Andrew Q. Gordon

The year – and decade – is rushing to an end, but here’s a way to start the new year and decade off right. Find a new series to engage you in the fantastic. All the month, I’m joining with other Sci-Fi/Fantasy authors to give away the first book in a series. There are over 180 different books to choose from so there have to be a few you’ve never tried, but should. Click the link below to be taken to the giveaway page. Series Starter eBook Giveaway If you find something particularly interesting, let me know. I’m always interested in new good stuff and I might not have read it yet, As we leave this year, (and decade) I …

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 …

Summer (at least in the Northern Hemisphere) doesn’t officially end until the autumnal equinox on September 23rd, but most parents mark the end of summer when the kids go back to school. As the days get shorter, that means we spend more time inside. And what better way to spend that extra inside time than discovering new authors who you can fanperson. To help you find new reading material, I joined a fantasy eBook giveaway this month. There are 50+ different books to choose from, which I have to think is more than enough to get you through the fading light of autumn. Click here to check out the books available. Now, being realistic, I can’t read all of the …

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 …

Beryll and Osiris Brackhaus have a new MM fantasy book out: The Demon of Hagermarsh. “The Emperor cares for each and every one of his subjects.” Many consider the catchphrase of the imperial Lotus Knights to be nothing more but well-polished propaganda, but for Yaden, it is a way of life. A young Lotus Knight himself, his first mission in service of the Emperor sends him to the remote village of Hagermarsh, a suspiciously friendly place on a planet known for its inhospitable people. But how to uncover a demonist coven when nothing bad ever happens?Getting to know the villagers only makes things more difficult – the motherly fishmonger surely isn’t a demonist. Nor the gruff leader of the local …

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 …

Warren Rochelle stopped by the blog today for some good ole Q&A on world building, favorite works, and his writing process. Thanks for stopping by, Professor! AQG: So, tell us three things about your worlds that your readers love! WR: The first thing that comes to mind would be what I call the intersection of the magical and mundane. By mundane, I mean stories in which the characters exist in worlds the readers know. For example, my novel, Harvest of Changelings, is set in the Triangle region of central North Carolina. Characters walk (or run, if the bad guys are after them) down real streets, drive real cars. Yes, there is some fictionalizing, a few name changes, but not very much. …

As the title says, today is release day for When Heroes Fall. (You can find buy links below) I’ve looked forward to this day with anticipation and a touch of sadness. I’m anxious to hear what readers have to say, but I’m also a bit melancholy that it’s over. I was searching through my Champion of the Gods folder this week and came upon a file dated 10/26/08. It was a scene from Child of Night and Day. Although the files have been modified, deleted, merged and assumed, I know I began the series before 2006. I know because we moved into our current house in August 2006 and I had already begun the series.  As best I can recall, Champions …

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 …