J Scott Coatsworth

 

A New Year, in our Candle in the Dark anthology, comes out for Christmas 2014.

 

Scott has been writing since elementary school, when he won a University of Arizona writing contest in 4th grade for his first sci fi story (with illustrations!). He finished his first novel in his mid twenties, but after seeing it rejected by ten publishers, he gave up on writing for a while.

 

Over the ensuing years, he came back to it periodically, but it never stuck. Then one day, he was complaining to Mark, his husband, early last year about how he had been derailed yet again by the death of a family member, and Mark said to him “the only one stopping you from writing is you.”

 

Since then, Scott has gone back to writing in a big way, finishing more than a dozen short stories – some new, some that he had started years before – and seeing his first sales in 2014. He’s embarking on a new LGBT sci fi trilogy, and also runs a support group for writers of gay sci fi, fantasy, and supernatural fiction at QueerSciFi.com.

 

He lives in Northern California with his husband of 22 years, and is thrilled that writing is once again a regular part of his day.