Author Spotlight

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Point of View: Two Events, Two Different Worlds. And Yet…

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As anyone who reads this column (or my newsletter) regularly knows, I’m currently managing two very different large scale projects. The Sacramento Book Festival is hyper local, a book event celebrating the best authors that the Sacramento region has to offer. NebulaCon is being crafted remotely, and will be held in Chicago. It celebrates the best authors Science Fiction has to offer. The book festival is something I helped build from the ground up along with my great team – Tim, Judith, Bel, Teri, and Lois. We all feel a great deal of personal pride about this amazing event. NebulaCon, … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Steven D. Brewer

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Steven D. Brewer

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: Steven D. Brewer (he/him) is SFWA Secretary and, as a faculty member, both teaches scientific writing and serves as Presiding Officer of the Faculty Senate at UMass Amherst. He is the author of A Familiar Problem, Better Angels: Tour de Force, and Revin’s Heart, published by Water Dragon Publishing. Brewer identifies diverse obsessions that underlie his writing: deep interests in natural history, life science, and environmentalism; an abiding passion for languages; a fascination with Japanese … Read more

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Author Spotlight: R. Sinclair

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R. Sinclair

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: R Sinclair is a queer Canadian author of the Shattered Numbers series, the first book of which is out now! Fracture is available at most book retail stores and Ameliorate is out 2026! Thanks so much, R., for joining me! J. Scott Coatsworth: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever done in the name of research?  R. Sinclair: One was looking up how easy it is to make an EMP. I felt the … 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. M/M romance and M/F polyamory, her stories are comfort reads with a twist. She’s also written cozy … Read more

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Author Spotlight: T.C. Weber

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T. C. Weber

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: T. C. Weber has pursued writing since childhood, and learned filmmaking and screenwriting in college, along with physics and ecology. His published novels include Sleep State Interrupt (the first book of the near-future War for Realitycyberpunk trilogy), The Wrath of Leviathan (the second book of the trilogy), Zero-Day Rising (the trilogy finale), Born in Salt (a character-oriented alternate history novel), The Survivors (a post-apocalyptic cli-fi horror novella), and The Council (a satire of local government and politics). His latest novel is The Others, an undersea science … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Brent Archer

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Brent Archer

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: Brent Archer writes stories of gay love and relationships, often with a second chance or redemption theme. Many of his stories are set in his hometown of Seattle or the surrounding area. Though writing most of his life, Brent came to the romance writing world in 2012, when he visited his cousin Delilah Devlin in Arkansas. She prodded him to write a story and submit it. So, he did, and it sold … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Gregory N. Whitis

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Gregory Whitis

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: Gregory N. Whitis was born in Gainesville, Florida, moved to Dubuque, Iowa and graduated from Iowa State University with a B.S in Zoology. He then attended graduate school at Auburn and earned a Master of Aquaculture. After working three years on Alabama’s largest catfish farm, he started his professional career with Auburn as a State Extension Specialist for Aquaculture, and recently retired after 33 years of service. He’s published two popular novels … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Rebecca James

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Rebecca James

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: Originally from Northern Virginia, Rebecca James now lives in Southeastern Tennessee. She is the mother of three grown children and a former high school English teacher. She has been writing MM Romance for close to ten years. Website: https://www.rebeccajamesmmromance.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebeccajamesromanceTiktok: @rebeccajamesromanceFacebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/RebeccaJamesromance/Bluesky: @rebeccajamesmm.bsky.social Thanks so much, Rebecca, for joining me! J. Scott Coatsworth: When did you know you wanted to write, and when did you discover that you were good at … Read more

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Author Spotlight: L.R. Braden

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L.R. Braden

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: L.R. Braden is a bestselling, multi-award-winning author of dark-yet-hopeful urban fantasy stories that bring magic to the mundane. Her published works include the Magicsmith series, the Rifter series, and several works of shorter fiction. A bit of a recluse, she enjoys collecting skills that may (or may not) prove useful in the event that she is suddenly whisked away on some grand adventure in an alternate reality. Since that hasn’t happened yet, she mostly spends her … Read more

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Author Spotlight: John Beresford

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John Beresford

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: John Beresford is a British science fiction & fantasy author who has been writing his whole life, but let his family and career get in the way of publishing for the first fifty years.  Now retired, he writes full-time and has several works to his credit. Seven novels (a science fiction thriller about what happens when GM food goes wrong, and two fantasy trilogies set on the world of Berikatanya), two volumes … Read more