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Announcement: Haunting Muses Anthology

Haunting Muses

QSFer Doreen Perrine has pulled together a new FF paranormal anthology out: In this collection of lesbian stories, ghosts, be they actual or the metaphorical ghosts of memories, aren’t necessarily evil and hauntings may or may not be bad. How do we move beyond the foul spirits or integrate the shining beings who haunt us in the cruelest or the best ways? And how do we or our characters reconcile these ghosts into transformation and healing within present reality? Buy Links Amazon Editor Bio Doreen Perrine is a writer and artist who lives in the Hudson Valley of upstate New … Read more

Announcement: Burning Suns: Conflagration Book Two, by Lisa Wylie

Burning Suns: Conflagration Book Two

QSFer Lisa Wylie has a new queer sci fi book out: Thrown into an unwilling partnership by a heist gone bad and a botched assassination, mercenary captain Jennifer Bronwen and changeling intelligence agent Keera Naraymis are on the run from just about everybody. If they can learn to trust one another, maybe they can figure out exactly how their lives got turned upside down. But right now, mired as they are in a game of cat and mouse in the bowels of a criminal’s lair, that seems like a big if. On the other side of the galaxy, Admiral Kiith … Read more

Marvel Greenlights Solo Series for Lesbian Superhero

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Marvel just announced at New York Comic-Con that America Chavez, a character who debuted in Young Avengers, will receive a solo comic book series in 2017. That series, called America, will be Marvel’s first solo run about a lesbian superhero. America, in the Young Avengers comics, was born on the planet Utopia (from another dimension) to her two mothers, who gave her the superpowers that she uses on Earth. Her powers include flight, bulletproof skin, super strength, and inter-dimensional travel. Because her first name is America, she chose Marvel’s moniker “Miss America” as a crime-fighting identity, and has worked with … Read more

Miley Cyrus – Yes, Make Elsa a Lesbian

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Miley Cyrus has some definite thoughts about the direction Disney’s Frozen 2 and its main character. ‘I think it would be awesome if Elsa was a lesbian!’ Cyrus said during an interview with Idina Menzel who voices the character. Menzel was a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show this week and Cyrus was a surprise guest host who filled in for an ailing DeGeneres. By Greg Hernandez – Full Story at Gay Star News

Announcement: Syndicandi, by Joanna Krotka and Roberto Iolini

Syncandi

Joanna Krotka and Roberto Iolini have a new FF science fiction romance adventure project out: REAL LOVE IN A SYNTHETIC WORLD Studio Syncandi Kyoto proudly presents SYNCANDI – a new science fiction romance adventure story told through comics, songs, videos and more! Sync is an elite military assassin infected by a viral weapon. Sync’s body is mostly synthetic – only her heart and brain are original. She’d rather die than have the state corporation which owns her body turn her into a fully synthetic immortal killer. She decides to exile herself to an abandoned experimental zone codenamed Genies Res, a … Read more

Announcement: Daybreak Rising, by Kiran Oliver

Daybreak Rising

QSFer Kiran Oliver has a new FF fantasy book out: Celosia Brennan was supposed to be a hero. After a spectacular failure that cost her people their freedom, she is offered a once-in-a-lifetime chance at redemption. Together with a gifted team of rebels, she not only sets her sights on freedom, but defeating her personal demons along the way. Now branded a failure, Celosia desperately volunteers for the next mission: taking down the corrupt Council with a team of her fellow elementally gifted mages. Leading the Ember Operative gives Celosia her last hope at redemption. They seek to overthrow the … Read more

Idina Menzel Excited About #GiveElsaAGirlfriend

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So many fans want Elsa to have a girlfriend in Frozen 2 that a #GiveElsaAGirlfriend campaign was born earlier this year. Idina Menzel, who gives Elsa her voice and had a career hit with the theme song Let It Go, admits she was at first a little surprised by the movement. ‘I can say that I’m excited that the conversation is happening,’ Menzel tells PrideSource in an interview posted today. Full Story at Gay Star News

Announcement: As I Descended, by Robin Talley

As I Descended

QSFer Robin Talley has a new YA FF horror book out: From the acclaimed author of Lies We Tell Ourselves, Robin Talley, comes a Shakespeare-inspired story of revenge and redemption, where fair is foul, and foul is fair. Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are their school’s ultimate power couple—but one thing stands between them and their perfect future: campus superstar Delilah Dufrey. Golden child Delilah is a legend at exclusive Acheron Academy, and the presumptive winner of the distinguished Cawdor Kingsley Prize. But Delilah doesn’t know that Lily and Maria are willing to do anything—absolutely anything—to unseat Delilah for the … Read more

Announcement: The Caverns of Mars, by D.B. Drew

The Caverns of Mars

QSFer D.B. Drew has a new lesbian sci fi out: In 2082, an elite group of scientists race to secure the future of humanity with alien technology left from the distant past, buried deep in THE CAVERNS OF MARS… Martina “Marty” Barbotti jumps at the opportunity to travel to the Mars base to secure the network and data systems on a secret project spearheaded by her longtime friend. It’s quickly apparent that Marty and the small group of gifted scientists have their hands full deciphering technology far superior to their own. Technology that’s alien in origin and at least a … Read more

For Readers: Metaphorically Queer

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For Readers: Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Andrew Kelley: I know that there are several Sci-fi movies and books that weren’t specifically LGBT themes and didn’t even make mention of any LGBT issues that I strongly identified with and really moved me. Even though I don’t think the author/director/screenwriter meant it to be an analogy it still could have been. Are there movies/ books that others felt this way about as well? 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