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SPACE: A Cold and Frozen Alter-Earth

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Astronomers, using a technique called microlensing, have discovered a planet about the size of Earth that orbits about the same distance from its sun. The catch? The sun is a brown dwarf – a tiny body that not even all astrophysicists agree is really a star. As a result, OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb (we’ll just call it “oggie”) is a frozen world. ”This ‘iceball’ planet is the lowest-mass planet ever found through microlensing,” Yossi Shvartzvald, at NASA’s JPL in Pasadena said. Maybe it has great ski resorts?  

ANNOUNCEMENT: Owned by the Alpha Set

Owned by the Alpha set

QSFer Pelaam is part of a new MM paranormal book set out: The Alpha lives for the hunt… Driven by instinct, an Alpha shifter recognizes his fated mate from one scent, one touch. He’ll pursue his man, regardless of the cost, and anyone else would be smart to get out of his way. He won’t stop until he takes possession of his prize. Although the hunter doesn’t need convincing, his mate certainly does. The Alpha will have to prove himself as a lover and convince his man that he plays for keeps. Pelaam’s story: A Matter of Trust. When gardener Rylan offers … Read more

FOR READERS: Endings

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Denise Deschene: If a book is labeled a romance, do you expect a HEA/HFN? If you write a story and it is about 2 people falling in love and progresses to old age but one of the MCs dies, is that a romance novel or is it something else? 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

HISTORY: Comic Book Authority Kept Gays Out Of Comics

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A nonprofit organization ominously operating under the monicker the Comics Code Authority was responsible for preventing openly LGBT characters from appearing in comic books until the late 1980s, according to a report on History.com by comic book historian Alan Kistler. From 1954 to 1989, the Code, as Kistler calls it, enforced rules against portraying LGBT characters in comic books, Kistler wrote. Likened to the MPAA, the Code Authority had no governmental authority, but retailers were very hesitant to carry comics that lacked the Code’s seal of approval. The Code came about after psychiatrist Dr. Frederic Wertham published his book “Seduction … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: graphic noiz book 5, by Natsuya Uesugi

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QSFer Natsuya Uesugi has a new Yaoi book out: Shiro Ijima, the bestselling writer of the SciFi Fissure novels is finding it hard to start writing his next book, Fissure 5 with all the drama created by his lover Noiz, the amateur manga artist. After Shiro’s editor Megumi Ito quits because Shiro is behind on his writing deliverables, Shiro has to rely on his agent Keita Shimura to get his editor back on board. With the Fissure 5 deadline pushed back twice, the publisher is angry. As Noiz starts working on the Fissure manga once again, Keita takes Shiro out … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Quickening Volume 1, by Amy Lane

Quickening V1

QSFer Amy Lane has a new MM fantasy/paranormal tale out: Cory thought she’d found balance on Green’s Hill—sorceress, student, queen of the vampires, wife to three men—she had it down! But establishing her right to risk herself with Green and Bracken had more than one consequence, and now she’s facing the world’s scariest job title: mother. But getting the news that she’s knocked up takes a back seat when a half-elf hunts them down for help. Her arrival brings news that the werewolf threat, which has been haunting them for over a year, has finally arrived on their doorstep—and it’s … Read more

So You Wanna Be a Yaoi Illustrator?

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Ever wanted to learn how to capture man-on-man love through the art of drawing? Well now you can thanks to a detailed manual called,  Boys’ Love Pose Sketch Compilation – Hugs and Close Scenes Coupling Extra, from Japanese manga illustrator, Ebimo. Ebimo is a specialist in yaoi or boy love manga – a genre of anime that depicts the love story of two men. By Shannon Power – Full Story at Gay Star News

ANNOUNCEMENT – Agate: Then and Now

Agate: Then and Now

QSFer M.D. Grimm has a new MM fantasy book out: Time travel. For mages, it violates their number one rule: what the Mother has written, let no one unwrite. The Mother writes the destinies of the creatures on the world of Karishian. If her writings were undone, it is feared that Creation itself could be undone. The dark mage Morgorth takes this rule to heart, but there are others who do not. Morgorth is about to claim a stone of power when it is stolen from him by a female mage he hasn’t seen in decades. As they struggle for … Read more