We’ve all heard it time and time again. “I’m going to retire and write my book. I can do better than the writers out there,” our best non-writer friends say. Sometimes we argue. Mostly we stay still and grin to ourselves. Being an author is one of those weird professions that simultaneously makes the writer … Read more
When it comes to the writing process, there are several different ways authors can go about it. However, most writers fall into three categories; planner, pantser or planster. If you don’t know what any of that means, let me explain. A Planner, is an author who plans out their entire story. They have an outline, character … Read more
Happy Pride Month! We’re certainly celebrating Pride differently this year. It’s a great time to pick up a book and read about characters who aren’t living in a pandemic. Here are books from four authors that I’d highly recommend for your Pride reading list. All of these books are from authors of color as in … Read more
A little while back, a poignant and heartfelt letter came from an author in Italy, projecting our futures in the weeks ahead as we followed behind them in distancing, lockdown, and quarantine. In this letter, Francesca Melandri had many things to say: funny (“You will have an unstoppable online social life”), thought-provoking (“You will count … Read more
For years I’ve been saying that the one thing I desperately needed in my life was more time. Well, be careful what you ask for. Yes, I’m still doing my day job (I’m a university professor), and I’m still doing all the work that comes with being an author. But I’m not going into the … Read more
Sometimes a lunch turns into more than a meal. Take the lunch I had a few years ago with Scott Coatsworth and Christopher Koehler. It was an author’s lunch of sorts, a get-together of three people who shared a general location, a genre and a publisher. Scott and I met oddly enough in Orlando, Florida, … Read more
We’re trying something new in the age of the corona virus. On Friday, April 3rd, we’ll have a virtual reading on Facebook Live on the Queer Sacramento Authors’ Collective public group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/qsacrocks/ We’ll start at 7 PM. Scott will open with a short video about the night and where things are. Then each author will … Read more
Hey all, For the inaugural Queer Sacramento Authors’ Coalition newsletter, I thought I’d tell you a little about how QSAC came to be, and then share all the ways you can find us local authors. In 2017, Pat Henshaw, Christopher Koehler and J. Scott Coatsworth sat down for a fateful lunch at the Tower Cafe. … Read more