If you’re a member of the Goodreads MM Romance group, it’s time to vote in the Member Choice Awards: https://www.goodreads.com/message/show/117762613 My first published story, The Bear at the Bar, is in the Anthologies category in “A Taste of Honey”. :) Thanks to BG Thomas for taking a chance on me!
QSFer Cree Storm has another book out in her Twelve Labors series: Iphicles is accused of using the mate bond in order to release Zeus from his prison. Wanting Pegasus to have his freedom, Iphicles annuls the mating and then sets off to stop Aries’s armies. Pegasus is thrilled when Iphicles agrees to be his mate, knowing the man is petrified of animals. Until he discovers that the only reason Iphicles agreed is because Iphicles must mate with him in order to fulfill his part of the prophecy to release Zeus from his prison. Pegasus’s anger overtakes him and he … Read more
Welcome to ME ME MONDAY – special Cyber Monday edition – 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 … Read more
Where and when do you usually read? In bed? On the train? ALICE BOLIN: I read in bed or outside on the bench at my boyfriend’s house. I love reading outside. TEJU COLE: Everywhere. How long does it take to pee? Twenty-five seconds? I like to have something in hand even while doing that. (Don’t look at me that way, it’s not such a tricky skill.) DARCIE DENNIGAN: At a coffee shop is best. That way, if I’m reading something good, something worth reading, it will be ok—I’ll be safe, there will be people around, my life won’t be totally … Read more
QSFer Gina Storm Grant has a new paranormal book out: Book #2 in the Tales of B.O.O. Series (NOTE: You do not need to have read B.O.O #1, Shift Happens, to enjoy Lost Boys 2.0.). Thaddeus Wright would love to forget his childhood. A bi-racial bastard orphaned at four, he was the very definition of sin, according to the strict and disapproving grandparents who raised him. Twenty years later, Thad works with at-risk youth as both coach and counselor. Even after his grandparent’s spare-the-rod, spoil-the-child parenting, Thad just wants to help people. But when three young boys he coaches go … Read more
Today’s topic comes from QSFer Beth Brock: “How do you write your characters? Do you talk to them? Do they come through you? Or…?” When I write, I usually start with a story idea. Then I sit down to write it, and the character starts to form in my mind, I usually layer in details and history as I go, and over time, I end up with a three-dimensional, unique character. I know that some other writers work differently, planning out the minuscule details of a character before ever putting a pen to paper. Some people write the characters themselves … Read more
Therese Woodson’s second book in her Aerial City steampunk series is out from Dreamspinner: Malachi Covington, sole heir to the Covington Shipping empire and raised sheltered by his uncle, has taken a daring step and departed as a crewman aboard the airship Mockingbird. He’s experiencing new places, new foods, and new cultures, and he’s in love for the first time. Life couldn’t be better. Of course, his good fortune cannot last. His companion and pilot, Ian Molloy, comes down with Swamp Water Fever, a life-threatening illness. During their desperate attempts to save him, the Mockingbird is set upon by airship … Read more
Today’s topic comes from QSFer Tammy Jenkins: “How about a discussion thread that looks at successful books/series/TV programs in heterosexual literature/entertainment that is either not being written in the LGBTIA or is underwritten in the LGBTIA or has yet to be done successfully. For the sake of this conversation, I will call this topic, Where is ours? Cyberpunk, Time Travel, Serious Sci Fi?” Let’s start with Time Travel stories. There have been some great mainstream sci fi tales, going all the way back to HG Wells and The Time Machine to more modern takes like The Time Traveler’s Wife. So … Read more
We have a special Turkey Day announcement from Angel Martinez and Mischief Corner Books – a holiday anthology is being released today. Coming this November 27th from the Mischief Corner Crew, Chestnuts Roasting Anthology. Artwork by the talented Catherine Dair. Christmas means different things to everyone, but most often it’s all about pulling loved ones close and brightening the gloom. The fire’s crackling. The snow is piling up outside, even if it’s only in your dreams. Time to snuggle up with some cocoa and some stories carefully crafted by the Mischief Corner Crew to warm hearts and cockles. Wreath of … Read more