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ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Through Rain and Missing Mantaurs – Jeanne Marcella

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Through Rain and Missing Mantaurs - Jeanne Marcella

Jeanne Marcella has a new MM/MMF dark fantasy out: “Through Rain and Missing Mantaurs.” And there’s a giveaway! Her past is postage due and centaurs are ready to collect. Through Rain and Missing Mantaurs is a dark fantasy most daring and eccentric. A tale not for the faint of heart. Pony is a bipedal half-breed centaur with no desire to waste tears on a past she can’t remember. She’s busy enough with her mail routes and package deliveries, and of course, floundering through hot-cold love affairs with the high class courtesans Mardyth and Lullaby. The mundane drudgery of her life … Read more

FOR READERS AND WRITERS: Elves

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elf - Deposit Photos

FOR WRITERS & READERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Ben Brock: I think we should talk about elves, because that’s Jim Comer’s favorite topic in the ENTIRE world. I feel as if we’d be doing him a huge disservice if we didn’t really explore elves and discuss their twinky bodies, pointy ears, and snotty attitudes.  It’d also be great if Jim would post those pics of him cosplaying Legolas. Writers: This is a writer & reader chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Power Surge, by Sara Codair

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Power Surge

QSFer Sara Codair has a new enby/pansexual paranormal/fantasy book out in The Evanstar Chronicles: Power Surge. Erin has just realized that for the entirety of their life, their family has lied to them. Their Sight has been masked for years, so Erin thought the Pixies and Mermaids were hallucinations. Not only are the supernatural creatures they see daily real, but their grandmother is an Elf, meaning Erin isn’t fully human. On top of that, the dreams Erin thought were nightmares are actually prophecies. While dealing with the anger they have over all of the lies, they are getting used to … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Morgan, by J. Scott Coatsworth

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Morgan

QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth is releasing a new MM urban fantasy short – Morgan. It was spring in Portland, and I was studying for yet another test when Morgan showed up. He was exotic, gorgeous, and sexy as hell, but he wouldn’t tell me where he was from. Four seasons went by, and I still knew almost nothing about him. But I was about to find out. Morgan is a short story. Get It On Amazon / KU Excerpt It was the first day of Spring. I’d taken on a heavy class load in my junior year at OSU, and … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Leander, by Danielle Summers

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Leander

QSFer Danielle Summers has a new MM fantasy book out: Can a human survive being introduced to his elf boyfriend’s parents? Leander Brooks hopes so. He loves the human world, but misses his elven family. And his human boyfriend Michael Jensen has been nagging him for months to introduce him to his parents. Leander thinks he has prepared Michael for the cold reception he might receive. Soon, he learns he hasn’t prepared him enough for a situation that quickly goes from hostile to potentially deadly. Michael was thrilled when he learned that he was going to meet Leander’s family at … Read more

Announcement: Myths Untold; Faery

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Myths Untold: Faery

QSFers August Li, Brandon Witt, Skye Hegyes and J. Scott Coatsworth have a new fantasy book out: Faeries are part of mythology the world over, past, present, and future. Called elves, brownies, the fae, and more, they evoke a sense of wonder and a little danger. Faery has its own rules, and humans enter at their peril. In this spirit, we bring you the first book in the Myths Untold anthology series—four stories from the land of the Fae: a homeless man in Cardiff and the luck that could destroy him; the trans man in future San Francisco who falls … Read more

Writer Discussion: There’s An Elf in My Soup

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Today’s writer topic comes from QSF Admin Angel Martinez: Waiter, there’s an elf in my soup! Non-human sentients in the city – how traditional folktale and fantasy creatures change in modern, otherwise real-world settings. Angel’s kind of an expert in these things – she’s done several series that put mythical creatures in real world settings. And we’re not talking just an elf, but also yetis, demons, pink hedgehogs, centaurs, and many many more. So as a writer, how would you add a little mythology to Manhattan, a little fantasy to Firenze? Join the Chat