Queeromance Ink

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Flirtatious Fiction Friday!

March 3, 2017 by scott

Welcome to F3: FLIRTATIOUS FICTION FRIDAY at our FB discussion group – a chance for our queer romance writers chance to pop in and tell us about their latest success. Have a new book or short story coming out? Let us know. Just sell something? Let us know so we can cheer you on. As long as it’s queer romance, we want to hear about it. This is our once a week promo day. HOW IT WORKS: I’ll pin this topic to the top of our FB discussion page for the day. –Please post your announcement as a separate post so we can comment on yours specifically –Check out the … Read more

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220 Authors, 900+ Books and Much More to Come

March 1, 2017 by scott

Hey all, Just popping in for our weekly update on the QRI site, or Q-Rink, as the hubby calls it. 🙂 We just topped 900 listed books, and will probably hit a thousand this weekend – phenomenal growth in just five weeks, thanks to the wonderful authors on the site. We’ve also added our first ad, sorted out some site slowness problems, and plan more speed optimization to come. Next week will likely see our upgrade to Version Four of the the books plugin we use, which will add a few things but is more of a back-end update. But V4 will allow us to move forward on our most … Read more

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QRI Is Growing Fast

February 22, 2017 by scott

Hey all… We’re just about at the one month mark for the Queeromanceink.com site. 🙂 We’re also within spitting distance of 800 books on the site, and have almost 200 authors on the site now. Our short to mid-term plans: Update to Version 4 of the plugin that runs the directory Work with the developer to get our search and book page filters up and running Bring in publishers and bloggers to work with us on site content Outreach to cons for advertising Building a reader base for the site If you’re an author, you still have time to take advantage of our launch sale – 15 months for the … Read more

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BOOK BLAST: The Mutt: An Order Series Short Story by Kasia Bacon

February 21, 2017 by jessiegbooks

Author Name: Kasia Bacon Book Name: The Mutt: An Order Series Short Story Series: The Order, Book can be read as a standalone Page/Word Count: 38 pages, 6K words Categories: Fantasy/Paranormal/Sci-Fi, Gay Romance Release Date: January 20, 2017 Publisher: Kasia Bacon Cover Artist: Marek Frankowski Buy Links: Blurb: I, Ervyn Morryés of the Black Mountain clan, know all about control. As the only fair-haired Dark Elf in the Highlands, I had to learn to control my fists and my temper in the face of derision. To become the best archer amongst my peers, I had to learn to control my breathing and my movements. But the day the half-breed … Read more

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JGB RELEASE DAY REVIEW: Skythane by J. Scott Coatsworth

February 17, 2017 by jessiegbooks

Jameson Havercamp, a psych from a conservative religious colony, has come to Oberon—unique among the Common Worlds—in search of a rare substance called pith. He’s guided through the wilds on his quest by Xander Kinnson, a handsome, cocky skythane with a troubled past.

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Defining the boundaries of “Romance”

February 16, 2017February 16, 2017 by Kaje Harper

I posted on Love Bytes Reviews about questions that came up as Scott was designing this site… “One of the things I’ve been doing this past month is helping get the Queeromance Ink book-link site up and running. And in the process, I stumbled across an old question. When is a book really “Romance” and when isn’t it? And while Queeromance Ink has inclusiveness and wide access as a primary goal, it still arose in some discussions of how the site would function, and in reader questions. Defining romance came up in two ways. One was in deciding which books actually belong on a site labeled “Queer Romance?” We want … Read more

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It’s Been a Busy Week!

February 15, 2017February 15, 2017 by scott

Hey all… QRI is growing, and fast! We now have 141 authors, and we just topped 700 books about an hour ago. 🙂 In development news, this week saw the launch of custom fields, including Heat Level, Romantic Content, Tropes, Character Ages, and more – laying the groundwork for search filtering. When filtering arrives on the site, you’ll be able to choose from a variety of fields to either include or exclude books to narrow in on the books you want. We also cleaned up and organized the author-entered “tags” section. We’ll be moving on to promoting the site to readers shortly now that we have a decent collection of … Read more

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Anthology Calls

February 12, 2017 by jessiegbooks

Sapphire Books “Long Distance Love” Anthology “Sapphire Books is dedicated to quality outcomes that respectfully reflect the lives of the lesbian community. We publish and promote lesbian literature that embraces and reflects those diverse experiences. We value diversity of stories, experiences, and celebrate those diversities through lesbian literature.” This call for submission is for their New Anthology is entitled “A Heart Well Traveled – Tales of Long Distance Love Affairs and Unlikely Outcomes” We are seeking stories that feature a “Long Distance Love Relationship” at its nucleus, or as a key part of the story. The focus of the story is the journey the characters take and how their lives … Read more