Author Spotlight

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Author Spotlight: Patrick R. Field

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Patrick R. Field

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 25 years in higher education, Patrick R. Field traded in teaching and textbooks to pursue his passion of spine-chilling fiction writing. Holding a Ph.D. in Anatomical Sciences and Neuroscience, his experience informs his writing, a unique blend of scientific knowledge with supernatural storytelling.​ Patrick’s novels are inspired by his favorite authors: Anne Rice, Edgar Allen Poe, and Joe Hill. Not surprisingly, Field enjoys bending and or blending the genres of paranormal … Read more

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Author Spotlight: A.B. Julian

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A.B. Julian

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: A.B Julian is an M/M Romance author and the creative force behind A.B Julian Books, Inc. Known for If I Met You First… and Hated: Care No More, they bring a deep academic background in Forensic Psychology and Education to every emotionally resonant story. Currently residing on the East Coast with three demanding cats, A.B Julian spends their days in the world of academia and their nights crafting high-heat, captivating novels. A.B … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Peter 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 German, Italian and Spanish), Hoodoo House, (also a Goodreads M/M Romance Readers’ Choice Award nominee and now available … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Janice Jarrell

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Janice Jarrell

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: Janice Jarrell is the author of emotionally rich gay romance novels about love, found family, resilience, and the lives that unfold after happily-ever-after. She published her first novel, Love’s Magic, in 2018 and has been following her characters into new stories ever since. Before becoming a published author, Janice spent thirty years working in education and many years writing slash fan fiction. Now 82, she writes the stories she loves, creates videos and … Read more

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Author Spotlight: J.R. Loveless

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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: J.R. Loveless is an avid fan, reader and writer of anything pertaining to male/male romance. She started out her adventure into the genre in 2004 when she discovered the anime Loveless, a softer side of Yaoi. The moment she saw Loveless, it sucked her in and hasn’t let go since. ​After Loveless, she voraciously searched for anything she could find within the anime world pertaining to Yaoi and Shounen-Ai. She found Gravitation, … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Z. Allora

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Z. Allora

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: Z. Allora is nonbinary. They didn’t always believe in romance, but before giving up on happily ever afters, Z. took out a personal ad in a college newspaper. On October 20, 1987, at 5:08 p.m., Z. found what they didn’t think existed—their other half. Five years later, Z. married their best friend and true love. Z. spent much of their adult life traveling the world and has visited thirty-five countries. Z. also … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Samuel Freedman

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Samuel Freedman

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: Samuel Freedman is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His latest science fiction novel “Revision: The Dawn of Awareness,” released in July 2025, explores questions about humanity’s place in the universe, our purpose, and what actually makes us human. Focusing on new discoveries in the fields of genetics and astrophysics, this mind-blowing story is set in the present day. It will have you rethinking everything you thought you knew about mankind’s … Read more

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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Martha Gouws

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Martha Gouws

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: Martha Gouws – “Where fantasy begins with a costume, a spell, and a drop of spit.” Since childhood, I’ve had one foot in the world of fantasy. I dressed in costumes no one could recognize me in, danced with scarves late into the night, and climbed hills in search of strange fruit that might just be magical. On quiet Sundays, while my parents napped, I sat beneath the mulberry tree and tried … Read more

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Point of View: Why Keep Writing When AI Can Do It Faster (If Not Better)?

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I keep my finger on the pulse of Generative AI, that misdescribed beast that’s really not artificial intelligence at all. One of my favorite descriptions likens it to a really advanced version of the predictive text thing that many of us use when typing out text messages. These systems have been trained on massive amounts of our own data, mostly without our permission or compensation, and are simply huge predictive machines that come up with the most likely response to any question we pose to them (when they don’t just “hallucinate” a false answer to meet the query). None of … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Will Haddad

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Will Haddad

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: Will Haddad writes about the moment love stops being safe. Set against deserts, mountains, fault lines, and other places where survival gets complicated, his novels follow queer characters forced to confront everything they thought they could outrun. He is the author of the Tectonic series. Website: https://willhaddad.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialwilllove/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Willloveauthor Thanks so much, Will, for joining me! J. Scott Coatsworth: When did you know you wanted to write, and when did you discover that you were … Read more