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Me in the News!

Inside Sacramento

This week, I got a cool profile in “Inside Sacramento,” a local monthly newspaper, along with my book “The River City Chronicles.” If you haven’t gotten a copy yet, now’s your chance. 🙂 I also have my first author bookstore signing planned for 7 PM on October 4th at Time Tested Books in Midtown Sac – if you wanna come (please do!) you can let me know here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1180415018767294/ Hope to see you there – I will be reading from River City. 🙂 Get River City On Amazon Barnes & Noble | Kobo |  iBooks

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POINT OF VIEW: When Will It Click?

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Hey all I’ve now been back to writing seriously for about four years. In that time, I’ve gone from zero things published to sixteen published works – including two novels launching two separate sci fi series, and I just sold the sequel to the first one. I’m about to wrap up my online serial, “The River City Chronicles,” which I plan to release in book form in both English and Italian. And I have a bunch of other irons in the fire, including my second sequel and a group serial project. So when is it going to happen for me? … Read more

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Point of View: Testing the Waters

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Two years and some months ago, I re-commited myself to writing. I’ve now published a few things, and have set up several blog tours for my books and the anthologies I have been in. I’ve hit all the normal places – the romance blogs, the LGBT reviewers, etc. But I’ve decided that it’s time to do more. I want to move beyond the romance blogs. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t want to leave them behind. They are a huge part of our community, and it’s important that we support each other. They should be a part of any marketing strategy. But … Read more

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Point of View: Here We Go Again

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I am riding the crazy train again. In just two more days, I have not one but two new stories coming out – “Through the Veil” in the anthology “Myths Untold – Faery” and my story “Repetition” in the spring “MCB Quarterly”. So I am no longer an author – I am now J. Scott Coatsworth, master promoter of the works of the obscure author of the same name. Promotion is a totally different skill set from writing. As an author, we can hide away in our writer caves and forget to shower, burrowing down the rabbit hole after our … Read more