David B. Coe

Monday Musings: Where Does Mentoring Fit In With Today’s Publishing Realities? I have a very good friend, also a writer, with whom I often discuss the depressing state of the writing world at this point in history. We have a sort of gallows humor about the whole thing — a lot…

Today's Monday Musings post is up. In it, I discuss mentoring in today's publishing environment. I hope you find it interesting!!

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Friday Musings: Our Latest Adventure In Home Ownership Last week, our septic system died. It had been giving us trouble for a while, making dyspeptic noises when we did the laundry or ran too much water through the pipes, draining too slowly, and gener…

Friday Musings post is up! Get ready for some really terrible jokes....

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Wednesday Musings: A New Beginning This week, I did something I hadn’t done in a really, really long time. I began work on a new novel. Not a media tie-in. Not work-for-hire set in someone else’s world. This novel is mine through an…

This week, I'm Musing on a Wednesday! Enjoy!

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Skull X Bones A beautiful airship corsair determined to reveal a government conspiracy. An interstellar outlaw bent on avenging the murders of her fellow crewmates. A pirate captain whose hatred of mer-people endan...

Finally, my story "The Pirate and the Frog" is now out in Skull x Bones edited by @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social and @davidbcoe.bsky.social I promise you it'll be the best story about a Fish Pirate Captain and her Crustacean 1st Mate that you'll read this year. www.amazon.com/Skull-X-Bone...

A wonderful story in a collection we were proud to put together!

Monday Musings: It’s The Guns. Again I lived in Providence, Rhode Island for six years, four of them as a student at Brown University. To this day, many of my closest friends are those I met at Brown. The campus, and the beautiful nei…

It's a sad Monday, after a tragedy-filled weekend. My Monday Musings post is up.

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Monday Musings: Reviews of Shows We’ve Been Streaming!! Nancy and I have been doing a good deal of streaming in our new(-ish) home. We did in the old house, too, once we got serviceable internet (it only took 29 years), but our last year in Tennessee wa…

Happy Monday! In today's Musings post, I offer quick reviews of the shows we've been streaming most recently! Enjoy, and feel free to respond in the comments section here!

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Coming December 15th! A new #sff anth about #pirates! SKULL X BONES from ZNB by ed @davidbcoe.bsky.social & @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social! Preorder the #ebook now!

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A Thanksgiving Post, and Something For Which I’m Thankful This is not my typical Thanksgiving post, although, before I dive into it, I do want to say that I am thankful for so much: my family, my friends, the wonderful memories I have of those I have lost…

My Thanksgiving post is up, and, as it happens, I have something extra to be thankful for!

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Monday Musings: One Year In Our New House Today marks the one-year anniversary of our move to the new house in Upstate New York. We left Tennessee on November 22, 2024 and reached our house the next day, but, by design, our stuff didn’t ar…

Today's Monday Musings coincides with the one-year anniversary of our move to our new house! Enjoy!

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My 2025 Bingo Card did not include the "Donald Trump will end the year on better terms with Zohran Mamdani than with Marjorie Taylor Greene" square....

Skull X Bones Skull X Bones - Kindle edition by Smale, Alan, Finlay, C.C., Bledsoe, Alex, Malan, Violette, Belcher, R.S., Brozek, Jennifer, Massey, Misty, Stemple, Adam, Coe, David, Palmatier, Joshua. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Skull X Bones.

Release date for the #sff #pirate anth SKULL X BONES ed by @davidbcoe.bsky.social & @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social set for December 15th! Preorder links:

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Monday Musings: The Ghosts of Shoeless Joe and Charlie Hustle Did you know that you can now place bets on the speed of a particular pitch that is about to be thrown in a Major League Baseball game? Did you know that you can bet on the outcome of the next runn…

Today's Monday Musings post is up (finally). I hope you enjoy it.

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We're close to the next ZNB #sff anthology release, SKULL X BONES, ed by @davidbcoe.bsky.social & @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social! Check out the ToC and back cover copy at the ZNB Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/preord...

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Wednesday Musing: Two Years Today marks the second anniversary of Alex’s death. Two years. In the past, I have said that the time since feels like more than it actually has been and also like less. Not anymore. Not really. To…

A Wednesday Musings post about a difficult day. Hug the people you love.

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Thanks for the terrific story!

Professional Wednesday: New Anthology Project In The Offing!! In the next week or so, we — Sarah J. Sover, the good people at Falstaff Books, and me — will be starting a Kickstarter for a new anthology, Disruptive Intent. Sarah and I will be co-editing the co…

New anthology coming, funded by an upcoming Kickstarter campaign! www.davidbcoe.com/2025/09/24/p...

Tuesday Musings: Our Most Sacred Amendment I have avoided posting for some time now. Not because things have been going badly — they haven’t. I feel that I am doing well, that our family is doing well. But it’s hard to post about things lik…

After a lengthy time away, I have a new Tuesday Musings up. I hope you enjoy it.

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Tuesday Musings: Ruminations After Our Latest Travels This past week, Nancy and I spent a few days in Philadelphia. I hadn’t been there since the World Science Fiction Convention of 2001 (known, I kid you not, as Millennium PhilCon — think of the name…

I have a Tuesday Musings post up after our latest journey, this one to Philadelphia, birthplace of our nation. I hope you enjoy it.

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Friday Musings: Checking In and Sharing a Song From Alex Summer is speeding by, and I have been terribly remiss in keeping up with my blog. For those who have reached out to me in recent weeks, asking if I am okay, the short answer is, “Yes, I am.” I won…

After a long absence, I have a Friday Musings post up! (Yes, I can muse on Fridays! Alliteration is overrated....) Hope you enjoy this check-in, and also the song I share, which Alex introduced me to years ago.

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Monday Musings: Some Recent Epiphanies The title speaks for itself. These are recent epiphanies I’ve had. Some are profound others less so. Enjoy. Last weekend, at ConCarolinas, I was honored with the Polaris Award, which is given each …

It's been a little while, but I have a new Monday Musings post up! Enjoy!

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Find out what can happen when time simply stops in TEMPORALLY DEACTIVATED, an #sff anth from ZNB ed by @davidbcoe.bsky.social & @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social!

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Tuesday Musings: Our Child’s Birthday Our beloved older daughter would have been thirty years old today. Alexis Jordan Berner-Coe. Early on, it felt like a big name for such a tiny child. She was always the smallest in her class, the s…

A Tuesday Musings this week. And a hard day. Hug the ones you love.

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Monday Musings: Nesting (Redux) and Writing Back in early January, with snow falling on our bare trees and the brisk cold of a northeastern winter defining our days, I wrote a post for this blog about “Nesting.” The title referred to what Na…

After a few weeks off, I'm back with a new Monday Musings, In which I (sort of) explain the few weeks off . . . Also, new pics of the new house!! Enjoy!!

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Would you kill for your art? Would it kill for you? Find out in ARTIFICE & CRAFT, an #sff anth from ZNB ed by @davidbcoe.bsky.social & Edmund Schubert!

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Don your fedora and trench coat, it's time for NOIR, an #sff anth from ZNB ed by @davidbcoe.bsky.social & John Zakour!

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Discover what lurks in abandoned ships in DERELICT, an #sff anth from ZNB ed by @davidbcoe.bsky.social & @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social!

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Monday Musings: American Truth-Tellers Last weekend, we went into Albany, with my brother and sister-in-law, to have dinner with friends of theirs, and to attend an exhibit at the lovely Albany Institute of History and Art. The exhibit …

It's a wet and snowy Monday here in the Hudson Valley, and that means it's time for a new Monday Musings! I hope you enjoy it!!

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Monday Musings: Remembering My Gram This past weekend marked my Gram’s birthday. I won’t tell you how old she would have been because, well, I’m not sure I can do the math. Old. Really old. She passed away in 1983, and at the time sh…

It's Monday and I have a new Musings post up. Enjoy!

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