Connecting
I’ve been in the queer romance business now for six years, and the publishing biz for… well, let’s just say quite a bit longer. You can write a great novel. You can try to surf the latest trends. But the Read more
Author: J. Scott Coatsworth
What We Do Matters
I’m a writer because I need to write. I have things to say, and I wasn’t gifted enough (or maybe in the right way) to express them through acting or art or music, and so I write. Most days, writing Read more
The Fruit of the Family Tree
We all are products of our pasts. I’m a writer because I love reading and I love telling stories, but I’m also a writer because my Grandma Joyce was one. She wrote them in short form and in plays for Read more
Off the Grid
As an author, I am plagued by social media and the constant demands of my computer and iPad and mobile phone. Look at me! they all shout, all the time, and I find myself more and more disconnected from the Read more
We All Do It Differently
This week on the Queer Sci Fi Facebook group, we had a discussion about that old idea that a character can take over your work, either revealing something about themselves that you as the writer didn’t know, or carrying off Read more
We Are Family
This week, I read the news that the US Supreme Court was letting the Trump Administration’s ban on transgender troops go into effect. It’s apparently “temporary,” while the cases work their way through the court system. But it hit me Read more