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Fantasy

ANNOUNCEMENT: Dragon’s Rise, by Lou Hoffman

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Dragon's Rise

QSFer Lou Hoffmann has a new queer YA fantasy book out: Dragon’s Rise. Sequel to Ciarrah’s LightThe Sun Child Chronicles: Book Four Five days after his sixteenth birthday, Lucky—or Luccan, as he’s known in the Sunlands of Ethra—cut down a horde of wraiths with the help of his magical, living blade, Ciarrah. Then they ended the worst undead of all—Lucky’s mother, Liliana, or rather the evil creature she had become. Now he needs a chance to rest, but he can’t catch a break. The otherworld invaders want to take Ethra as their new home, and one defeat hasn’t even slowed … Read more

FOR READERS & WRITERS: Magic, Wicca, & Voodoo

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer R.L. Merrill: Part of the reason I’ve only written one paranormal is because I don’t think I’d have anything original to say on the topic of shapeshifters, vamps, etc. I’d love to see more stories focusing on the practical uses of magic i.e. Wicca, Voodoo, etc. Do you write these kinds of stories? Read any lately? Let’s discuss. 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 … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Keeping House, by Jeanne G’Fellers

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QSFer Jeanne G’Fellers has a new queer non-binary/gender fluid paranormal fantasy out in the Appalachian Elementals series: “Keeping House.” Centenary Rhodes is caught in a deal she didn’t make. Thanks to her eternal lover, Stowne’s, quick thinking, she’ll live forever, but there’s a hitch. Cent’s now fey, and three months out of the year she’ll live on the other side of Embreeville Mountain among the Hunter Fey, serving their king, Dane Gow. As Cent begins wading through the anachronisms that come with being a Hunter, she learns that nothing is what it initially seems. Cent shares several past lives with … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Gay Ever After Trilogy Re-Release, by L.M. Brown

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Gay Fairy Tales

QSFer L.M. Brown has re-released her “Gay Ever After” fairy tale trilogy, and OMG the new covers are gorgeous. And just $1.99 each! Let Down Your Hair: A Gay Fairy Tale When Prince Aiden sets out to rescue a princess, the last thing he expects to find is a cross-dressing artist named Robert. Can he set aside his fears and find the fairy tale ending he longs for? In a world where fairy stories are historical fact, Prince Aiden is on a quest to find a princess to rescue and bring home as his bride. Deep in the Enchanted Forest, … Read more

REVIEW: Malachite, by Michele Notaro and Sammi Cee

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Malachite

Title: Malachite Series: Brotherhood of Ormarr Book 4 Author: Michele Notaro & Sammi Cee Genre: Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: MM/Gay Publisher: Self Pages: 254 Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Malachite~ I have a wonderful life. I have no room to complain; between my brothers and their new mates, this is the most alive our home has felt since my parents died. Unfortunately, all of them being mated is making me miserable. When it was just the four of us, it was us against the world. Now they’re paired up and it’s only me and my dragon, Kesia. … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Slave Harem, by Wendy Rathbone

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The Slave Harem

QSFer Wendy Rathbone has a new MM fantasy book out: The Slave Harem. The slave harem is all. If you enter, you can never leave. Contact with the outside world is forbidden. With a secret talent for seeing auras of physical and emotional arousal, Ren, a sought-after pleasure slave, is sold to a mysterious master in a foreign land where he will become part of a collection of beautiful men. Though the men appear welcoming, there is competition and jealousy among the ranks. And their mysterious master who is heard but never seen elicits more questions than answers. One friendly … Read more

REVIEW: The Apprentice Sorceress, by E.D. Walker

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The Apprentice Sorceress

Title: The Apprentice Sorceress Series: The Fairy Tales of Lyond Book Two Author: E.D. Walker Genre: Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Trans/Non-Binary Publisher: Self Pages: 175 Reviewer: Jaye Get It On Amazon About The Book A lady does not practice magic…Until now. Lady Violette has done everything she can to be a perfect lady in waiting to the royal princess of Jerdun. She’s followed the princess halfway across the world and lived through a war. Now the princess is stranded in a foreign city as an enemy army draws near, and Violette is stranded with her.  As more refugees from the conflict … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Tales From Olympus: Alfheim, by Erik Schubach

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QSFer Erik Schubach has a new FF fantasy book in his Tales From Olympus series: Alfheim. As Artemis looks on, the Olympians, under the threat of attack of two incoming Titan vessels, must flee their home and abandon their Citadel on Olympus. Kara, the Wild One, First Valkyrie of Asgard heads out into space to draw a line to dare the Titans to cross. A plan is devised that may allow for the rapid charging of the Citadel’s Jump Drive. But for the plan to succeed, they need to forge a pact with the only planet with people not of … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Servants and the Beast

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The Servants and the Beast

QSFer Kelly Haworth has a story in a new bi/gay fantasy/fairy tale: The Servants And The Beast. You think you know the story – prince gets cursed, girl meets Beast, they fall in love and live happily ever after. If only it was that simple. But dating is tough even in the best of circumstances. Ever since the fateful day when we let that horrible Good Fairy into the castle, our lives have been on hold. When she turned our bad-tempered prince into a Beast, she lumped us, his loyal servants, into the curse too, just because she assumed his … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Heart of Sherwood, by Edale Lane

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Heart of Sherwood

QSFer Edale Lane has a new FF “Robin Hood” retelling out: Heart of Sherwood. When Robyn’s father and brother are killed in the Third Crusade, she is banished from her manor home and branded a traitor by the Sheriff of Nottingham. Disguised as a boy, she joins Little John and the rest of the gang in Sherwood Forest—and soon finds herself their leader. Queen Eleanor suspects Prince John is up to no good, and colluding with Sir Guy and the Sheriff of Nottingham. To learn more, she engages Maid Marian as a spy—and unwittingly reunites Marian with her old childhood … Read more