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LGBt fiction

Announcement: Rediscovery, by Sandra C. Stixrude

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Rediscovery

QSFer Sandra C. Stixrude has a new sci fi book out: An inhabited planet is not what an interplanetary mining company hopes to find while in search of rare mineral deposits, but the low-tech natives should be won over by a few ‘miracles’, right? Emily Nandi, the mining company’s legally mandated xenologist, isn’t so sure. The planet’s social structures are complex, fascinating and frustrating – she advocates research and caution rather than the seat-of-the-pants first contact the company president wants. Investigator Shadow is convinced ghosts are watching him until a fellow investigator disappears, plucked from his harduk’s back without a … Read more

Announcement: Serge & Een, by Angel Martinez

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Serge & Een

QSFer Angel Martinez has a new sci fi book out: While driving home during a snowstorm, Serge Kosygin witnesses a meteor plummeting to Earth. When he reaches the strike location, he finds a horrific crash site instead of a meteor crater, with two aliens dead and one survivor barely alive. His deeply ingrained mistrust of the government prompts him to rescue the alien before the authorities arrive. Een has lost his life mates in a desperate effort to reach safety. With their deaths, he may be the last Aalana in the galaxy. He finds himself in the care of a … Read more

Announcement: Traveling Light, by Lloyd Meeker

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Traveling Light

QSFer Lloyd Meeker has a new paranormal/spiritual book out: An eye for an eye…. Ian McCandless is a hospice nurse, training to become a shaman. When his mentor orders him to make peace with his estranged family, Ian reluctantly agrees, anticipating another conflict-filled visit. On their way from the airport, Ian’s older brother Will interrupts a convenience store robbery and is shot. As he dies in Ian’s arms, Will begs Ian to avenge him. Ian uses his shamanic abilities to track down the killer, but his quest soon becomes a hunt for revenge—forbidden to any shaman. His actions jeopardize his … Read more

Announcement: Seeing is Believing, by Terry Poole

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Seeing is Believing

QSFer Terry Poole has a new paranormal book out: As the only witness to the murder of a police detective Max Cooke never thought the dead detective’s ghost would appear at the foot of his bed two days later. Not only does Max have to deal with the often ridiculous fallout of being bonded to a ghost, he ends up falling in love with the dead man haunting him. Instead of wings and a harp Detective Nick Horvath ends up with a writer of romance stories, a sweet lonely man who brings out all his protective instincts. When the murderer … Read more

Announcement: Shadows & Light, by Cari Z.

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Shadows & Light

QSFer Cari Z. has a new fantasy book out: A fight to the death against his former master turns into a chance for Rafael, an assassin denied the immortality he lived to achieve, to learn the shocking truth about the fate he was spared. Rafael wanted nothing more than to serve his immortal master, Xian, a High One of Clare, who taught him from an early age how to be an assassin. But after failing the final test, Rafael was turned out into the Lower City, abandoned by the one person he thought he could count on. Years of hatred … Read more

Announcement: Rescue, by Pelaam

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Rescue

QSFer Pelaam has a new fantasy book out: When prince Adrianus accepts a quest to find the Jewel of Darkness to break a curse on king Thanos’s daughter, he takes along Fedor, a young man recently rescued from Thanos’s stables.  Fedor has experienced much hardship in a short space of time. A slave in the stables of king Thanos, he’s ill-treated by a sadistic captain of the guard until rescued by a royal visitor from another kingdom.  From a mix of gratitude and attraction he insists on joining Adrianus, despite the dangers involved. When he’s captured as a sacrifice, he … Read more

Announcement: Kings of Lore and Legend, by Andrew Q. Gordon

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Kings of Lore and Legend

QSFer Andrew Q. Gordon has a new fantasy book out: Dumbarten should have been the end of Farrell’s efforts to find his distant ancestor Kel, but the Six have other plans. Farrell is told to continue his search for answers in Agloth, the temple city to Seritia. Forced by the Goddess to ride across the vast continent of Lourdria, Farrell and his companion learn that Meglar’s reach extends well beyond the borders of Ardus. And Agloth, despite being dedicated to the Goddess of Love, is also home to a millennia-old curse that Farrell must end if he wants to complete … Read more

Announcement: Transmutations of Fire and Void, by Matt Buscemi

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Transmutations of Fire and Void

QSFer Matt Buscemi has a new speculative fiction anthology out: Fifteen short stories explore the formidable interstices between violent conflagration and frigid desolation. A facility generates power by obliterating aesthetic beauty from parallel universes; a “pink brick” defies the analytical capacity of a team researching an alien culture; a temple remains serene and unperturbed even as the world around it plunges into war; a young man with relationship problems is tormented by his own reflection; a deadly poisonous organism masquerades as an art show piece. Buscemi’s short stories make a hairpin turn into the violent fluctuations between fury and desolation … Read more

For Writers: Review/Blog Sites for Queer Fiction

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Rainbow Flag

Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Matt Cresswell: Half the challenge of publishing is getting your book out there to people when it’s finished. I get asked quite often for recommendations of blogs and reviewers who’ll read lgbtq fiction, and although I know loads my mind always goes blank. So I’m asking for help! Here is an online list which can be added to and edited that lists review venues, blogs and podcasts that will take queer fiction. It’s pretty thin on the ground right now as we’ve only just launched it but with your help it could be the … Read more

Announcement: Essent Quest, by JJ Lore

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Essent Quest

QSFer JJ Lore has a new sci fi book out: Playboy Tellan knows other races consider his people spoiled and arrogant, but he’s determined to put aside fine sheets and elegant meals in order to search for a mythical Domidian elixir for his ailing sister. He’s also smart enough to realize he’ll need help staying alive in the unsettled wastes of the Empty Quadrant. Enter Jorant, an intimidating Atavaq who’s been genetically modified to be the perfect soldier. On the run from his past, Jorant accepts the task of protecting Tellan as they venture to a planet populated by tentacled … Read more