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Love & Limitations

by J. Scott Coatsworth

Love and Limitations - J. Scott Coatsworth
Editions:ePub - First: $ 4.95
Pages: 28
Paperback - First: $ 14.99
ISBN: 978-1-955778-58-9
Size: 8.50 x 5.50 in
Pages: 248

Love & Limitations is Scott's fourth short story collection and first one featuring contemporary MM and LGBTQ+ stories:

I Only Want to Be With You: Derrek likes Ryan. Ryan likes Alex. Alex treats Ryan like trash. So why can't he see who really loves him?

The Boy in the Band: It's hard for a trans kid in high school, just like it was for a gay kid two decades before. Can Ryan and Justin find common ground in time?

Translation: Dominic has a thing for Italian guys, especially his boss, Dante. His roommate Enrico has a thing for him. No matter how this ends, someone is going to get hurt.

Slow Thaw: As the Antarctic warms, so does the chilly relationship between scientist Javier Fernandez and new arrival-and trans man-Col Steele as they contend with a disaster on the ice.

Ten: After the death of his husband, Chris faces a gay mid-life crisis-at thirty-five-as he jumps back into the dating scene for ten dates in ten days.
This is the first time all of these stories have all been collected in one place, and the first publication of the The Boy in the Band in any form.

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Publisher: Other Worlds Ink
Editors:
Alllison Behrens

Cover Artists:
J. Scott Coatsworth

Genres:
Comedy, Contemporary, Gaylit, Holiday, Interracial

Tags:
format - collection, potential trigger - abuse - past, potential trigger - bullying, potential trigger - hate crime, potential trigger - suicidal ideation, potential trigger - traumatic past, potential trigger - violence, what - concept - acceptance, what - concept - family conflict, what - concept - sweet, what - emotion - anxiety, what - emotion - hope, what - emotion - love, what - emotion - pride, what - holiday - christmas, what - topic - climate change, what - topic - drag, what - topic - friendship, what - topic - gay pride, what - topic - parenting, where - city - new york city, where - city - sacramento, where - city - san diego, where - continent - antarctica, where - country - usa, where - state - arizona, where - state - california, where - state - New York, who - description - black, who - description - friends, who - description - unaccepting parent, who - description - unstable, who - nationality - italian, who - occupation - accountant, who - occupation - scientist, who - occupation - writer

Pairings: M-M
Heat Level: 2
Romantic Content: 5
Ending: Click here to reveal
Character Identities: Gay, Transgender
Tropes: Adopted Child, Coming of Age, Cultural Differences, Enemies to Lovers, Friends to Lovers, Hurt / Comfort, Love Triangle, Meet Cute, Opposites Attract, Slow Burning Love, Trapped Together, Unrequited Love
Word Count: 68000
Languages Available: English
Excerpt:

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.