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Month: August 2015

“The Homecoming” by J. Scott Coatsworth

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The Homecoming

Genre: Gay Science Fiction Length: Novella   ALDISS AND his crew crash land on a forgotten Earth, expecting it to be abandoned after hundreds of years. Their own world is destroyed, and now Earth is their only chance for a new start. But it’s winter, the climate is harsh, and Earth is not as forgotten as they thought. The inhabitants also may not be as open to new arrivals as Adliss’s crew hopes. I loved this book. The setup was interesting, and the characters were engaging. I loved how spacemen and werewolves collided: technology meets primal Earth. First contact between … Read more

Announcement: Broken Bones, by Deja Black

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Broken Bones

DSP Publications author Deja Black has a new Mystery/Paranormal book out: Dan Tolliver, the adopted son of alpha pack leader Jeremiah Tolliver, has suffered his last moment of abuse by his lover Keith Mulligan and finds himself in the hospital. There he meets dark and sharp-tongued Dr. Aiden Kavanaugh, who believes Dan needs some of his straightforward kind of medicine. Still, there is something different about the doctor. Aiden is a sandman, a weaver of dreams, and has been on earth far longer than even he knows. He’s at the end of his time, ready to transition, and needs a … Read more

Discussion: Future Trash

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garbage

OK, it’s garbage day here in our little corner of the world. Already, we are running out of places to put all the garbage we generate. We have so much extra packaging – did you see that story of the family who decided to do what they could to live without it, and managed to reduce their garbage output to one glass bottle’s worth in a year? And what about the great plastic garbage patch in the middle of the Pacific? So I’m inspired to ask – what happens to the garbage of the future? Does the whole planet get … Read more

Announcement: Wounded Volume 2, by Amy Lane

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Wounded

DSP Publications author Amy Lane has a new paranormal book out: Green and Bracken’s beloved survived their enemy’s worst—with help from unexpected vampiric help. But survival is a long way from recovery, and even further from safety. Green’s people want badly to return to the Sierra Foothills, but they’re not going with their tails between their legs. Before they go home, they have to make sure they’re free from attack—and that they administer a healthy dose of revenge as well. As Cory negotiates a fragile peace between her new and unexpected lovers, Green negotiates the unexpected power that comes from … Read more

Healthy Queer Relationships

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Today’s topic comes from QSFer Elizabeth Barrette: What do *healthy* queer relationships look like? How do we portray positive experiences of queer life in entertainment, when live examples may be difficult to come by in a culture that is often queer-hostile? How do people discovery their identity and orientation? What would it be like if we *taught* those things in school — how to look inside yourself and map your traits so you could pursue them and be happy? It’s an interesting question – and one that I suspect will have as many answers as there are people in a … Read more

The Midweek Mingle: Overcoming 3 Hurdles for Inclusive Writing

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When I first really started writing and publishing, I was pretty well convinced of a few things that I could and could not do with my books. Silly things, too. I won’t go into all of them here (we don’t have time for that, and it’s far too early in the morning for that much vodka), but I’ll touch on a few. Namely, a few relating to QUILTBAG+ representation in books. See, I don’t know if the environment is the same, but when I was starting, you didn’t do that. At most, you could have a romance heroine’s best friend … Read more

Announcement: Spurred On, by Jon Keys

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Spurred On

QSFer Jon Keys has a new fairy tale retelling book out: Kegan’s new stepfather and stepbrothers are out to make his life miserable. Between the bullying and being overworked, he’s nearly at his wit’s end. When his mother leaves on an annual cattle buying trip for the ranch, he’s determined to suffer through. He must, if he expects to protect her like he promised his dying father. When the family of a young man he’s been infatuated with holds a rodeo, Kegan can’t see a way he can compete. Not until a mystical medicine hat stallion walks into his life. … Read more

When Twins Attack

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Twins

Today’s discussion topic comes from QSFer Freddy MacKay: Can we have a topic about the effect of being able to differentiate twins genetically (their non-coding, or junk DNA, is different) might have on stories? Considering we now have a way to go back to trial cases and correctly identify the twin in the case, future stories will be impacted by this kind of development. That’s interesting – I hadn’t even heard of this one. We take it as an article of faith that identical twins are, well, identical. There’s even a “twin twist” on Big Brother this summer, with a … Read more

Television: First African-American Gay Superhero Joins Arrow

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First African-American Gay Superhero Joins Arrow Arrow, the popular CW series that follows DC’s Green Arrow, has cast Echo Kellum as Mr. Terrific and announced the show’s version of the superhero will be gay, Variety confirms… …Executive producer Greg Berlanti told Out magazine last year that he plans to continue to explore new ways of introducing gay characters to this series and The Flash, which has also featured gay heroes and villains, such as David Singh (Patrick Sabongui) and the Pied Piper (Andy Mientus). See the article here

Announcement: Graveyard Sparrow, by Kayla Bashe

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Graveyard Sparrow

Torquere Press author Kayla Bashe has a new paranormal book out: Katriona Sparrow, dubbed the Mad Heiress by London’s upper class, is the deceptively fragile ward of a foreign nobleman. She can’t stand making small talk with strangers, but she’s unparalleled when it comes to deciphering the dead. On a routine investigation, something goes horribly wrong, leaving Katriona catatonic in an upscale hospital and a serial killer with an artistic bent stalking London’s most vulnerable. Enter Anthea Garlant, a young witch and academic ostracized from polite society for traveling the world without a chaperone. She devises magical treatments to protect … Read more