Sue Hinkin & Low Country Blood Low Country Blood is the second book in Sue Hinkin’s Vega & Middleton Mystery Series and it launches in a few short weeks, on April 1. This one focuses on Los Angeles TV journalist Beatrice Middleton, who has lost her job. With a possible employment offer in Atlanta, she…
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.
Rocky Mountain Writer #161
James Persichetti & Lost Hat Editorial This week we interviewed editor, writer, and all-around interesting guy James Persichetti. We discuss his recent career move from managing foreign rights at a literary agency; the difference between all the many types of editing; and the best tactics for making your novel stand out to agents, editors, and readers. James Persichetti…
Return on Investment
Event: A four-hour slot to sell books at Off the Beaten Path bookstore in downtown Steamboat Springs. Date: Friday, February 15. Time: 4 to 8 p.m. Expenses: Seven hours of driving (354 miles round-trip, including the return home through a major snowstorm via Wolcott and Interstate 70). $79 for a room at the Travelodge in…
Rocky Mountain Writer #160
Terri Benson: The Book in a Day Education Event You’re not going to want to miss the RMFW day-long education event coming up in April in downtown Golden, Colorado. But in case you’re on the fence we have Terri Benson this time on the podcast to answer questions and explain how it’s going to work….
Rocky Mountain Writer #159
Mandy Mikulencak & Forgiveness Road Way back in 2009, the book was called This Side of Crazy. It was Mandy Mikulencak’s first attempt at writing a novel and it drew, in all, 96 rejections. So Mandy turned to two other writing projects. First, was Burn Girl and then The Last Suppers, which came out in late…