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Paranormal / Supernatural

For Readers: Werewolf Types

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Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Tam Ames: What’s your fave type of werewolf? Can only change on the full moon? Whenever they damn well please? Movie-types half-man/half wolf? Those that retain some animal traits while human? Not saying one is better than the other but what kind do you like to read about. Tell us one of your fave werewolf characters. 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

Announcement: Candy Land, by Lissa Kasey

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QSFer Lissa Kassey has a new urban fantasy/paranormal book out: Cameron “Candy” Michelson Jr. doesn’t have time for distractions. He’s too busy restructuring the red-light district into an adult playland for City M and running the Hidden Gem. But when his companion, Avery “Ivy” Laurent, grows closer to Jack, an investigator for the Institute of Scientific Study, Candy can’t hide his jealousy. Nor his own interest in Jack. Ivy is crazy about Jack, but he’s also in love with Candy. Ideally, Ivy longs for all three of them to be together, but between Jack’s nonexistent libido and Candy’s supercharged needs, … Read more

Announcement: Uncanny Activity, by Edward Kendrick

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Uncanny Activity

QSFer Edward Kendrick has a new paranormal book out: Six months after buying his house, author Scott Drake wonders if he’s sharing it with a spirit when, nightly, he hears the sounds of a car crash on the road in front of it. Then he sees the reflection of a man behind him in the windows. Jack Weaver, Scott’s online friend, suggests he research the house’s history. Then, intrigued by what Scott discovers, he pays him a visit. As the two men work to discover who–or what–is sharing the house with Scott, their previously long-distance friendship begins to blossom into … Read more

Announcement: Breath of the Feathered Serpent, by Pelaam

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Breath of the Feathered Serpent

QSFer Pelaam has a new paranormal book out: Adam’s mission is to investigate the theft of an Aztec statue, but he falls for a suspect. Is Elijah innocent or a deadly thief? When the theft of an Aztec statue threatens to destabilize the provinces on the Texas border, Federal Marshals Adam and Madison are called in to go undercover and investigate. The last thing Adam expects is to be attracted to a young man from one of the ranches they are investigating. With time running out, Adam must face his growing love for Elijah while keeping his true identity a … Read more

Announcement: Clothed in Flesh, by William Holden

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Clothed in Flesh

QSFer William Holden has a new historical horror book out: George Sutton, a London constable, is suddenly thrown into a battle between good and evil, brother against brother, and doesn’t know he is the key to the city’s survival. It’s the eighteenth-century and the dead are coming back to life. When Constable George Sutton receives a summons from an old friend late at night, he only knows she is in distress. He’s little prepared to find Elizabeth aged decades in a matter of days. He’s even less prepared to learn his longtime friend and husband to Elizabeth has risen from … Read more

Announcement: The Dilemma, by Victoria Sue

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The Dilemma

QSFer Victoria Sue has a new paranormal book out: Marcus has just become the only human ever to be Alpha of a werewolf pack and thwarted the plans of Anubis to destroy the goddess Sirius’ creation – the werewolves. Now, Anubis has decided to focus his efforts instead on Marcus and his new pack, to try and destroy the pack from within. In order to do this, Anubis seeks the one thing Marcus wants above all else and when he finds it, will use that to get him to walk away from his mates and the pack. Unaware of the … Read more

Announcement: Stray Pup, by Xander Blythe

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Stray Pup

QSFer Xander Blythe has a new shifter/paranormal book out: One bad lust fueled decision leaves Jamie Finch the victim of a bite-and-run. Now faced with turning into a werewolf–a state there is no shifting back from–he chooses to embrace his new nature and leaves the human world behind. When he finds the Wildwood pack, one wolf’s scent drives Jamie to the brink of rationality. He learns forming an empathic bond with a mate will cool his desires, and he can’t deny the longing to finally find a place in the world where he’s wanted. But the power of the mating … Read more

Announcement: Fated Future, by Phetra H. Novak

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Fated Future

QSFer Phetra H. Novak has a new paranormal novella out: 1964. Vojin Naranjo is a young Caddo man working with his best friend Gabriel in his small workshop. What he doesn’t know is that the man he’s known his whole life isn’t who he’s says he is. Gabriel carries a secret, one that no one knows anything about but now Vojin will be part of it. There’s only one catch, no matter what, Vojin can’t share it with anyone. If he does, he will seal a deadly fate for everyone involved. The question is, how will Vojin Naranjo react to … Read more

For Readers: Sex in Genre Fiction

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Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Hank T Cannon : The role of sex in genre fiction. I wasn’t introduced to sexy books in romance, but in decidedly non-romantic sci fi and contemporary fiction (hello Harold H. Robbins) where it was depicted as a description of power, personality, or outgrowth of culture, and and kind of treated like sport. Only later as my reading expanded did sex as a conduit for romance, or as an ignition for romance enter the picture. Was the “sporting sex” gratuitous, or did it serve to convey how the characters interacted with the world? Do … Read more

Announcement: Tawny, by Chris Quinton

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Tawny

QSFer Chris Quinton has a new paranormal book out: Melusine, a deity of rivers and seas, long ago lost the Battle of the Betrayal and is imprisoned in a nexus centred on the source of the Lynn River. She can only travel in the flowing water of her river, and cannot set foot on her banks. Her cats are not so bound. Neither pets nor familiars, they move freely between the realities, her agents among the humans who live along the Lynn. When Melusine’s enemies come to the valley in search of revenge, she needs to rebuild the war band … Read more