Pamela Nowak & Colorado Gold Workshop Proposals In the words of Pamela Nowak, there are “tough decisions” ahead. That’s because she and her committee will receive three times as many proposals for workshops at Colorado Gold than she has room to book. Yes, planning for the 2018 edition of September’s Colorado Gold conference is well…
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.
When I’m Sixty-Four
“Will you still need me, will you still feed me?” Fill in the blank… Of course: “…when I’m sixty-four.” Yeah, I played the HELL out of Sgt. Pepper when it came out. My older brother and I each had record players, but one copy of the record between us. We would sit in each other’s…
Rocky Mountain Writer #113
Jason Evans & Writing Memorable Villains On Saturday February 17, Jason Evans is leading RMFW’s free monthly workshop and if you have trouble developing and writing your bad guy, this session might be just what you need. The program is about writing memorable villains and on the podcast we’ve got Jason Evans here for a…
Rocky Mountain Writer #112
Susan Brooks: Conference Workshop Proposals & Literary Wanderlust Update As soon as we turned the corner into 2018, the conference planning for Colorado Gold kicked into gear. In fact, planning started much earlier but RMFW members and others were notified a couple of weeks ago that they now have the chance to apply to present…
Rocky Mountain Writer #111
Wendy Terrien: 2017 Independent Writer of the Year Last summer, Wendy Terrien was named Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ Independent Writer of the Year. In August, she published two novels on the same day. Both were sequels to her first novel, The Rampart Guards, which just happened to be named one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books…