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Paula Coots

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Fiction, Music, Gay and Lesbian

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It all started when I was eleven and saw David Bowie on THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL. From that moment on, I knew (with the confidence of a child) that I was born to make music. I learned how to play lead guitar and eventually I got to make that beautiful sound all around Texas. I've played with bands that took me to Chicago, Finland, Iceland, Germany, Croatia and South Korea.
And all along the way, I never stopped writing. When I was twelve, I had bravely started my first book, called, shockingly enough, The Rock Star. Well. I had some learning and growing up to do. And finally, through a series of coincidences, I found my way back to the central themes of that long ago "novel" about three years ago.
My book "ANOTHER ROCK STAR" draws from those earl ...more

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Average rating: 3.53 · 343 ratings · 58 reviews · 3 distinct works

	The Anchor Tattoo and the Pistachio Dream 3.28 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love's Landscapes Anthology Volume 1 by Anyta Sunday (Goodreads Author), N.K. Layne (Goodreads Author), Penny Wilder (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Another Rock Star 3.76 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Paula Coots's Blog: Paula's Blather about Writing. Mostly.

Recovering Perfectionist

Recovering Perfectionist...what, me? Writers write and love it so why wasn't I writing? Well, Real Life can throw you a few curve balls, but that wasn't all of it. With over 130,000 plus words, Another Rock Star Book 2 was essentially finished, yet languishing in the first rewrite stage. Over the past few months, though, I just couldn't...focus, for a lot reasons. And then last night, BAM! Finally Read more of this blog post »

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“(Reed looks out over the audience from the stage)

"Some of them don't even move, they stand riveted in a kind of reverence as they endure the jostling madness.
They see you.
They hear you.
I never knew there could be any other reason to keep on breathing.
Ever.”
― Paula Coots, Another Rock Star

tags: audience, reason-to-breathe, stage

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“I have never kissed anybody for hours and hours and loved it like candy.”
― Paula Coots, Another Rock Star

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Paula’s Quotes

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“With the first kiss his mouth will taste of wormwood.”
― Poppy Z. Brite, Wormwood

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“Who's got a mirror?” I ask.
Spider shrugs at me. “We're all fellas. Why would any of us have mirrors?”
“I've got a mirror!” Brandon declares happily, digging a compact out of his pocket.
No-one is surprised.”
― Melanie Tushmore, The Vampire

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