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SITE UPDATE: Next Up… Filtering

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Hey all, Time for the weekly check-in. 🙂 The site continues to grow – we just hit 270 authors, and are shooting toward 1,200 books in the directory. We’re also working on our ad campaign – we’ve started running regular Facebook ads, and are reaching out to various cons in the US and abroad to secure sponsorships and ads to get the word out. And site traffic will reach a new high this month, close to 7,700 unique visitors. We’re partnering with a number of review blogs to bring you great blog content, too. Filtering is the next big feature we’re looking to add on the site. It’s a bit … Read more

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How can readers help authors succeed?

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I’ve got three suggestions for you, and only one of them costs any money. Buy the book if you can afford it. Borrow it if you can’t. Did you to know that where and when you buy books is really important? Authors usually are paid a percentage of net sales, so the more the publisher gets, the more goes to the author. In general, publishers make the most from sales through their own website. Also, most publishers offer a discount or other incentives to pre-order the book, so you can save money. Clearly, that’s often the best way to buy the book. But there are other factors to consider. For … Read more

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DUELING REVIEWS: Incoming by A.E. Wasp

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Author Name: A.E. Wasp Book Name: Incoming Series: Veterans Affairs, Book #1 Page/Word Count: 261 pages, 66K words Categories: Contemporary Romance, Gay Romance Release Date: November 25, 2016 Publisher: Self-Published Cover: Jay Aheer Buy Links:   Blurb: What Dmitri Wellington wants is out – out of debt, out of his rundown farmhouse, and out of Red Deer, Colorado. Salvation beckons in the form of a job opportunity in California. What newly-discharged army veteran Troy Johnson wants is simply to lay down – lay down his weapon, lay down some roots, and lay down the memories that haunt him. Red Deer sounds like the perfect place to do it. Sparks fly … Read more

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Where We Are, and Where We’re Going

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Hey all, Time for the weekly check-in. 🙂 The site continues to grow – we just hit 250 authors, and will soon have 1,100 books in the directory. Last week, we updated to version four of the library plugin we use as our site foundation. There were a few small bugs with the upgrade, but in the end it resulted in a great speed bump on the site, We made a few more tweaks that helped as well, including adding pagination to the book pages, so you don’t have to load hundreds of books at a time. All of this means the site is now running much faster than it … Read more

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BOOK BLAST: A Single Heartbeat by Morgan Elektra

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Author Name: Morgan Elektra Book Name: A Single Heartbeat Page/Word Count: 46 pages, 14K words Categories: Bisexual Romance, Contemporary Romance, Erotica, Fantasy/Paranormal/Sci-Fi, Gay Romance Release Date: December 29, 2016 Publisher: MLR Press Cover:Lex Valentine Buy Links: Blurb: Nature made them adversaries, but one glance ignites a lust stronger than the need for blood. After 200 years, the nightlife has lost its allure for Reese. A leader among his kind, owner of a nightclub that serves as a banquet of nubile flesh and hot blood, he is bored out of his mind. His heart hasn’t stirred in over a century. Born to a line of vampire hunters, Will ventures out every … Read more

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BOOK BLAST: Point Shot Trilogy Box Set by V.L. Locey

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Author Name: V.L. Locey Book Name: Point Shot Trilogy Box Set Series: Point Shot Trilogy Page/Word Count: 458 pages / 100+K words Categories: Bisexual Romance, Contemporary Romance, Gay Romance, Sports, Ice Hockey Release Date: February 26, 2017 Cover Design: Reverie Design and Formatting Buy Links: Blurb: Now, you can have the books that introduced Victor Kalinski to the world in one reasonably priced boxed set! With over 350 Goodreads reviews and ratings combined, the romance of Vic Kalinski and Dan Arou is one that once read, will never be forgotten. In this three-book set, you’ll get to experience all the passion, sarcasm, hockey action, and romance that reviewers have called … Read more

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BOOK BLAST: The Poison Within by Kasia Bacon

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BOOK BLAST: The Poison Within by Kasia Bacon

Author Name: Kasia Bacon Book Name: The Poison Within Series: Inspector Skaer, Book #1 Page/Word Count: 50 pages, 11K words Categories: Bisexual Romance, Fantasy/Paranormal/Sci-Fi, Mystery & Suspense Release Date: March 18, 2017 Publisher: Self-Published Cover: Kudi-Design Buy Links: Blurb: Black clouds of xenophobia gather over Radvadur, the western province of the Empire. The political climate is strained and fragile. A surge of Nymph refugees has stirred widespread hostility towards non-humans. When the investigation of a gruesome triple murder linked to the refugee camp ensues, it takes Inspector Käyru Skaer and his lover, Count Ellydhar Finn-Jánn, along an unusual path, at the end of which a precious gift awaits. Käyru and … Read more

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We Broke the 1,000 Book Level!

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It was a good week at QRI. We surpassed 1,000 books on the site – 1,030 to be exact – and now have more than 230 authors. We have our first official advertisers on board – Dreamspinner and MLR Press. And on Friday our developer will be upgrading the site to version four, which will set the stage for getting our long awaited search and page filtering. We’re also addressing the site slowness – it’s a new system and we’ve loaded a lot into it. Our ISP and developer are working to make the site run more efficiently and quickly. Once we launch V4, we’ll start doing more reader outreach. … Read more

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BLOG TOUR: Midnight by J.V. Speyer

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Author Name: J.V. Speyer Book Name: Midnight Page/Word Count: 74 pages, 27K Words Categories: Gay Romance, Contemporary Romance Release Date: August 1, 2016 Publisher: Less Than Three Press, LLC Cover: Natasha Snow Buy Links:   Blurb: Six weeks after the sudden departure of his partner, Brandon finally emerges from seclusion—but still reeling from the loss of the man he thought he’d spend the rest of his life with. Then a chance encounter leaves him feeling hurt and confused, and a series of other seemingly random encounters slowly makes him wonder if his relationship was ever what he thought—and if he ever really knew Adrian at all. Excerpt: Brandon shuffled through … Read more

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Flirtatious Fiction Friday!

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Flirtatious Fiction Friday

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