J.D. Dudycha & Sitting Dead Red The podcast today is with J.D. Dudycha, who has ten years of experience in baseball at the collegiate level. He retired from the sport shortly after the birth of his son. Since his retirement, he developed a love for writing, an outlet he so desperately needed in the…
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 #27
Nathan Lowell & Going Your Own Way The podcast today is with Nathan Lowell, a member of IPAL writer who clearly starts by taking what’s typical and turning it inside out. Nathan Lowell goes his own way. Nathan has been writing for only nine years yet has developed multiple series under the broad category…
Rocky Mountain Writer #26
Colleen Oakes & Queen of Hearts Colleen Oakes is making the jump from indie publishing to Harper Collins with a three-book deal based on her prequel to the Lewis Carroll classic, Alice in Wonderland. Her young adult novel Queen of Hearts has been out for two years through an independent publisher but buzz drew…
Antler Dust: The Longest Ride
I wrote Antler Dust in the mid 1990’s. I’d tell you the exact date or year, but I have no clue. Friends gave me feedback and fellow writers, too. In pretty quick fashion, I got a good agent in New York City. (This was my third manuscript and third agent in New York; I was…
Rocky Mountain Writer #25
Lisa Manifold & IPAL The guest on Episode #25 is Lisa Manifold, who serves Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers in a double capacity as newsletter editor and IPAL rep. She’s also a busy writer – with plans, as you’ll hear, to become much more productive. IPAL is The Independent Published Authors Liaison, a relatively new slot…