Aftercare at Randy’s

R.A. Frick
Book Cover: Aftercare at Randy's
Editions:ePub, Kindle, Paperback

Where do you meet like-minded kinksters in Boston? It’s time for Pancakes & Pronouns at Randy’s!
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Gael “Gay” López Cruz is a no-nonsense civil rights lawyer by day, strict but nurturing Dom by night. The only problem? Her partner is a switchy kitten, not the sub she longs to care for, and finding a second great love feels impossible.

Cincinnati "Cin" Santos' life is perfect, except something is missing. Cin and their partner, Gay, host a munch for non-cis kinksters, and maybe they'll meet a third there…

RJ Meritt is new to Boston, and is excited to finally explore everything a trans kinkster could dream of. His first stop is something called a “munch” at Randy’s Diner.

Aftercare at Randy’s is the story of three transgender kinksters discovering their chosen family, more than one love, and having a lot of fun along the way.
Part of the Randy's Diner Days collaboration - Love beyond the binary: serving up low angst trans romances at Randy's Diner!

Truth Dare, Cinderfella?

R.A. Frick
Book Cover: Truth Dare, Cinderfella?
Editions:Kindle, Paperback

Can a game night bring these two together?

Miles O’Donnell was a comic artist in San Francisco. With multi-colored hair and eyes to match his sassy personality, Miles never had trouble getting attention. Unfortunately, most couldn’t satisfy what he really needed…

Shane Long was an engineer who just turned forty and wasn’t sure there was a partner out there for him when they all complained he was too big. Until a chance meeting and a game of Truth or Dare put a certain size queen in Shane’s path.

It might take more truth than they expected to share!

Reviews:Trish on Goodreads wrote:

This was a super fun, sexy story about a rainbow haired twink and the muscular top who he falls for!

Miles is an unashamed size queen. He knows what he’s looking for, but he hasn’t found it yet. When he gets invited to a kinky game night, he thinks it’ll just be a bit of fun. Then he meets Shane…

Shane has struggled with partners in the past due to his size. It’s either a turn off, or the only turn on. When he meets Miles, he’s instantly attracted, but worried a guy half his size will run for the hills.

But when the party gets spicy and the two end up as the last two in the room, they have the chance to see if they’ll be the perfect fit 😆🍆


Truth or Dare, Cinderfella? was originally part of the Game Night: Truth or Dare anthology in 2024 as Size Queen. This edition is a standalone novella with an expanded story including a completely new epilogue, now connected to Frick's X Club series!

Enemy

R.A. Frick
Book Cover: Enemy
Editions:Kindle, Paperback

Is it really kidnapping and torture if they both get turned on by it?

Giorgio “George” Greco was the former leader of the Italian crime family in the Bay Area, but he was done with that life. Children grown and wife long dead, George was ready to start exploring what it meant to be a civilian… and maybe get to know a new side of himself as a Daddy.

Vasily “Basil” Kiselov was fresh out of college and ready to prove himself to his Russian crime family in San Francisco. After being kept on the edge of their business, Basil goes on the hunt for an Enemy. When Basil tried to kill George, he ended up being the one under the gun.

The problem? George didn’t want to let go of the boy so easily.

Enemy is part of the Ruthless Daddies multi-author collab and a complete standalone. With a sadistic older Italian Daddy, a not-so-innocent Russian boy, and rival families, these two hurt each other until they like it! Want more deliciously morally gray Daddies and boys? Grab the whole series!

* See Author Note and Triggers inside: Enemy has connections to characters in my other books (X Club: For You), but is a standalone. Contains dub con, see CW for full details.

For Real

R.A. Frick
Book Cover: For Real
Editions:Kindle, Paperback

Living outside of the cis-het box makes life more challenging, but also more fabulous!

Ash is a high-powered San Francisco real estate agent by day, Professional Dom by night. They live their life gender-queer and proud, but s-x work has gotten old. Will they ever be able to quit Pro-Domming and do k!nk for fun again?

Jefferson “Flowers” Flores is bitter from twenty years in the military and trying to find where he fits in the world. He's finally out of the Army and out of the closet; looking for love, hopeful but cynical in a new city where he doesn't feel like he belongs.

When one of Ash's clients has a video of their scene released, his criminal family is out for blood. Flowers steps up to protect Ash and keeps them safe as the feelings for each other grow. Can they really be what the other needs in the middle of running for their lives?

For Real is the beginning of the X Club series featuring trans and non-binary main characters falling in love in San Francisco. All of these stories can be read as standalones, but are best enjoyed in order as the characters appear before their books, and now you can read them all together!

Full Series and spin off order:

1. For Real (X Club 1)
2. For You (X Club 1.5)
3. For Keeps (X Club 2)
4. For Them (X Club 3)
5. For Life (X Club 4)
6. Daddy for Christmas: Sawyer
7. Beauty for Kinkmas
8. Fluff Me
9. Happy Pride
10. Enemy
11. His Furry Heat (ABO)
12. Edging Glory (Naughty November Antho, to be re-released)
13. Leo: A Little Christmas 3
14. Daddy for Christmas: Will
15. Truth or Dare, Cinderfella? (X Club 4.5)

Don’t Ask, Ghosts Tell

An LGBTQ+ Horror Anthology

G.B. Lindsey
Book Cover: Don't Ask, Ghosts Tell
Editions:Hardcover, Kindle, Paperback

Truths always catch up with us. There’s no denying it. Your senses heighten—as a presence lurks in the shadows, haunting your thoughts with every move. Knots form in your stomach from guilt, memories, or real horrors. Each moment is fraught with heaviness, zapping energy as your reflections pull toward whatever or whomever cowers in the shadows, ready to pounce at the slightest chance to claw at your soul.

The stories and poems in this anthology evoke powerful emotions across distinct perspectives and eras—plagued by terrors, misinterpretations, suffering, and lost love. Does hope linger when ghosts hold all the cards?

With stories and poetry by Amanda Dier, Amanda Nevada DeMel, Benjamin Larned, Christina Bergling, Darrell Z. Grizzle, Eric David Roman, G.B. Lindsey, J. Daniel Stone, John Grover, M. Edusa, Maxwell I. Gold, May Walker, Michael Thomas Ford, R.J.K. Lee, Rook Riley, Ryan Cole, Sara Tantlinger, Sean Eads, Sumiko Saulson, and Toshiya Kamei.

Proceeds from your purchase of this book go to the Modern Military Association of America, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.

Office of the Lost

Chaos and Order Book One

J. Scott Coatsworth, Kim Fielding

When Perfection Collides With Chaos, Sparks Fly

Crispin Eladrin, desk fae at the Office of the Lost, could find a needle in ten haystacks. His desk is so neat it would make an accountant blush, and he's never failed to complete a recovery mission. He has no idea how adorable he is, especially when he's at his most annoyingly officious.

Enter utterly chaotic Leopold Lane. His life is a masterclass in disastrous events--and it's about to get worse. He's the latest thing that Crispin has been sent to retrieve, but when they meet, sparks fly. Literally. And now they must find their way back before someone—or something—enchants them, eats them, or stomps them to death.

Neither knows why the Office of the Lost is so hell-bent on acquiring Leo, but they're determined to survive long enough to find out--and to see if opposites really do attract.

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Romance is a Drag Anthology

A Queer Anthology Volume 1

J. Scott Coatsworth

A queer Anthology that embraces the romantic life and happy ever afters of drag queens navigating the LGBT landscape. All stories are written by Own Voice gay authors! From small towns to big cities, drag queens are the heart of the gayborhoods they belong to. Stories by Shane K Morton, Blake Allwood, Jole Cannon, Kelvin Young, J. Scott Coatsworth, Kristian Parker, Brent Archer and M.D. Neu.

Miz Fortune's Lonely Hearts Salon by J. Scott CoatsworthChester Carlson is a lonely late-middle-age accountant who lost his husband a couple years earlier and has resigned himself to being alone. He has als discovered that he can see glimpses of other people's romantic futures, and has opened up a dating advice salon in drag as Miz Faymin Fortune. Then one day, Dixon Murdock walks through her door, and everything he thought he knew about life, aging, and romance gets thrown out the door.

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This was his favorite part of the night, when he shed his timid accountant personality to be someone strong and in control, something like the man he’d been before, with Andrew. Confident. Certain. Spontaneous.

He sighed, closing his eyes with their false eyelashes and clutching his tube of slut-red lipstick in his sweaty hands. If only you could see me now, babe.

His strange visions had started after Andrew’s death. Little flashes over other people’s heads that made him think—at first—that he was having a stroke.

Put on the lipstick with practiced ease, puckering his lips to spread it evenly.

At first, he’d thought he was losing his mind—the result of the twin stresses of a job he hated and a life that had suddenly gone empty of all color and meaning.

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Slip on the wig and fasten it into place, then drape the curls around to frame his face in the most flattering way possible.

Then he’d seen one of his visions come true—Max from work had met the girl of his dreams, and when Chester met her, her face sent chills down his spine. He’d seen that visage dancing over Max’s head a month before.

Acrylic nails, blood-red, pressed against each of his own, rounded and sharp, like talons.

It was a sign. Maybe from Andrew himself. He, Chester Carlson, was meant to help others in ways that went far beyond taxes and accounting.

A ruby-red ring and some brass bangles on his right arm to complete the effect.

He sat back to admire the results of his labors, spreading his fingers and waving his hand in the air to admire the glitter of jewelry. He’d created Faye as a way to escape the pain, and she had taken on a life of her own. Her lips spread wide in thrilled anticipation.

 “Miz Fortune has arrived.”

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Everything We Thought Was true

Lisa Montanaro
Book Cover: Everything We Thought Was true
Editions:Audiobook, ePub, Kindle, Paperback

Los Angeles lawyer Lena Antinori has dedicated her career to fighting discrimination, including for the LGBTQ community, but her own family's secret haunts her. At thirteen years old, she made the startling discovery that her father, Frank, was gay and her mother, Teresa, knew. Fearing social stigma, Teresa instituted a code of silence meant to protect their Italian Catholic family—a code Lena adhered to for decades.

Now, Frank plans to marry his partner, and he wants Lena to help plan the wedding. Lena is torn between maintaining loyalty to her mother and supporting her father's newfound happiness. As her father’s wedding approaches, Lena learns her childhood wounds run deeper than she thought, and failing to heal them might sentence her to a life of hypocrisy and the inability to discover the true meaning of coming out.

Told by Lena in the present, and her parents, Frank and Teresa, in the past, Everything We Thought Was True examines how the truth doesn't set you free until you embrace it.

First place winner, LGBTQ Fiction, 2024 International Firebird Book Awards

Honorable Mention, General Fiction, 2025 Los Angeles Book Festival

Golden Hills Haunting

M.D. Neu
A suburban neighborhood with demonic eyes looking down on it.
Editions:Kindle, Paperback

After their daughter was bullied at school, Kyle and Alejandro decided to make a fresh start and move into a beautiful new cul-de-sac development. As they take up residence, the family enjoys seeing the community come to life. But when lights flicker, shadows lurk, and small objects disappear, they begin to doubt their sanity.

When Alejandro and many of their neighbors are struck down by a strange sickness that defies explanation, the family starts to question their recent life change. Feeling trapped they speak with their new neighbors, learning they aren’t alone in the haunted neighborhood.

Who do you turn to when the authorities can’t offer any assistance or protection? How do you fight against a sinister force that is older than time? Can Kyle, Alejandro and the rest of the occupants of Golden Hills Court survive or will this nightmarish ordeal destroy them?

Tangents & Tachyons

J. Scott Coatsworth

Tangents & Tachyons is Scott's second anthology - six sci fi and sci-fantasy shorts that run the gamut from time travel to hopepunk and retro spec fic:

Eventide: Tanner Black awakes to find himself in his own study, staring out the window at the end of the Universe. But who brought him there, and why?

Chinatown: Deryn lives in an old San Francisco department store with his girlfriend Gracie, and scrapes by with his talent as a dreamcaster for the Chinese overlords. But what if a dream could change the world?

Across the Transom: What if someone or something took over your body on an urgent mission to save your world?

Pareidolia: Simon's not like other college kids. His mind can rearrange random patterns to reveal the images lurking inside. But where did his strange gift come from? And what if there are others like him out there too?

Lamplighter: Fen has a crush on his friend Lewin, who's in a competing guild. But when the world goes dark, only a little illumination can save it. And only Fen, Lewin and their friend Alissa can light the spark. A Liminal Sky short.

Prolepsis: Sean is the closeted twenty-five-year-old editor of an 80's sci-fi 'zine called Prolepsis. When an unabashedly queer story arrives from a mysterious writer, it blows open Sean's closet door, and offers him the chance to change the world - and the future.

Plus two flash fiction stories – The System and The Frog Prince, never before published.

This is the first time all of these stories have all been collected in one place.

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