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ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Sunshine in the Dragon’s Heart, by Jaime Samms

Sunshine in the Dragon's Heart

QSFer Jaime Samms has a new MM fantasy book out: Sunshine in the Dragon’s Heart. When Sunny retires to the northern Ontario wilderness to mourn his parents’ deaths, he’s hoping the change of scenery will afford him some peace and quiet. His hopes are soon spectacularly dashed. In self-imposed exile, dragon Emile runs across the Fold between his dimension and Sunny’s—and right into Sunny’s arms. Centuries out of touch with human culture, bright, beautiful Emile incinerates any hope Sunny had for an ordinary existence. With dryads and water sprites coming to life all around them, Sunny can’t deny the magic … Read more

VIDEOGAMES: Steamy New Game “To Trust an Incubus”

To Trust an Incubus

When Kenta Tanimoto began his temp job at Japan’s Inner-Dimensional Institute, he never expected that he’d become its test subject. The institute recently obtained four hunky incubi (male sexual demons) from another dimension, but these evil creatures can only speak by “bonding” with someone else…. and Kenta is that someone. This is the plot of To Trust an Incubus, a recently released gay sci-fi yaoi/bara dating sim that’s basically a Choose Your Own Adventure video game. For three months, Kenta will live in quarantine to try and bond with one or more incubi. But while each one is muscular with … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Forbidden Pursuits, by Harry F. Rey

Forbidden Pursuits

Harry F. Rey has a new MM sci fi book out in his Galactic Captains series: Forbidden Pursuits. When Daeron’s mother is offered a risky but lucrative job—rescuing an experimental galinium scientist from Aldegar—the lost loves lurking in her past mean she must send Daeron away to the other end of the galaxy; to the father he’s never met on the Kyleri Empire’s capital, Jiwani. On Jiwani, the heir to the galaxy’s most powerful empire Prince Osvai balances deference to rigid Kyleri customs with his desire to explore the forbidden secrets of the Royal Baths, and the dark desires no … Read more

Me Me Monday!

Me Me Monday

Welcome to M3: 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 we can comment on yours specifically –Check out the other posts and congratulate and share them too! And congratulations!!!

PALEONTOLOGY: There Was An (Ugly) Ice-Age Unicorn

Ice Age Unicorn

A burly “unicorn” that once plodded over grasslands in Siberia was around for much longer than once thought — long enough to have roamed the land at the same time as modern humans. This one-horned native of the steppes, Elasmotherium sibiricum, was a hefty, furry beast in the rhino family that weighed nearly 4 tons — more than twice the weight of a white rhinoceros, the largest species of modern rhino. Previous interpretations of E. sibiricum bones suggested that they died out 200,000 years ago, but recent analysis hints that E. sibricum fossils are much younger than that, dating to … Read more

CALLS: Two Calls From Avid Publishing LLC

Avid Publishing

In celebration of Valentine. THEME: Valentine MINIMUM WORD COUNT LIMIT: 7,000 words GENRE: All Genre (Contemporary, Paranormal, Sci-Fi and so on.) CATEGORY: Male/Male (MM), Male/Female (MF), Female/Female (FF) DEADLINE for SUBMISSION: DECEMBER 31, 2018 Email Subject: Submission: Valentine19 – Book Title(word count) Email body: Pen name, Legal Name Book Title Indicate Genre & Category Blurb of 150 words Book description (Main characters, conflict, resolution) ​MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINE: Label Header: Last name/book title. Label Manuscript: Valentine19 – Book Title Paragraphs: No Tab. Use Paragraph formatting 0.5″ first line. Times New Roman 12 Attachment: Manuscript in word doc. format. Submission Email: submissions.avidpublishing@gmail.com In celebration of Second … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space) Anthology

Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space)

QSFer Catherine Lundoff’s Queen of Swords Press has a new pirate anthology book out: Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space) Anthology. Outlaws. Lovers. Heroes. Villains. With their peg legs, their parrots and the skull and crossbones flying from the mastheads of their ships, classic pirates are some of the world’s best-known and easily recognizable outlaws. Or are they? These fifteen stories spin new tales of pirates crossing dimensional barriers for revenge, fighting terrible foes in outer space and building new lives after the Trojan War. Travel to the South China Sea, then on to New York City after … Read more

FOR WRITERS: Writing a Warming World

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: As the climate changes, there will be all kinds of ramifications – on the physical world, on society, and on our institutions. How do you forsee the world changing? What sci fi nuggets can we pry out of it? And can we somehow make a difference in the shape of things to come? Join the chat

SCIENCE: Is This “Hairy Ogre” Microbe A Whole New Branch on the Tree of Life?

Hairy Ogre Microbe

Who needs aliens when there are bizarre life forms still to be discovered in Canada? Scientists recently detected two previously unknown species of microbes in a Canadian dirt sample, and the specimens were so unusual that the researchers had to reorganize the tree of life to make room for them. The microbes, also known as protists, belong to a group with the tongue-twisting name hemimastigotes, and the first-ever genetic analysis of these peculiar microorganisms revealed that they were even stranger than anyone suspected. Hemimastigotes, first observed in the 1800s, were previously classified as a phylum within a much larger group … Read more