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Author Spotlight: Amir Lane

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Amir Lane

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: Amir Lane writes supernatural and fantasy with LGBT+ characters. From the frigid and mysterious land of Northern Canada, Amir is obsessed with loud music and black magic. They spend most of their writing time in a small home office or doing the circuit of local coffee shops. They live in a world where magic is an everyday occurrence, and they strive to bring that world to paper. When not figuring out what … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Redfern Jon Barrett

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Redfern Jon Barrett

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: Redfern Jon Barrett (they/them) is author to novels including Proud Pink Sky, a speculative story set in the world’s first LGBTQ+ state – which will be released by Bywater Books in March 2023. Redfern’s essays, reviews, and short stories have appeared in publications including The Sun Magazine, Guernica, Strange Horizons, Passages North, PinkNews, Booth, FFO, ParSec, Orca, and Nature Futures. They are nonbinary, have a Ph.D. in Literature, and currently live in … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Anders Fager

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Anders Fager

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: Anders Fager was not born as much as he fell out into rather bleak 60’s Sweden. He grew up wanting to become an astronaut and then a rockstar and eventually settled for being an army officer. He was also involved in the infant steps of the Swedish role-playing game industry. He made his debut as a writer in 2009 and his first book, Swedish Cults, is now hailed as a classic of … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Leo Otherland

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Leo Otherland

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: Leo Otherland is a queer author, literal goblin, member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, and lover of all things strange and unordinary from the arctic north woods of Wisconsin. This elusive scribbler acquired his passion for weaving stories of dark and broken things through a childhood spent huddling in books and dodging the unfriendly spirits that resided in the haunted house he called home. Currently, Leo remains in disbelief … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Chloe Archer

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Chloe 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: Chloe Archer writes M/M sci-fi and paranormal rom coms with laugh out loud humor because she’s all about bringing the funny-sexy back. Oh, yeah! She currently calls Minnesota home, but has lived abroad in places like Montreal, Edinburgh, and Tokyo. She’s hoping to relocate to Scotland permanently one day if the stars align.  Chloe is a fur mama to two adorable Yorkies, Jasper and Teddy, and she loves them in a crazy dog … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Marie Andreas

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Marie Andreas

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 Andreas is a multi-award-winning fantasy and science fiction author with a serious reading addiction. If she wasn’t writing about all the people in her head, she’d be lurking about coffee shops annoying total strangers with her stories. So really, writing is a way of saving the masses. She lives in Southern California and is owned by two very faery-minded cats. She is also a member of SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy … Read more

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Author Spotlight: C.E. Page

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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: C. E. Page writes emotionally rich, character driven tales of magic and adventure, primarily in the adult epic fantasy genre. Her stories feature demigods and other divinely assisted misfits who would prefer it if megalomaniac fools would stop trying to destroy the known realms in their search for power.  She lives on the east coast of Australia with her partner Evan, their two children, and one of the world’s quirkiest dogs. An avid … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Sarah Biglow & Molly Zenk

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Sarah Biglow & Molly Zenk

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: USA Today Bestselling Authors Sarah Biglow and Molly Zenk are the authors of three fantasy series. Sarah lives in Massachusetts with her husband and son. Molly lives in Minnesota with her husband and three daughters. Thanks so much, Sarah & Molly, for joining me! J. Scott Coatsworth: If you could tell your younger writing self anything, what would it be? Sarah Biglow: I would love to go back and tell my younger … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Ann McNicol

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Ann McNicol

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 grew up in South Florida, exploring local beaches and coral reefs, watching space launches, and devouring science fiction novels. I earned a Master’s degree in Zoology from the University of Queensland (Australia), and worked in fisheries science, pharmaceutical science and virology. For thirty-five years I taught high school and college classes in biology, chemistry, environmental science and biotechnology. Having retired from my day jobs, I write and enjoy life. When I’m … 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 in Charlottesville, Virginia. He retired from teaching English at the University of Mary Washington in 2020. 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,  The Silver Gryphon, Jaelle Her Book, Colonnades, and Graffiti, as well as the Asheville Poetry Review, GW Magazine, Crucible, The Charlotte Poetry Review, and Romance and … Read more