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: Martin Lochman (born 1989 in former Czechoslovakia) is a Czech author of science fiction and speculative fiction stories. He currently resides in Malta where he works as an academic librarian at the University of Malta. His...

https://www.jscottcoatsworth.com/author-spotlight-martin-lochman/

After attending #PubConf2025 yesterday, I chatted with a friend that expressed wanting to get of Instagram.
They have been intrigued by me saying, that #Mastodon always has been a pretty #queer space.
Now I’m looking for the right #instance to recommend. But the choices are overwhelming.

Where would a queer, #feminist, intellectual, English language #writer, #educator in arts, secular Jewish, pro Palestinian, gen-X person feel at home?

Proud to announce my latest collaboration with
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#ScribesAndMakers 2025.06.13 — Self-promotion day: show us what you're proud of. Let's boost away.

While I plod at composing story, work at revising stuff, have brought a decades old story into Scrivener to rewrite, and work with beta readers on the most recent novel, what I'm proud of is some of this month is my photography. The moving images are photos: live photos rendered as a wigglegram aka a Harry Potter photo. It includes one tree from my Trees project.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing and #CommentingIsCool

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#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion

#WordWeavers 2025.06.13 — If your MC magically became a dog, what breed would fit them best?

Sorry, not dog. Never a dog. She's an alpha female wolf who's perfectly fine with the males and the females who position for power around her—but endanger her pups, or any pups, or her pack—whether male, female, or puma—and she will likely kill you.

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#BoostingIsSharing

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#mystery #thriller #romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
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Time to get into Mike.Sierra.Echo updates and re-writes. I thought I was done but I guess I'm not. Wake up at 3am. Start writing.
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More from the weekend's @cymerafestival : Rhiannon Grist chairing a panel on folk horror with Andrew Michael Hurley and Yvonne Battle-Felton on the theatre stage of the Pleasance https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/54585473608/in/dateposted/

Official #Introduction Post:

#GenX #actor #writer

#transit #cities #urbanism
Live in #WeHo in #California
#Gay #LGBTQ

Hablo español. Aprendo português. Deutsch lernen.

Minister of Science of Mind and Spirit for #CSL

#NewThought #ACIM #Sober
#Angel in disguise.

#Disco #House

Animal lover. Kindness is sexy.

Ranking Mike Flanagan Films 1-8 (#Link Below)

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#PennedPossibilities 696 — In your SC’s opinion, what would be your MC’s greatest skill?

Bolt would say it is how the devil-girl translates the platonic love she feels for people she likes, or for whom she feels responsible, into supporting those people in any adversity and often at any cost.

The devil-girl is autistic and would scoff at the "love" part, which she distrusts at least as much as the concept of friendship. She can't deny that she does support the people in her life, though. She saved Bolt from having her life destroyed by intervening violently when Bolt was being arrested by the constables, but that's because she saw someone abused by the system the same way she had been and detests unfairness, especially since she's lived through so much of it herself.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

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I need some #Fiction Author perspectives / opinions / feedback on a #writing question. Please boost in the community so I can increase sample size.

I want to prepare a previously-written novella for publication (Through Blood and Tears 15K). It is a side-story for an unpublished fantasy trilogy (300K+). I don't expect to field the trilogy in the near term; it requires rewriting. The story is a completely standalone origin story of characters in the trilogy.

The question is:

1. Do I write out (i.e., remove) the few references to the trilogy from the story?This provides the cleanest manuscript.
2. Do I gloss over the references, but leave hints in so future trilogy readers can still glean them?
3. Do I simply leave the references in? They serve as history and provide backstory. They do add flavor.

Feel free to reply to leave opinions about what you would do.

#BoostingIsSharing

From this year's @cymerafestival : Roisin Dunnett and Adam Oyebanji on stage https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/54580843661/in/dateposted/