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Author Spotlight: Assaph Mehr

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Assaph Mehr

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: Assaph has been a bibliophile since he learnt to read at the age of five, and a Romanophile ever since he first got his hands on Asterix, way back in elementary school. This exacerbated when his parents took him on a trip to Rome and Italy -he whinged horribly when they dragged him to “yet another church with baby angels on the ceiling,” yetwas happy to skip all day around ancient ruins and museums for Etruscan art. … Read more

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Author Spotlight: CJ Ravenna

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CJ Ravenna

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: CJ Ravenna loves to tell stories where the ordinary meets the extraordinary. Her books often feature an explosion or two, possessive and protective werewolves who adore their mates, steamy and swoony romance, and of course a happy ending. Follow me over at:  Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/author/cjravennaMy website: http://cjravenna.comNewsletter sign up (get a free ebook!): https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/299960/125385163137877178/shareBookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/cj-ravennaGoodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/27658591.C_J_RavennaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/cjravennaMy FaceBook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ravennasravens Thanks so much, CJ, for joining me! J. Scott Coatsworth: What was your first published work? Tell me a … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Joyce Reynolds-Ward

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Joyce Reynolds-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: Joyce Reynolds Ward. The work of Joyce Reynolds-Ward includes themes of high-stakes family and political conflict, digital sentience, personal agency and control, realistic strong women, and (whenever possible) horses. She is the author of The Netwalk Sequence series, the Goddess’s Honor series, and the recently released The Martiniere Legacy series as well as standalones Klone’s Stronghold, Alien Savvy, Beating the Apocalypse, and Federation Cowboy. Joyce is a Self-Published Fantasy BlogOff Semifinalist, a … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Eric Goebelbecker

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Eric Goebelbecker

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 was lucky enough to inherit an incurable curiosity about technology and a tremendous love of science fiction from my father. Both led to a career repairing radars in the U.S. Army, followed by another as a programmer on Wall Street. Now, he writes about technology during the day, while writing scifi part time. Thanks so much, Eric, for joining me! J. Scott Coatsworth: When did you know you wanted to write, … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Sean Ian O’Meidhir

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Author Spotlight: Sean Ian O’Meidhir

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 have been a mental health professional for 25+ years.  I have lived all over the country and am lucky enough to have landed in and near San Francisco, California, the absolute best place in the world to live!  I consider myself a hedonist and believe in living every day as if it were my last.  I hold no grudges and every person I love knows that I love them.  I am fueled by travel and … Read more

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Point of View: Living Small

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I am living small. I have pulled my little world around me like a warm, comfortable blanket, snuggling into it on the rug by the fireplace, my eyes reflecting the bright sparkling of the flames. I have closed the blinds and locked the doors. A steady stream of music – songs I know and love – fills the room like the protective voices of angels. I am tending my garden, although the time for gardens should long since have passed. I am checking in on my loved ones, offering emotional care packages, hand holding, and shared remorse. I am spending … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Denise Tanaka

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Denise Tanaka

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: Denise B. Tanaka has a lifelong passion for writing stories of magical beings and faraway worlds. Her father inspired a love of art with his landscape paintings, portraits, and photography. Her mother inspired a love of books by reading aloud The Gingerbread Man and Mrs. Tittlemouse, so from a very young age Denise believed that cookies run away and mice can talk. She is sometimes sidetracked by nonfiction biography and true crime … Read more

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Point of View: “On your left.”

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On Your Left

Everything seemed fine, until the bottom fell out. That’s what’s so hard about this. Or one of the things, at least. It seemed so sudden… like the ground we thought was firm underfoot suddenly gave way, leaving us scrambling to hold onto the crumbling edges over a yawning sink hole that had been eaten away in the Earth right below us. I was ready for Harris to win even bigger than the polls projected. There were many signs that her opponent had overplayed his hand, that he was in free-fall, that late-breaking voters were breaking for her. I was also … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Jurgen “JoJo” Appelo

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Jurgen "JoJo" Appelo

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: As an author, speaker, and entrepreneur, Jurgen Appelo travels the world to share inspiring stories about people and organizations. Slightly anarchistic, autistic, and eccentric, he happily adopted the nickname “jojo” when it was given to him at the age of sixteen. He calls himself a creative networker, but sometimes he’s a writer, speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, designer, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, runner, freethinker, or … Dutch guy. He wrote several best-selling nonfiction books … Read more

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Point of View: My Life is Still Political

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I originally wrote this column on the day after President Joe Biden exited the presidential race. At that time, we didn’t know yet that Kamala Harris would be the nominee. All we knew was that we’d been given a once-in-a-lifetime chance to change things, to shake up a race that until then seemed to be inevitably going in one direction. In the days that followed, Harris consolidated her support and jumped into the race with an agility, grace, and joy that few of us suspected she possessed. As the race progressed, she spread a message of optimism, while her opponents … Read more