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New Release: Trolling For Love – BL Maxwell

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Trolling For Love - BL Maxwell

QSFer BL Maxwell has a new MM fantasy romance out: Trolling for Love. Looking for love isn’t easy when you’re an antisocial troll. Gunnar has existed near the border of the monster world in the wilds of Iceland for centuries only straying into the human world occasionally out of boredom. He finds many of their belongings they’ve dropped while exploring. One of those items was a phone and after attempting to figure out how it works, Gunnar finds an app that intrigues him, Monster Match. Flynn Davies has worked in the lumber industry since he was old enough to apply, … Read more

Review: The Wolf and his Alien – A. Williams

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The Wolf and his Alien - A. Williams

Genre: Paranormal, Sci-Fi, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It At Amazon About The Book Wolf shifter Lodon goes on a quest to find his fated mate. He sees a star fall from the sky and his wolf gets excited. Arlo leaves his damaged spaceship in an escape pod which lands in a lake. He is rescued by Lodon. The Review This was a very short story, but nevertheless it was interesting. Lodon is to be the Alpha after his father is gone, and is supposed to find his fated mate, who apparently isn’t in his … Read more

Sources of Inspiration: Rudeness

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Courtesy is extremely alluring to me, even in story or real life. Rudeness I’ve always found repellent.  I try very hard not to be rude myself. I don’t want the rudeness in the world to grow, swelled by my own. At the same time, it’s very hard not to respond in kind. I find myself visualize doing all sorts of impossible things in retaliation.  I walk straight through the rude people, causing them to shudder with cold or share my hot flashes. My target feels my anger, like a blow.  I imagine the rude person changing into a form that … Read more

New Release: Amethyst Storms – Layla Dorine & TL Travis

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Amethyst Storms - Layla Dorine & TL Travis

QSFers Layla Dorine & TL Travis have a new MM fantasy romance out (gay, pan), Primordial Protectors book 1: Amethyst Storms. As the eldest of the Primordial Protectors of Clan Denarius, Ionus spent decades training his stubborn brothers and keeping them in line. Just once he’d like to take time off from worrying about them and focus on seeking that which his heart truly craves. His mate. If they even exist… Free spirited, rock loving, cave spelunking Alex is on a quest to visit the most untouched spaces in the world. Without his GPS he gets lost in a twisted … Read more

New Release: Beyond Good & Evil II: The Future Past – James E. Honaker

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Beyond Good & Evil II: The Future Past - James E. Honaker

QSFer James E. Honaker has a new gay fantasy book out, Beyond Good & Evil II: The Future Past. The sun dims, shadows grow, and ruination draws near. The Tomb of the Almighty, thought to be the home of a divine presence, was opened, and it has unleashed a ruinous presence back upon the world keen on resuming a conquest interrupted. The shadows have spilled forth, destroying the sky city of Aracoras and wrapping their tendrils around the sky city of Lunaria and trying to subjugate the rest of the lands above the cloud sea. Venser, son of the late … Read more

Review: The Crack at the Heart of Everything – Fiona Fenn

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The Crack at the Heart of Everything - Fiona Fenn

Genre: Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay, Gender Fluid, Lesbian Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon | Publisher | B&N | Kobo About The Book He accidentally cursed himself… When the consequences get him exiled to the land he helped terrorize, can this evil wizard find redemption… and love? Orpheus can’t believe it’s come to this. After helping his childhood friend conquer the realm by raising an army of hell-beasts, the befuddled dark sorcerer finds himself banished when the price of his magic endangers the palace. Isolated and betrayed, the feared spellcaster isn’t exactly thrilled when his irritating and handsome rival keeps stepping between him and … Read more

New Release / Giveaway: Specimen – C. Quince

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Specimen - C. Quince

QSFer C. Quince has a new MM sci fi romance out, Prism Agents book 1: Specimen. David Cortez, a decorated US Marine, is now on the run from his own government after escaping a top-secret CIA lab when an experimental medical procedure turned sour. While lying low in Mexico, an assassin sent from British Intelligence tracks him down. However, Sonny from MI6, a British-Iranian with a cockney accent, offers David a choice: join his team, or be killed. David chooses to work with Sonny, not only because he wants his life back, but because he feels a kinship with the … Read more

C. L. Moore’s “No Woman Born.” On Beyond Cisgender X – Boogieman In Lavender

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NOTE: This occasional series was inspired in 2019 by a suggestion from A. M. Leibowitz about a reading list for High School beyond the straight, white, male paradigm. In this edition, we won’t talk about a book, but rather about one story. We’ve met C. L. (Catherine Lucille) Moore several times in this column and in this feature. Moore (1911-1987)is the science-fiction and fantasy writer for the pulps from the 30s through the 50s in an era where women writing in that field were seemingly rare or concealed; whose use of initials was not meant to hide her femininity but … Read more

New Release: Dungeon Hunter: Act I – Lazarus James

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Dungeon Hunter: Act I - Lazarus James

QSFer Lazarus James has a new queer LitRPG book out (ace, bi, gay, lesbian, non-binary): Dungeon Hunter: Act I. Is it aliens? Demons? Alternate dimensions? Black holes are rippling into existence around the globe, and Lee Castillo’s panic attacks are back. Just this morning, he’d been practicing how to tell his ex-best friend and flatmate Axel that he was potentially thinking about maybe moving out sometime soon or something. And then the world as everyone knew it ended. ~System Loaded. Dungeons Active~ Now, Axel’s personality has flipped on its head, all comms are down, and there’s a foreign desire compelling … Read more

Review: Kingdom of Malice – R.J. Vickers

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Review: Kingdom of Malice - R.J. Vickers

Genre: Epic Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay, Lesbian Reviewer: Vin, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book War is spilling past the borders of Itrea. No corner of the world remains untouched. Tucked away in the mountains of Cashabree, Kalleah finds the long-lost knowledge of how to use her magic. Knowledge that could change the world. But if she can’t master it in time, she won’t be able to save Baylore. The Whitish are tightening their stranglehold on Chelt, removing her potential allies one by one. Nowhere on land remains safe. Perhaps she can find another route … Read more