Dacia Arnold Dacia Arnold is back on the podcast with an update on her first novel, a science fiction entry called Apparent Power, which launches next month. It’s the first in a trilogy and it has already received a knock-out advance review from Kirkus, which called the book’s main character, Valerie Russell, “an exceptional protagonist.”…
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 #148
Susan Spann & 100 Summits This time, a special conversation with former Writer of the Year Susan Spann—currently immersed in a non-fiction project in Japan. Susan is in the middle of a personal journey, one she is documenting for a book based on her ascents up the 100 highest summits in the land of rising…
My Acknowledgments Suck
Yep, they do. I mean, I put the “ack” in acknowledgments. Come on, where’s the RMFW Colorado Gold three-hour Master Class on how to write your acknowledgments? That is, how to keep track of all the people who helped you out? All these classes and blogs on writing craft and plot and character and voice…
Rocky Mountain Writer #147
Marc Graham & Runes for Writers Futhark, the Runic aplphabet, is a key component in Marc Graham’s process known as Runes for Writers. The ancient system helps storytellers more easily access the realm of ideas, the world of the Muses, the Source of Story. By integrating left- and right-brain activity, Marc’s process seeks to open…
Rocky Mountain Writer #146
False Faces: Live at The Tattered Cover This episode of the Rocky Mountain Writer is a live recording of the event held at Tattered Cover on Oct. 25th to celebrate the release of False Faces, the latest short story anthology from Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. The hosts for the evening were editors Angie Hodapp and…