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New Release: How Six Saved the Frogs – Blaine D. Arden

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How Six Saved the Frogs - Blaine D. Arden

QSFer Blaine D. Arden has a new MM sci-fi romance out (ace, gay, pan, trans): How Six Saved the Frogs. Can you leave your heart on the other side of the galaxy?When Wouter, a down-to-earth dyslexic caretaker, accidentally activates a travel disc sent by his late brother, he finds himself whisked away to a distant planet. Desperate to go home and reassure his grieving mother he’s alive, he’s instead stuck struggling to fill his brother’s shoes to keep the amphibian bani from freezing to death. Nif, a bani healer, clings to human music as a lifeline to memories of joy … Read more

New Release: Ocean’s Blood – Thelma Mantey

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Ocean's Blood - Thelma Mantey

QSFer Thelma Mantey has a new MM dark fantasy out, The Drowning book 1: Ocean’s Blood. A decade ago, Vindt’s homeland was overthrown with the help of Singers and their song magic. Forced into their service, Vindt has been struggling for freedom ever since. His goal seems within reach when the Singer he’s bound to is unexpectedly killed. Instead, he gains a new master: the sly and enigmatic Asche. Coincidence? Maybe not. Singers suffer from a terrible curse, and Vindt might hold the key to ending it, if that’s what Asche is after. The Singer’s brethren claim Asche’s on a … Read more

New Release: Guardians – T.J. Baer

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Guardians - T.J. Baer

QSFer T.J. Baer has a new FF YA Sci-Fantasy book out: Guardians. Seventeen-year-old Alisha Howard is having a rough day. She’s had to rescue her headstrong little brother from getting eaten by a monster from another dimension, her mom has put her on dish duty as punishment for bringing her sword to the table (again), and her lifelong enemy, snarky rich girl Belladonna, is starting to look like both a real human being and someone Alisha would like to kiss. To make matters worse, it looks like the world is about to end. Alisha is a Guardian, a sworn protector … Read more

New Release / Giveaway: Make Like Mountains – BL Jones

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Make Like Mountains - BL Jones

QSFer BL Jones has a new MM sci-fi romance out, Liquid Onyx book 2: Make Like Mountains. Four months ago, Rexley Nova exploded into Danger City, fought some villains, saved some people, and became the vigilante known by the media as ‘Wrath’. Alongside the superpowered friends he grew up with and Danger’s resident hero, Polaris, Rex is doing his best to protect the city and save the world on the regular, while also attempting to curb some of his more violent tendencies and figure out what the villainous group of Mages he’s been fighting are up to. Through all this, … Read more

New Release / Giveaway: Skythane Audiobook – J. Scott Coatsworth

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Skythane (audio)

J. Scott Coatsworth has a new MM sci-fi romance audiobook out, Oberon Cycle book one: Skythane. And there’s a giveaway. Jameson Havercamp, a psych from a conservative religious colony, has come to Oberon—unique among the Common Worlds—in search of a rare substance called pith. He’s guided through the wilds on his quest by Xander Kinnison, a handsome, cocky wing man with a troubled past. Neither knows that Oberon is facing imminent destruction. Even as the world starts to fall apart around them, they have no idea what’s coming—or the bond that will develop between them as they race to avert … Read more

New Release / Giveaway: Nova’s Got Nerve – B L Jones

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New Release / Giveaway: Nova's Got Nerve - B L Jones

B L Jones has a new MM sci-fi romance out, Liquid Onyx book 1: Nova’s Got Nerve. And there’s a giveaway. He’s got far too much nerve. He can blow things up with his mind. Yeah. The world should probably brace itself for this one. When Rex Nova was four years old, he became one of the world’s first superhumans. When Rex turns twenty, he feels the drive to use his scientifically given abilities to protect the world. He leaves home to become a member of the Secret Superhero Security team, alongside three of his friends and Danger City’s own … Read more

NEW RELEASE / GIVEAWAY: Spark – Elizabeth Tybush

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Spark - Elizabeth Tybush

Elizabeth Tybush has a new MM fantasy out, The Fire of Felwing book 2: Spark. And there’s a giveaway! Immediately following the stunning Halloween reveal in Flicker… Prince Solin Felwing’s exile on Earth went from tranquil to dangerous with a spark of magick. Now, severed from his redemption and his friends at the soup kitchen, Solin is left to sort out his unstable powers, his guilty conscience, and the realities of pursuing a relationship with a certain charming barista. At least his human friend Sam stuck around, although he’s getting tailed by his ex and his tech is going haywire, … Read more

NEW RELEASE / GIVEAWAY: The Scars That Bind Us – Michele Notaro

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The Scars That Bind Us - Michelle Notaro

Michele Notaro has a new MM urban fantasy out: The Scars that Bind Us. And there’s a giveaway! Sometimes the worst scars are the ones you can’t see. Growing up in the magi compound was far from easy. I didn’t think I’d ever get out of that horrid place, but eighteen years ago, my world changed. I was allowed freedoms I’d never had before, although, even today, I was still at the Non-Human Specialties Operations’ beck and call. Which is how I find myself on a team with my best friend, five shifters, and a human. Now, I have to figure … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Windfall – Shawna Barnett

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Windfall - Shawna Barnett

Shawna Barnett has a new LGBTQ+ pirate fantasy book out: Windfall. And there’s a giveaway! Captain Liana Foley knows a thing or two about fights. She fights the King’s Navy. She fights to balance power in oppressive Vioria. She fights for respect as a female, bisexual, pirate captain. But she’s losing her biggest fight: to escape her secret past as a lost Princess.With a mysterious letter and a stranger threatening to expose her, Liana is blackmailed into attending a royal ball and protecting her counterpart, sheltered Princess Rhian. The pretenses are suspicious enough, but Liana takes the risk in hopes … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Dawn’s Light – Shannon Blair

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Dawn's Light - Shannon Blair

QSFer Shannon Blair has a new MM fantasy romance out: Dawn’s Light. And there’s a giveaway! Moranthus is an elf who has lost everything. With his lover dead and his career stagnating, he jumps at a chance to redeem himself by rescuing a human prince from the goblins hunting him—even if failure means death or eternal exile from his homeland. Gerrick, a human soldier who bears an uncanny resemblance to his prince, has always chosen duty over desire. As the sole parent of his young daughter, he needs the extra coin that working as the prince’s body double provides—even if … Read more