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New Release: Because My Mom Said So – Or M. Bialik

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Because My Mom Said So - Or M. Bialik

QSFer Or M. Bialik has a new queer sci-fi spy romance out (bi, lesbian, non-binary, poly, trans MTF): My Mom Said So. Ismat’s dating life is terrible, and a lot of it has to do with honesty. Not that he doesn’t want to be honest, he just can’t – or it will ruin his life. He can’t tell anyone he works for the Dominion Security Bureau counter-terrorism division; he can’t tell his date who his father is, even if he knows them, and he most definitely can’t tell them how he actually feels about the gender he has to wear. … Read more

Review: Point of Dreams – Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett

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Point of Dreams - Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett

Genre: Fantasy, Mystery LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It At Amazon | Publisher | B&N | Kobo | Apple | Smashwords | Universal Buy Link About The Book The play’s the thing to catch the attention of Astreiant…especially when it includes murder, mystery and magic. It’s ghost-tide in the city and the dead walk the streets, haunting those who meant something to them in life. The theaters of Point of Dreams have a hit season on their hands and Adjunct Point Nicolas Rathe and former mercenary Philip Eslingen have a murder on theirs. Not to mention a heady mix of intrigue, politics and magic, where even the flowers are more than … Read more

New Release: Terror – J. Hali Steele

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Terror - J. Hali Steele

QSFer J. Hali Steele has a new MM suspense book out: Terror. Terror: Once, he had been Terrance Holton, a young gay man who learned to shove what he is so deep inside himself, he almost forgot. He grew up to be Terror and he is the Vice President of one of the baddest outlaw motorcycle clubs in Pennsylvania. The consequence of denying who he really is turns Terror into a threat to everyone around him, and eventually lands Terror in jail. There he connects with a beautiful older man who teaches Terror to love who he is. Tinman: Timothy … Read more

New Release: The Hungry Butterfly – Eule Grey

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The Hungry Butterfly - Eule Grey

QSFer Eule Grey has a new FF horror thriller novella out: Hungry Butterfly. Downtrodden charity worker Brenda can’t believe her luck when she gets a new job on a medical trial. It’s a dream position with a generous wage—almost too good to be believable. Life has never been better… Until Brenda discovers some concerning facts about the company facilitating the trial. Why is FixMe so impatient for results? She keeps telling her manager you can’t change lives overnight, but Thomas doesn’t listen. She should have noted the red flags. Fortunately, Brenda isn’t ultimately responsible for the trial’s ethics. Who’s going … Read more

New Release / Giveaway: You Can Save Me – R.L. Merrill

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You Can Save Me - R.L. Merrill

R.L. Merrill has a new MM paranormal romance in the Carnival of Mysteries series, the sequel to You Can Do Magic: You Can Save Me. Sixties folk singer Dane Donovan vanished from a desolate highway rest area in 1979. Forty years later, he’s found hitchhiking in the California desert on a cold winter’s night. He hasn’t aged a day, but the roadmap of scars he wears tells a chilling tale. Veteran detective Walter Muse took over the case twenty years ago, but his haunting connection to Dane Donovan goes back to a peculiar run-in as a child with The Troubadour and his … Read more

New Release / Giveaway: The Quicks, The Deads, and Me – Don Hilton

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The Quicks, The Deads, and Me - Don Hilton

Don Hilton has a new FF horror thriller out: The Quicks, The Deads, and Me. Mazie’s a serial killer. She’s been one for a while. She knows that, of course, and does an excellent job of hiding it. Then, there’s Sk’doo. Something less than a ghost, it’s doing its thing, zooming around its cemetery, listening to Deads. Its routine changes when a body is placed in a nearby pond. In learning how it hap-pened, Sk’doo discovers its Quick friend, Kaz, is in danger. Who’s Kaz? She’s lonely, afraid, and confused. She’s ghosting her way through life, preferring the peace of … Read more

Review: Point of Hopes – Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett

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Point of Hopes - Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett

Genre: Mystery, Historical, Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book The city of Astreiant is full of magic, danger and bureaucracy, and never moreso than when something or someone is making guild apprentices disappear without a trace. Philip Eslingen has just been discharged from his mercenary company and as a Leaguer and a stranger, makes an ideal suspect. Fortunately for him, Pointsman Nicolas Rathe from the Point of Hopes station doesn’t agree, but he knows the only way to prove that is to find the missing children and the real culprits. Together they must … Read more

New Release / Giveaway: Shadow House – Joe Rielinger

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Shadow House - Joe Rielinger

Joe Rielinger has a new MF mystery out (transgender): Shadow House. An unexpected visit from the daughter of an old mentor launches private detective Terry Luvello into one of the most intriguing cases of his career. Margaret Reasoner, the matriarch of one of Cleveland’s wealthiest and most politically connected families, has recently passed away. Not trusting any of her children, Margaret had added a clause in her will requiring a private inquest should her death take place under suspicious circumstances. Hired to investigate, Terry spends a week at the Reasoner’s sprawling estate dealing with the increasingly hostile family as he … Read more

New Release: Mu; Legend of a Lost City – M.D. Neu

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Mu; Legend of a Lost City - M.D. Neu

M.D. Neu has a new MM sci-fantasy mystery out: Mu; Legend of a Lost City. For years, the whispers and legends of a lost city hiding in the Pacific Ocean were just that; legend. On the day Kaimi discovers his parents, the Queen and King of Mu, murdered, Mu’s most powerful weapon fired, sending a pulse rushing towards the North American west coast. After the 2025 Great Pacific Pulse Event, or Pulse, vomited up much of humankind’s trash in the Pacific Ocean along the North American west coast. The mysterious occurrence causing the largest environmental disaster in human history, people … Read more

New Release: Lavender Speculation – Jamie Zaccaria –

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Lavender Speculation - Jamie Zaccaria

QSFer Jamie Zaccaria has a new queer speculative fiction collection out (horror, dark fantasy, thriller – bi, gay, lesbian): Lavender Speculation. Enter if you’re daring and feel these tales raise goosebumps along your arms as they take you from modern New Jersey to fairytale lands and back again. From witches to werecats and spirits to surgeries, this collection puts queer women front and center in some of the most popular subgenres of speculative fiction. Horror, dark fantasy, and magical realism coalesce in this stunning collection of all things dark and divergent. Get It At Amazon | Publisher | B&N | … Read more