Sue Hinkin & Deadly Focus Sue Hinkin, interviewed by Natasha Watts, talks about her debut thriller, Deadly Focus. The chat covers writing realistic, diverse characters, the importance of critique groups and community, and her book signing coming up (with fellow mystery author Becky Clark) on April 20. Raised in Chicago, Sue Hinkin is a former…
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 #119
Sue Duff & Dim The Lights When Sue Duff started writing The Weir Chronicles, she knew she wanted an out-of-the-ordinary super hero. She came up with Ian Black, an illusionist with a talent for keeping secrets. She also came up with The Weir, a magical race who struggle to prevent Earth from self-destructing. With the…
Word
Can you get every word right in a whole damn book? Can you? Of course you can uphold standards of precision, clarity, and accuracy in a sentence. Or a page. Or a poem. Or a piece of flash fiction if there’s a $1,000 prize involved. Or a speech at a wedding. Or a cover letter…
Rocky Mountain Writer #118
John E. Stith & Pushback Every now and then, writing gets “sidetracked by life.” Just ask John E. Stith. After a productive stretch of writing mystery-tinged science fiction novels in the 1980’s and 1990’s, life got in the way. So writing took an understandable hiatus. But now, John Stith is back and looking forward to…
Rocky Mountain Writer #117
Chris Goff & Writing Mysteries During Fraught Times This coming Saturday—March 3—the Colorado Book Festival descends on the downtown Denver Public Library with a full day of talks and panels. The day is being organized by our friends at the Colorado Authors League but, of course, there is good representation from Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers,…