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,…
Author: Mark Stevens
Rocky Mountain Writer #116
Alissa Johnson & Setting Achievable Goals Award winning writer and WritingStrides coach Alissa Johnson recently presented to the Western Slope branch in Grand Junction and she will give RMFW’s free monthly talk in March, “Writing Reset: Setting Achievable Goals.” (That workshop is Saturday, March 17 in Denver.) On the podcast, Alissa talks with guest interviewer Natasha…
Rocky Mountain Writer #115
Mike Houtz & Dark Spiral Down Mike Houtz just signed a deal with Wild Rose Press to publish his first novel, Dark Spiral Down. The deal wouldn’t have happened had Mike not signed up for one of the key features at every Colorado Gold conference—to pitch to the many agents and editors who fly into…
Rocky Mountain Writer #114
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…
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…