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Romance in Winter

Queer Anthology V3

by J. Scott Coatsworth

A queer Anthology that explores the romantic life and happy ever afters of gay men navigating the LGBT landscape. From small towns to big cities, each story shows that love is love, no matter the season.

Featuring Stories by Matthew Dante, Ryan Taylor, Joshua Harwood, J. Scott Coatsworth, RJ Peterson, Brent Archer, Kevin Klehr, Jole Cannon, Nathanael Starr Key, and Dan B. Fierce.

Do Over by J. Scott Coatsworth

Ricky has devoted his life to the unhoused LGBTQ+ kids at the Center, and has given up on ever having a personal life, when he literally runs into Alyn, another young man with a secret. After their meet cute, they make a date, but when the secret comes out, it might be more than Ricky can handle. But it's Christmas, so maybe miracles will come true...

Published:
Genres:
Comedy, Fantasy, Fantasy - Magical Realism, Gaylit

Tags:
author - american, author - australian

Pairings: M-M
Heat Level: 4
Romantic Content: 5
Ending: Click here to reveal
Character Identities: Gay
Languages Available: English
Reviews:Ulysses on QueeRomance Ink wrote:

"Well, well, well; this is not like your standard Hallmark Christmas stories. Much. A wide range of authors have created a diverse panoply of characters and settings, all around the winter holidays, as a backdrop for emotional discoveries and personal soul-searching. Really, the only thing they have in common is winter weather and the inextinguishable human need for love and companionship. 4 stars."


About the Author

Scott lives with his husband of more than 30 years in a leafy Sacramento, California suburb, in a little yellow house with a brick fireplace and a couple pink flamingoes out front. He has always inhabited the space between the here and now and the what could be. Indoctrinated into fantasy and sci fi by his mother at the tender age of nine, he devoured her library. But as he grew up and read the golden age classics and more modern works as well, he began to wonder where all the people like him were.

After he came out at twenty three, he decided that it was time to create the kinds of stories he couldn’t find at Waldenbooks. If there weren’t many gay characters in his favorite genres, he would reimagine them himself, populating them with a diverse universe of characters. He would subvert them and remake them to his own ends. And if he was lucky enough, someone else would want to read the things he wrote.

His friends say Scott’s brain works a little differently – he sees relationships between things that others miss, and gets more done in a day than most folks manage in a week. Although he was born an introvert, he learned to reach outside himself and connect with others like him.

Scott writes stories that subvert expectations, that seek to transform traditional sci fi, fantasy, and contemporary worlds into something new and unexpected. He also runs both Queer Sci Fi and QueeRomance Ink with his husband Mark, sites that bring people like them together to promote and celebrate fiction that reflects their own reality.

His writing, whether romance or genre fiction (or a little bit of both) brings a queer energy to his stories, infusing them with love, beauty and power and making them soar. He imagines a world that could be, and in the process, maybe changes the world that is, just a little.

He was recognized as one of the top new gay authors in the 2017 Rainbow Awards, and his debut novel “Skythane” received two awards and an honorable mention.

He runs Queer Sci Fi, QueeRomance Ink, and Other Worlds Ink with Mark, and is a full member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), where he ran the Indie Author Committee for almost three years.

You can find him at Goodreads here, on Amazon here, on QueeRomance Ink here, and on Facebook here.