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ANNOUNCEMENT: A Swan for Christmas, by M.M. Wilde

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A Swan for Christmas

QSFer M.M. Wilde has a new mm shifter holiday romance book out: A Swan for Christmas. A Swan for Christmas is Book Four in the Vale Valley shared world series filled with lots of mpreg and sweet forever-afters! An Alpha wolf and an omega swan can’t be fated mates… Right? Abandoned by his swan herd and lost in a snowstorm, Kellan has nowhere to go. When he’s near death, he’s discovered by a wolf shifter in the woods surrounding a mysterious town filled with magic and hope. Could there also be love? Vic, the owner of Vale Valley Inn and … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: The Holiday Spirit, by Carole Cummings

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The Holiday Spirit

QSFer Carole Cummings has a new MM paranormal holiday book out – The Holiday Spirit. It’s hard being the PA for the Holiday Spirit. Julian is more dedicated than most, and knows the job inside and out. But that doesn’t mean he’ll still have a job when the new Holiday Spirit is elected. It also doesn’t mean he’s immune to the *cough* charms of the office, but that’s a whole other problem. Amazon | iBooks | Barnes & Noble | Kobo About the Escape from the Holidays Collection For the second year in a row, Mischief Corner Books is putting … Read more

FOR READERS: Feature Creatures

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Angel Martinez: In Fantasy, what creatures do we not see enough of? Which ones do you feel have particular symbolism for queer people? 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

The High School Zombie Christmas Movie You Didn’t Know You Needed

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Anna and the Apocalyps

The zombie Christmas musical “Anna and the Apocalypse” tries too hard to do too much, but this multigenre hybrid has more than enough good cheer to get viewers through another holiday season on this troubled planet. Set in a small Scottish town a few days before Christmas, the movie tells the coming-of-age story of Anna (English actress Ella Hunt), a popular high school senior who plans to take a year off after graduation to travel. Her overprotective father (Mark Benton) worries about those plans, imagining something out of the “Taken” movies. But when a virus breaks out in the middle … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Spells & Stardust, by J. Scott Coatsworth

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QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth has a new queer sci fi/fantasy anthology out: Spells & Stardust. Spells & Stardust is Scott’s first anthology – eight sci fi and fantasy shorts that run the gamut from regeneration to redemption. The Bear at the Bar: A gay fish out of water tale with a pinch of magic. Tight: What happens when your lover disappears in midair? Morgan: The year when everything changed. Re-Life: What if you were reborn in a strange new future? A New Year: They met every eleven years. And each time, Hank’s life changed. Repetition: What if you wanted to … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Sunshine in the Dragon’s Heart, by Jaime Samms

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Sunshine in the Dragon's Heart

QSFer Jaime Samms has a new MM fantasy book out: Sunshine in the Dragon’s Heart. When Sunny retires to the northern Ontario wilderness to mourn his parents’ deaths, he’s hoping the change of scenery will afford him some peace and quiet. His hopes are soon spectacularly dashed. In self-imposed exile, dragon Emile runs across the Fold between his dimension and Sunny’s—and right into Sunny’s arms. Centuries out of touch with human culture, bright, beautiful Emile incinerates any hope Sunny had for an ordinary existence. With dryads and water sprites coming to life all around them, Sunny can’t deny the magic … Read more

VIDEOGAMES: Steamy New Game “To Trust an Incubus”

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To Trust an Incubus

When Kenta Tanimoto began his temp job at Japan’s Inner-Dimensional Institute, he never expected that he’d become its test subject. The institute recently obtained four hunky incubi (male sexual demons) from another dimension, but these evil creatures can only speak by “bonding” with someone else…. and Kenta is that someone. This is the plot of To Trust an Incubus, a recently released gay sci-fi yaoi/bara dating sim that’s basically a Choose Your Own Adventure video game. For three months, Kenta will live in quarantine to try and bond with one or more incubi. But while each one is muscular with … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Forbidden Pursuits, by Harry F. Rey

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Forbidden Pursuits

Harry F. Rey has a new MM sci fi book out in his Galactic Captains series: Forbidden Pursuits. When Daeron’s mother is offered a risky but lucrative job—rescuing an experimental galinium scientist from Aldegar—the lost loves lurking in her past mean she must send Daeron away to the other end of the galaxy; to the father he’s never met on the Kyleri Empire’s capital, Jiwani. On Jiwani, the heir to the galaxy’s most powerful empire Prince Osvai balances deference to rigid Kyleri customs with his desire to explore the forbidden secrets of the Royal Baths, and the dark desires no … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space) Anthology

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Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space)

QSFer Catherine Lundoff’s Queen of Swords Press has a new pirate anthology book out: Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space) Anthology. Outlaws. Lovers. Heroes. Villains. With their peg legs, their parrots and the skull and crossbones flying from the mastheads of their ships, classic pirates are some of the world’s best-known and easily recognizable outlaws. Or are they? These fifteen stories spin new tales of pirates crossing dimensional barriers for revenge, fighting terrible foes in outer space and building new lives after the Trojan War. Travel to the South China Sea, then on to New York City after … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Balance of Power, by Damien Benoit-Ledoux

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Balance of Power

QSFer Damien Benoit-Ledoux has a new queer superhero book out, the final book in the Guardians pentology: Balance of Power. As The Order’s decimated leadership cowers and licks its wounds after Blake’s brutal blitz against the Archimandrion Council and the successful capture of the Seavey Island facility by U.S. Marines, the maniacal Victor Kraze seizes control of the organization’s resources and strikes back at teenage superhero Quinn McAlester. Dumbfounded by Victor’s sudden and zealous propensity for destruction and revenge, Quinn enlists the help of the enigmatic and reluctant tutor Ana Maria Garcia to stop the super villain from enacting his … Read more