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Announcement: Frankie’s Vamp, by Toni Griffin

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Amber Quill author Toni Griffin has a new paranormal MM romance out: The second Frankie Reynold’s boyfriend takes a hand to him, he is out of there. Frankie isn’t hanging around to see if the man will do it again. Now, if only his ex-boyfriend will take the hint and disappear from his life. Needing a night out to forget his troubles, Frankie heads to Hot Encounters nightclub…only to come face-to-face with a master vampire who wants Frankie for his very own. Merrick Winters is a five-hundred-year-old vampire bored with life and the monotony of the same men throwing themselves … Read more

Mixing Genres

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For today’s topic, I thought we’d do a little cross-genre hopping. I love reading sci fi with a bit of a Fantasy flair – Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series, for instance, with a sci fi premise but a feudal world. Or some of Peter Hamilton’s books, that combine hard sci fi with a world that’s essentially magic. So how do y’all feel about mixed genres? A futuristic world with a fantasy feel to it? Or a paranormal with an historical bent? Urban Fantasy on another planet? Or are you a purist? And what are some of your favorite books that have … Read more

Announcement: Fantasy Collection, by Mav Anthony

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Mav Anthony at Torquere Press has a new erotic Fantasy book out: Submission and kink are explored in these four fantasy tales featuring two couples. In Willing Fire and Gilded Cage, Simeon gives into his Lord Mikjial’s desires – and his own – falling in love as he serves his master. While in Floating and Soaring, Aaron learns all sorts of wicked things as he bows to Aime’s desires. All stories originally published as individual stories. Excerpt Simeon hurried down the stone halls, slippered feet making no noise as they padded, hurried faster and faster. They had tried to put … Read more

Me Me Monday!

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Welcome to ME ME MONDAY at our FB discussion group – your chance to pop in and tell us about your latest success. Have a new book or short story coming out? Let us know. Just sell something? Let us know so we can cheer you on. HOW IT WORKS: I’ll pin this topic to the top of our FB discussion page for the day. –Please post your announcement as a separate post, so I can also share it over to our FB page (as opposed to this discussion group). –If you want, send me your book announcement info at … Read more

Announcement: Poseidon, by Cree Storm

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QSFer Cree Storm has the fifth book out in her Twelve Labors historical fantasy MM series out: Hunter has never liked pompous, overbearing men, and that was Poseidon. When Hunter is told he is Poseidon’s mate he refuses to have anything to do with the God of Atlantis. Fearful of Hera and Aries’ wrath, Hunter is taken to Atlantis, where Poseidon must convince Hunter he is not the man Hunter thinks he is before it’s too late. When Hunter has a run in with mermen determined to go to war against the people from the land below, he decides that … Read more

Children’s Food

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Hey all… we’re having some work done on the blog on a new feature, so it’s temporarily down. So today’s topic will be on the FB page only. The topic comes from QSFer Jim Comer: Jim noticed this article about what we feed kids these days: http://news.nationalpost.com/the-kids-menu/ and asked “I wonder how many writers realize how weird it is to have ‘special’ food for kids. Most Earth cultures feed weaned kids the same that adults eat. So I wonder: what attention have people given to these topics? Are we scared of kids, as LGBT people? I don’t know. I am … Read more

Announcement: Dark Waters, by Chris Quinton

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QSFer Chris Quinton has a paranormal book that’s just out in paperback: Flein is a wanderer by instinct and need, roaming the known world as the fancy takes him. In the Highland village of Glenfinnan, women have been raped and brutally murdered. The killer is a waterhorse, a monstrous shapeshifter by all accounts. But when Flein meets Donnchadh, first in its equine form, then its man-shape, he knows the waterhorse is innocent. Flein is drawn to the shapeshifter, but he finds it difficult to acknowledge it’s more than a monster. Donnchadh, though wary, shares the same attraction. They join forces … Read more

Strange Pairings

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All of us know a couple who seems a little mis-matched – maybe one is really tall and the other is short. Or one is a democrat and one’s a republican. Or one is male and the other is female. I know. Weird, right? But somehow they work. So to celebrate Valentine’s Day, we’re gonna talk about strange pairings. As a reader, what strange pairings have you read in LGBT fiction, and liked or hated? And as a writer, have you written any? Or do you want to? Werewolf plus Vampire? Elf plus Dwarf? Earthman plus Martian? Or something more … Read more

Announcements: Gilded Scarab; and Gyrfalcon, by Anna Butler

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Today we have a special announcement – a blog post from QSFer Anna Butler, who’s doing a blog tour to promote not one, but two new books: Ever had one of those weeks were someone’s stuck rollerskates under your boots and you’re being whizzed along without feeling you’re still in control? The world is rushing past you and you’re galloping to catch up, trying to cram a lot of real excitement into a very few days? Welcome to my world! Valentine’s Day tomorrow, then next Monday, 16th February, my first novel — a steampunk coffeehouse adventure m/m romance called The … Read more

Fan Fic Outings

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OK, I thought we’d have a little fun today. A lot of writers got their start doing fan fiction – taking beloved characters / universes and putting their own (often LGBT) spin on them. Think Kirk and Spock as a power Trek couple. So if you were going to write your own sci fi, paranormal, or LGBY fan fic, which characters would you out? Where would they fall on the LGBTQI… spectrum? And what stories would you tell?