New Orleans – Queer Sci Fi

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New Release / Giveaway: The Black Lily Society – Alice G. Holmes

August 22, 2024 by scott

Alice G. Holmes has a new queer paranormal book out, April Oaks, book 2 (ace, demi, lesbian, gay, bi, poly): The Black Lily Society. Lyric Morrison is looking to get away. After the Phoenix Coup, she wants to forget all about vampires. She decides to move to New Orleans, the perfect place for a fresh start. However, upon moving into her new apartment, Lyric meets a woman named Heather Campbell. She’s bright, she’s cheerful, and she’s dead. Heather is a ghost, and she wants Lyric to solve her murder. Suddenly, Lyric finds herself pulled back into the world of vampires … Read more

Ghost Hunting at America’s Oldest Gay Bar

December 3, 2022 by scott

Whose ghost is more likely to pinch a bar patron’s booty: Truman Capote or Tennessee Williams? #SpookySeason is nigh on the balcony of the oldest—and possibly most haunted—gay bar in America*, and this casual debate is unfolding over the notoriously strong Bloody Maries of Cafe Lafitte in Exile, said to be the final drinking place of both literary legends. Neither Capote nor Williams’ incorporeal forms have ever been documented playing grab-ass, for the record. That dubious spectral accomplishment belongs to “Mr. Bubbly,” a cheeky spirit who’s allegedly been pinching patrons for decades in New Orleans’ most famous gay safe space. … Read more

REVIEW: Pangs – Jerry Wheeler

February 23, 2022 by scott

Genre: Paranormal, Vampire LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Unlike their Blood Brethren, Warner and Seth are vampires who subsist on talent. They have been enemies for centuries, competing to feed on artists with the most prodigious musical gifts, and country blues singer Wade Dixon is no exception. But the pursuit and capture of Dixon unleashes unexpected forces that carry these combatants from the earthly realm to a dangerous land of eternal night where they must work together or die alone. The Review Although it starts in New Orleans, a … Read more

REVIEW: The Vampire’s Pirate – Liv Rancourt

September 17, 2021 by scott

Genre: Paranormal, Historical, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Is death too great a risk when the reward is freedom? Dáire Malone has been undead for over 200 years when he is summoned to the home of a would-be queen, a vampiress who possesses an unnatural potency. She declares that Malone will not leave without giving her a pledge of loyalty. He’s been held in thrall before and would rather face his final death than let another have power over him. Thomas Clifton is a pirate, or rather, a privateer. He too is … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Hexxed, by Shannon West

June 30, 2019 by scott

QSFer Shannon West has a new MM paranormal book out, the first in the Witches of the Big Easy series: “Hexxed.” And there’s a giveaway! Self-exiled to New York for the past two years, Nic Gaudet never planned to return to New Orleans. But with the mysterious death of an old man named Abel Delessard, a member of a family of Cajun witches who were his own family’s greatest enemies, it seems he has fallen under suspicion of murder. He’s been accused by none other than the man’s grandson—and Nic’s former lover—Thibeau Delessard. Nic is furious and travels to confront … Read more