Michael F. Haspil & Graveyard Shift Michael F. Haspil has a soft spot for villains. He also has a mountain of patience. His journey to publication was so long he still doesn’t believe Graveyard Shift will actually be in the hands of readers in mid-July. On the podcast, Mike talks about that bumpy road to publication…
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.
Completely Annihilated
No, “completely annihilated” does not mean this a column about drinking. This is about something Mario Vargas Llosa once said. Okay, I’ll back up. Last week I had a cool opportunity in New York to moderate a panel at the Edgar Symposium. This is a day-long event prior to the Edgar Awards, the annual prizes…
Rocky Mountain Writer #82
Margaret Mizushima & The Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series It’s been about 17 months since we had Margaret Mizushima on the Rocky Mountain Writer podcast, way back on episode number 23. At the time, her debut novel Killing Trail was a few weeks from publication and the buzz was just building for the Timber Creek…
Rocky Mountain Writer #81
Terri Benson & PubCon 2017 RMFW Education Chair Terri Benson offers an overview of PubCon 2017, coming up on Saturday, April 29 in Golden. A few spots remain for this day-long event that will explore both traditional and independent publishing. More about PubCon 2017 is here. Intro music by Moby Gratis…
Rocky Mountain Writer #80
Kevin Ikenberry & Sleeper Protocol Sleeper Protocol started with one sentence on a blank page. The sentence became a short story. Then the short story became a novella and soon Kevin Ikenberry realized he needed to write the story as a full-length novel. Now, Sleeper Protocol is a finalist this year in the genre fiction…