Hello Members! Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers has opened up their selection committees for the Writers of the Year nominations. The WOTY will be open to those traditionally published, and the I-WOTY will be for those independently published. If you are a member of PAL or IPAL, and you published in 2016, please check out the…
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A Year In The Life Of IPAL
In October, 2015, I attended my first IPAL meeting at the Gold Conference. I didn’t know what to expect, and I was delighted to find that there were a healthy number of my fellow writers, all of whom had amazing ideas on how to further IPAL to work for us both as a group within…
Current Climate in Publishing: The Sky Didn’t Fall, So Now What?
After the recent Colorado Gold Conference, I found myself wondering about indie/self-publishing and traditional publishing. When I joined my first Gold Conference back in 2008, I/S publishing was the DEVIL. No, really, like the actual end of the world four to five horsemen. (I first typed horsemint, which is, according to word, any various coarse…
Congratulations to Mark Stevens WOTY and Lisa Manifold IWOTY
Selected from a list of accomplished finalists, Mark Stevens is the new Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Writer of the Year and Lisa Manifold is the first ever RMFW Independent Writer of the Year. Writer of the Year Finalists Carol Berg Christine Goff Mark Stevens Independent Writer of the Year Finalists Sue Duff Nathan Lowell Lisa…
NovelRama: 4 Days to 25k … by Lisa Manifold
RMFW’s Independently Published Authors Liaison (IPAL) is sponsoring an event for all RMFW members this summer designed to kick your writing into high gear. Whether you’ve been noodling an idea around in your head and haven’t done anything further, or if you’ve been finishing up a writing project for what seems like an eternity, we…