First, I did the thing. I’ve set Together on a virtual blog tour over the course of 14 days starting Monday, August 10, 2020. Sorry for the late notice. The Full Time Job ™ has been insane recently and just now have time to even think about post. It’s why I’ve been radio silent for the last couple of months.
Sorry about that. I will attempt to post more and be around on social media more often. No guarantees, but you can usually find me with the #WrtitingCommunity in Twitter (@eloreenmoon) when work hasn’t taken over my life. Sometimes I’m on Facebook, and you can always signup for my newsletter. There will be exclusive content coming soon; so, you will need to join to see it.
Follow all the stops with Other Worlds Inc blog, my social accounts, or here (I will link them here as they post live). Who knows, perhaps you can join the giveaway for a $25 Amazon eGift Card! Read all the way to the end for another surprise.
- Amy’s MM Romance Reviews
- Joyfully Jay
- Wicked Faerie’s Tales and Reviews
- Mickie B. Ashling
- Andy Gallo
- QueeRomance Ink
- Bayou Book Junkie
- Love Bytes
- MM Midnight Cafe
- Mirrigold: Mutterings & Musings
- Never Hollowed By The Stare
- Boy Meets Boy Reviews
- Rainbow Gold Reviews
- Once & Book
- Drops of Ink
- Valerie Ullmer | Romance Author
- MM Good Book Reviews
- Sharonica Logic
- Jayne Lockwood
- Stories That Make You Smile
I also commissioned my cover to get animated. Check out my Twitter feed on the sidebar of my blog as I have posted all three today! Thank you to @byMorganWright for wonderful animations. Unfortunately, I don’t have the WordPress plan to upload videos or I would post them here. Perhaps that will be my first content exclusive to the newsletter. *wink* I will just have to figure out logistics. Stay tuned!
That was the first blog tour. Now for the second…
Titled “Innovation”, Queer Sci Fi’s 6th Anthology published today and my story made it in. It’s available in eBook and Paperback. See the Buy Links later in the posts.
It is also on a 14 day blog tour. Keep reading for more information about the anthology, the series, and a chance to enter a choice of $20 Amazon gift card OR a print copy of four of the other five flash fiction books in the series. Books three through five are also available through retailers. It’s not necessary to read the previous books to enjoy the latest in the series.
1 – Discovery (out of print)
2 – Flight (out of print)
3 – Renewal (out of print)
4 – Impact
5 – Migration
Book Blurb:
IN-NO-VA-TION (Noun)
1) A new idea, method, or device.
2) The introduction of something new.
3) The application of better solutions to meet unarticulated needs.
Three definitions to inspire writers around the world and an unlimited number of possible stories to tell. Here are 120 of our favorites.
Migration features 300-word speculative flash fiction stories from across the rainbow spectrum, from the minds of the writers of Queer Sci Fi.
Series Blurb:
Every year Queer Sci Fi holds a flash fiction contest that solicits stories from writers around the world, and publishes the best stories as an annual anthology.
Excerpt:
“The fields are overgrown, have been for years with all the Bios underground. The wind kisses the grass in serpentine patterns long forgotten, patterns the Bios couldn’t imagine anymore. My mechanical hand stores the seed envelope in the mechanical pocket in my androgynous torso. In these suits, there is no gender. Gender is, always has been, in the mind. And I am finally, unequivocally, female.” —Seed, by Val Muller
“No one in the village knew what the Change would bring. They never saw it happen. They only knew what they had been promised: the Change would bestow three gifts.” —A New Way, by Rory Ni Coileain
“The girl kissed her, hard. Then backed away, grinning, teasing, drawing her to the end of the hallway and a flight of stairs leading downward. She took two steps and gazed back up at Lilian, one hand outstretched. Her brilliant red lipstick wasn’t even smudged. Her skin glowed in the harsh white torchlight.” —The Thing With the Bats, by Mary Francis
“Interspecies sex is outlawed on the Freespec Interplanetary Space Station. Politicians call it a safety measure. But I’ve been in the Medical Corps for half my lifecycle, and I call it criminally negligent prudery. Leaders would rather let innocents die needlessly—punctured by sperm darts and dissolved in sacks of voltaic pleasure mucus—than give them the knowledge to express their feelings safely.” — Are My Underwater Sperm Darts Normal?, Brenna Harvey
“The bell’s brassy gong echoes through the flat; the walls blush crimson. See, see! He’s at my door. The live feed shows him sniff his armpit; cup his breath. He wants to impress, but I’m impressed already. His lips softly part; he brushes them with stubby fingers, as he waits. Ugly fingers. Ugly hands. Scrawny neck. Milky eyes. But those lips, see, they’re perfect, just perfect. Plump n’ pale, a slither of my future.” —Just perfect, by Redfern Jon Barrett
“Lekke looked down over the valley, First People’s home for as long as any tales or dreams could tell. Now only Spirit Dreamer Manoot, neither he nor she but both, and Lekke, elder healer, were left. Lifetimes of Long-legs’ raids had driven First People to their deaths—or, some few, to the Way. If there truly was a Way.” —Going Back,” by Sacchi Green
“Savinna limped into her lover’s workshop, her hip still sore from tangling with the marabbecca which had knocked her into its well before she managed to kill it. Such was the life of a monster hunter. Not at all surprised to see Larissa hunched over her bench, hard at work tinkering with something, Savinna ghosted her hand over Larissa’s back.” —Those Who Hunt Monsters, by Jana Denardo
“The baby cried as Freya lowered the bartering bucket into the wishing well. Many had come to the tree-shrouded clearing to make exchanges—a bushel of azure apples for a sword, a woven blanket for a day of rain. The well had been the final creation of a thousand-year-old inventor. But dead wizards often don’t anticipate how their gifts birth consequences.” —The Bartering Bucket, by Diane Callahan
Giveaway:
Queer Sci Fi is giving away your choice of a $20 Amazon gift card OR a print copy of four of the other five flash fiction books in the series – Flight, Renewal, Impact, and Migration (US only unless you are willing to pay the shipping outside the US) with this tour. Enter via Rafflecopter here.
Buy Links:
Publisher | Amazon eBook | Amazon Paperback | Barnes & Noble |iBooks| Kobo
Author Bio:
120 authors contributed stories for this volume:
- Adrik Kemp
- Alex Silver
- Alex Stargazer
- Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Andi Deacon
- Andrea Speed
- Andrew Vaillencourt
- Ava Kelly
- Barbara Johnson-Haddad
- Barbara Krasnoff
- Beáta Fülöp
- Benoit Lafortune
- Blaine D. Arden
- Bob Milne
- Brenna Harvey
- Brooke K. Bell
- C.L. McCartney
- Cassidy Frazee
- Chet Gottfried
- Chloe Spencer
- Chris Bannor
- Christine Wright
- Christopher Koehler
- Clare London
- D.J. Clarke
- D.M. Rasch
- David Gerrold
- Devon Widmer
- Diane Callahan
- E. L. Harrison
- E. Romeis
- E.D.E. Bell
- E.M. Hamill
- Edie Montreux
- Elaine Burnes
- Eloreen Moon
- Emilia Agrafojo
- Emma Johnson-Rivard
- Eric Warren
- Evelyn Benvie
- Gareth Worthington
- Ginger Streusel
- Howard V. Hendrix
- J. Needham
- J. Zachary Pike
- J.S. Garner
- Jade Black
- James Alan Gardner
- Jamie Lackey
- Jana Denardo
- Jasie Gale
- Jeff Jacobson
- Jennie L. Morris
- Jet Lupin
- Jon Miller
- Jonathan Fesmire
- Joshua Ian
- Julian Maxwell
- K. Kitts
- K.L. Townsend
- K.S. Marsden
- KA Masters
- Katelyn Cameron
- Kellie Doherty
- Kevin Andrew Murphy
- Kevin Klehr
- Kim Fielding
- Kitt Harris
- Koji A. Dae
- L.S. Reinholt
- L.V. Lloyd
- LC Treeheart
- Lee Jordan
- Lee Soeburn
- Lou Sylvre
- M. X. Kelly
- Maria Zoccola
- Mary E. Lowd
- Mary Francis
- Mary Kuna
- Matt Doyle
- Mere Rain
- Milo Owen
- Minerva Cerridwen
- Naomi Tajedler
- Nathan Alling Long
- Nathaniel Taff
- Nicole Dennis
- Nina Kiriki Hoffman
- Noah K. Sturdevant
- Patricia Scott
- Paul Uebler
- R. E. Carr
- R.L. Merrill
- Raine Norman
- Ray Lidstone
- RE Andeen
- Redfern Jon Barrett
- Rory Eggleston
- Rory Ni Coileain
- Rosalie Wessel
- S S Long
- Sara Testarossa
- Sean Ian O’Meidhir
- Shannon Brady
- Shannon Yseult
- Skip J. Hanford
- Stephen B. Pearl
- Stephen J. Wolf
- Steve Carr
- Stone Franks
- Stuart Conover
- Susan James
- Sydney Blackburn
- T. T. Thomas
- T.W. Cox
- Tom Jolly
- Val Muller
- Warren Rochelle
- William Tate
Comment on this post for two winners a chance to win a print copy of either Together OR your choice of a prior QSF Flash Fiction contest Anthology. I have extra copies of all but Discovery. This contest will end on August 23rd, 2020 11:59 PM EST. I will pick the winners from the comments of this post only within 2-3 days of the contest end and post on the blog the winners then. Please make sure you provide an email address and I will contact you for your mailing address. This is open to the US only. International: I will be happy to send to you for the cost of shipping. Thank you for reading!
Eloreen Moon
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