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Author Spotlight: Lori Alden Holuta

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Lori Alden Holuta

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: Lori Alden Holuta lives between the cornfields of mid-Michigan, where she grows vegetables, teas, and herbs, when she’s not playing games with a cat named Chives. She’s fond of activities from the past, including canning and preserving, crocheting, reading in the dark, and cooking from scratch. Her lifelong fascination with the Victorian era dovetailed nicely with articles written for The Primgraph, a magazine which focused on historical eras in virtual worlds, as well … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Clara Ward

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Clara Ward

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: Clara Ward lives in Silicon Valley on the border between reality and speculative fiction. When not using words to teach or tell stories, Clara uses wood, fiber, and glass to make practical or completely impractical objects. Their latest novel, Be the Sea, features a near-future ocean voyage, chosen family, and sea creature perspectives, while delving into our oceans, our selves, and how all futures intertwine. Their short fiction has appeared in Strange … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Siobhan Muir

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Siobhan Muir

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: Siobhan Muir lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming, with her husband, two daughters, a kitten who thinks he’s a dog, a cat who’s not impressed with him, and the dog who just wants to go for a walk. In previous lives, Siobhan has been an actor at the Colorado Renaissance Festival, a field geologist in the Aleutian Islands, and restored inter-planetary imagery at the USGS. She’s hiked to the top of Mount St. Helens … Read more

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Point of View: The Making of a Cover

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Office of the Lost - J. Scott Coatsworth & Kim Fielding

Universal Buy Link Every time I do a new book, there’s a whole behind-the-scenes process that goes into designing the cover, whether it’s one I do myself or one done by a graphics professional. In this case, we decided to go with an outside designer, and there were two clients to please – Kim and I. We started with a cover search in the gay romantasy genre, and found a few we really liked: For some reason, we were both really drawn to the “comic book-cartoon” images. We asked Kelley York at Sleepy Fox Studio to take a run at … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Abby Goldsmith

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Abby Goldsmith

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: Abby Goldsmith is the author of 6 sci-fi novels, the Torth series, which starts with Majority and ends with Empire Ender, all published by Podium, with starred reviews from Booklist and Kirkus. Her short works have appeared in Escape Pod, Writer’s Digest Books, and anthologies. You can find her on social media, Patreon, and at AbbyGoldsmith.com. Thanks so much, Abby, for joining me! J. Scott Coatsworth: How would you describe your writing … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Pat Henshaw

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Pat Henshaw

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: Pat Henshaw [pronouns she/her] was born and raised in Nebraska. She has lived on the U S’s three coasts, in Texas, Virginia, and now California. Before she retired, she held a number of jobs, including theatrical costumer, newspaper features reporter and movie reviewer, librarian, junior college English instructor, and publicist. She loves to travel and has visited Canada, Mexico, Europe, Egypt, Thailand, and Central America as well as almost all fifty US … Read more

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Point of View: The Little Things…

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gopher snake

Today’s a crazy day, so my column is – by necessity – a bit short. I just wanted to remind you (and myself) that sometimes it’s the little things that make life better. I was out watering some plants in our backyard yesterday, or I was about to. When I went to reach for the hose, I spotted this little guy. My heart leapt in my throat, and I quickly checked for rattles on its tail. There were none and my heartbeat slowed to something approaching normal. We stared at each other for a moment, both surprised to find this … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Warren Rochelle

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Warren Rochelle

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: Warren Rochelle lives and writes in Crozet, Virginia, with his husband and their little dog, Gypsy. His short fiction and poetry have been published in such journals and anthologies as Icarus, North Carolina Literary Review, Forbidden Lines, Aboriginal Science Fiction, Collective Fallout, Queer Fish 2, Empty Oaks, Quantum Fairy Tales, Migration,  Clarity, Innovation, and other publications.  His short story, “The Golden Boy,” was a finalist for the 2004 Spectrum Award for Short Fiction.  Rochelle is the author … Read more

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Author Spotlight: John A. McColley

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John A. McColley

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 A. McColley writes from his cave in the woods of New England. He’s a full member of the SFWA and NE Horror Writers. He’s published over sixty short stories with many publishers, from Black Hare Press to Mad Scientist Journal, Crossed Genres to Whortleberry Press in magazines, anthologies and on websites. He also serializes sci-fi and fantasy novels on Patreon. His urban fantasy slash supernatural horror novella, “Down The Drain,” came … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Vonnie Winslow Crist

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Vonnie Winslow Crist

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: Vonnie Winslow Crist is author of Beneath Raven’s Wing, Dragon Rain, The Enchanted Dagger, Owl Light, The Greener Forest, the “Shivers, Scares” series, and other award-winning books. Her writing appears in Asimov’s Magazine, Amazing Stories, Weirdbook: Witches, Chilling Ghost Short Stories, Cirsova, Black Infinity, Faerie Magazine, and elsewhere. Over 1,000 of her illustrations have been published in books and magazines. Believing the world is still filled with miracles, mystery, and magic, she … Read more