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…
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 #39
Eleanor Brown & “Flammable Characters” Eleanor Brown is the New York Times and international bestselling author of The Weird Sisters, an Indie Next pick, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and a Barnes & Noble Book of the Month. Later this month, on April 30, Eleanor is giving a free workshop in Littleton, Colorado…
Rocky Mountain Writer #38
Warren Hammond & The KOP Series, The Tides of Maritinia Warren Hammond is the author of the KOP series of novels — KOP, Ex-KOP, and KOP Killer — as well as the standalone The Tides of Maritinia. The first three mash up mystery and sci-fi, the standalone Tides is more of a spy thriller…
Rocky Mountain Writer #37
J.L. Abramo & Brooklyn Justice J. L. Abramo was born in the seaside paradise of Brooklyn, New York on Raymond Chandler’s fifty-ninth birthday. His seventh novel was just published and it’s set in the town where he was born. Brooklyn Justice is a series of interconnected stories featuring private eye Nick Ventura. Abramo is…
Rocky Mountain Writer #36
Colorado Gold Contest Prep This episode is a live recording from workshop held Saturday, March 12 in Denver at the Ross Cherry Creek Branch Library. The workshop was designed as a primer for the annual Colorado Gold Contest, which opens April 1. The workshop was hosted by contest co-chair Pam Nowak and veteran contest…