David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Today, Alex would have turned 31. My musings post today is about a birthday of hers that she and I shared eight years ago, in the Escalante Wilderness in Utah. Enjoy. www.davidbcoe.com/2026/05/06/w...davidbcoe.comWednesday Musings: Memories of Another BirthdayAlex, our darling older daughter, would have turned 31 today. This is our third year without her, and often the grief feels as fresh as it did the day we lost her. At other times, though — and this… 140
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Been a while, but I have a Monday Musings post up today! Come on by and say hello! www.davidbcoe.com/2026/03/30/m...davidbcoe.comMonday Musings: Checking In After A Quiet StretchIt’s been a while since I last posted on this blog, and while I don’t think I have much to say, I thought I should at least say something. So…. Hi. How’re’ya doin’? Good, good… How am I… 110
Reposted by David B. CoeCE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026#Booksky! Today is RELEASE DAY for BONE & BLOOD! There is a story of a widow & her two daughters, Snow White and Rose Red, the most perfect & darling little girls who had ever lived. This is not—quite—that story. I'm so proud of this one, guys! Please RT! :) www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW... 12162101
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Today's Monday Musings post is up. In it, I discuss mentoring in today's publishing environment. I hope you find it interesting!! www.davidbcoe.com/2026/02/09/m...davidbcoe.comMonday 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… 010
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Thanks so much!! We here at Dad-Jokes-R-Us appreciate your support!! Have a great weekend. If you’re in the path of the storm, stay safe! 010
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Friday Musings post is up! Get ready for some really terrible jokes.... www.davidbcoe.com/2026/01/16/f...davidbcoe.comFriday Musings: Our Latest Adventure In Home OwnershipLast 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… 141
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026This week, I'm Musing on a Wednesday! Enjoy! www.davidbcoe.com/2026/01/07/w...davidbcoe.comWednesday Musings: A New BeginningThis 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… 010
Reposted by David B. CoeGloria Wickman @gwickman.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Finally, 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...amazon.comSkull X BonesA 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... 041
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 22/12/2025A wonderful story in a collection we were proud to put together! 120
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 15/12/2025It's a sad Monday, after a tragedy-filled weekend. My Monday Musings post is up. www.davidbcoe.com/2025/12/15/m...davidbcoe.comMonday Musings: It’s The Guns. AgainI 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… 020
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Happy 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! www.davidbcoe.com/2025/12/08/m...davidbcoe.comMonday 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… 030
Reposted by David B. CoeJoshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Coming 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! Kindle: amzn.to/48rReUR B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/skull-x-bo... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... #booksky #fantasy #urbanfantasy 0157
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 25/11/2025My Thanksgiving post is up, and, as it happens, I have something extra to be thankful for! www.davidbcoe.com/2025/11/25/a...davidbcoe.comA Thanksgiving Post, and Something For Which I’m ThankfulThis 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… 120
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Today's Monday Musings coincides with the one-year anniversary of our move to our new house! Enjoy! www.davidbcoe.com/2025/11/24/m...davidbcoe.comMonday Musings: One Year In Our New HouseToday 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… 031
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 22/11/2025My 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.... 040
Reposted by David B. CoeJoshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Release date for the #sff #pirate anth SKULL X BONES ed by @davidbcoe.bsky.social & @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social set for December 15th! Preorder links: Kindle: amzn.to/48rReUR B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/skull-x-bo... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... #booksky #fantasy #urbanfantasy #scifiamzn.toSkull X BonesSkull 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. 0111
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Today's Monday Musings post is up (finally). I hope you enjoy it. www.davidbcoe.com/2025/11/10/m...davidbcoe.comMonday Musings: The Ghosts of Shoeless Joe and Charlie HustleDid 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… 011
Reposted by David B. CoeJoshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social · 24/10/2025We'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... #readingcommunity #booksky #fantasy #urbanfantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #pirates 1156
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 22/10/2025A Wednesday Musings post about a difficult day. Hug the people you love. www.davidbcoe.com/2025/10/22/w...davidbcoe.comWednesday Musing: Two YearsToday 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… 000
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2025New anthology coming, funded by an upcoming Kickstarter campaign! www.davidbcoe.com/2025/09/24/p...davidbcoe.comProfessional 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… 011
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2025After a lengthy time away, I have a new Tuesday Musings up. I hope you enjoy it. www.davidbcoe.com/2025/09/23/t...davidbcoe.comTuesday Musings: Our Most Sacred AmendmentI 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… 000
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 05/08/2025I have a Tuesday Musings post up after our latest journey, this one to Philadelphia, birthplace of our nation. I hope you enjoy it. www.davidbcoe.com/2025/08/05/t...davidbcoe.comTuesday Musings: Ruminations After Our Latest TravelsThis 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… 000
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 25/07/2025After 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. www.davidbcoe.com/2025/07/25/f...davidbcoe.comFriday Musings: Checking In and Sharing a Song From AlexSummer 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… 000
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 09/06/2025It's been a little while, but I have a new Monday Musings post up! Enjoy! www.davidbcoe.com/2025/06/09/m...davidbcoe.comMonday Musings: Some Recent EpiphaniesThe 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 … 021
Reposted by David B. CoeJoshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Find out what can happen when time simply stops in TEMPORALLY DEACTIVATED, an #sff anth from ZNB ed by @davidbcoe.bsky.social & @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social! Kindle: amzn.to/2G4Vs77 Trade: amzn.to/3m6T04k B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/temporally... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... #booksky 093
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 06/05/2025A Tuesday Musings this week. And a hard day. Hug the ones you love. www.davidbcoe.com/2025/05/06/t...davidbcoe.comTuesday Musings: Our Child’s BirthdayOur 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… 252
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 28/04/2025After 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!! www.davidbcoe.com/2025/04/28/m...davidbcoe.comMonday Musings: Nesting (Redux) and WritingBack 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… 030
Reposted by David B. CoeJoshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Would 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! Kindle: amzn.to/3JIYWgT Trade: amzn.to/3XRuAhM B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/artifice-c... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... #booksky #fantasy 072
Reposted by David B. CoeJoshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Don your fedora and trench coat, it's time for NOIR, an #sff anth from ZNB ed by @davidbcoe.bsky.social & John Zakour! Kindle: amzn.to/3vkjdm2 Trade: amzn.to/3oGx9lY B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/noir-david... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... #readingcommunity #booksky #fantasy #mystery #scifi 0163
Reposted by David B. CoeJoshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Discover what lurks in abandoned ships in DERELICT, an #sff anth from ZNB ed by @davidbcoe.bsky.social & @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social! Kindle: amzn.to/3tEiKa2 Trade: amzn.to/3xCO2Rr B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/derelict-j... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... #booksky #fantasy #sciencefiction 193
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 07/04/2025It'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!! www.davidbcoe.com/2025/04/07/m...davidbcoe.comMonday Musings: American Truth-TellersLast 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 … 030
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 24/03/2025It's Monday and I have a new Musings post up. Enjoy! www.davidbcoe.com/2025/03/24/m...davidbcoe.comMonday Musings: Remembering My GramThis 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… 020
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 17/03/2025After a week off for reasons (travel mentioned in the post) I am back with another Monday Musings!! Enjoy! www.davidbcoe.com/2025/03/17/m...davidbcoe.comMonday Musings: Thoughts After Visiting My KidLast week, I flew out to Colorado to visit, Erin. Now, it goes without saying that I will leap at any chance to have time with my Peanut. I don’t need excuses to visit. But in this case, we had a b… 031
Reposted by David B. CoeJoshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social · 12/03/2025New ZNB #Kickstarter now LIVE at tinyurl.com/ZNBSkullXBones! Back now for #sff #antho about #pirates featuring @davidbcoe.bsky.social as editor, Violette Malan, @alansmale.bsky.social, & more! Rewards and bonuses galore! Support #smallpress! #booksky #readingcommunity #fantasy #pirate #piratebootytinyurl.comScience Fiction & Fantasy Pirate-Themed Anthology!An SF&F themed anthology about pirates from the small press Zombies Need Brains! 095
Reposted by David B. CoeJoshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Help fund a new #sff #anthology about #pirates featuring @mistymassey.bsky.social, @alexbledsoe.bsky.social, & @davidbcoe.bsky.social as editor from ZNB at #Kickstarter! Become a backer at tinyurl.com/ZNBSkullXBones #kickstartercampaign #scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy #booksky #pirate #urbanfantasytinyurl.comScience Fiction & Fantasy Pirate-Themed Anthology!An SF&F themed anthology about pirates from the small press Zombies Need Brains! 081
Reposted by David B. CoeJoshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Back SKULL X BONES, an #sff #anthology from ZNB on #Kickstarter at tinyurl.com/ZNBSkullXBones NOW! Stories about #pirates edited by @davidbcoe.bsky.social & @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social! Support now! #amreading #amwriting #amreadingfantasy #fantasy #scifi #booksky #urbanfantasy #sciencefictiontinyurl.comScience Fiction & Fantasy Pirate-Themed Anthology!An SF&F themed anthology about pirates from the small press Zombies Need Brains! 052
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 03/03/2025This week's Monday Musings post is up! I hope you enjoy it!! www.davidbcoe.com/2025/03/03/m...davidbcoe.comMonday Musings: My Big BrotherPeople often ask why Nancy and I moved to New York when we left the Appalachians. We could have settled pretty much anywhere, but we chose an area — the Hudson River Valley — that few think of as a… 010
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Coming March 1st, Noon Eastern, the latest ZNB #Kickstarter featuring #pirates! Click "Notify Me" below to get a reminder email when it launches! www.kickstarter.com/projects/znb... #kickstartercampaign #crowdfunding #fantasy #sciencefiction #sff #scifikickstarter.comComing soon: Science Fiction & Fantasy Pirate-Themed Anthology!An SF&F themed anthology about pirates from the small press Zombies Need Brains! 000
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 24/02/2025It's another Musings Monday, and my Monday Musings post is up! Enjoy! www.davidbcoe.com/2025/02/24/m...davidbcoe.comMonday Musings: A Little Piece of ItalyLast April, after a grief-filled winter, and a previous fall that was more difficult than I could possibly describe, Nancy and I went to Italy for three weeks — a long-delayed trip that had once be… 000
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Today's Musings post is up! Our topic for this week: Villains!! Enjoy! www.davidbcoe.com/2025/02/18/t...davidbcoe.comTuesday Musings: What Makes An Effective Villain?I love villains. I love writing them. I love reading them. I love seeing them brought to life on big screen and small. Well, let me modify that. I love villains in fiction and movies and television… 000
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 10/02/2025This week's Monday Musings is up!! Enjoy! www.davidbcoe.com/2025/02/10/m...davidbcoe.comMonday Musings: Memories On Our WallsA couple of weeks ago, a dear friend posted on Facebook an image of a photo print she’d purchased from me years ago, along with a caption saying she still considered the image one of the things in … 021
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 03/02/2025After a couple of weeks of playing blog-hooky, I am back with a new Monday Musings. Enjoy! www.davidbcoe.com/2025/02/03/m...davidbcoe.comMonday Musings: Here We AreWe woke this morning to a snow squall, something that happened with ever-decreasing frequency during our years in Tennessee, as climate change made the warm South even warmer. Here in New York, dur… 000
Reposted by David B. CoeJoshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Discover what happens when time simply...stops in TEMPORALLY DEACTIVATED, an #sff anth from ZNB ed by @davidbcoe.bsky.social & @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social! Kindle: amzn.to/2G4Vs77 Trade: amzn.to/3m6T04k B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/temporally... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... #fantasy 1142
Reposted by David B. CoeJoshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Pull up a seat at the table in GALACTIC STEW, an #sff anth from ZNB ed by @davidbcoe.bsky.social & @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social about #food! Kindle: amzn.to/2QDYepk Trade: amzn.to/2ZAsWHq B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/galactic-s... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... #readingcommunity #fantasy 1216
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 13/01/2025We were inundated with robins this weekend as well. In upstate NY. Not sure what kind of tree either, but it WAS full of small berries. Picked clean now. 110
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 13/01/2025A Monday Musings post on a Monday! Will wonders never cease! www.davidbcoe.com/2025/01/13/m...davidbcoe.comMonday Musings: Cataclysm In Los AngelesThere are lots of things I would like to write about today. Our lives are busy right now, in a variety of ways, all of them pretty positive. I have professional stuff going on, personal stuff going… 021
David B. Coe @davidbcoe.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Getting closer to my normal schedule, I have a Monday Musings up today, which makes it only a day late! Enjoy! www.davidbcoe.com/2025/01/07/m...davidbcoe.comMonday Musings (On Tuesday): Nesting!No, this isn’t a post about birds (though I imagine one or three will be forthcoming before the year is out). As I have already mentioned in this blog, Nancy and I are living in a new place: a hous… 010
Reposted by David B. CoeJoshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Would you kill for your art? Would it kill for you? Check out ARTIFICE & CRAFT, an #sff anth from ZNB ed by @davidbcoe.bsky.social & Edmund R. Schubert! Kindle: amzn.to/3JIYWgT Trade: amzn.to/3XRuAhM B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/artifice-c... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... #readingcommunity 0165
