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New Release: Lochlan – Edward Kendrick

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Lochlan - Edward Kendrick

QSFer Edward Kendrick has a new MM fantasy book out: Lochlan. Mage Roland sends Lochlan, his adopted son and apprentice, to a distant city to steal a valuable item — a relatively simple task for a thief with Lochlan’s skills. On his journey, Lochlan meets two commoners will soon play an important part in his life — Garratt and his sister, Maurenn, who Garratt is escorting to meet her betrothed. At first, the young men dislike each other but they are thrown together again when Garratt discovers why Lochlan is in the city and convinces him that he can help … Read more

Review: The Soul Cages – Chad Grayson

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The Soul Cages - Chad Grayson

Genre: Paranormal, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book When Adam, a middle school teacher, meets Jeremy, a musician, sparks fly, and the feeling is definitely mutual. What Adam soon learns, however, is that Jeremy is part of a package deal. He is bound psychically to his twin brother, Jono, who died when they were sixteen. As Adam and Jeremy get closer, where does that leave Jono? And when Jono makes a request to Adam—“Please convince Jeremy to let me go”—will Adam have the courage to do it, even knowing how much it would … Read more

Review: Conversion Dysphoria Blues – Reis Asher

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Conversion Dysphoria - Reis Asher

Genre: Science Fiction, Cyberpunk LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Non-Binary, Trans FTM Reviewer: Olivia Get It On Amazon About The Book What if cyborgs suffered body dysphoria?  In his mid-forties, former cop turned career bureaucrat Nolan Rogers is diagnosed with terminal cancer. His best friend Elly Takahara convinces him to undergo the process of body conversion, where his brain is transplanted into a robotic body. The operation is successful, but Nolan quickly finds himself adrift in a body that doesn’t eat or physically react to emotion. For the first time in years, he’s suffering from a new kind of body dysphoria, a … Read more

Review: A Transcendental Habit – James Callan

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A Transcendental Habit - James Callan

Genre: Sci-Fi, Paranormal LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Ulysses Get It On Amazon About The Book Palindrome is a sprawling, sordid, mega-metropolis populated by roborgs, shapeshifers, holographic kids, and rats the size of Labradors. Among its myriad of destitute city-dwellers is Jarred, a down-and-out nobody whose tedious existence amplifies into an ultra-bizarre escapade after meeting Bee, an alluring enigma loaded with bionic upgrades and brimming with Squidge, a coveted drug new to the black market that enhances anything it touches. With Bee by his side and Squidge in his system, Jarred savors a newfound zest for life. But when the founder … Read more

Review: Call Me Methuselah – R.G. Hendrickson

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Call Me Methuselah - R.G. Hendrickson

Genre: Romance, Paranormal LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Xanthe, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Since humanity’s first steps in the Stone Age, Methuselah has harbored an ancient secret. Cursed by the shaman to witness the end of days, he searches in vain for a home, place to place, clan to clan, yearning to belong. First in prehistoric Africa and lately disillusioned with love for a hundred years in the New World, he learns all too well to guard his heart and hide his story. That changes when a car crash lands him in the hospital with … Read more

New Release: To a Fungus Unknown – William C. Tracy

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To A Fungus Unknown - William C. Tracy

QSFer William Tracy has a new queer sci fi book out, Biomass Conflux book 2: To a Fungus Unknown. Forty years after landing on Lida, the colony still isn’t finished. Agetha has survived many more battles than she anticipated when she first landed on her new home planet. She’s older and wiser, has gained family and lost loved ones. And yet her reward for four decades of service is to be pushed to the colony’s outer edges with the other aging Generationals. But that was only the beginning of her adventure. The biomass has spent years studying the intruders who … Read more

Review: To a Fungus Unknown – William C. Tracy

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To A Fungus Unknown - William C. Tracy

Genre: Sci-Fi, Colonization, Alien Contact LGBTQ+ Category: Various Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book Forty years after landing on Lida, the colony still isn’t finished. Agetha has survived many more battles than she anticipated when she first landed on her new home planet. She’s older and wiser, has gained family and lost loved ones. And yet her reward for four decades of service is to be pushed to the colony’s outer edges with the other aging Generationals. But that was only the beginning of her adventure. The biomass has spent years studying the intruders who landed on … Read more

Review: White Trash Warlock – David R. Slayton

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White Trash Warlock - David R. Slayton

Genre: White Trash Warlock LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Dan Get It On Amazon About The Book Not all magicians go to schools of magic. Adam Binder has the Sight. It’s a power that runs in his bloodline: the ability to see beyond this world and into another, a realm of magic populated by elves, gnomes, and spirits of every kind. But for much of Adam’s life, that power has been a curse, hindering friendships, worrying his backwoods family, and fueling his abusive father’s rage. Years after his brother, Bobby, had him committed to a psych ward, Adam is ready to … Read more

Review: The Enemy of Heaven – Reni Stankova

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The Enemy of Heaven - Reni Stankova

Genre: Fantasy, High Fantasy, Political Intrigue LGBTQ+ Category: Bisexual, Gay Reviewer: D.B., Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Raphael is a despondent angel prince who spends his time on drugs and entertainment, trying to forget the unfair inequality of his kingdom he can do nothing about. But this changes one night when he witnesses the inhuman abilities of a young demon from the capital’s ghetto. In an instant, he knows how to change his kingdom. Dante never trusted angels, much less royals, but after Prince Raphael saves him from an execution for a crime he didn’t … Read more

Review: The Mermaid Hypothesis – Siri Caldwell

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The Mermaid Hypothesis - Siri Caldwell

Genre: Paranormal, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian Reviewer: Monique Get It On Amazon About The Book Mermaid Survival Rule Number 1: Stay away from intelligent women.  Who are so my type.  Fish are not great conversationalists. That’s not why Niua sneaks aboard a research ship, or why she’s stumbling around on legs, pretending she’s not a mermaid, but years of living among uncommunicative sea life may explain why she’s unwisely flirting with a marine scientist who’s far too perceptive–and far too female–for Niua’s safety. She needs to focus, but Ms. “Why Aren’t You on the Passenger List?” keeps distracting her. In the best … Read more