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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Marie Brown

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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, Marie Brown – “Marie Brown has lived in many locations across the United States, but spends most of her time exploring the realms of imagination. Currently located in Colorado, her brief moments of free time are spent in front of her computer, frequently covered in cats.” Blah. Yeah, okay, that’s all true. But I’m tired of hiding behind a bland, third-person pseudo-bio, utterly lacking in personality. Hi! I’m Marie Brown, and I … Read more

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POINT OF VIEW: Spicing Your Story Up With Slang

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Hey all, Today’s column will be short but sweet, as I am in the throes of preparing to go to the Dreamspinner retreat in Orlando Thursday (*waves at all my author friends*). So I thought I’d talk a little more about my new holiday story “Melt.” It’s set in Antarctica, and I found a cool site that includes some Antartcic slang. Whether you’re writing a future world or something in the next city over, including some local idioms and slang can add additional layers to your storytelling. Here are a few from CoolAntarctica.com: Antarctic 10 – A person of the opposite … Read more

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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT/GIVEAWAY: Mickie B. Ashling

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Mickie B. Ashling

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, Mickie B. Ashling – Mickie B. Ashling is the pseudonym of a multifaceted woman who is a product of her upbringing in multiple cultures, having lived in Japan, the Philippines, Spain, and the Middle East. Fluent in three languages, she’s a citizen of the world and an interesting mixture of East and West. A little bit of this and a lot of that have brought a unique touch to her literary voice … Read more

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POINT OF VIEW: Christmas and Climate Change

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Hey all, I am writing a holiday romance for one of the publishers I work with, and I waned to do something more than the usual “boy meets boy” thing. So I decided to try to inject a little social consciousness into the story, too. The story tentatively titled “Melt,” and it takes place in Antarctica. It’s been a fascinating piece to write, involving so many research rabbit holes. For instance, I’ve learned that you don’t want to take fresh food out on an outing on the Antarctic Ice unless you’ll be camping. Thinking of a nice healthy veggie sandwich? … Read more

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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Jeanne G’Fellers

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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, Jeanne G’Fellers – Born and raised in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, award-winning Science Fiction and Fantasy author Jeanne G’Fellers’ early memories include watching the original Star Trek series with her father and reading the stacks of books her librarian mother brought home. Thanks so much, Jeanne, for joining me! J. Scott Coatsworth: If you could sit down with one other writer, living or dead, who would you choose, and what … Read more

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Point of View: This Has All Happened Before

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Hey all, I was wandering down memory lane earlier this week when I remembered something that I wanted to share with y’all. One of the things Mark and I do is to build directories and communities – Queer Sci Fi, QueeRomance Ink, and a number of others that bring together various parts of the LGBTIQA community. For today’s column, I thought I’d take you back a couple decades, to the beginning of the world wide web, when America Online ruled the Earth. Yes, there was actually a time when the web didn’t exist. It was a strange era, when you … Read more

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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Zakarrie Clarke

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Zakarrie Clarke

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, Zakarrie Clarke – After moving to London at eighteen and flitting about for far too long, I finally settled, as blissy as can be, by the sea. It was here that my castaway dreams resurfaced, and I began to write. Thanks so much, Zakarrie, for joining me! J. Scott Coatsworth: What was your first published work? Tell me a little about it. Zakarrie Clarke: Hangover from Hell.  I don’t think I’d allowed myself … Read more

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INTERVIEW: Scott at Capital Public Radio

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Beth Rahuy and Scott

Hey all, I had a great interview at our local NPR station, Capital Public Radio: I’ll be doing a full-on reading and signing at Time Tested Books – let me know you plan to go here: https:/www.facebook.com/events/1180415018767294/ and order a copy! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DCFPCGZ/

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POINT OF VIEW: How Would a Civilization Evolve If…

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Last week I shared insights from a great author panel at WorldCon76 in San Jose. This week I thought I’d share another. The full title of this one was “How Would a Civilization Evolve If…: How Human and Nonhuman Concepts of ‘Universe’ Is [sic] Shaped By Their Environment.” It was a fascinating chat between an astronomer, a biologist, and a — for lack of a better term – historian/philosopher. It reminded me of nothing so much as those classic sci fi  tales where aliens arrive on earth and a team of varied scientific disciplines (and one guy out of left … Read more