Jennifer Kincheloe & The Body in Griffith Park Jennifer Kincheloe is a research scientist and writer of historical mysteries. Her novels take place in 1900s Los Angeles among the police matrons of the LAPD combining mystery, history, humor, and romance. Jennifer’s novels have been finalists in the Lefty Awards, the Macavity Awards, the Colorado Author’s…
Author: Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens is the author of the The Fireballer (Lake Union, 2023) and The Allison Coil Mystery Series including Antler Dust, Buried by the Roan, Trapline, Lake of Fire, and The Melancholy Howl. Trapline won The Colorado Book Award for Best Mystery. Stevens has also published short stories in Denver Noir (Akashic Books, 2022), Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and Mystery Tribune, among others. Stevens is longtime member of Mystery Writers of America. In 2023, Stevens was named Writer of the Year by Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers for the second time. He lives in southwest Colorado.
Being Open
Sixteen months ago, I stopped in the middle of writing a new mystery-thriller. (I never stop in the middle of a project. I always finish.) But a friend had suggested an idea. (I rarely take ideas from friends, but overnight an additional key element popped into my head, out of nowhere.) I started writing immediately….
Rocky Mountain Writer #192
Dan Grant & Thirteen Across Dan Grant is the bestselling thriller writer of The Singularity Witness and Thirteen Across. He loves intriguing tales that weave science, medicine, technology, or history into the fabric of the drama. Dan is a licensed professional engineer with degrees from Northern Arizona University: a bachelor’s in electrical engineering and masters…
Rocky Mountain Writer #191
Susan Spann & Ghost of the Bamboo Road Susan Spann is the award-winning author of the Hiro Hattori mystery novels, featuring ninja detective Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo. The latest in the series, Ghost of the Bamboo Road, was published this month. Susan began reading precociously and voraciously from her preschool days in…
Getting Better All The Time
What’s your plan for getting better at writing? Do you have a plan? Or are you going to write another novel that’s sort of like the last novel you wrote … and hope for the best? Hey, I’ll cop a plea: Guilty. I will say my most recent book (2018) is substantially better than the…