Announcement: Eve the Soul Reaper, by Leonard Cliffton
QSFer Leonard Clifton has a new YA fantasy novel out: Raven the mysterious Fairy Warrior comes to the small town of Wonderwood to warn Eve Summers and the handsome new … Read more
Writing Anti Heroes
Google defines “anti hero” as: “a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes.” In practice, this often means a character who is the purported … Read more
Announcement: Wolf’s Own, Book One – Ghost, by Carole Cummings
QSFer Carole Cummings has a new fantasy novel out: Untouchable. Ghost. Assassin. Mad. Fen Jacin-rei is all these and none. His mind is host to the spirits of long-dead magicians, … Read more
What the Frak?
Today’s topic comes from QSFer Jim Comer: “Profanity from books and conworlds – The swearwords in my made-up worlds tend to be very odd, such as “Puyurh baVasola”, which means … Read more
Announcement: Rarely Pure and Never Simple, by Angel Martinez
QSFer Angel Martinez has a great sci fi book out: A search for missing children throws a misanthropic human GPS and an obnoxious human torch together in a struggle to … Read more
Professional Organizations for the LGBTQ Sci Fi / Fantasy Writer
Today we have a question from our own Angel Martinez: “The best professional organizations for the LGBTQ SFF writer?” Well, obviously, the best is QueerSciFi.com, followed closely by our friends … Read more
Announcement: Death Gets a Boyfriend, by Sophie Bonaste
Dreamspinner has a new paranormal romance out from Sophie Bonaste: Death is in a lonely business. Since the beginning of time he’s been reaping souls then returning home to his … Read more
The Bestiary
Yesterday, we had a couple fairly heavy topics on our Facebook discussion page – one on branching out into characters beyond the traditional male male couple and into mainstream sci-fi, … Read more
Announcement: Hidden Gem, by Lissa Kasey
There’s a new Sci Fi book out from DSP by Lissa Kasey: Misaki “Aki” Itou is a psi—a person with mutated DNA granting him psychic abilities. He’s also a contracted … Read more
Moving Beyond MM in Fantasy, Sci Fi and Paranormal
I know I came to the party a little late. I’ve been writing since I was in my early years, and really made a go of it in my early … Read more