My husband and I moved to Denver from San Diego in early 1995. It was that same year I attended my first Colorado Gold Conference. I had been writing for about two years then, mysteries, because in the early 1990s, there was a great bookstore in San Diego called Grounds for Murder. The owner, Phyllis…
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40 Years: My Experience with RMFW 2006-2019 and My Tribute to Our Volunteers
In 2006, my husband, Mike Ruchhoeft, and I attended our first RMFW Colorado Gold conference. Our friend, Marne Kirstatter, had been a member of RMFW for a few years and recommended the conference. Actually, kind of dragged us there. I, like so many of you, am an introvert. Four hundred people in a hotel together…
40 Years: The Jasmine Award
(As stated in the RMFW Policy and Procedure Manual: [The Jasmine is] to be awarded to an individual providing exemplary leadership and service to RMFW over a period of at least three years.) By the time anyone has been to the awards banquet of a Colorado Gold Conference, they know The Jasmine is RMFW’s most…
40 Years: RMFW, Contest, and Me
The Colorado Gold writing contest has been around as long as I’ve been aware of RMFW … which is a long time, though I am not a Founding Mother, and the organization had split from Romance Writers and grown into its own successful self well before I joined. But Contest matters to me in part…
Conference 2023 Presenters
* signifies a VIP or agent Masterclass Instructors: Caitlin Berve is the multi-award-winning author of When Magic Calls: A Collection of Modern Fairy Tales, available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats. Through her company Ignited Ink Writing, she edits novels, creates video tutorials, teaches creative writing, and writes. When not writing or editing, she teaches…