Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today, Andrew Q. Gordon – Andrew is one of my favorite QSF fantasy authors – he writes Fantasy that happens to have LGBT characters. I met him at … Read more
Hey all, Now that NaNoWriMo has begin, I thought I’d share some tips for keeping your mind and body in shape for the marathon writing session you’re gonna have to do on November 30th to finish that damnable 50,000 word novel you committed to on November 1st. Follow these five tips carefully, and you should … Read more
Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today, Arshad Ahsanuddin – I met Arshad at Rainbow Con – he does the amazing Pact Arcanum, which he’s in the process of translating into graphic novel format. … Read more
Hey all, I’m excited to announce my first horror story – my short for the WROTE Halloween Podcast. Fair warning – it is a little graphic, with a sex scene up front. Which may be a plus for some of you. *grin* You can listen to it and a bunch of others (Brad Vance, Rick R. … Read more
Hey all, My friend William Smith (scorpiowgs@me.com) offered to create my NaNoWriMo cover for me for Oberon, the novel I’ve been kicking around for awhile. I’m thrilled with the result, and Will was really easy to work with. I’d started this novel before, but am going to go at it from scratch and see where … Read more
So we’re about to hit the road (or the sky) for our trip home from Nijicon in Philadelphia. It was a good con – come next year, y’all! But we had a blast, and met some great folks. So I thought I’d share a few moments with you from our time at the con: 1) … Read more
Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today, Jon Keys – like me, Jon straddles the line between sci fi and contemporary, and many of his stories have a magical realism element. Mark and I … Read more
We’re getting ready to go to Nijicon next weekend in Philadelphia, so I thought this would be a great time to go over the steps we take to get ourselves ready for a writer con. 1) Shave. And Shower. Seriously. We all get wrapped up in our writing, sitting in our little writer caves, and … Read more
Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today, Jenn Burke – I’m thrilled to have Jenn here with us today. 🙂 Thanks so much, Jenn, for joining me! J. Scott Coatsworth: How would you describe … Read more
NaNoWriMo is coming up next month, and authors all over the country will be sitting down at chaining themselves to their laptops, ipads, or notepads to scribble out a “winning” story – 50K words in 30 days (and don’t forget, Thanksgiving is in there too). So here are my tips for getting to 50k by … Read more