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Me Me Monday!

Welcome to M3: ME ME MONDAY at our FB discussion group – your chance to pop in and tell us about your latest success. Have a new book or short story coming out? Let us know. Just sell something? Let us know so we can cheer you on. HOW IT WORKS: I’ll pin this topic to the top of our FB discussion page for the day. –Please post your announcement as a separate post so we can comment on yours specifically –Check out the other posts and congratulate and share them too! And congratulations!!!

Where to Get Your Superhero Supplies

Brooklyn Superhero Supply Store

As Batman, Spider-Man and Wonder Woman can attest: Being a superhero is hard work. But it isn’t all just saving lives or preventing the universe from imminent destruction: Shopping for job supplies also takes a heroic effort. Hey, you try finding a decent cape at Staples or Office Depot. There is one place where budding Iron Man interns or aspiring Avengers can get everything from masks to utility belts and even cans containing super powers like justice, chutzpah, magnificence, immortality and vengeance. It’s called the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Store, and it’s the only store we’ve heard of where you can … Read more

Star Trek Discovery: Where Was The F*&%(#g Kiss?

Ok. It’s officially an obsession : the new iteration of Star Trek. A love/hate relationship? Oh, yeah. Visuals, fabulous – plot lines and continued stereotypes, dreadful. Ugh! I’ve put up with so much regurgitation of plot lines and tropes over the last month – I really hoped and dreamed that somehow the show would manage to move beyond these old chestnuts. Episode five pretty much convinced me that I was bound to be disappointed. Until the last scene. The gay science officer and the gay chief medical officer alone in their quarters, talking over recent traumatic events. The director/writer nailed … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Like a Spell: Fire Anthology

Like a Spell V2

QSFer Avery Vanderlyle has a story in a new erotic MM Fantasy book: For the Like a Spell anthology, we asked writers to challenge the traditional tropes and send us something new—original stories of magic users, interesting twists on the typical sorcerers and mages. The response was overwhelming and exciting, and we decided to publish four separate anthologies, using the theme of classical elements (earth, air, fire, and water) as the focus for each collection. For the fire anthology, we’ve focused on stories portraying the love between men. When we thought fire, we thought of the passion and heat of … Read more

FOR READERS: So Over the Trope

tropes everywhere

FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Jenna Hale: What tropes are you absolutely done with? 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

TV: Steamy Gay Sex Scene in American Horror Story

Haynes and Eichner - American Horror Story

Colton Haynes and Billy Eichner treated fans to a steamy gay sex scene on the latest episode of American Horror Story: Cult. Haynes plays Detective Jack Samuels, a cop in a complicated love triangle with Eichner’s character Harrison Wilton. Without giving too much away about the episode, Ally Mayfair-Richards (Sarah Paulson) is investigating a series of strange occurrences in her Harrison’s house. As she breaks into her neighbor’s house, she finds the two caught in the act. pic.twitter.com/DdBZf2snnR — AHS Cult (@ahsfxnews1) October 12, 2017 ‘Why didn’t we see your ass last night?’ By James besanvalle – Full Story at … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Alpha Prince, by Victoria Sue

The Alpha Prince

QSFer Victoria Sue has a new MM Fantasy book out: The Askaran desert can no longer sustain the secret hybrid population of wolves bred from those sent there to die for their crimes. Justice knows the time has come to lead his wolves to a new life, but soon realizes his pack could never be governed by nor swear fealty to the cruel and despotic Alpha of Solonara—Darius—so he hatches a plan to fight and ultimately kill the Alpha, his heir, and take over the territory. Cashel should not exist. It was unheard of for an Alpha-heir to be born … Read more

STAR WARS: All the World’s a Porg

Porg

Looks like the “Stars Wars” universe has a new star. via GIPHY The cute-looking Porg popped up momentarily in the new trailer for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” and sent Redditors into overdrive. Seizing on the adorable creature’s appearance, they began reimagining it in a bunch of amusing ways. In the ensuing so-called “Photoshop Battle,” Redditors planted the Porg onto President Donald Trump’s head and alongside former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal. By Lee Moran – Full Story at The Huffington Post

ANNOUNCEMENT: Myths, Moons and Mayhem, Edited by Dale Cameron Lowry

Myths, Moons & Mayhem

QSFer Dale Cameron Lowry has put together a new MMM paranormal anthology book out: Myths, moons, and mayhem make the perfect threesome—and so do the men in this anthology. Enjoy nine erotic stories of paranormal ménages a trois fueled by lust and magic, where mystical forces collide with the everyday world and even monsters have their own demons to conquer. A werewolf gets a lust-fueled lesson on fitting in with the pack, a professor unlocks ancient secrets and two men’s hearts, and a pair of supernaturals find themselves at the erotic mercy of a remarkable human. Ghosts, fairies, aliens, and … Read more