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Point of View: Living in the Gap

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A few years ago, one of the ministers in the church we were attending at the time brought up a concept called living in the gap. It was postulated by a black Pastor from the South – unfortunately I don’t remember his name at this point. But the idea behind it stuck with me. It goes like this. There’s a place we are at, and the place we want to be, as individuals, and as a society. We are always trying to bridge the distance from one to the other, but often it’s a project that will take more than … Read more

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Author Spotlight: James Honaker

James Honaker

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: James is an author and video game developer based out of North Carolina, USA, specializing in fantasy more broadly. He runs a storefront selling old collectibles (particularly TCG cards, like Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering) on top of his writing and game development. Born in Hawaii to a military family, James spent much of his childhood moving around to various military bases, spending a large chunk of his childhood in Europe. With … Read more

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Point of View: Scott the Event Planner

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One of my favorite drag queens of all time is Bob the Drag Queen. In part because he just seems like a genuinely real and kind person. And in part because I just love his name. Calling yourself Bob the Drag Queen normalizes drag in a way that names like Trinity the Tuck or Pandora Box don’t. And while I love both of them too, there’s just something down to earth about a drag queen named Bob Which brings me to my latest endeavor. I’ve been Scott the Bookseller, Scott the Publisher, Scott the Webmaster, Scott the Author, and a … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Clayton Graham

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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: Clayton Graham is an award winning Australian author of several science fiction novels and short story collections. He has won many book awards including Author’s Show ‘50 great writers you should be reading’, Readers’ Favorite International Award finalist, and Book Excellence Awards finalist. A background in aerospace engineering encourages his thoughts to surge skyward and well beyond our universe. He delights in creating strange new worlds and the intriguing peoples that inhabit … Read more

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Review: Androids and Aliens…

Just got an absolutely lovely review for the short stories in Androids and Aliens (now part of my new collection Tomorrow Retold from author K.D. Falcom: There’s a moment in J. Scott Coatsworth’s “Rise,” the opening story in his collection Androids & Aliens, that captures the collection’s emotional core.  An elderly Italian woman named Cinzia watches a scientific marvel unfold over what was once Venice. Half a century after rising seas swallowed the city, it’s being coaxed back to life from the depths of the lagoon.  It’s an extraordinary moment, the kind that should feel triumphant. And it does. But another … Read more

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Point of View: On the Shoulders of Giants

Jim Comer

I just got back from running Nebula Con, SFWA’s annual convention for the Nebula Awards. I feel hugely honored that they entrusted me with this responsibility, and it was an unforgettable experience that I will delve into more next week. The award ceremony itself was uplifting and moving in a way that I did not expect. You can watch it here if you haven’t had a chance to see it. Especially N.K. Jemisin’s speech which was is profound, moving, challenging, and a balm to all of us in these uncertain times. Partway through the ceremony, they showed an honor roll … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Meg Macy

Meg Macy

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: National bestselling author Meg Macy first dreamed of seeing a book with her name on it in the school library. She’s always found comfort, adventure, and connection in books—which might explain why she now writes stories that offer all three. Meg writes LGBTQIA+ romance with a touch of spice, intrigue, and plenty of emotional payoff in the LOVE IS LOVE series. M/M romance and M/F polyamory, her stories are comfort reads with … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Kristi lee

Kristi Lee

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: After writing extensively in various fandoms as Thevina, Kristi Lee began trying her hand at original fiction. Her non-fandom stories will always include: a redhead, some knitting, complex sentences, and hopeful endings. Much of her real life can be found in her works with themes of recovery, being human, self-discovery, and living a richly spiritual life that may not easily be described out in the 3-D. A lifelong lover of fantasy and … Read more

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Point of View: Running a Big Event

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Ever since our old business started collapsing in 2015, driven mostly by Google’s destructive changes that at first whittled away and then wholesale destroyed our site traffic on our legacy websites, I’ve been looking for a new direction. A new calling. And for the last two-and-a-half years, I’ve been on a job hunt, as we worked to keep our writing websites going – sites we built to disregard Google’s influence entirely. I’ve been looking for something solid, something real I could do with the next part of my life. None of those searches yielded a definitive answer. Time after time, … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Stephanie Lake

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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: Stephanie Lake is the multi‑award‑winning and multi–#1 bestselling husband‑and‑wife duo behind a world of historical M/M romance where passion burns, danger lurks, and love always triumphs. Their stories blend slow‑build tension, laugh‑out‑loud moments, and the kind of steamy, satisfying endings readers return for again and again. Having lived across the globe with their cherished pets, Steph and Lake infuse their books with the flavors of their travels, their shared love of history, … Read more