How did I get here? That was my question last Thursday night as I sat at the banquet at The Edgar Awards in New York City. Technically, I got to the banquet because I’m president of Rocky Mountain Mystery Writers of America (RMMWA). That slot puts you on the national board for Mystery Writers 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 #42
Aimie K. Runyan & Promised to the Crown Aimie K. Runyan’s first novel, “Promised to the Crown,” launches this week. The novel is set in 17th Century France and New France, a.k.a. Canada. The idea for the book started for Runyan in third grade when she took an instant interest in the French language and…
Rocky Mountain Writer #41
This week on the podcast, a two-part preview of Genre Con, a day-long educational event taking place in Golden on Saturday, May 14. First up is Terri Benson, who serves in a dual capacity as RMFW’s Western Slope liaison and education chair. Terri provides some insights into how Genre Con will run and what attendees…
Rocky Mountain Writer #40
Besty Dornbusch & “The Silver Scar” Betsy Dornbusch writes epic fantasy. She has also dabbled in science fiction and she has written and published short stories that have appeared in over a dozen magazines and anthologies. Her first fantasy novel came out in 2012 and her latest trilogy is wrapping up, after Exile and Emissary, with…
Random Thoughts
A Little Bit Every Day I started writing the fifth book in the Allison Coil Mystery Series on Jan. 1, 2014. (Yeah, New Year’s Day. Just Because.) I finished the draft on Monday, March 28. I wrote 500 words a day. That’s 453 days, which would have been 165,433 words if I made forward progress…