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Announcement: A Little Bit Langston, by Andrew Demcak

A Little Bit Langston

QSFer Andrew Demcak has a new paranormal book out: Being different can be dangerous, and discovery can be deadly. High school freshman James Kerr is finding out he’s not quite like his classmates. Around the time he realizes he’s attracted to his best friend, Paul Schmitz, James starts channeling a dead writer’s poetry and also discovers he has an ability to manipulate energy—a super power. Before James can figure out why this is happening to him, tragedy strikes in the form of Paul’s abusive father, and James is sent to a government-run school, The Paragon Academy, which specializes in juvenile … Read more

Announcement: Wolf Caller, by Silvia Violet

Wolf Caller

QSFer Silvia Violet has a new paranormal book out: As their world draws closer to war, the future of Albion is in the hands of a werewolf pack who must protect the country’s most carefully guarded secret, a new magically-generated power source. Rumors about the mysterious Lord Derek Valmont abound, but no one in Albion’s Upper Circles knows the whole truth. Valmont is an alpha werewolf and an operative for the Office of Clandestine Affairs. Captivated—literally—by the hauntingly beautiful Serena, Valmont is furious that he can’t break the hold she has over him in wolf form. When she flees their … Read more

Announcement: A Night on Blood Isle, by Stephen del Mar

A Night on Blood Isle

QSFer Stephen del Mar has a new paranormal book out: Paddy Sheehan invites a few of his grandchildren and nephews aboard the “Song of Erin,” a sailing yacht, for the family’s traditional Thanksgiving holiday sailing trip. They leave Bennett Bay and venture into the Gulf of Mexico for the Sweetwater Keys. The keys are a small cluster of islands with a mysterious pirate past. Caesar el Rojo used Blood Isle, the main island, as his base of operations during the Golden Age of Piracy. What the crew of the “Song of Erin” don’t know is pirates, of one kind or … Read more

Announcement: Angel, by Laura Lee

Angel

DSP Publications author Laura Lee has a new paranormal/spiritual book out: Since the loss of his lively, charming wife to cancer six years ago, minister Paul Tobit has been operating on autopilot, performing his religious duties by rote. Everything changes the day he enters the church lobby and encounters a radiant, luminous being lit from behind, breathtakingly beautiful and glowing with life. An angel. For a moment Paul is so moved by his vision that he is tempted to fall on his knees and pray. Even after he regains his focus and realizes he simply met a flesh-and-blood young man, … Read more

Announcement: Rex’s Mate, by V.S. Morgan

Rex's Mate

QSFer VS Morgan has a new paranormal book out: Former assassin Rex realizes retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be without someone to share it with. He longs for the kind of connection his friends Hunter and Casey have. Tired of meaningless hookups, Rex and his wolf are ready to find their mate. But what if his mate is the human-were bunny shifter his former boss placed in his care? Can he win the heart of this fierce and beautiful man? Abducted and genetically altered against his will, Aaron is thrust into a world he’d thought was only make-believe. … Read more

Announcement: In Death, Everything, by J.R. Frontera

In Death, Everything

QSFer J.R. Frontera has a new paranormal book out: Inspired by a walk through a cemetery, this short story takes readers on an intriguing, poetic exploration of the after-death, examining our multiple origins as well as our various endings … and everything that might happen in-between. Excerpt HAVING DIED, YOU REALIZE THE LIVING HAVE DEATH FIGURED ALL WRONG. Some think they are more right than others; some don’t care if they are right at all. Some care enough about being right that they actually murder over it, which in hindsight is quite ironic—and it’s just too bad those poor murdered … Read more

Old School Scary

scary

Today’s topic comes from QSF Admin Angel Martinez: Old school paranormal and return to the scary. So often these days when people say “paranormal,” they mean sexpot vampires and shifters with fated mates. But there’s so much more to paranormal fiction – and sometimes it’s even scary, per the original intent. What makes a story scary for you? What’s the difference between “Eek! That was shocking!” and “omgomgomg, don’t leave me alone, don’t make me go in the basement, I need to turn on all the lights in the house”? Join the Chat

Announcement: Bound Volume 1, by Amy Lane

Bound Volume 1

Amy Lane has a new paranormal book out: Humans have the option of separation, divorce, and heartbreak. For Corinne Carol-Anne Kirkpatrick, sorceress and queen of the vampires, the choices are limited to love or death. Now that she is back at Green’s Hill and assuming her duties as leader, her life is, at best, complicated. Bracken and Nicky are competing for her affections, Green is away taking care of his people, and a new supernatural enemy is threatening the sanctity of all she has come to love. Throw in a family reunion gone bad, a supernatural psychiatrist, and a killer … Read more

Announcement: Travels Through the Scarlet Equinox anthology

Travels Through the Scarlet Equinox

Mischief Corner Books has a new anthology out, and it features four QSFers: The Autumnal Equinox—when the trees dress in their formal scarlet and gold and the crisp air whispers of chance and change, when bright days turn into sudden storms and the veil between reality and imagination thins. Join the Mischief Corner authors as they share stories evoking this often unpredictable time of year. A Bear’s Bear by Toni Griffin Matthew Warner’s been a Chicago Bears fan as far back as he can remember. What other team was a young bear shifter from the Smokey Mountains supposed to root … Read more

Announcement: Becomes the Rose, by Pelaam

Becomes the Rose

QSFer Pelaam has a new paranormal book out: Although Tarin’s long-term relationship ended recently, he still decides to go on the long-planned camping trip with his ex. Since the relationship had been comfortable but nothing earthshaking, they both enjoyed camping, and they’d moved back to just friends easily enough, there was no reason not to. But when he wakes up after an argument about sharing a bed, he finds his ex gone–with the car–leaving him miles from the nearest bus route back to Auckland and only his two feet to get him there. Despite detailed instructions from his hostess, Tarin … Read more