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Review: Androids & Aliens – J. Scott Coatsworth

New Release / Giveaway: Androids & Aliens - J. Scott Coatsworth

Genre: Sci-Fi, Cli-Fi LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Lesbian Reviewer: Maryann Universal Buy Link About The Book Androids & Aliens is Scott’s third short story collection – eight sci fi and sci-fantasy shorts that run the gamut from cyborgs to (comedic) alien invasions: Rise: The rise in sea levels caused by climate change swallowed Venice beneath the lagoon half a century ago. But what if we could bring it back? Ping: I was a real estate agent by day, and a museum curator in the evening at a sci-fi museum. What I saw one night changed everything. What the Rain Brings: Miriam struggles to make a living in post-climate-change Vancouver. But her … Read more

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New Release / Giveaway: Androids & Aliens – J. Scott Coatsworth

New Release / Giveaway: Androids & Aliens - J. Scott Coatsworth

J. Scott Coatsworth has a new queer sci fi collection out: Androids & Aliens. And there’s a giveaway. Androids & Aliens is Scott’s third short story collection – eight sci fi and sci-fantasy shorts that run the gamut from cyborgs to (comedic) alien invasions: Rise: Because of the rise in sea levels associated with climate change, Venice vanished beneath the lagoon half a century ago. But what if we could bring it back? Ping: I was a real estate agent by day and a museum curator in the evenings at a sci-fi museum. What I saw one night changed everything. What the Rain Brings: Miriam struggles to make a living … Read more

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Review: Resurrection Men – Steven Harper

Resurrection Men - Steven Harper

Genre: Historical, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Lesbian Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Two men become friends in a graveyard in this moving novel of love, loss, and redemption. Arthur Tor steals the dead for a living. As a resurrection man, he creeps around graveyards with his shovel, hoping to dig up corpses so he can sell them to the local medical college and pay his tuition there. He also holds a strange position in underground society. If someone is dying a slow, painful death, the family members come to Arthur and beg him to end their loved one’s pain. Arthur can never refuse, and he helps … Read more

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New Release / Giveaway: Sigrid & Elyn – Edale Lane

Sigrid & Elyn - Edale Lane

Edale Lane has a new FF alt history mystery romance book out: Sigrid & Elyn. Attracted by passion, repelled by war. Can two shieldmaidens navigate battlegrounds of the sword and the heart? Pre-Viking Scandinavia. Sigrid the Valiant is legendary throughout the kingdoms of Norvegr, along with her twin brother, for their many heroic deeds, but her heart has not found a home. Now, racing on the heels of their father’s murder, a neighboring kingdom’s raids threaten to cause an all-out war. Elyn is a young shieldmaiden with a score to settle, fighting her own insecurities along with enemies who threaten her homeland, but she remains unconvinced all is as it … Read more

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Review: Sleeping Dogs – A.L. Lester

Sleeping Dogs - A.L. Lester

Genre: Contemporary, Paranormal, Mythology LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Alice doesn’t think she’s ready to start dating again. Or even to make new friends in the village where she’s come to live with her sister’s family. Will a rainy autumn day and an encounter with a mysterious black dog, a beautiful woman and a fox cub change her mind? A 10,500 word Halloween short story in the Celtic Myths Collection. With dogs, bats, a camper van with a woodburning stove and a fox cub. The Review Alice Jones has moved from Wales after a bad breakup, when the environment just became too uncomfortable … Read more

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Review: New Year in Murder – Edale Lane

New Year in Murder - Edale Lane

Genre: Mystery, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Fifty million motives for murder; one determined detective. Book three in the Lessons in Murder series by Edale Lane Detective Jenna Ferrari just wanted to spend New Year’s Eve with her new sweetheart; was that too much to ask? Whoever decided he or she had to shoot multi-millionaire Mitchell Lockwood at half-past midnight thought so. Despite prepping the curriculum for her upcoming spring semester classes, Randi makes her new girlfriend her top priority. But when she perceives the widow of the murder victim making advances toward Jenna, her cool, patient demeanour gets tested. Was it … Read more

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Review: Death on the Dyfi – Austin Thomas Burton & Ripley Hayes

Death on the Dyfi - Austin Thomas Burton & Ripley Hayes

Genre: Mystery, Contemporary LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book How far would you go to help a friend? When his BFF Brenda is arrested for murder at a lesbian writing retreat, California writer Thomas Gunn jumps on a flight he can’t afford, and heads for rural Wales. Brenda was at daggers drawn on social media with the victim, but insists she is innocent, despite being covered in the girl’s blood. With suspects ranging from an 83-year old writing student, a group of very earnest academics, and mysterious author The Vampyr, Brenda and Thomas set out to solve the crime. Thomas has to cope with … Read more

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New Release / Giveaway – In Light’s Shadow – Warren Rochelle

In Light's Shadow - Warren Rochelle

Warren Rochelle has a new MM alternate history fantasy out: In Light’s Shadow. Gavin Booker, a school librarian, leads an orderly, normal life. Work, jogging, friends from work, his son every other weekend. Gavin is also a secret. He is a hybrid, or part-fairy, and in the Columbian Empire, hybrids are under an automatic death sentence. Magic is illegal. So is loving another man, another capital crime. Fairies are locked away in ghettoes, magical beasts, such as gryphons, unicorns, and pegasi are kept in zoos. Also in zoos: werewolves and other wers, centaurs, and Cheshire cats. The others, the tree and water spirits, the talking beasts, fauns, and the rest, … Read more

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Review: Skimming around Murder – Edale Lan

Skimming Around Murder - Edale Lane

Genre: Mystery, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Killers can leave scars no one else sees. Top detective Jenna Ferrari winds up with too much on her plate as Christmas approaches when she becomes entangled in three cases. Allowing her emotions to run amuck, she concludes there’s no use trying to pursue a new relationship with Randi. Randi senses something is very wrong with Jenna and refuses to give up on them, but she consents to engaging in an experiment to date someone else. Crimes overlap while Jenna struggles with feelings of guilt, remorse, and inadequacy. Can she accept the fact that even … Read more

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New Release / Giveaway: Higher: A Butch-for-Butch Romance – Roz Alexander

Higher: A Butch-for-Butch Romance - Roz Alexander

Roz Alexander has a new FF holiday romance out: Higher. And there’s a Giveaway. Where do dreams go to wait? Tali Blue is definitely going back to finish her last semester of rabbinical school…eventually. When she moved back to her hometown seven years ago to help her grandparents raise her younger sisters, she planned on it being temporary. Now though, she has a stable job and a stable life surrounded by the people she’s known forever. It’s all just fine – and then there’s the incredibly annoying surprise of Maple. Maple never meant to be successful. She just wanted to make weird art and practice her Ladino. And just like … Read more