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Author Spotlight: Jessamyn St.Clair
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: Jessamyn St. Claire is an up-and-coming author of dark and thrilling gay fiction with plenty of action and steam in her stories. She lives with her family in the South, and is aiming to live her best writing life. Find her posting on Facebook, her Substack, or updating her Goodreads! Thanks so much, Jessamyn, for joining me! J. Scott Coatsworth: When did you know you wanted to write, and when did you … Read more
Serial: Down the River – Chapter Sixty-One
I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! Today, both Ben and Carmelina want to get married at the same time in the same place. How’s that going to work? < Read Chapter 60 Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter Sixty-OneAn Unconventional Idea Carmelina’s news … Read more
Point of View: Road Trip Report
I just got back last week from my road trip to WorldCon Seattle. I hadn’t initially intended to go – well, initially initially, yes. But because of the expense and distance and all that, I’d decided to cancel the trip a couple months ago. But since then, a few new writing-related things have happened, and so I changed my mind and headed to WorldCom to see what I could make happen there. Due to some sage advice from good friends, I made a concrete plan of things I wanted to accomplish, and figured out how to do each of them. … Read more
Author Spotlight: Toni V. Sweeney
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: Toni V. Sweeney has lived 30 years in the South, a score in the Middle West, and a decade on the Pacific Coast and now she’s trying for her second 30 on the Great Plains. Since the publication of her first novel in 1989, Toni divides her time between writing SF/Fantasy under her own name and as the pseudonyms Tony-Paul de Vissage, TS Snow and Icy Snow Blackstone. Currently, Toni has written … Read more
Serial: Down the River – Chapter Sixty
I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! Today, Marissa and Ainsley make some major life changes… < Read Chapter 59 | Read Chapter 61 > Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter SixtyNew Beginnings “I want to come back.” Marissa stood before Matteo, grasping the … Read more
Author Spotlight: Peter E. Fenton
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: Peter’s first novel, The Woodcarver’s Model was released by Pride Publishing in April of 2022 and was a four time nominee in the Goodreads M/M Romance Readers’ Choice Awards.Following the success of the first book, Pride Publishing released The Declan Hunt Mysteries series which includes Mann Hunt (nominated for a Goodreads M/M Romance Readers’ Choice Award and recently translated into Spanish), Hoodoo House, (also a Goodreads M/M Romance Readers’ Choice Award nominee … Read more
Serial: Down the River – Chapter Fifty-Nine
I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! Today, Sam thinks about considering possibly contemplating starting something new… < Read Chapter 58 | Read Chapter 60 > Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter Fifty-NineBack So Soon? Sam pulled the rental car up in front of … Read more
Point of View: World Con Seattle
Two more days to go. Tomorrow, I leave for WorldCon, and on Wednesday the whole shebang kicks off. It’s only my second time at this huge science fiction convention. The first time was before pandemic, in San Jose, California. Unfortunately, I wasn’t ready for it, and we only got to spend a day and a half there, with little to no advance prep. This time is different. While I decided to actually go a bit late, I had made preparations just in case. I will have a table in the dealer room for Liminal Fiction, and I am planning to … Read more
Author Spotlight: R Frank Davis
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: I may just be the dirty oldest man of gay romance: After an award-winning career in news editing, I retired as managing editor of a legal news magazine in 2018. It may seem like, in the ensuing years, I turned from nonfiction to fiction, and not just any genre, but gay romance. Truth is, I’ve been writing stories, scripts, poems, books, and plays since before middle school; it’s just that, in almost … Read more