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Cover Reveal: In Love and War – The First Lotus Knights, by Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus

In Love and War - The First Lotus Knights, by Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus

Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus have a new queer sci-fantasy romance coming out (gay, bi, poly): In Love and War – The First Lotus Knights. And we have the cover reveal! It is the year 1985 ET. House Virasana has fallen, the Lotus Throne stands empty, and a bitter succession war has every noble House at arms. To make things worse, House Tô-Genji and House Medina are locked in a vicious feud over a flood of cheap illicit drugs tearing their worlds apart. Prince Li Lan Tô-Genji is as far from the fighting as one can be. Third son of the … Read more

“Fantastic” and “Normal.” Jeff Baker, Boogieman In Lavender, (August, 2026)

The Black Fantastic and Not Not Normal: On Beyond Cisgender XI Jeff Baker This is the latest installment in this column’s occasional feature “On Beyond Cisgender,” suggested by Amy Liebowitz several years ago and spotlighting books recommended for High School readers that go beyond the usual “white, male, cisgender paradigm.” This time around, two books to look at. One deliberately written for kids, one not. First, here’s a look at “The Black Fantastic,” a recent anthology of “Afrofuturist stories” edited by Andre M. Carrington from 2025. The anthology blends newer writers with more familiar names, and benefits immensely from Carrington’s … Read more

New Release – The Bleeding City – Chris Bannor

The Bleeding City - Chris Bannor

QSFer Chris Bannor has a new MM cyberpunk book out (gay, bi): The Bleeding City. A cyberpunk story about lost love and longing in the city that bleeds. Chan Yi has been hiding in Dock City for seven years, always within sight of his makers at Mariner Tech. Always mourning the lover they took from him. Wu DaQi is a man struggling to move on after a botched augmentation took his memories. But the story he’s told doesn’t add up. There’s an emptiness, a longing in his life that doesn’t feel right. DaQi begins to question everything. But when reality … Read more

Review: Ameliorate – R. Sinclair

Ameliorate - R. Sinclair

Genre: Sci-Fantasy, AI, Dystopian LGBTQ+ Category: Aroace and Agender, Bisexual, Gay Reviewer: Estora Universal Buy Link About The Book It all went horrifically wrong. V reunited with his AI siblings at a terrible cost—a cost he isn’t willing to pay. He vowed to do whatever it takes to save Meredith—or whatever is left of her—from Smith and Varro Technologies. No matter how long it takes. No matter what he has to do. No matter who he has to kill. Now V, Cass and Orwell are tearing through the galaxy playing a deadly cat-and-mouse game with Mr Smith. Their paradise-like cult … Read more

New Release: Ameliorate – R. Sinclair

Ameliorate - R. Sinclair

QSFer R. Sinclair has a new queer dystopian sci-fantasy book out (aroace and agender, bisexual, gay), Shattered Numbers book 2: Ameliorate. It all went horrifically wrong. V reunited with his AI siblings at a terrible cost—a cost he isn’t willing to pay. He vowed to do whatever it takes to save Meredith—or whatever is left of her—from Smith and Varro Technologies. No matter how long it takes. No matter what he has to do. No matter who he has to kill. Now V, Cass and Orwell are tearing through the galaxy playing a deadly cat-and-mouse game with Mr Smith. Their paradise-like … Read more

New Release: Willing Captive – Ashlynn Monroe

Willing Captive - Ashlynn Monroe

QSFer Ashlynn Monroe has a new queer erotic sci-fi book out (bi, non-binary, trans): Willing Captive. “Humans are a legend. They don’t exist.” When Lord Xev and his lover, Ra, leave their home in search of a woman to bond with them, they know exactly where to go. Risen Outpost is the most lawless place in the galaxy, and Pale Moon Auction House offers the finest sex slaves on the market. What the Zaronians don’t expect is to find one of the legendary humans for sale to the highest bidder. Kirin Ellison doesn’t know what’s happened to her. The shock … Read more

Books For Pride Month. Jeff Baker, Boogieman In Lavender (June 5, 2026)

Books For Pride Month By Jeff Baker Just in time for Pride Month (which is why I’m posting this early!) I’m selecting several of my favorite LGBT-themed books to dip into for June. And I acknowlege I’ve probably talked about these in this space before. Most of them should be readily available to read online, to order online or find at your new or used bookstore. And the bulk of them are short-story collections or anthologies. (Full disclosure; I know some of these authors and I’m actually mentioned in a story introduction in one of the books!) In no particular … Read more

New Release: Tales of the Quiet Kitty Box Set – Camille Anthony

Tales of the Quiet Kitty - Camille Anthony

QSFer Camille Anthony has a new queer sci-fi book out (bi, non-binary, trans): Tales of the Quiet Kitty. These futuristic sci-fi tales are anything but quiet. Board the Quiet Kitty Waveship and travel with Brant Sel, a Sh’Bahkyr Tygyr and his crew: Bevel-leveB, a Medusoid Jenari with a sentient cock, and Willa, a Sprite from the wounded planet Sparkle. Brought together by fate, these three have common goals — to rescue and gather their lost peoples so they can take down the corrupt, brutal Corporation, run by the most evil beings in the three Galaxies… Humans. Royalties go to The … Read more

New Release: Claimed – Ashlynn Monroe

Claimed - Ashlynn Monroe

QSFer Ashlynn Monroe has a new queer sci-fi book out (bisexual, non-binary, trans, multiple partners): Claimed. Lexa never really knew what it meant to live until she was condemned to die. Framed for a crime she’d never even contemplated, Lexa Mercer’s doing thirty days or death on the Intergalactic Broadcasting Channel’s hit reality show Nariasma. She owes her life to one of the show’s hottest contestants — and a ghost of a man no one is supposed to know exists. Roan of the Northlands is a man made famous by enduring his sentence on the space station Nariasma. Lexa has … Read more

Why Jeff Baker, Boogieman In Lavender, Is Writing Two Novellas At Once. (May 12, 2026)

Why I’m Writing Two Novellas At Once by Jeff Baker I am a terrible procrastinator. (Okay, okay. Actually I’m a very good procrastinator.) I’m a great putter-offer, especially about writing. So, when I tried to start writing regularly years and years ago I told myself that I would only work on one story at a time. That had been my problem for many years; plenty of false starts, including some very good beginnings, but very few were finished. In that, I probably was like a lot of wannabe writers who have a trunk-full (or file-full) of half-finished stories, (if even … Read more