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Review: Bright, Shiny Love – Pat Henshaw

Bright, Shiny Love - Pat Henshaw

Genre: Contemporary, Magical realism LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Get It On Amazon | Publisher About The Book Metal artist Martin Murphy knows dragons don’t talk, especially the dragon crafted of sequins on a former flame’s vest. So when the dragon seems to reach out and tells him to help its creator Ty, Marty refuses to believe the illusion. The sparks between him and Ty, on the other hand? They’re as real as it gets. As he and Ty reconnect after so many years, Marty sees firsthand how the big man’s innate kindness and willingness to help others consume his time and energy. Maybe … Read more

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Point of View: Writing With Someone Else (and a Cover Reveal!)

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

I have a new release coming out, something I wrote with one of my dearest writing friends, Kim Fielding. Office of the Lost releases on June 21st. Universal Buy Link From the foreword: I first met Kim almost a decade ago, when I launched the Queer Sacramento Authors Collective with two local author friends. Kim soon joined—and even though it was a little bit of a stretch to include her then-hometown of Turlock, about 90 miles south of Sacramento, in a Sac area writer’s group, we were thrilled to have her. We’ve since become fast friends, with her attending many … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Pat Henshaw

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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Double Review: Romance is a Drag Anthology

Romance is a Drag Anthology

Just got a couple great reviews for the new Own Voices anthology I am a part of: Genre: Contemporary, Magical Realism, Drag LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewers: Ulysses at Paranormal Romance Guild; Maryann Universal Buy Link About The Book A queer Anthology that embraces the romantic life and happy ever afters of drag queens navigating the LGBT landscape. All stories are written by Own Voice gay authors! From small towns to big cities, drag queens are the heart of the gayborhoods they belong to. Stories by Shane K Morton, Blake Allwood, Jole Cannon, Kelvin Young, J. Scott Coatsworth, Kristian Parker, Brent … Read more

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Point of View: Miz Fortune’s Lonely Hearts Salon Excerpt

Romance is a Drag Anthology

Something a little different today. 🙂 I’m sharing an excerpt from Miz Fortune’s Lonely Hearts Salon, a River City novella I wrote for the Love is a Drag anthology (note, will not be available on Amazon until release day, 3/28): Miz Fortune’s Lonely Hearts Salon Chester Carlson hit send on the email to the IRS, completing the last task of his day. Simple, easy, predictable. That’s how he liked it, and work these days hardly ever disappointed. He’d long since exhausted his idealistic youth, having moved on from wanting to make a difference in the world of finance to hoping to … Read more

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Review: The Hencha Queen

The Hencha Queen - J. Scott Coatsworth

Jus got a great review for The Hencha Queen from Estora at Queer Sci Fi! Genre: Sci-Fantasy, Romance Sub-Plot LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Bisexual, Intersex Reviewer: Estora Universal Buy Link About The Book SILYA COMES INTO HER OWN, BUT WILL SHE BE ENOUGH? Silya finally has everything she always wanted. She’s the Hencha Queen, head of the Temple, and is working to master her newfound talents. So why does the world pick now to fall apart? Her once-nemesis Raven is off riding dragons, and their mutual friend (and her ex) Aik is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, a new threat menaces … Read more

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Review: The Gauntlet Runner

The Gauntlet Runner - J. Scott Coatsworth

Genre: Sci-Fantasy, Romance Sub-Arc LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Bisexual, Intersex Reviewer: Estora Get It On Amazon | Universal Buy Link This review contains spoilers for the first book of the Tharassas Cycle, The Dragon Eater, so if you haven’t read that book first – what are you waiting for?! The Dragon Eater left us on a cliffhanger, with our three main protagonists – Raven the thief who is now part-dragon, the guard Aik who is in love with Raven, and Silya the new Hencha Queen – scattered across the land. Raven was kidnapped by beasts that brought him to a small community of others like … Read more

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Author Spotlight: C.J. Dragon

C.J. Dragon

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 has always been an avid reader of anything in print, enjoying all genres but drawn to science fiction and romance. She was happily introduced to the wonderful world of M/M romance, immediately loving it. CJ began writing M/M romances incorporating them in her science fiction stories, and has never looked back. She lives in North Carolina and is happily married to her wife and soulmate who is a writer as well. … Read more

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Review: Love & Limitations

Just got a great review of Love & Limitations from Jim Comer. 🙂 Get It On Amazon Love and Limitations is a collection of short stories, romantically themed, which feature gay and trans men. There is not a unifying theme or characters; each stands on its own. Coatsworth is known as a writer of fantastic literature, much of it SF-themed, but these stories are mundane in their settings. “I Only Want To Be With You” is a more-or-less vanilla holiday romance, but “The Boy In The Band” relies on Coatsworth’s knowledge of Arizona, where he lived for many years, and his … Read more

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Review: The Dragon Eater

The Dragon Eater - J. Scott Coatsworth

Genre: Sci-Fantasy, Romance Reviewer: Estora Get It On Amazon About The Book Raven’s a thief who just swallowed a dragon. A small one, sure, but now his arms are growing scales, the local wildlife is acting up, and his snarky AI familiar is no help whatsoever. Raven’s best friend Aik is a guardsman carrying a torch for the thief. A pickpocket and a guard? Never going to happen. And Aik’s ex-fiancĂ© Silya, an initiate priestess in a magical crisis, hates Raven with the heat of a thousand suns. This unlikely team must work together to face strange beasts, alien artifacts, … Read more