they don’t get what they want. Get It At Amazon | NineStar Press … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Facets of the Nether – William C. Tracy

Facets of the Nether

William C. Tracy has a new Queer/MMF sci fi/fantasy/steampunk tale out, book two in the Dissolution Cycle: “Facets of the Nether.” The Dissolution approaches. Sam has saved the Assembly of Species, but at a terrible cost. Locked in his apartment, his memories gone and his best friend abducted, he is once again crippled with anxiety. Meanwhile, Enos struggles to free her brother from imprisonment, alone for the first time in her life. Her true species has been revealed, and there are hints the deadliest of her kind survived an ancient war. But the Nether contains more secrets. A musical chime … Read more

REVIEW: Fallen Love, by Alex Stargazer

Fallen Love

Title: Fallen Love Series: Fallen Book One Author: Alex Stargazer Genre: YA/Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Publisher: Self Pages: 328 Reviewer: Sharonica Get It On Amazon About The Book Upperclassman Conall is rich, impeccably dressed, and set for a prestigious career in the Party hierarchy. He doesn’t lack for anything—except, maybe, love. When he finds Mark, alone, abandoned and hurt, he doesn’t expect one act of kindness to alter the course of his life forever. There is more to Mark than Conall can even dream of. The beautiful, vulnerable boy Conall knows is not human. A dark power lies within Mark. … Read more