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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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Those Alien Skies - Clayton Graham

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…

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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

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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

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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

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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