Jayme H. Mansfield & Rush Jayme H. Mansfield found fiction in her own family history. Rush, her second novel, is based on the life of Jayme’s great-great grandmother and the details of her involvement in the Oklahoma Land Run of 1893. Using original letters from the era and her own research in Oklahoma, Jayme found out…
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 #103
Jennifer Kincheloe & The Woman in the Camphor Trunk Jennifer Kincheloe is back on the podcast and she’s got a brand new historical mystery coming out in just a few short weeks. The first book, The Secret Life of Anna Blanc, was a finalist for a slew of awards and also was winner of the…
Rocky Mountain Writer #102
Aimie K. Runyan & Daughters of the Night Sky After listening to this episode with historical fiction writer Aimie K. Runyan, you might want to think about keeping an idea file. When things went flat with her first publisher, Aimie needed a Plan B and she was ready, dipping into a list of concepts she…
Montana: Big Book Country
Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley (A Thousand Acres) is on stage at The Union Club Bar & Grill in downtown Missoula. Earlier in the week, she turned 68. Jane Smiley has been publishing books—26 by my count—since 1980. Short stories, essays, non-fiction, young adult stories, and more. She is wearing blue jeans and a checked…
Rocky Mountain Writer #101
Shawn Harper & Matryoshka Blues Shawn Harper calls it “the good kind of hurt.” That’s the hurt from hearing a comment at your critique group that means there’s work to be done, that your work in progress is not quite ready for prime time. On Oct. 7, Shawn is one of four panelists leading RMFW’s…