What was your first job? Oooh, trick question! I actually had two. I worked at an electronics store on call, checking in orders, and also got a job at a donut shop next door. After a week of donut Read more
What do you do when you get writer’s block? I get a slightly less severe form of this writer malady – I call it Writer’s Wait. It usually means there’s a problem with the plot of the story, something mu Read more
How It All Began J.Scott Coatsworth This year we held our eighth annual Queer Sci Fi flash fiction contest. We garnered 384 entries – a third more than last year and our highest tally ever. Reading through all of them Read more
Love Bytes: Are you a plotter or a pantster? J.Scott Coatsworth: I used to be a total pantser. I’d sit down and just start writing, and plow through three or four pages before I hit a brick wall. I Read more
J. Scott Coatsworth has a new gay post-zombie apocalypse Christmas book out: “Wonderland.” And there’s a giveaway! Zeke is a hermit in his late forties who lives a quiet life in a small cabin in the Western Montana mountains, a Read more
J. Scott Coatsworth has a new queer sci fi book out, Liminal Sky: Oberon Cycle Book 1: “Skythane.” Jameson Havercamp, a psych from a conservative religious colony, has come to Oberon—unique among the Common Worlds—in search of a rare substance Read more