Teresa Funke & War on a Sunday Morning As a fiction writer, Teresa Funke celebrates ordinary people. In fact, she takes a very unusual approach to her stories—they are all based on interviews with real people. From there, the fiction begins. Teresa Funke’s latest is War on a Sunday Morning. Written for readers age nine…
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.
The Business of Patience
This one is about patience. Patience, that is, and hard work. Later this summer, Lake Union Publishing (an Amazon imprint) will publish The Swing of Things. The book represents five years of work by co-writers Linda Hull (former RMFW Writer of the Year) and Keir Graff, an award-winning writer, editor, and big cheese at Booklist. Together,…
Rocky Mountain Writer #127
Dacia Arnold & Apparent Power Dacia M. Arnold is an author of adult dystopian and dark fiction. She enjoys writing main characters who are otherwise normal people with extraordinary abilities. Dacia is also a ten-year Army veteran who served two tours of combat as a medic. She didn’t start writing fiction, in fact, until a…
Rocky Mountain Writer #126
Mandy Mikulencak & The Last Suppers Writer of the Year nominee Mandy Mikulencak lives outside Durango but grew up in Texas. She has set one published novel, The Last Suppers, in Louisiana and the next one, due out next year, in Mississippi. Her first book was a gritty young adult novel set in Durango called…
Rocky Mountain Writer #125
Brian M. Taylor & 12 Blackened Petals As he puts it in his official bio, Brian M. Taylor has spent his life learning new skills in order to tell better stories. Brian’s first novel was released in 2016 and now he has three novels under his belt with many more to come. Brian writes science…