Barbara Nickless & Blood on the Tracks In June of 2012, Barb Nickless and her family were told to evacuate their house in Waldo Canyon, northwest of Colorado Springs, because a wildfire was bearing down. Authorities told Barb to plan on being gone for a few days. Instead, Barb’s house burned to the ground, one of…
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 #63
Susan Mackay Smith & Conan The Grammarian On this episode, it’s Conan the Grammarian, in person. For a couple of decades now you have read Conan’s column in the monthly newsletter from Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and now Conan is out with a book titled Conan the Grammarian – Practical Guidelines on Grammar and Craft for…
This is NOT a Twitter How-To Blog
Copied verbatim from a recent email exchange: How did you get so many followers on Twitter? Well, it’s not that many—not really. I mean, it’s good to have followers but I see tons and tons of writers out there on Twitter with five times, ten times more than me. Tons! But how did you get…
Rocky Mountain Writer #62
FOUND: A Short-Story Sampler And now for something completely different, audio samples from the new RMFW short story anthology Found. There’s a little something for everyone from these seven stories, all submitted to meet the anthology’s theme, “Sometimes things are better off lost. And sometimes they were never meant to disappear. Either way, when they’re…
Rocky Mountain Writer #61
J.D. Dudycha & Chasing the Dream J.D. Dudycha is back on The Rocky Mountain Writer with his brand new baseball novel, Chasing The Dream. This one is a thriller and completes his baseball trilogy that began with Sitting Dead Red and Paint the Black. But wait, there’s more. J.D. is preparing a book of short…