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QSFer Angel Martinez has a new MM fantasy romance out, Merseton Tales book 3: Trader Argyle (Definitely Human).

Argyle’s particular about how to be human, but rules must be broken to save his favorite town.

Of all the towns on Argyle Mim’s trading routes, he’s always enjoyed visiting Merseton best. The residents understand the ...

https://www.queerscifi.com/trader-argyle-definitely-human-angel-martinez/

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Chapter 40 of Stone Prophet is available to read on : https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Nicole and her team find themselves in a shared mindscape, in which Lyra and Gida pilot a shuttle, while the team prepares to be dropped at a fortress for a tactical assault.

The fortress is armed with antiaircraft blasters and it's a bumpy ride...

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A mostly UP Covid recovery day yesterday, which showed in my productivity. 5,059 words added to Expired Reflection.

Like with all my narrative outlines, once I pass the Midpoint there’s a lot more guesswork involved in the plan & a lot more discovery in the draft.

Yet, some points, anchor points, will remain, making the narrative still a worthwhile guide, & often invaluable.

Be everwell.

On dark shelf, a gargoyle on the right guards the first three books in the Kovenlore chronicles on the left. Each book’s cover is the negative image of a golden, hand drawn map showing mountains, plains, and rivers, but sometimes a black void. The titles are always displayed across two lines up high, the color varying. Between the two lines of the title is always a set of turquoise eyes. A subtitle, always in turquoise, is below that and shares which number book it is in The Kovenlore Chronicles. At the bottom is the author’s name, Christina Anne Hawthorne, and always in a dark yellow. All text is outlined in black, the titles possessing a shadow. Book 1, Trust in the Forgotten, is on the left, it’s title in turquoise. Book 2, A River in Each Hand, is at center, its title in red. Book 3, Exhuming Truths, is on the right, its title in dark blue.

The Flame, or rather Jennifer as she was not in costume, considered her bedroom. It was getting crowded again. She was either going to have to at least get a new bed, if not actually get a whole new bedroom built.

Why Professor Russim insisted on making his artificial assassins fully self aware and anatomically correct, she had no idea. She was not going to complain though. First it allowed the assassins to break free of his commands, and secondly, well, that was why she needed a bigger bed.

Jennifer crawled into the pile of bodies and drifted off to sleep.

Three hours later, about an hour before sunrise, the bed shook violently. Jennifer and the other occupants awoke. A quick check confirmed that it had not been anyone having a good time, and Wisteria, one of the first, got up to look outside.

"Jen? We …

This week's Monday snippet comes from Enchanting the Fae Queen - which arrives just 6 weeks from tomorrow!

Preorder now:

https://stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen

And if you haven't already got the first fantasy rom-com in this trilogy, grab it now:

https://stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen

The illustrated cover for Enchanting the Fae Queen, by Stephanie Burgis, shows a mischievously grinning woman with long blonde curls, a moonstone crown, a pink dress and bare feet, sitting perched in a tree teasing the uniformed general who stands before her, his expression determined and one of his hands around her closest leg while she pokes his strong nose with one finger. Vines of leaves sweep magically out from the tree around her to draw him towards her. The tagline reads: All’s fae in love and war. The text beside and below it reads: “I take it you abducted my travel trunk at the same time you abducted me?” he asked wryly. “It was the only polite option,” she assured him. “You see, none of the men’s clothing left with me across the years would have been nearly large enough to fit. You wouldn’t have cared for it at all.” His expression was skeptical. “And you were, of course, terribly concerned about my preferences when you chose to abduct me.” “Of course!” Lorelei said piously. “I might be wicked, darling, but it’s never necessary to be cruel.”

Scott reviews "Valley of Secrets" by H. L Moore, Death's Embrace book 4:

"You know that feeling when you’re down to the last twenty pages of the last book of a series you really loved, and you don’t want it to end, so you start reading slower and slower to drag out the inevitable? That. Hard... this is the best fantasy series I’ve read in a long time."

https://www.queerscifi.com/review-valley-of-secrets-h-l-moore-2/

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Nicole’s brain is slowly being taken over by a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.

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(Left) The cover of Jigsaw City, by Owen Tyme. The background is a futuristic city of sky scrapers covered in greenery, with water ways in place of some streets. The background has been divided by dark lines that cut it up, into a jigsaw puzzle. The foreground is a hexagonal coin with an indentation in the center that follows the same shape, with raised lines forming a hexagram in the center, which has a smaller one turned at a ninety-degree angle inside the hexagon at the center of it. The smaller hexagram has another inside it, a pattern that repeats until the lines become so fine and indistinct, they blend together. (Right) There's a pool of lava at the base of a rocky slope, with some sharp rocks sticking upward out of it and the following text over the top: “I’m immune to heat and fire. I can easily carry and protect one of you…” “That’s suicide! Ye’d need to deliver an army to make a difference, not one person!” “I *am* an army.” (Bottom) https://books2read.com/JigsawCity

QSFers Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett hav a new MM fantasy box set out: The Complete Astreiant.

The city of Astreiant is full of magic, danger and bureaucracy.

Former mercenary Philip Eslingen and Pointsman Nicolas Rathe are friends, lovers and a mystery-solving duo to be reckoned with as they tackle fantastical mysteries that ...

https://www.queerscifi.com/the-complete-astreiant-melissa-scott-lisa-a-barnett/

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12/14 Are your characters incapacitated by injuries, or do they brush them off as flesh wounds?

It depends.

I made my Wolves heal fast, and mostly, they can brush off injuries but not always.

My Winds & Pillars don't get hurt often, and there are healers, but sometimes, they need time to recover.

Crash certainly doesn't brush off injuries. Krighen needs time to recover.

I do try to make my stories realistic for the world they are set in.