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Point of View: The Great Escape

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I can’t bear it. I can’t let myself think too far ahead right now. I know the awful is coming, and for a few more precious weeks, I just want to bury my head in the sand like they say ostriches do (even though they don’t, really). So I’m looking for a few all-encompassing escapes. One of those is popular entertainment. Mark and I are binging the whole Ally McBeal series, which was from the late nineties and dealt with grand themes like misogyny in the workplace, which thankfully no longer exists (this is where I really need a sarcasm … Read more

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Point of View: Reading in Nostalgia Mode

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A Brightness Long Ago

I’m reading a book. Which is not news, in and of itself, although regular readers will know that I somewhat famously went for years without reading any, due to my insane work demands and habits. But this is different. I’m reading an actual physical book – a hardcover, in fact – something I can hold in my hands that doesn’t disappear when I set it down (though it often does flip back to the first page). It was my birthday gift to myself – the work of an author I love that I can actually touch and smell. OMG, I … Read more

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Point of View: Filling in the Gaps

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Doctors read journals and take continuing education courses to learn the latest techniques for their specialty. Teachers attend seminars and learn new teaching methods to help their students learn better. Even artists often pick up new mediums and styles throughout their careers… how many periods did Picasso go through? Writing is no different – we thrive when we spend time in the medium that we write. I grew up addicted to reading. I would often read a new book in days, sometimes staying up until three in the morning to finish a particularly addicting tale. I read thousands of different … Read more

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POINT OF VIEW: Feeding My Writer Brain

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It’s been forever since I sat down with a good book and just read the hell out of it. I’m a compulsive worker bee, and these last five years have not been kind to our business, requiring ever more of my time, focus, and energy just to try to keep things running with my husband Mark Reading is one of the things that had to go. There just wasn’t enough time. It’s funny. Writing a novel used to seem like such a daunting thing. Now reading one does. As writers, we feast on words. We absorb them from the world … Read more

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POINT OF VIEW: Writing Is My Escape From Pandemic World

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As I write this, I am sitting in the parking lot at the grocery store waiting for our weekly grocery curbside pick-up. It struck me, driving over here, how small my world has become since the pandemic began. Once a week I leave home to go to the post office, then to the grocery store, and then back home again. Every four weeks, I plug in the Prius to charge up for the next month. I’ve been doing this now for more than six months, and only on a couple occasions have I gone farther than this two-mile radius from … Read more

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POINT OF VIEW: The Joys of Reading

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I’ve forgotten how good it feels just to read. It seems ironic that I’m a writer who doesn’t read anymore, doesn’t it? It’s like a chef who never bothers to taste any cooking other than his own. Or an artist who never visits an art gallery. I have no time. My work life is severely regimented. I’m one of those incredible overachievers with a truly disgusting work ethic, spared only from relationship ruin by the fact that my amazing husband works right here in the trenches beside me. Last year, I shared here that I’d found little bits of time … Read more

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POINT OF VIEW: Squeeze Reading

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For years, I have maintained that I simply had no time to read. My days are so tightly scheduled that I couldn’t even think about picking up a new book, let alone diving in with the intent to finish the whole damned thing. That changed this last month. Not because I suddenly had a lot less to do. No, it was thanks to the humble porcelain toilet. Really. See, I figured out that do have a batch of otherwise unstructured time. I am sorry if it offends anyone’s delicate sensibilities, but bathroom time is also the perfect reading time (as … Read more

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Video From My Time Tested Books reading

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Me, Mark, Vanessa

Here’s the full video (thanks Mark) for my reading/signing last night. I talk for a bit about how we came to Sacramento, how I came to writing, and about “The River City Chronicles.” The reading itself starts at about thirty five and a half minutes in, or at -21:45 on the countdown clock. Hope you enjoy it! Posted by J. Scott Coatsworth on Thursday, October 4, 2018

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I Did a Reading!

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Our local writing group – the Queer Sacramento Authors Collective – had a reading at the Lavender Library on Friday night. I read a bit from Lander. https://www.facebook.com/jscottcoatsworth/posts/10156040064067180 Have you gotten your copy yet? Dreamspinner eBook: https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/lander-by-j-scott-coatsworth-9317-b Dreamspinner paperback: https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/lander-by-j-scott-coatsworth-9318-b Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Lander-J-Scott-Coatsworth/dp/1640804773/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lander-j-scott-coatsworth/1127876852?ean=9781640804777 Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/lander-4 iBooks: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/book/lander/id1333640753?mt=11 QueeRomance Ink: https://www.queeromanceink.com/book/lander/ Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38088645-lander