USA Today Bestselling author, Nicola Cornick stopped by today to share the “timeless” nature of her writing. Welcome to the World of Make Believe, Nicola! Crossing Genres, Crossing Time Hello and thank you for welcoming me to the blog! My name is Nicola Cornick and I write what is often called “timeslip” novels. By timeslip I mean a narrative that weaves together two or more stories set in different time periods rather than a book where a character or group of characters actually travels through time by some means. Of course it’s not always that straightforward. Timeslip books may also contain some time travel or magic or other paranormal elements. My first timeslip novel, House of Shadows, for example, combined …

Have you gotten your copy of M.D. Neu’s T.A.D – The Angel of Death yet? Print and eBook copies are available now andyou can pick up a copy from one of your favorite vendors at this link! If you missed our cover-reveal post a few weeks back, you can check out the blurb and and excerpt from the first chapter of T.A.D. here. Congrats on the new release, M.D.! Giveaway There’s still time to enter this giveaway! M.D. Neu is giving away a $20 Amazon gift card with this reveal and tour. Enter via Rafflecopter: a Rafflecopter giveaway Direct Link: http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/b60e8d4781/? If you’ve already snagged yourself a copy, share your thoughts in a comment here, and be sure to spread …

M.D Neu has a new MM paranormal/alternate universe book out: T.A.D – The Angel of Death. Tad loves bouncing around in time and watching mankind grow and change. He loves humanity and helping when he can. However, his job isn’t conducive to helping people. He’s an Angel of Death. Doug is fun loving and a drama queen. Despite his witty exterior, he has a dark history and is prone to self-destruction. He’s also an amazing drag queen and hairstylist with big dreams. When Tad pushes the boundaries of his duties too far, his angel wings are stripped away from him, and he is sent to New York City to live as a human. Lost and alone he ends up meeting …

Michael G. Williams has a new queer sci fi book out: A Fall in Autumn. WELCOME TO THE LAST OF THE GREAT FLYING CITIES It’s 9172, YE (Year of the Empire), and the future has forgotten its past. Soaring miles over the Earth, Autumn, the sole surviving flying city, is filled to the brim with the manifold forms of humankind: from Human Plus “floor models” to the oppressed and disfranchised underclasses doing their dirty work and every imaginable variation between. Valerius Bakhoum is a washed-up private eye and street hustler scraping by in Autumn. Late on his rent, fetishized and reviled for his imperfect genetics, stuck in the quicksand of his own heritage, Valerius is trying desperately to wrap up …

We’d like to welcome sci-fi and contemporary romance author A.T. Weaver to the Land of Make Believe! I am a retired accountant, the grandmother of eleven (I always say nine came about the usual way, and two are extra), great-grandmother of one. I have no problem with telling people I’m 76 years old. I live with Kiyah, the devil cat, in downtown Kansas City, MO. When I was growing up in the 1950s, the word gay meant happy and carefree and homosexuals were called queer or ‘one-of-those’. However, I guess I was sheltered from a lot of things, because I never heard those terms until I was married and a mother. In the early 1960s, two men moved into the …

The insanely talented Hailey Turner has stopped by the World of Make Believe today to tell us about the very best kind of trouble in New York City (though, I imagine Patrick Collins would argue the “best” part because the poor mage could use a freakin’ break, but we can’t get enough)! Thanks so much for stopping by, Hailey! Trouble Is His Middle Name My Soulbound series is a gay urban fantasy with a strong romantic sub-plot set in a modern-day New York City where magic is known, gods walk the earth, and there’s a decent chance your neighbor is a witch. The series is steeped in mythology, and I throw in quite a bit of mayhem as well, because …

Please welcome to the World of Make Believe, award-winning fantasy author, and my friend, J. Scott Coatsworth! I’ve read a number of Scott’s books and recommended him to anyone for whom he is a ‘new to you’ author. Today, despite being a talented, prolific author, he’d like to share a little about what it feels like to be an “Imposter.” Take it away, Scott.! I Am an Imposter (And That’s Okay) I’m a writer. It’s not the only hat I wear, but it is the one most near and dear to my heart. When I don’t write, I feel wrong. And yet, I’m also pretty sure I’m also a fraud. Ask any writer who’s worth their salt, and they will …

Today, I’m excited to welcome the talented and witty fantasy author (who absolutely did not pay me to say lovely things about her…) Carole Cummings. Carole has a few (OK… more than a few…) words she wanted to share on the importance and intricacies of writing diversity. The floor is all yours, Carole! WRITING DIVERSITY FOR (WHITE CIS HET) DUMMIES Okay, the title’s a little… smartassy. I couldn’t resist. And it’s not entirely indicative of what I want to talk about. We don’t need another straight white girl’s take on diversity. Diverse communities don’t need me to snag their hashtags out from under them and tell them what they really mean and how they could get what they want if …

The final MM sci fi book in J. Scott Coatsworth’s “Oberon Cycle” trilogy is out – “Ithani”! Time is running out. After saving the world twice, Xander, Jameson and friends plunge headlong into a new crisis. The ithani–the aliens who broke the world–have reawakened from their hundred millennia-long slumber. When Xander and Jameson disappear in a flash, an already fractured world is thrown into chaos. The ithani plans, laid a hundred thousand years before, are finally coming to pass, and they threaten all life on Erro. Venin and Alix go on a desperate search for their missing and find more than they bargained for. And Quince, Robin and Jessa discover a secret as old as the skythane themselves. Will alien …

Today, I am thrilled to welcome USA Today bestselling author Sarah K. L. Wilson to the Land of Make Believe! Sarah is the author of the YA fantasy series Dragon School. This is a wonderful series that I’m starting to share with ‘lil q. With twenty books already out in the series, we’ve got a long adventure ahead of us. Sarah has stopped by today to share her delightful perspective on what we should also be seeking to achieve as writers. So, without further ado… What do you do for a living, Sarah? Yesterday, someone asked me what I do for a living. “I invent difficult problems and then find inventive solutions,” I said. Storytellers through the ages have been …