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“Good Bones” by Kim Fielding

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Genre: MM Paranormal Romance Length: Novel   Dylan Warner is an architect; fairly together, responsible, and usually not that reckless. However, one night he meets a guy, fools around, and then that guy turns into a wolf, bites him, and takes off. Next month—oops—Dylan’s a werewolf too. Shit. Dylan is also a responsible member of society, so instead of hanging around in the city of Portland and endangering tons of people, he moves off into the Oregon country so that he can’t hurt anyone when he goes beastie. He gets points for that. I appreciated the usual jokes about Portlanders: … Read more

Announcement: Starry-Eyed, by Abraham Steele

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Starry Eyed

QSFer Abraham Steele has a new paranormal book out: Class schedule and textbooks – check. Rainbow pin on each butt cheek – check. Badass pothead fag hag – check. Yes, Dayton is ready for his freshman year of college. All the omega twink needs now is a cutie (or several) to play with. After years of being bullied and ignored, he’s finally out on his own – and he’s ready to take full advantage of that! As soon as Dayton sees his astronomy professor, all thoughts of sluttiness go out the window. No one else can compare to the handsome … Read more

Discussion: Creating Alien Races

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Alien

Today’s topic comes from QSFer Theo Fenraven: “How does one go about inventing a believable alien race? Where do you start? What resources do you tap?” For our purposes, it seems to me that there are two competing parts to this discussion. On the sci fi romance side, it’s necessary to have an alien race that isn’t TOO different, so they can still interact with, and fall in love with, humans. On the more strictly sci-fi side, the idea that an alien race evolving from a separate ecosystem on a planet hundreds or thousands of light years away would end … Read more

Announcement: The Bear, The Witch and The Web, by Stephen del Mar

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The Bear, the Witch and the Web

QSFer Stephen del Mar has a new Fantasy book out: A month has passed since the events in Dark Love and Max is preparing to deal with the passing of his Aunt Flora May. What he isn’t prepared for is entering the world of faeries and dragons. The Jumble, the ancient wood just beyond the family farm, is in crisis. The fae are missing and the Witch of the Wood is dead. Can the Circle move past their grief and defeat the menace in the depths of the Pit? Will the secret of the Water Stone be revealed? And most … Read more

Happy Endings

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Happy Endings

Today’s topic comes from QSFer LV Lloyd: “What do you do when your readers want a ‘happy ending’? When I wrote Pirate (which has a sad ending) on wattpad – I had so many tearful complaints, I had to write a happier ending which I posted as a short story in the sub-genre of alternate world / multiverse. So – happy ending – yes or no?” No, not THAT kind up happy ending. Get your minds out of the gutter, folks! We’re talking the happy ending to a novel or short story. The one that wraps up everything in a … Read more

Midweek Mingle: Just Do It

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So, most of what I tend to post in the Midweek Mingle, at least when it comes to fiction, is fairly focused. One thing or one very small group of things to work with to help out with QUILTBAG+ inclusivity. Blah, blah, blah, you probably know the drill by now. I’m going to keep doing that, too, but this week is a bit of an aside. Not a departure from the topic, but a departure from the format, I guess you would say. Also possibly a copyright infringement on the good people at Nike, but we’ll cross that bridge when … Read more

New Photos of Saturn’s Moon Rhea

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Rhea

After a couple of years in high-inclination orbits that limited its ability to encounter Saturn’s moons, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft returned to Saturn’s equatorial plane in March 2015. As a prelude to its return to the realm of the icy satellites, the spacecraft had its first relatively close flyby of an icy moon (apart from Titan) in almost two years on Feb. 9. During this encounter Cassini’s cameras captured images of the icy moon Rhea, as shown in these in two image mosaics. The views were taken about an hour and a half apart as Cassini drew closer to Rhea. Images … Read more

Announcement: Rising Frenzy, by Brandon Witt

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Rising Frenzy

QSFer Brandon Witt has a Fantasy/Paranormal re-release out: Heartbroken, angry, and hurting, warlock Finn de Morisco feels darkness growing inside, altering every aspect of his life. There are moments when the man he used to be seems to have been devoured completely. Retreating from his family and everything he once held dear, Finn attempts to escape the despair left in the wake of Brett’s rejection—only to find dangers he never knew existed. Still struggling with the decision to leave everything he knew behind, Brett Wright is swept into a maelstrom as he searches for his place within his newly discovered … Read more

Word Nerding: Old Words We Miss

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words

Thought we’d have some fun today. As writers we generally LOVE words. And each of us has certain words we are fond of, no matter how many editors try to nix them from our writing. We were talking the other day about some of these words – specifically giveth, taketh, and thrice – and we thought it would be fun to have a chat about words that are no longer in general use that we still have a fondness for. This also applies to words like burnt (instead of burned) – although, curiously, we still say spent (not spended) and … Read more

Announcement: I’ll Still Be There, by Keelan Ellis

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I'll Still Be There

QSFer Keelan Ellis has a new paranormal book out: I’ll Still Be There tells the stories of two couples and their journeys towards love and acceptance. Jess and Eli, close friends since childhood, must overcome their own insecurities, as well as the fear of rejection and disappointment of those closest to them. The struggle faced by Clay and Silas is much more dangerous. They meet in Newark, New Jersey in the 1950s. A former hustler himself, Clay is running a small network of boys out of a friend’s bar when he meets Silas, a beautiful nineteen year old man who … Read more