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ANNOUNCEMENT: A perilous Journey – Clare Solomon

September 23, 2020 by scott

QSFer Clare Solomon has a new YA epic fantasy book out, Ascended Book One: “A Perilous Journey.” She will do anything to protect those she loves – even risk losing her soul. Fifteen-year-old Keilena hates the Ascended, the powerful magic-possessors who rule Pellotal and think their own laws don’t apply to them. She lives a quiet life with her carpenter father, enlivening it by getting into mischief whenever she can. Everything changes when a stranger arrives with a secret about her identity that destroys her current life. Forced to take a journey led by people she can’t trust, Keilena hatches … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Dragon Soldier – Mell Eight

September 22, 2020 by scott

Mell Eight has a new MM paranormal YA book out, Supernatural Consultant Book 5: “Dragon Soldier.” The aftermath of the last battle has left Nickel weak in bed and grounded for the next decade. Despite being in trouble, Nickel wants to return to the battle against the enemy as soon as he can, but thoughts of Platinum, the dragon helping to nurse him back to health, keep distracting him. Platinum can’t believe how much his life has changed. He went from being a lonely fugitive on the run to part of a family in only hours. The last few days … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Dragon Directive – Mell Eight

August 26, 2020 by scott

QSFer Mell Eight has a new MM paranormal YA book out: Dragon Detective. And there’s a giveaway! Nickel might be a water elemental dragon, but even he has limits—and the sudden rain storms, hail, and snow in midsummer are way over the line. Luckily, he works for Dane’s Supernatural Consulting firm and can use those resources to figure out who keeps mucking with the weather and get them to stop. Soon Nickel realizes he isn’t the only one searching for the weather worker: the enemy he has been hunting for ten years has finally reappeared, and it’s a race to … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Hawthorn Academy: Year One – D.R. Perry

August 11, 2020 by scott

QSFer D.R. Perry has a new coming of age ace/gay fantasy book out: “Hawthorn Academy: Book One.” If ultimate power corrupts, how does one learn to be incorruptible? I’m Aliyah Morgenstern. All of my life, I grew up on tales of my great-grandfather’s magic bringing light and healing to the world. Then, I bonded with my dragonet Ember on my sixteenth birthday, which means I’ll be scary powerful someday. There’s one problem. Mom’s kept secrets that everyone at my new school seems to know. Turns out, I’ve got an infamously criminal uncle and now everyone’s waiting for me to do something … Read more

FOR READERS & WRITERS: Defining YA / NA

August 11, 2020 by scott

FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: How do you define YA/NA, especially in spec fic? What is and isn’t appropriate for young adult, and for new adult? Writers: This is a reader and writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: The Bachmann family Secret – damien Serbu

July 29, 2020 by scott

QSFer Damien Serbu has a new MM YA Paranormal book out: “The Bachmann Family Secret.” And there’s a giveaway! Jaret Bachmann travels with his family to his beloved grandfather’s funeral with a heavy heart and, more troubling, premonitions of something evil lurking at the Bachmann ancestral home. But no one believes that he sees ghosts. Grappling with his sexuality, a ghost that wants him out of the way, and the loss of his grandfather, Jaret must protect his family and come to terms with powers hidden deep within himself. NineStar Press | Amazon Giveaway One lucky winner will receive a $10.00 NineStar … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Dragon Dilemma – Mell Eight

July 22, 2020 by scott

QSFer Mell Eight has a new MM paranormal YA tale out: “Dragon Dilemma.” And there’s a giveaway! Dane hasn’t spoken with his mother in years and he’s never met his father. But somehow his mother finds out about Mercury and the kits anyway, and it’s difficult to throw one’s mother out when she happens to be a powerful, dangerous witch. She isn’t the only uninvited guest, and the others are even less likely to take no for an answer—and much more likely to leave everyone dead if they don’t get what they want. Get It At Amazon | NineStar Press … Read more

REVIEW: Fallen Love, by Alex Stargazer

March 5, 2020 by scott

Title: Fallen Love Series: Fallen Book One Author: Alex Stargazer Genre: YA/Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Publisher: Self Pages: 328 Reviewer: Sharonica Get It On Amazon About The Book Upperclassman Conall is rich, impeccably dressed, and set for a prestigious career in the Party hierarchy. He doesn’t lack for anything—except, maybe, love. When he finds Mark, alone, abandoned and hurt, he doesn’t expect one act of kindness to alter the course of his life forever. There is more to Mark than Conall can even dream of. The beautiful, vulnerable boy Conall knows is not human. A dark power lies within Mark. … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Ring and Arrow, by William Quirk

January 17, 2020 by scott

QSFer William Quirk has a new Gay/Gender Fluid sci fi YA book out: “Ring and Arrow.” What would you do if you found out your Dad was negotiating a contract with Aliens to enslave the human race? If you’re Arrow, a comic book nerd with ADHD and other less respectable initials, you team up with your locked and loaded since birth half-bro, Amos, and your new bruh, Dap, to try and stop him. They don’t get very far until Dap finds an independent floppy on line that tells the same, exact story. Ring, the plotter as well as the penciler, … Read more

FOR READERS: Best YA Reads

January 4, 2020 by scott

FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Amy Leibowitz: What are your must-read YA spec fic novels or authors? 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: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABV MeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf