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Paranormal / Supernatural

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Celebrations In the Season of Long Nights, by Mere Rain

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In the Season of Long Nights - Mere Rain

QSFer Mere Rain has a new MM paranormal holiday book out – Celebrations in the Season of Long Nights. Having escaped his abusive family by winning a scholarship to college, Shahin promised himself he would never go back. So when his plans for winter break fall through and he’s left homeless for a month, he decides he’d rather camp in the park than go home. But he doesn’t realize it’s the solstice, the longest night of the year, the start of the season when the supernatural is at its strongest. Yima is a demon-hunter, a duty passed down through his … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Three Alphas and an Egg, by A.J. Marcus

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Three Alphas and an Egg - A.J. Marcus

QSFer A.J. Marcus has a new MM paranormal book out: Three Alphas and an Egg. Three powerful alphas come together to battle an unexpected darkness and find something they didn’t even know they were looking for. Alaric wants to protect the members of his wing from the human world they inhabit. Even an Alpha can be missing parts of his life. Gustavo guards supernatural Denver in the way only gargoyles can, but when things change, he discovers things missing from his life he never dreamed he needed. Phillip seeks magic knowledge to make his vampire life more bearable. Books and … Read more

FOR WRITERS: Old School Scary

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Angel Martinez: Old school paranormal and return to the scary. So often these days when people say “paranormal,” they mean sexpot vampires and shifters with fated mates. But there’s so much more to paranormal fiction – and sometimes it’s even scary, per the original intent. What makes a story scary for you? What’s the difference between “Eek! That was shocking!” and “omgomgomg, don’t leave me alone, don’t make me go in the basement, I need to turn on all the lights in the house.” Writers: This is a reader chat – you … Read more

REVIEW: Something to Celebrate, by Evelyn Benvie

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Something to Celebrate

Title: Something to Celebrate Series: Escape from the Holidays Collection Author: Evelyn Benvie Genre: Paranormal, Holiday LGBTQ+ Category: M/NB, demisexual Publisher: Mischief Corner Books Pages: 84 Blurb: Niko doesn’t hate the holidays; that would require too much commitment. He just doesn’t care about them anymore. He’s a demi, disillusioned mess and he doesn’t care about much at all. That is, until an enticing stranger blows into his life this Christmas and catches his attention—and his heart. Amazon Review: “Human belief was a fickle and fluid thing.” I found “Something to Celebrate” to be poetic and beautiful. Niko doesn’t celebrate holidays. … Read more

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

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

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: 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/GIVEAWAY: Blood for the Spilling, by TJ Nichols

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Blood for the Spilling - TJ Nichols

DSP Publications author TJ Nichols has a new MM paranormal book out in the Warlock in Training series: Blood for the Spilling. Sheets of ice are spreading across the human world, ushering in an ice age as the magic drained from Demonside turns that world into a desert. Angus and reluctant warlock Terrance have defected from Vinland to the Mayan Empire—a land of dark and potent magic. But the Mayans aren’t offering sanctuary for free. Nor is the world willing to stand back as Vinland attacks, and the backlash will affect all magic users. Mage Saka has no tribe. He … Read more