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Review: McShayne’s Elf – Nicole Dennis

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McShayne's Elf - Nicole Dennis

Genre: Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book A Realm falls to the darkness. An outcast because of his mixed heritage, Braedyn of the Dark, Captain of the Royal Shields and protector of the Prince of the Southern Woodland Realm, maintains his position through sheer grit and skill. Connected to a hawk familiar, Cerin, his magic is a mixture of Arcane and wielding. At the High King’s orders, he remains by his Prince’s side through a treacherous journey through the Lands to discover answers and a new home.  Losing … Read more

New release / Giveaway: Rhyme of Longing – Emily Carrington

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Rhyme of Longing - Emily Carrington

QSFer Emily Carrington has a new MM paranormal / dark fantasy book out, Jack & Gil book 1: Rhyme of Longing. And there’s a giveaway! Gilbert Sullivan hates his name, but refuses to go by Gil because of a rhyme he fears is a prophecy. When he meets Jack Sowerby, the new head of SearchLight, he’s terrified the rhyme will come true and he’ll lose his place as Crown Prince of the basilisks, but his attraction to Jack won’t let him stay away. Jack, born human, is, above all things, practical. Still, when he meets Prince Gilbert, his need for … Read more

Review: Postscript – Anne Barwell

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Postscript - Anne Barwell

Genre: Paranormal LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book A magical bookshop holds the keys.When Mason Chynoweth inherits an old house in small-town New Zealand, he hopes to discover what happened to his great-great uncle Lewis after he returned from the war in 1945. Mason’s first encounter with the property is thankfully reassuring—his sensitive psychic powers aren’t triggered and he has a calm sense of coming home. Elijah Whitaker arrives in Kedgetown for an extended visit with his aunts. He’s quickly drawn to Mason and offers to help him try to find some answers in … Read more

New Release / Giveaway: McShayne’s Elf – Nicole Dennis

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McShayne's Elf - Nicole Dennis

Nicole Dennis has a new MM fantasy paranormal romance out, McShayne Bloodline book 2: McShayne’s Elf. And there’s a giveaway. A Realm falls to the darkness. An outcast because of his mixed heritage, Braedyn of the Dark, Captain of the Royal Shields and protector of the Prince of the Southern Woodland Realm, maintains his position through sheer grit and skill. Connected to a hawk familiar, Cerin, his magic is a mixture of Arcane and wielding. At the High King’s orders, he remains by his Prince’s side through a treacherous journey through the Lands to discover answers and a new home. … Read more

REVIEW: The Family Martell – Edward Kendrick

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The Family Martell - Edward kendrick

Genre: Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Bisexual, Gay Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Dorian and Cecily had been alive for several centuries, and married for well over one-hundred years. When they decided they wanted a family, they did what any sensible vampires would and adopted three human children. They waited until each was old enough to understand before revealing what they were, and then gave them the choice to be turned once they were twenty-one. Of course, being sensible children, they each agreed they wanted to become vampires as well. Griff, the oldest, … Read more

New Release: A Transcendental Habit – James Callan

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A Transcendental Habit - James Callan

QSFer James Callan has a new gay biopunk book out: A Transcendental Habit. Palindrome is a sprawling, sordid, mega-metropolis populated by roborgs, shapeshifers, holographic kids, and rats the size of Labradors. Among its myriad of destitute city-dwellers is Jarred, a down-and-out nobody whose tedious existence amplifies into an ultra-bizarre escapade after meeting Bee, an alluring enigma loaded with bionic upgrades and brimming with Squidge, a coveted drug new to the black market that enhances anything it touches. With Bee by his side and Squidge in his system, Jarred savors a newfound zest for life. But when the founder of Squidge, an unhinged zealot … Read more

Movies: “Knock at the Cabin” Star Discusses the Gay-Centric Horror Film

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Knock at the Cabin

In a PinkNews exclusive, Knock at the Cabin star Ben Aldridge discusses representation, chemistry with his co-star Jonathan Groff, and subverting anti-LGBTQ+ tropes on the big screen. M Night Shyamalan horrors are notorious for their unflinching twists, but his latest film Knock at the Cabin features his biggest yet: unapologetically centring a gay couple. While centring a gay couple in a mainstream horror film definitely marks progress for LGBTQ+ representation, navigating pervasive tropes about LGBTQ+ characters as a gay actor is another matter entirely – something Knock at the Cabin star Ben Aldridge is keen to confront. “There is part … Read more

Review: Primavera – Hayden Thorne

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Primavera - Hayden Thorne

Genre: Gothic, Paranormal, Dark Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Coming out to his parents may have burdened him with unfortunate difficulties, but nineteen-year-old Adam Sheridan didn’t expect a sudden flood of nightmares and fragmented dreams to ruin his nights and threaten his mental health. But there’s a reason for these dreams, these baffling images of people and moments from a time and place that have never once crossed Adam’s mind. As these grow more and more insistent, triggered by harmless little things in his day-to-day movements such as a co-worker’s whistling, … Read more

“We’re Here” For a Best of the Year. New Yearly Anthology Series – Boogieman in Lavender

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What would you have for your last meal? In Ann LeBlanc’s story “Twenty Thousand Last Meals on an Exploding Station,” an engineer on a doomed space station finds herself in a time loop and just has time to eat at a different one of the station’s thousands of restaurants before the end, an end which keeps repeating itself. This imaginative delicacy is just one of the delights in the 2021 edition of the new yearly anthology of Best Queer Speculative Fiction of the Year “We’re Here,” published by Neon Hemlock Press. The series stands as a fine replacement for Lethe … Read more

New Release: The Dalí Tamareia Missions (audio)

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QSFer E.M. Hamill’s Dali Tamareia Series is now completely available in audiobook format. A diplomat turned galactic operative risks everything to bring in the terrorist who shattered their life. Dalí Dalí Tamareia has everything—a young family and a promising career as an ambassador in the Sol Fed Diplomatic Corps. Dalí’s path as a peacemaker seems clear, but when their loved ones are killed in a terrorist attack, grief sends the genderfluid changeling into a spiral of self-destruction. Fragile Sol Fed balances on the brink of war with a plundering alien race. Their skills with galactic relations are desperately needed to … Read more