Here’s to BookBar Denver This has to be one of the snappiest independent bookstores you’re likely to ever encounter. Books. Bar. What’s not to like? They have great nibbles and excellent beer and wine, too. The joint was positively humming on Small Business Saturday, and the staff, as always, was smiling and efficient. Also, there…
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 #150
Kate Jonuska & Colorado Resistance Reads “Reading is a political act.” That’s the tag line for Colorado Resistance Reads, the brainchild of RMFW’s own Kate Jonuska. Colorado #ResistanceReads curates books by Colorado authors that engage with themes relevant to today’s tumultuous political climate, including climate change, the free press, LGBTQ+ rights, the me-too movement, the…
Rocky Mountain Writer #149
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.”…
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…