Author Spotlight

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Author Spotlight: Jaques Smit

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Jaques Smit

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: Jaques Smit was born in Rundu Namibia, grew up in South Africa, lived in Asia and Europe working as a game developer before settling with his family in Wellington, New Zealand. While working as a production manager for PikPok, he became a master transformational coach and now supports leaders in creating effective teams. Jaques writes fantasy laced with Positive Psychology, aspiring to create compelling stories that touches the reader. And where better … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Daniel Lawrence Abrams

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Daniel Lawrence Abrams

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: Daniel Lawrence Abrams grew up in NYC, attended Trinity School, and then graduated from Stuyvesant High School. He got his BA in Psychology from the University of Michigan. The 3-D input device he invented earned US Patent # 5,652,603. Abrams trained in comedy writing at The Second City and The Groundlings. He used to perform stand-up at The Improv in LA and The Comedy Cellar in NYC. As a playwright, Abrams’s stage … Read more

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Point of View – The Copyright Jungle

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The recent Anthropic AI settlement has me thinking a lot about copyright. I’m in the US, and we can register our works with the US copyright office. It’s not hugely expensive – about $45 if you do it before publication and $65 if you do it after the fact. But US copyright law also says that if you indicate that a work is copyrighted – by including a copyright page – then you are covered by copyright protections without having to formally register. So it’s not always been necessary to do the paid registration to enjoy copyright protection in the … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Edale lane

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Edale Lane

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: History. Mystery. Heroines worth falling for. From windswept battlefields to candlelit conspiracies, Edale Lane crafts sapphic historical fiction, mysteries, and fantasy brimming with action, romance, and intrigue. An award-winning author with an MA in history, she brings every era to life with rich detail, unforgettable women, and stories where love and danger walk hand in hand. Thanks so much, Edale, for joining me! J. Scott Coatsworth: How long on average does it … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Toni V. Sweeney

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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

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Author Spotlight: Peter E. Fenton

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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

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Author Spotlight: R Frank Davis

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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

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Author Spotlight: Rachel A. Rosen

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Rachel A. Rosen

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: Rachel A. Rosen is an activist, graphic designer, and for her sins, a high school teacher. In a previous life, she published two long running anarchist ‘zines and designed the uniform for the Christie Pits Hardball League. She is the author of Cascade, this novel’s predecessor, and, with Zilla Novikov, the co-author of The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don’t Die. More of her writing can be found in Beyond Human: Tales … Read more

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Author Spotlight: A.D. Ellis

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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: Escape into addictive, sexy, emotional M/M romance. A.D. Ellis is an Indiana girl, born and raised. She spends much of her time in central Indiana as an instructional coach/teacher in the inner city of Indianapolis, being a mom to two amazing teens, and wondering how she and her husband of over two decades haven’t driven each other insane yet. A lot of her time is also devoted to phone call avoidance and … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Karenna Colcroft

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Karenna Colcroft

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: Karenna Colcroft lives just north of Boston, Massachusetts, and has been in love with the city since childhood, though she has yet to encounter any werewolves, vampires, or other paranormal beings in her travels. At least none that she knows of. Karenna is a polyamorous, nonbinary human who lives in northeastern Massachusetts with her husband. She also has two adult children and a bonus son, four grandchildren, and an indeterminate number of … Read more