Colleen Oakes & The Black Coats Colleen Oakes says there were many points of inspiration for her novel The Black Coats. In fact, she says, the came out of a “giant cauldron” of inspiration. There was a vision in her head of a group of girls holding baseball bats, a black pea coat lying on…
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.
Write like…
Write like your best friend just called to say she read the first fifty pages of your latest/greatest and she thinks it’s your best work yet. Write like tomorrow’s schedule is breaking rocks with a sledgehammer. Dawn to dusk. Write like you don’t care. Write like you understand, deep down, how much fun it is…
Rocky Mountain Writer #157
Sandra Murphy – The Voice Mama Sandra Murphy says she has one goal when she’s recording an audio book – to tell the truth of what her authors have written. In fact, Sandra brings many years of acting experience to her production process—an acting career that began at the ripe old age of two with…
Rocky Mountain Writer #156
LS Hawker & The Throwaways LS Hawker’s new novel, publishing on January 22 and due for a major launch event on January 26, was a long time coming. In fact, it started out as a short story and then was developed into a full-length novel – her first – and subsequently tucked away in a…
Rocky Mountain Writer #155
Shannon Baker & The Kate Fox Mystery Series Shannon Baker is coming off a year, as she puts it, when she let her attitude slip. Writing is a business, as Shannon also says, where there are plenty of opportunities to get your ego bashed. Now Shannon is climbing back out. Shannon recently announced that she…