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…
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 #145
Tim Weed: A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing Tim Weed’s recent short story collection, A Field Guide to Murder & Fly-Fishing, was recently released as an audio book, following the paperback release earlier this year and the hardback release in 2017. The collection made the 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize Shortlist and…
Rocky Mountain Writer #144
Laurence MacNauhgton & No Sleep ‘Til Doomsday It’s not often we get an excuse to include discussion of the theremin here on the Rocky Mountain Writer, so we had to jump at the chance when Laurence MacNaughton mentioned he’s been fiddling around with the strange musical device. In addition to the theremin, his new book No…
One Little Dialogue Tip
I’m here with a quick tip for writing dialogue. It’s nothing new, but it really grabbed me this time around. It’s something I noticed while reading Angie Thomas’s novel The Hate U Give. It’s a stirring book, and yeah, it’s Thomas’s first novel. Twenty-five hundred reviews on Amazon; five solid stars. Praise is pouring in from…
Rocky Mountain Writer #143
Todd Leatherman & Son Rise Todd Leatherman, who writes as TH Leatherman, published the third book in his ongoing sci-fi series earlier this month. It’s called Son Rise and it follows Marque of the Son, published last year, and The Burning Son, which debuted in 2016. Todd makes his home in Firestone, Colorado. He enjoys…