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ANNOUNCEMENT: A Flight in the Heavens – Gabrielle Gagne-Cyr

June 21, 2021 by scott

QSFer Gabrielle Gagne-Cyr has a new lesbian fantasy/steampunk book out, Theurgy of the Gods book 1: A Flight in the Heavens. “I see you, my little moppets.” The king is dead, long live his murderer. After fifteen years of passive torment, Farrah and her implacable group of renegades endeavour to alter their fates by attempting to assassinate the man who stole everything from them, Daemon Daromas. Alas, he who wields the theurgy of the gods has no rivals in the lands of Iscar but those foolish enough to challenge their wrath. When confronted by this ancient and destructive force, the … Read more

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

January 6, 2021 by scott

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

ANNOUNCEMENT: Meran’s Reproach – Deonne Dane

December 26, 2020 by scott

Who is the man of Maki Dira’s vision? Eighteen moons before Falric’s spade scraped against the ominous gem, Anigema, Voce scholar Meran Durante found himself relentlessly plagued by a singular, deathly vision. Meran knows those subjected to the magic of the dreamlands have often been driven into madness. And when the frequency of his vision escalates exponentially, he finds himself teetering on the edge of despair. But when a close friend shows him a way to defy the dreamland’s call, will Meran take the path of willful dissolution, or will he face his ultimate fear and wrest control of his … Read more

REVIEW: Forgiving Lance – M.D. Grimm

October 16, 2020 by scott

Genre: Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book A tragic secret. A trial of pain. Gust holds a secret close to his heart, and it festers like an infected wound. While part of him wants to tell Lance so they can deal with it together, he fears what it will do to his friend. The last thing he wants to do is hurt the man he is falling in love with. And it never seems the right time as they pursue Ulfr’s warriors and elude hunting parties of royal … Read more

REVIEW: Avenging Lance – M.D. Grimm

October 15, 2020 by scott

Genre: Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book A child’s memory. A journey’s end. Lance doesn’t remember the time before Ulfr found him. It’s a dark pit in his mind that he avoids at all costs. And yet, despite his best efforts, pieces start to fall, and echoes from the past begin to ring. However, he has little time to comprehend their meaning, since the Captain of the Imperial Army herself has come to collect him and bring him to the capital city of the Nifdem Empire. Whisked away … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: A perilous Journey – Clare Solomon

September 23, 2020 by scott

QSFer Clare Solomon has a new YA epic fantasy book out, Ascended Book One: “A Perilous Journey.” She will do anything to protect those she loves – even risk losing her soul. Fifteen-year-old Keilena hates the Ascended, the powerful magic-possessors who rule Pellotal and think their own laws don’t apply to them. She lives a quiet life with her carpenter father, enlivening it by getting into mischief whenever she can. Everything changes when a stranger arrives with a secret about her identity that destroys her current life. Forced to take a journey led by people she can’t trust, Keilena hatches … Read more

FOR WRITERS: Show Me Your World

September 23, 2020 by scott

FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J Scott Coatsworth: If you write epic fantasy, you probably have maps. Rough sketches or beautiful pen and ink drawings to help you figure out how Zlink the Sorcerer Plumber gets from the Great City of Schlump to the end of his quest at the Grand Pipes in the Unusually Wet Desert. We wanna see ’em – share your maps with us! Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Hunter’s Gambit, by Nicholas McIntire

March 29, 2020 by scott

QSFer Nicholas McIntire has a new epic gay fantasy out, The Archanium Codex Book 1: “The Hunter’s Gambit.” No one promised Aleksei Drago an easy life. Growing up amongst the Ri-Vhan of Seil Wood, losing his mother and just as suddenly being torn from the forest folk, Aleksei had no choice but to make the best of an unpredictable situation. But what happens when the monsters and figures of fiction become horrifyingly real? How will Aleksei cope? When the stakes are at their highest, will he finally falter? Or will he rise to the occasion, reforging himself into the man … Read more

FOR BOTH: Is Fantasy Romance Still Viable?

February 4, 2018 by scott

FOR WRITERS & READERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Amy Wasp Wimberger: Fantasy Romance (especially epic fantasy) is one of the lowest selling categories in the romance world. Why do you think that is? Is it a viable genre? Is it due for a comeback? Writers, do you write it? What’s your experience? Readers, do you read it? If not, why? Join the chat