Scott Coon's Blog: Scott Coon Sci Fi

Writers Talk About Stuff: Marcy Mahoney and The Magic of Writing About Magic

Marcy Mahoney talks about her two magic stories and what inspired them.

Marcy Mahoney is the Author of ARCHWILDE and of DILLY’S WINE AND FLEA. Both are about magic but they’re very different stories. Learn about their separate magic systems and what inspired the various elements of these wonderful stories. Learn which fairs and conventions Marcy attends and what she’ll be writing next. Also, find out what a Hobblebush is!

https://youtu.be/2Tz7_UPUPXU

Writers Talk About Stuff
A Cyberthriller from a Cyber Expert:
Vance Mitchell Gloster

Authors Vance Mitchell Gloster & Scott Coon discuss technology, AI, cyberpunk fiction, STEAM, and music.

https://youtu.be/3NeT2mwp2Bs

LitFest 2026
The Queer of the Spirit: Coming Out and Spiritual Journeys in Literature
Rie lee, Scott Coon, Charles L. Close III

Friday, May 1
8 to 9 PM

The Library at…
Pasadena Presbyterian Church
585 E. Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91101

Local authors Rie Lee, Scott Coon, and Charles L. Close III discuss the intersection of queerness, spirituality, and literature.

https://www.litfestinthedena.org/sche...


LitFest in the Dena
May 1 & 2, 2026

Founded in 2012, LitFest in the Dena connects the Pasadena, Altadena, and greater Los Angeles communities with literature and local authors through this free, community literary festival for lovers of the written word. LitFest events include panel discussions, readings, author guest talks, workshops, and literary performances that engage, challenge, and inspire. Southern California’s most diverse literary festival, LitFest in the Dena is writer-driven and deeply representative of Los Angeles County’s communities, celebrating our diversity, and featuring programming for all literary interests.

LitFest in the Dena is presented by the nonprofit organization Light Bringer Project and the literary journal Locavore Lit LA.

Scott’s BOOK LAUNCH PARTY!

https://www.meetup.com/writers-of-she...

https://youtube.com/shorts/3Dgq0ce-bHA

Rentsoc Book 1:
The Wizard, The Pirate, & The Steampunk Librarian
A Comedy by Scott Coon

Saturday, March 21, 2026
2 pm to 5 pm

Underdog Bookstore
312 S. Myrtle Ave
Monrovia, CA 91016.

Support Underdog Bookstore…
BUY YOUR COPY AT THE PARTY!

At 2:30, I will discuss the world of Rentsoc, read an excerpt, and take questions!
There will also be giftbags, drinks, and cupcakes for all!
And a crocheting project!

Rentsoc Book 1:
The Wizard, The Pirate, & The Steampunk Librarian
A Comedy by Scott Coon

The Steampunks’ flaming dragon bone will soon burn away. They must have a new one for the Master Furnace that powers all their nation’s contraptions through a network of leaky steam hoses. For this urgent quest, they require a heroic wizard to voyage treacherous seas, battle ferocious beasts, and face the Steampunk’s mortal enemy and masters of yarn magic, the Crochets. Mitch is not that wizard.
Low-ranking Mitch the Adequate is sent to merely receive this request and report back. But he is assailed by a less-than-persuasive Steampunk Librarian with ambitions of her own. With the help of the pirate, Captain Fanny, and her clockwork sailing ship, they set forth to claim a new bone and to put truth to old legends.
Meanwhile, none of their bosses are okay with any of this.

Already in the works…
Rentsoc Book 2: The Pirate, The Wizard, & The Steampunk Archeologist

I look forward to seeing you March 21!

https://www.meetup.com/writers-of-she...

https://youtube.com/shorts/3Dgq0ce-bHA

!!! Available Now !!!

Rentsoc Book 1:
The Wizard, The Pirate, & The Steampunk Librarian
A Sci-Fi Fantasy Comedy
By Scott Coon
Cover Art by LS Quigley

A wizard, a pirate, and a Steampunk Librarian go on a quest to save all of Steampunk society, and none of their bosses have approved this.

https://youtu.be/K9RA1-_jeY0

#comedy #fantasy #sciencefiction #steampunk #novel #fiction #adventure #pirate #wizard #library #crochet #knitting

https://www.amazon.com/dp/9691093812
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GDNZWQKC
http://www.scottcoonscifi.com/WPL.html

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Writers Talk About Stuff: Rie Lee, Queerness and Spirituality
A one on one with a fellow author Rie Lee

Rie Lee and Scott Coon examine the intersection of queerness and spirituality. They discuss the myths their religious environments taught them about queerness, how they realized they were queer, and how their spiritual journeys intertwined with their queer journeys, ultimately arriving at a place of peace.

https://youtu.be/0NqZcZV218k

LOSCON!
Los Angeles' longest running Science Fiction & Fantasy Convention, held Thanksgiving weekend
Get tickets here:
http://www.loscon.org/

Meet us in the Dealers Room @ LOSCON!
Vance Mitchell Gloster
Scott Coon

November 28 – 30 @ Hilton LAX

MeetUp.com Events
https://www.meetup.com/writers-of-she...
12:00 noon – 7:00 pm Friday
https://www.meetup.com/writers-of-she...
10:00 am – 6:00 pm Saturday
https://www.meetup.com/writers-of-she...
10:00 am – 4:00 pm Sunday

Vance Mitchell Gloster
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXK5K2Q1
Vance Mitchell Gloster is an award-winning writer who had a career as a computer scientist working on the Space Shuttle program and in AI before turning to writing full-time. His sci-fi cyberthriller Two Thirds of a God was published in March. He is also a musician, having appeared on several albums.

Scott Coon
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Scott-C...
Scott Coon is a published novelist, an award-winning short story writer, and a former U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst. His afterlife fiction, Godless Armageddon, was recently #1 on the hot new releases in atheist books on Amazon.

http://www.scottcoonscifi.com/Appeara...

https://youtu.be/wVM5o8cdxc8

Scott Coon SciFi Presents:
How To Write a Lot of Words and Fast
Now on YouTube!

The organization may be gone, but the spirit lives on! Get ready to write a lot of words in November with this FREE panel for writers!

https://youtu.be/2T_FOm5O6vM

THE AUTHORS

Scott Coon
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Scott-C...
Scott Coon is a published novelist, an award-winning short story writer, and a former U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst. His afterlife fiction, Godless Armageddon, was recently #1 on the hot new releases in atheist books on Amazon.

Rie Lee
https://riewrites.org
RIE LEE is a recovering true believer whose debut novel, Vessel, recently won a 2025 Literary Global Children's Book Award. She's a little too obsessed with cults and almost definitely on some kind of FBI watchlist for researching pipe bombs.
She is an alum of the MFA at EWU and is currently pursuing an MLIS focusing on the intersection of trust and information. Originally from Fresno, California, she now spends most of her free time at multiple libraries, indie bookstores, and coffee shops in the Los Angeles area, writing books or working on civic engagement initiatives.

Vance Mitchell Gloster
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXK5K2Q1
Vance Gloster is an award-winning writer who had a career as a computer scientist working on the Space Shuttle program and in AI before turning to writing full-time. His sci-fi cyberthriller Two Thirds of a God was published in March. He is also a musician, having appeared on several albums.

Anne Louise Bannon
https://annelouisebannon.com/
Author Anne Louise Bannon’s husband says that his wife kills people for a living. Bannon does mostly write mysteries, including the Old Los Angeles Series, the Freddie and Kathy series, and the Operation Quickline series. She has worked as a freelance journalist for magazines and newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times.
She and her husband, Michael Holland, created a wine education blog, and she co-wrote a book on poisons. Her latest novel is book five in the Old Los Angeles series, Death of the Drunkard. She and her husband live in Southern California with an assortment of critters. Visit her website at AnneLouiseBannon.com.

Janet Wertman
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Janet-W...
Janet Wertman’s critically acclaimed, character-driven historical novels reflect a passion for the Tudor era she had harbored since she was eight years old. Janet also runs a blog (www.janetwertman.com) and YouTube channel where she posts interesting takes on the Tudors and what it’s like to write about them.
Not Oct 4

Eli Donovan
https://www.instagram.com/elidonovanw...
Eli Donovan is an author who thinks dinosaurs are just neat and grew up reading too many Jane Goodall biographies. She’s the author of Time Traitors, first in a series of adventurous time travel adventures with dinosaurs, and The Fairy Tales of Lyond, a series of feminist fairy tale retellings. Eli lives in Southern California with a husband, kids, and too many dinosaur toys. You can find her online at www.elidonovan.wordpress.com, on Instagram @elidonovanwriter and on BlueSky at elidonovanwriter.bsky.social.
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Erik Day
https://erikday.wordpress.com/conjure...
Erik Day has the bad habit of reverse-engineering reality until he finds out how to make the impossible, real. Then he writes about it. Erik is a crisis response specialist, former television production guy, and a writing coach with the Quill & Pint Writers' Workshop in Burbank, California. Now he's sharing the stories that power his imagination.

LOSCON Nov 28–30 @ Hilton LAX Meet us in the Dealers Room
https://youtu.be/wVM5o8cdxc8

LOSCON!
Los Angeles' longest running Science Fiction & Fantasy Convention, held Thanksgiving weekend
Get tickets here:
http://www.loscon.org/

Meet us in the Dealers Room @ LOSCON!
Vance Mitchell Gloster
Scott Coon

November 28 – 30 @ Hilton LAX

MeetUp.com Events
https://www.meetup.com/writers-of-she...
12:00 noon – 7:00 pm Friday
https://www.meetup.com/writers-of-she...
10:00 am – 6:00 pm Saturday
https://www.meetup.com/writers-of-she...
10:00 am – 4:00 pm Sunday

Vance Mitchell Gloster
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXK5K2Q1
Vance Mitchell Gloster is an award-winning writer who had a career as a computer scientist working on the Space Shuttle program and in AI before turning to writing full-time. His sci-fi cyberthriller Two Thirds of a God was published in March. He is also a musician, having appeared on several albums.

Scott Coon
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Scott-C...
Scott Coon is a published novelist, an award-winning short story writer, and a former U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst. His afterlife fiction, Godless Armageddon, was recently #1 on the hot new releases in atheist books on Amazon.

http://www.scottcoonscifi.com/Appeara...

https://youtu.be/wVM5o8cdxc8

How To Write a Lot of Words and Fast - October 25 at Studio City Public Library! ✍️

How To Write a Lot of Words and Fast
October 25 at Studio City Public Library! ✍️

Scott Coon SciFi Presents:
How To Write a Lot of Words and Fast
The organization may be gone, but the spirit lives on! Get ready to write a lot of words in November with this FREE panel for writers!

https://www.meetup.com/writers-of-she...
http://www.scottcoonscifi.com/Appeara...

A FREE Panel for Writers, Open to the Public! Just show up and have a seat. 😊

When:
Saturday, October 25th at 3 pm

Where:
Studio City Library
12511 Moorpark St,
Studio City, CA 91604

THE AUTHORS

Scott Coon
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Scott-C...
Scott Coon is a published novelist, an award-winning short story writer, and a former U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst. His afterlife fiction, Godless Armageddon, was recently #1 on the hot new releases in atheist books on Amazon.

Rie Lee
https://riewrites.org
RIE LEE is a recovering true believer whose debut novel, Vessel, recently won a 2025 Literary Global Children's Book Award. She's a little too obsessed with cults and almost definitely on some kind of FBI watchlist for researching pipe bombs.
She is an alum of the MFA at EWU and is currently pursuing an MLIS focusing on the intersection of trust and information. Originally from Fresno, California, she now spends most of her free time at multiple libraries, indie bookstores, and coffee shops in the Los Angeles area, writing books or working on civic engagement initiatives.

Vance Mitchell Gloster
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXK5K2Q1
Vance Gloster is an award-winning writer who had a career as a computer scientist working on the Space Shuttle program and in AI before turning to writing full-time. His sci-fi cyberthriller Two Thirds of a God was published in March. He is also a musician, having appeared on several albums.

Anne Louise Bannon
https://annelouisebannon.com/
Author Anne Louise Bannon’s husband says that his wife kills people for a living. Bannon does mostly write mysteries, including the Old Los Angeles Series, the Freddie and Kathy series, and the Operation Quickline series. She has worked as a freelance journalist for magazines and newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times.
She and her husband, Michael Holland, created a wine education blog, and she co-wrote a book on poisons. Her latest novel is book five in the Old Los Angeles series, Death of the Drunkard. She and her husband live in Southern California with an assortment of critters. Visit her website at AnneLouiseBannon.com.

Janet Wertman
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Janet-W...
Janet Wertman’s critically acclaimed, character-driven historical novels reflect a passion for the Tudor era she had harbored since she was eight years old. Janet also runs a blog (www.janetwertman.com) and YouTube channel where she posts interesting takes on the Tudors and what it’s like to write about them.
Not Oct 4

Eli Donovan
https://www.instagram.com/elidonovanw...
Eli Donovan is an author who thinks dinosaurs are just neat and grew up reading too many Jane Goodall biographies. She’s the author of Time Traitors, first in a series of adventurous time travel adventures with dinosaurs, and The Fairy Tales of Lyond, a series of feminist fairy tale retellings. Eli lives in Southern California with a husband, kids, and too many dinosaur toys. You can find her online at www.elidonovan.wordpress.com, on Instagram @elidonovanwriter and on BlueSky at elidonovanwriter.bsky.social.
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Erik Day
https://erikday.wordpress.com/conjure...
Erik Day has the bad habit of reverse-engineering reality until he finds out how to make the impossible, real. Then he writes about it. Erik is a crisis response specialist, former television production guy, and a writing coach with the Quill & Pint Writers' Workshop in Burbank, California. Now he's sharing the stories that power his imagination.