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Author Spotlight: Kristi lee

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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

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New Release: Fire’s Ally – D. M. Kannapan

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Fire's Ally - D. M. Kannapan

D. M. Kannapan has a new YA fantasy cli-fi book out: Fire’s Ally. For most of her life, Eleg has been obsessed with the eerie, persistent, wildfire claiming parts of her home. No amount of rain seems to be able to put it out. She belongs to a gentle, bookish society, and her people have been fighting the fire back for decades. But they are not ready for the turmoil it is about to unleash. Eleg understands the fire better than most. She has already once failed to protect the innocent in its path. Though she would rather be alone … Read more

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POINT OF VIEW: Finding a Unicorn

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Saturday was Placer Pride. I love Placer Pride, because it takes place in Roseville in Placer County, a place that’s more red than blue – or more conservative than progressive, for my readers outside of the United States. Placer County also has a large, underserved LGBTQ+ community – underserved until recently, when a group of folks out there got together a few years back to start a local Pride Festival, with the aim of eventually opening an LGBTQ+ Center to serve the local queer folks. The first year was small, but what it lacked in size it made up for … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Ellie Thomas

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Ellie Thomas

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: Ellie Thomas lives by the sea. She comes from a teaching background and goes for long seaside walks where she daydreams about history. She is a voracious reader especially about anything historical. She mainly writes historical gay romance. Ellie also writes historical erotic romance as L. E. Thomas. Website: https://elliethomasromance.wordpress.com/ Facebook reader group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/8308047409266947 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/elliethomas.bsky.social Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19835510.Ellie_Thomas Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/ellie-thomas Thanks so much, Ellie, for joining me! J. Scott Coatsworth: How would you describe your writing style/genre? … Read more

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Point of View: We’re Off to See the Wizard…

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Wizard of Oz

As writers, we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. I was reminded of this today, while working on one of the final chapters of the sequel to Office of the Lost. There’s an undeniable thread of the Wizard of Oz running through the whole book. It wasn’t intentional – it just kind of snuck up on us during the writing process. But now it’s become an integral part of the plot. When I was a kid, we all had much more of a shared culture than we do now. Believe it or not, here were only … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Oliver Takely

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Oliver Takely

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: Oliver Takely is a passionate MM romance author who writes authentic stories featuring complex, flawed, and loveable men. Whether it’s set in the dark stress of London, Soho, or a sweet smalltown, he guarantees a happily-ever-after for all his guys, even if the journey is a tough one. With years of writing experience and a creative day job, Oliver is also an avid reader of MM romance, consuming hundreds of books each … Read more

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Point of View: It Was the Worst of Times (or, Are We In the Darkest Timeline?)

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Evil Abed

As any fan of the normie-turned-outlandish comedy Community will know, the “Darkest Timeline” is a reference to the show’s Remedial Chaos Theory episode, which expanded on an idea from the original Star Trek series, about an alternate timeline where all the main characters were evil versions of their usual selves. It’s hard not to feel like we are in our own version of the Darkest Timeline, as we find ourselves mired down in an unnecessary war in the Middle East, facing rising prices at home, beset by AI and data centers foisted upon us by our corporate masters, assaulted daily … Read more

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Author spotlight: Lisa Oliver

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Lisa Oliver

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: Lisa Oliver started self-publishing her MM Paranormal Fated Mate stories back in 2014 – and she is still growing strong. Now, with over a hundred titles written under her own name and numerous collaborations as well, Lisa has branched out a little bit from the Fated Mates genre with her Another Arranged Marriage Series, but every single book Lisa writes comes with a “you will smile at the end of it” guarantee. … Read more