Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. Today, C.J. Baty stops by the hot seat with her latest queer historical mystery Not Again:

Do you ever base your characters on real people?

C.J. Baty: Oh, yes! I didn’t have any pitfalls. They loved it. The Pinkerton Man book ‘Aces Up’ which is based on an old west poker game takes place in a saloon. All the women who worked in the saloon were based on the...

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Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. Today, Andrea Stanet:

J. Scott Coatsworth: How would you describe your writing style/genre?

Andrea Stanet: My writing is fairly eclectic, and I write whatever moves me at any given time. I might write a fantasy followed by a contemporary romance and then dive into a horror. I have several works in progress that are mashups of genres...

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Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I've asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today, Grace R. Duncan and her MM paranormal book Devotion:

Grace Duncan grew up with a wild imagination. She told stories from an early age - many of which got her into trouble. Eventually, she learned to channel that imagination into less...

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I love sharing some of my author friends with y'all. Check out A.J. Alexander (Fantasy, Paranormal):

I'm a romance author working on a paranormal romance/fantasy series, "The Council Of Twelve" series. The books are mainly suitable for young adult readers, but I heard there are quite a number of readers beyond their teenage years who enjoy them...

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I love sharing some of my author friends with y'all. Today, Ef Deal (Sci-Fi):

Ef Deal’s short fiction has been published in numerous online zines and anthologies as well as in F&SF. Her short story Czesko was given honorable mention in Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ef has been freelance line-editing and copy-editing for over thirty years.

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My friend M. Jay Williams is here in my author spotlight to talk about writing, and to tell us about his new MM paranormal/omega book The Hallowed Bloodline: The Omega:

M. Jay Williams has had a wide range of job in his lifetime. Started out as a waiter, advanced to cook, then manager of the restaurant. He’s worked as a flight attendant for TWA back in the day. Did general construction work...

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I love sharing some of my author friends with y'all. Check out Denise B. Tanaka (Fantasy):

Denise B. Tanaka has a lifelong passion for writing stories of magical beings and faraway worlds but is sometimes sidetracked by nonfiction projects. A graduate of Sonoma State University, she works as a senior paralegal in immigration law. She has dabbled in genealogy...

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My friend Eric Alan Westfall is here in my author spotlight hotseat to talk about writing, and to tell us about his new MM fantasy book The Cooking Mage and the Parchment Prankster Part One:

Eric is an American Midwesterner, and as Lady Glenhaven might say, “He’s old enough to have sailed with Noah.” In the real world he writes for a living, with those who would claim what he writes is fiction...

https://www.jscottcoatsworth.com/author-spotlight-eric-alan-westfall/

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I love sharing some of my author friends with y'all. Check out Paul Levinson (Sci-Fi):

Paul Levinson, PhD, is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in NYC. His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (winner of the Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999), The Consciousness Plague, The Pixel Eye...

https://www.limfic.com/mbm-book-author/paul-levinson/

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I love sharing some of my author friends with y'all. Check out Fenn Thornbot (Fantasy):

Fenn Thornbot is an emerging author of young adult, LGBTQIA2S+, sci-fi, and fantasy who spends most of their time inside their own head imagining new worlds where queer and gender non-conforming people are the protagonists and in which police abolition is a reality...

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My friend Hank Edwards is here in my author spotlight hotseat to talk about writing, and to tell us about his new MM paranormal romance Grave Danger:

Hank Edwards (he/him) has been writing gay fiction for more than twenty years. He has published over forty novels and novellas, and dozens of short stories. His writing crosses many sub-genres, including contemporary romance, rom-com, paranormal ...

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I love sharing some of my author friends with y'all. Check out Marie Andreas (Fantasy):

Marie is a multi-award winning fantasy and science fiction writer with a serious reading addiction. If she wasn't writing about all the people in her head, she'd be lurking about coffee shops annoying total strangers with her stories. So really, writing is a way of saving the masses...

https://www.limfic.com/mbm-book-author/marie-andreas/

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I love sharing some of my author friends with y'all. Check out Lea Kirk (Paranormal, Sci-Fi):

USA Today Bestselling Author Lea Kirk loves to transport her readers to other worlds with her science fiction romance. She is the author of the award-winning Prophecy series, and the Intergalactic Dating Agency's Silverstar Mates series, an SFR rom-com featuring ...

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My friend April Kelley Devaux is here in my author spotlight hotseat to talk about writing, and to tell us about her new MM paranormal romance The Human Pyke:

April Kelley writes LGBTQ+ Romance. Her works include The Journey of Jimini Renn, a Rainbow Awards finalist, Whispers of Home, the Saint Lakes series, and over thirty more. Since writing her first story at ten, the characters in her head...

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I love sharing some of my author friends with y'all. Check out Mark Iles (Fantasy, Horror, Paranormal, Sci-Fi):

Born in Slough, October 1957, Mark Iles joined the Royal Navy when he was 17. Having served all over the world Mark started writing in 1982. He holds a Masters in Professional Writing, plus Diplomas in both Copywriting and Proofreading...

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My friend Olivette Devaux is here in my author spotlight hotseat to talk about writing, and to tell us about her new MM romance Bourbon:

Multiple award winner and Amazon best-seller under a different pen name, Olivette Devaux is the author behind the Disorderly Elements series. In her Olivette Devaux incarnation, she writes hot, adventure plot driven romance, both LGBT and “straight.” ...

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I love sharing my author friends with y'all. Check out E.D.E. Bell (Fantasy, Paranormal, Poetry)

E.D.E. Bell (she/e) loves fantasy fiction, and enjoys blending classic and modern elements. A passionate vegan and earnest progressive, she feels strongly about issues related to equality and compassion. Her works often explore conceptions of identity...

https://www.limfic.com/mbm-book-author/e-d-e-bell/

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I love sharing some of my author friends with y'all. Check out Minerva Cerridwen (Fantasy):

Minerva Cerridwen is a genderqueer aromantic asexual writer and pharmacist from Belgium. She enjoys baking, drawing and handlettering. Since 2013 she has been writing for Paranatellonta, a project combining photography and flash fiction...

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I love sharing some of my author friends with y'all. Check out Jonathan Fesmire (Horror, Sci-Fi):

Jonathan Fesmire is a full-time writer living in Southern California near Disneyland. He's a single father raising his son. You can find him, and all his links, on his website at HTTP://www.jonathanfesmire.com/.

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My friend Chad Grayson is here in my author spotlight to tell us about his new MM romance The Soul Cages:

When did you know you wanted to write, and when did you discover you were good at it?

I wrote my first story when I was around eight years old. It was about Indiana Jones fighting a mummy in the middle of a tornado (I’m from Indiana and tornadoes loomed large in my imagination).

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