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Just submitted The Bear at the Bar – the first story I’ve written specifically for an anthology. It’s adifferent experience for me to write something to order – not good, not bad – just different. Normally, I start off with a sentence and see where it goes. This time I started off with a whole concept. Now the waiting begins. I’m trying to get enough short stories going that I can submit them one after the other out there – once one comes back, another goes out to the same source. And eventually I will get one published. It’s working … Read more

My husband Mark just finished reading my new story The Bear in the Bar and he loved it. Doing a happy dance – Mark reads a lot of gay fiction, so if he likes it, it’s good! While it ‘s not, strictly speaking, sci fi, there is a supernatural Freaky Friday element to it. I’ll get it off to B.g. Thomas for consideration for his Bear anthology for Dreamspinner. In other news, I got my 15th story rejection – this one for Seedling, the first part of the Aurora cycle of novellas – the precursor to my novel rewrite. Don’t … Read more

I’m coming back to writing after a long pause – and I’m wondering if I’ve still got it. I picked up some old story fragments – ideas I started but never completed – and one was pretty damn good – I can say that as I was reading it with fresh eyes after something like 15 years. But for me, it’s not as straightforward as sitting down and banging out 1,000 words. Instead, the creativity takes a bit of a circuitous path. Over the last few months, I’ve found out I work best having 2 or 3 stories going at … Read more

My name is J. Scott Coatsworth, and I’ve been a writer since birth.  I’ve never published much (yet) but have always had a passion for reading and writing sic fi. I’m also gay, and happily married to my husband after 21 years together. Now it’s time to bring those two halves of my life together.  I am actively writing again for the first time in fifteen years, and I’m diving deep into the intersection of fantasy-sci fi and being gay. Not sure where all this will lead me just yet, but here goes.  Hope you enjoy the journey with me.