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Books For Pride Month. Jeff Baker, Boogieman In Lavender (June 5, 2026)

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Books For Pride Month By Jeff Baker Just in time for Pride Month (which is why I’m posting this early!) I’m selecting several of my favorite LGBT-themed books to dip into for June. And I acknowlege I’ve probably talked about these in this space before. Most of them should be readily available to read online, to order online or find at your new or used bookstore. And the bulk of them are short-story collections or anthologies. (Full disclosure; I know some of these authors and I’m actually mentioned in a story introduction in one of the books!) In no particular … Read more

Review: A Wolf-Changing Incident – Karenna Colcroft

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A Wolf-Changing Incident - Karenna Colcroft

Genre: Paranormal, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Jay Get It On Amazon About The Book When werewolf Yves Diamond happens on a multi-vehicle crash on a Manitoba highway, he ignores the danger and rescues Will Mandel from a burning car. The moment he sets eyes and hands on Will, Yves knows the man belongs in his life. If Will survives his injuries. Waking days later in a hospital, Will is confused by the presence of a man the nurses believe is his relative. But something in him recognizes that Yves is meant to be in his life. As Will’s recovery … Read more

New Release: Under Watchful Wings – Andy Gallo

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Under Watchful Wings - Andy Gallo

QSFer Andy Gallo has a new MM paranormal romance out, Archangels book 1: Under Watchful Wings. Falling in love was never part of the assignment. Henry Angelini’s assignment is simple: move to Silver Spring, MD, befriend Nick Fenton, keep him safe. Oh, and don’t fall for the guy. Sounds easy. Nick doesn’t know he’s an angel—the first ever born to human parents. He doesn’t know angels exist, or that people he trusts are angels tasked by the archangels to watch over him. And he definitely doesn’t know his powers are about to make him the most wanted person on the … Read more

Review: Fragments of Us – Niranjan

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Fragments of Us - Niranjan

Genre: Fantasy Reviewer: Estora Amazon (Paperback) | B&N | Google Play | Indigo | Itch.io | Kobo About The Book A Doomed Love. An Inexorable Law. An impending war and buried secrets. Keylin, daughter of Lord Giles, goes from a noblewoman about to be married to the love of her life to a slave, owning not even her own person. The laws of Castrial are binding, and even nobles are not exempt from it. The man who has brought her father to justice is also the man who owns Keylin: Alaric, the Shield of Castrial. Bertram, her erstwhile fiancé is desperate and willing to do anything to save the woman … Read more

New Release: Fire’s Ally – D. M. Kannapan

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Fire's Ally - D. M. Kannapan

D. M. Kannapan has a new YA fantasy cli-fi book out: Fire’s Ally. For most of her life, Eleg has been obsessed with the eerie, persistent, wildfire claiming parts of her home. No amount of rain seems to be able to put it out. She belongs to a gentle, bookish society, and her people have been fighting the fire back for decades. But they are not ready for the turmoil it is about to unleash. Eleg understands the fire better than most. She has already once failed to protect the innocent in its path. Though she would rather be alone … Read more

Review: The Last Boy on Earth – West Ambrose

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Review: The Last Boy on Earth - West Ambrose

Genre: Queer Speculative Fiction, Post-Anthropocene, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Slipstream LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Gender Fluid Reviewer: Ulysses Get It On Amazon About The Book Two boys, alike and undying, from borderless Illyrial, where we [de]lay our post- anthropocene: Julian and Vern are equally lost and differently, tenderly, iridescent pearls; one in the deep sea and the other by the sandy shores, encroaching. Julian, an unlikely passenger aboard an undersea ship with no destination and captained by a madman, seeks to unfold the past by throwing himself into new liaisons with beautiful men and creatures. Still learning how to swim, Vern kicks frantically against … Read more

Sources of Inspiration: Company

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There’s nothing quite like company that encourages me, sees something special in my writing. Sometimes an appreciative reader spots something I’m completely unaware of, or helps me develop ideas by their own response to a character. Sometimes my companions give me space, time to write, gifts I cannot appreciate enough. Sometimes they’re artists themselves, offering up ideas, a spark of insight, which becomes a story, a poem, or a line of dialogue. Our best moments are when we inspire each other, bouncing ideas off each other, trying to catch them and transform them into something which grows and grows beyond … Read more

New Release: Tales of the Quiet Kitty Box Set – Camille Anthony

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Tales of the Quiet Kitty - Camille Anthony

QSFer Camille Anthony has a new queer sci-fi book out (bi, non-binary, trans): Tales of the Quiet Kitty. These futuristic sci-fi tales are anything but quiet. Board the Quiet Kitty Waveship and travel with Brant Sel, a Sh’Bahkyr Tygyr and his crew: Bevel-leveB, a Medusoid Jenari with a sentient cock, and Willa, a Sprite from the wounded planet Sparkle. Brought together by fate, these three have common goals — to rescue and gather their lost peoples so they can take down the corrupt, brutal Corporation, run by the most evil beings in the three Galaxies… Humans. Royalties go to The … Read more

New Release: Claimed – Ashlynn Monroe

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Claimed - Ashlynn Monroe

QSFer Ashlynn Monroe has a new queer sci-fi book out (bisexual, non-binary, trans, multiple partners): Claimed. Lexa never really knew what it meant to live until she was condemned to die. Framed for a crime she’d never even contemplated, Lexa Mercer’s doing thirty days or death on the Intergalactic Broadcasting Channel’s hit reality show Nariasma. She owes her life to one of the show’s hottest contestants — and a ghost of a man no one is supposed to know exists. Roan of the Northlands is a man made famous by enduring his sentence on the space station Nariasma. Lexa has … Read more

Why Jeff Baker, Boogieman In Lavender, Is Writing Two Novellas At Once. (May 12, 2026)

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Why I’m Writing Two Novellas At Once by Jeff Baker I am a terrible procrastinator. (Okay, okay. Actually I’m a very good procrastinator.) I’m a great putter-offer, especially about writing. So, when I tried to start writing regularly years and years ago I told myself that I would only work on one story at a time. That had been my problem for many years; plenty of false starts, including some very good beginnings, but very few were finished. In that, I probably was like a lot of wannabe writers who have a trunk-full (or file-full) of half-finished stories, (if even … Read more