Writing advice is everywhere. Good writing advice? Not so much. My sole point this month is to get yourself connected to Collaborist. Here’s your portal: https://collaborist.org/ I highly recommend the YouTube chats. Here. Sample topics: And on and on. The co-hosts are Jason Buchholz and Ben LeRoy. The chat is always calm, low-key, and grounded…
In 1980, I moved from Los Angeles to Denver and took my second job in journalism, working for The Rocky Mountain News. A friend worked there. He was someone I knew from my youth in the suburbs of Boston. My friend, Phil Reed, turned me on to mysteries. And I started reading them with abandon….
This is a blog about The Rocky Mountain Writer podcast. Yeah, your podcast. I’m looking to put together podcast episodes based on a theme—with a couple or three total guests—kind of like a good panel at Colorado Gold. There are 1. 5 zillion ways to approach this, and I’m open to your input. The episodes…
Ten Things This sticker. Is it perfect or what? Courtesy of Erin Flanagan. Erin won Best First Novel at the Edgar Awards (Mystery Writers of America) this year. Her novel, Deer Season, is unique. Yes, it’s a mystery. But it’s not written as a mystery. Proof that the “rules” are bendable, malleable, there to be…
I’ve been writing fiction for 39 years. It took me 23 years to get published. I thought I would always write crime fiction. Now, after five novels out in one mystery series, I have a regular old novel coming out on January 1 from Lake Union. It’s called The Fireballer. Of course I have no…