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Like many Australian authors, I was bemused to discover that Amazon will not post author copies of my books – or indeed, customer ordered paperbacks, to Australia.

Instead I, and every other customer, are obliged to purchase paperbacks through a Global Supplier. In the case of my newest book, A Hen Thief and Other Stories, the option was to order via Book Depository in the UK for over $21 per copy.

Amazon claims this is to do with Australian tax laws which came into effect from 1st July 2018. However, Createspace, a separate branch of Amazon since (unfortunately) absorbed, was able to send me my author copies for a couple of dollars plus postage, in August 2018 without any fuss, so I’m not wholly convinced…

Luckily, while I still have some handfuls of hair left, I discovered Lulu, which will print paperbacks to Australians via a Melbourne distributor. More expensive than Createspace but still cheaper than Amazon’s workaround alternative!!

Other writers, who expect to sell commercial quantities of paperbacks are using Ingram Sparks, also printing from Melbourne, but requiring a Registered Business Number and purchased ISBNs.

Julia was in a garden. A delicate perfume wafted from a bed of white roses, tickling her nose as she strolled along the grassy path and gentle sunlight warmed her back as she wandered through the garden. She smiled in her sleep and snuggled further under the quilt.

The machine attached to her head hummed almost inaudibly, lights glowing faintly on the monitor alongside.

In Vera Loy’s third collection of speculative fiction; dreams are sold by corporations; a starship encounters a strange anomaly; zombies take over London; and a hen is stolen. Twelve short stories.

The ebook version of my latest short story collection is now available on Amazon.

A paperback edition will follow shortly.

Author Name:Queer Sci Fi

Publisher:Other Worlds Ink

Release Date:Thursday, July 26 2018

Format:Paperback, eBook

Is This Book Romance?:No

ASN:coming soon

Price:3.99, 14.99

Story Type:Novella 20k-50k

Word Count:33,700

Cover Artist:Lex Chase

Genres:sci fi, fantasy, paranormal, horror

Pairings:Some stories are romance, with various pairings

Keywords/Categories:gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, asexual, pan, demisexual, queer, non binary, genderqueer

Series Title:Queer Sci Fi’s Annual Flash Fiction Contest

Position (Number) in Series:4

Necessary to Read Previous Books:No

Other Books in Series Available for Review?:Yes

Warnings:This book contains 110 stories of 300 words or less each.

Book Blurb:

IM * PACT

(noun)

1) One object colliding with another

2) An impinging of something upon something else

3) An influence or effect on something or someone

4) The force of a new idea, concept, technology or ideology

Four definitions to inspire writers around the world, and an unlimited number of possible stories to tell, but only 110 made the final cut.

A difficult choice to be made. An object hurtling recklessly through space. A new invention that will change the world. So many things can impact a life, a society, or a planet.

Impact features 300 word speculative fiction ficlets from across the queer spectrum from the minds of the writers of Queer Sci Fi.

Welcome to Impact.

Series Blurb:

It’s hard to tell a story in just 300 words. Each year we ask writers to take the challenge, turning in stories across the queer spectrum. The rules are simple. Write a complete sci fi, fantasy, paranormal or horror story, include LGBTIQA characters, and do it all with just 300 carefully chosen words.

Excerpt (Non-Exclusive):

Since this book is composed of stories of no more than 300 words, we can’t really do a standard excerpt, so we’re offering you the teaser first lines from a number of stories.

“She’d needed new oil. She felt her joints grow stiff, her muscles grow tight, her follicles thickening. If she didn’t get fresh quarts soon, people she passed would start calling her sir, asking, Where’s your gun?” —Crossville Station, by Nathan Alling Long

“The mallet’s impact on the hard, bright disk shattered the silence in the talking chamber. The resulting deep tone reverberated through the vault, through Saskia, as she fidgeted beside her lover.” —Settled, by AideeLadnier

“This is how the world ends, or so they say. From where I’m standing, it simply looks like a rolling darkness as distant lights flicker and die.” —Visitors, by LJ Phillips

“’What have you done?’ The mechanical eyes came to rest on his face, the droning beep sounding loud in the small room.” —Identity and Change, by Jo Tannah

“’Once upon a world, we were the same,’ he said, lifting my hand to his lips; the ground shaking beneath us.” —Impact, by Jack Ladd

“I been a tinker and soothsayer long enough to know this country’s at the cusp of war. They stir up hate easy as breath. And, oh, it pains my soul to see it. “ —Impact of Intervention, by Patricia Scott

“All lives begin with a messy impact of some kind. The crash of zygotes and gametes. Splats of silica gel between cybernetic synapses. Two women slam into each other carrying full cups of coffee.” —Quintessence, by E.M. Hammill

“If I venture far enough into the house, I’ll find my closet.” —The Closet, by K.S. Trenten

“It touched Ligaya when she was a child. Or she touched it. A half-glimpsed shape under her bed.” Mas Mabuti An Answang, by Foster Bridget Cassidy

“Jam zipped down the neon track, feather-light in low gravity. She rocketed forward, a glowing haze in her starred helmet, and shot past the pack. “Space Jammer!” echoed as she neared the line. Time to rack up the points.” —First Bout: Andromedolls Vs. Crotch Rockets, by Ginger Streusel

Buy Links:

Amazon Kindle:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FC91HH2

Barnes & Noble:https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/impact-j-scott-coatsworth/1129055097

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Kobo:https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/impact-84

Angus & Robertson: https://www.angusrobertson.com.au/books/x/p/9781732307537

Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40779373-impact

Giveaway:

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About Queer Sci Fi:

At Queer Sci Fi, we’re building a community of sci fi, fantasy, paranormal and horror writers and readers who want a little rainbow in their speculative fiction. We run a great discussion group on Facebook, a twitter feed, and have a website full of useful materials, news, and announcements for readers and writers of queer speculative fiction.

Website:https://www.queerscifi.com

Facebook Discussion Group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/qsfdiscussions/

Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/queerscifi/

Twitter:https://twitter.com/QueerSciFi

The weekend sale is now LIVE!

This weekend, I, and 11 other published Wattpad authors are running a short term promotion where we let you download our published Amazon books for FREE!  There is no limit. Download all 12 ebooks.

All books are free on Amazon from 2nd – 3rd June 2018.

NB  Please double-check that each book is free at the time you are downloading it from Amazon. Your time zone may affect whether books are free for you at that moment.

Vera Loy Star Clash

https://www.amazon.com/Star-Clash-Anthology-Vera-Loy-ebook/dp/B010J8AKQ6/

Sally Mason Survive

https://www.amazon.com/Survive-Hide-Seek-Book-2-ebook/dp/B077P8WHGV/

L.V. Lloyd Night Traveller

https://www.amazon.com/Night-Traveller-L-V-Lloyd-ebook/dp/B07CGNP5KN/

Bad Neighborhood edited by Fox Emm

https://www.amazon.com/Neighborhood-Misfit-Horror-Anthologies-Book-ebook/dp/B018O3SIIA/

Demelza Carlton Enchant: Beauty and the Beast Retold

https://www.amazon.com/Enchant-Beauty-Romance-Medieval-Fairytale-ebook/dp/B01N9K31HK/

Elise Noble Pitch Black

https://www.amazon.com/Pitch-Black-Romantic-Thriller-Blackwood-ebook/dp/B017G610AY/

Kelly Blount Grishma

https://www.amazon.com/Grishma-Necoh-Saga-Book-1-ebook/dp/B00BSG4XG2

Erica Laurie Eun Na and The Phantom

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01B40NBTQ/

Ysa Arcangel  Moments of Joy

https://www.amazon.com/Moments-Joy-Remember-Book-ebook/dp/B06XDCR53Y

May Freighter Desired

https://www.amazon.com/Desired-Fantasy-Novella-Helena-Hawthorn-ebook/dp/B073SB3BQ8

Debra Goelz  Red Snow

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Snow-Debra-Goelz-ebook/dp/B0775G3N8X/

Maaja Wentz  Blasted Bloomers

https://www.amazon.com/Blasted-Bloomers-Loon-Supernaturals-Prequel-ebook/dp/B01JTQ3W5A/

J. Scott Coatsworth has a new queer magical realism book out:

A group of strangers meets at Ragazzi, an Italian restaurant, for a cooking lesson that will change them all. They quickly become intertwined in each other’s lives, and a bit of magic touches each of them.

Meet Dave, the consultant who lost his partner; Matteo and Diego, the couple who run the restaurant; recently-widowed Carmelina; Marcos, a web designer getting too old for hook-ups; Ben, a trans author writing the Great American Novel; teenager Marissa, kicked out for being bi; and Sam and Brad, a May-September couple who would never have gotten together without a little magic of their own.

Everyone in the River City has a secret, and sooner or later secrets always come out.

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Excerpt

Matteo stared out the restaurant window into the darkness of Folsom Boulevard. It was getting dark earlier as summer edged into fall. Streetlights flickered on as cars drifted by, looking for parking or making the trip out of Midtown toward home.

The sign on the window read “Ragazzi” (the boys), lettered in a beautiful golden script just two months old. Investing in this little restaurant his uncle had left to them when he’d passed away had been their ticket out of Italy. But now with each passing day, as seats sat empty and tomatoes, pasta, and garlic went uneaten, the worry was gnawing ever deeper into Matteo’s gut.

Behind him in the open, modernized kitchen, Diego was busy cooking—his mother’s lasagne, some fresh fish from San Francisco, and some of the newer Italian dishes they’d brought with them from Bologna. The smells of boiling sauce and fresh-cooked pasta that emanated from the kitchen were entrancing.

They’d sent the rest of the staff —Max and Justin—home for the evening. The three customers who had shown up so far didn’t justify the cost of keeping their waiter and busboy on hand.

Matteo stopped at the couple’s table in front of the other window. “Buona sera,” he said, smiling his brightest Italian smile.

“Hi,” the man said, smiling back at him. He was a gentleman in about his mid-fifties, wearing a golf shirt and floppy hat. “Kinda quiet tonight, huh?”

“It always gets busier later,” Matteo lied smoothly. “Pleasure to have you here. Can I get you anything else?”

“A little more wine, please?” the woman said, holding out her glass so the charm bracelet on her wrist jangled.

“Of course.” He bowed and ducked into the kitchen.

He gave Diego a quick peck on the cheek.

His husband and chef waved him off with a snort. “Più tardi. Sto preparando la cena.”

“I can see that. Dinner for a hundred, is it? It’s dead out there again tonight.”

Diego shot him a dirty look.

Matteo retrieved the bottle of wine from the case and returned to fill up his guests’ glasses. “What brings you in tonight?” Maybe they saw our ad.…

“Just walking by and we were hungry. I miss the old place though.… What was it called, honey?”

Her husband scratched his chin. “Little Italy, I think?”

“That’s it! It was the cutest place. Checkered tablecloths, those great Italian bottles with the melted wax… so Italian.”

Matteo groaned inside. “So glad you came in” was all he said with another smile.

Author Bio

Scott lives with his husband Mark in a little yellow bungalow in East Sacramento, with two pink flamingos by the front porch.

He spends his time between the here and now and the what could be. Indoctrinated into fantasy and sci fi by his mother at the tender age of nine, he devoured her library. But as he grew up, he wondered where the people like him were.

He decided it was time to create the kinds of stories he couldn’t find at Waldenbooks. If there weren’t gay characters in his favorite genres, he would remake them to his own ends.

His friends say Scott’s brain works a little differently – he sees relationships between things that others miss, and gets more done in a day than most folks manage in a week. He seeks to transform traditional sci fi, fantasy, and contemporary worlds into something unexpected.

He runs Queer Sci Fi and QueeRomance Ink with his husband Mark, sites that bring queer people together to promote and celebrate fiction that reflects their own reality.

Author Website: https://www.jscottcoatsworth.com

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