FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Kari Trenten: What are you all time favorite science fiction/fantasy or speculative fiction TV shows? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABV MeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf
QSFer A.C. Wise has a new gay horror book out: “Catfish Lullaby.” Small town secrets lead to trouble for everyone as Caleb must confront the demons of his past in this Southern Gothic queer cosmic horror, a tale of weird magic and monsters on the bayou. LEWIS IS A TOWN OF SECRETS The Royce family has been a plague on the small, Southern town of Lewis for generations. Caleb has heard rumors about the family his whole life, just like he’s heard the rumors about a monstrous creature known as Catfish John living in the swamp. When the Royce house … Read more
QSFer Aaron A. Reed has a new bi/gay horror book out where no two copies are the same: “Subcutanean.” A singular queer horror novel that changes each time it’s printed. Each copy contains a unique telling of the story: no two are ever quite the same. Insecure college senior Orion loves music, books, and his best friend Niko. When the two of them find a secret basement in their rambling old off-campus house, at first Orion’s thrilled. It’s another secret to share, another adventure to maybe, at last, bring them closer together. But something’s wrong: the basement doesn’t end. Blandly … Read more
QSFer Matt Converse has a new MM Horror book out: “I’m the Last Face You’ll Ever See.” Take a terrifying look inside the twisted mind of a serial killer in this modern day nod to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Sean’s nightmares seem psychically connected to Stephen, a loner who lives in the back of the building. After several grisly murders including a dead body reveal like no other, Sean and best friend Anna set out to expose him as the killer despite warnings from Anna’s boyfriend Danny. The killer speaks directly to the reader and lives by the chilling words he … Read more
Kim Fielding and F.E. Feeley Jr. have a new gay horror book out, and we have the cover reveal: “Hallelujah.” Can you hear it? Whispering in the dark. Secrets only the dark knows. Joseph Moore, choir director for the First Baptist Church of Lenora, Nebraska, has secrets of his own. Terrible, lonely secrets. One that involves natural human desire. One that calls forth powers he cannot begin to understand. Both with the potential to destroy him and those he loves. Now the world is changing. The darkness, the shadows, the ghosts, are closing in—and Joseph and his lover, Kevin, are … Read more
QSFer L.J. Hasbrouck has a new gay horror book out, book two in the Stalker/s series: “Evolution.” Brian Jameson left behind a world of chaos—vicious Stalkers, ruthless survivors, and an unforgiving landscape of bitter cold and snow—and escaped to an idyllic island paradise with the love of his life. But now he must abandon everything he fought for and return to the warped remnants of America, land of the lost and the home of the depraved. His sizzling affair with hotheaded Cajun Louis Lavellé came to a boil when Louis’s secrets surfaced: among them, the fact that he left his … Read more
QSFer Amy Rae Durreson has a new gay horror/paranormal book out: “Something Wicked This Way Comes.” A workaholic teacher and a cranky blacksmith investigate a haunted orphanage in the remote Scottish Borders. What they find together might help them heal the wounds of their pasts… if they survive. When the charity Leon works for inherits the orphanage, he travels north to see if the site is suitable for a new school. But Vainguard is a place of dark secrets, and Leon unearths a mystery about four children who died there in 1944—a tragic tale with an uncanny connection to the … Read more
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Brandon Lesane: What types/titles of Horror best balance your need to be horrified with your need for [believable] resolutions? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABV MeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf
QSFer Catherine Lundoff has a new horror anthology out: “Unfinished Business.” Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic features a mix of twelve short stories about ghosts, monsters, revenge, new spins on old tales, wronged women and really bad jobs by award-winning author Catherine Lundoff. (Mixed LGBTQ/other content). Unfinished Business marks the launch of Queen of Swords Press “Mini” series. These titles will be shorter books that feature single author short story collections or novella length works, each grouped around a single theme or shared set of characters. Get It At Amazon | Queen of Swords Press | Universal Buy Link Excerpt From … Read more
FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Kari Trenten: What are certain plot and character features in sci fi, fantasy, paranormal and horror that you simply can’t get enough of? 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 discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABV MeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf