A report from South Dakota: Cool Writers, A Controversy and a Rock Star Deadwood, South Dakota is 385 miles north of Denver. You shoot straight through Cheyenne, parallel the eastern border of Wyoming and watch trains tugging their long snakes of coal. The road climbs east through the Black Hills. In late September, gold aspen…
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 Podcast–Episode #16
Ken Kirchner, a.k.a. Kendrick E. Knight, and his approach to Indy Publishing Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ own Ken Kirchner has discovered solid success as an independent writer, publishing e-books only on Amazon. The former U.S. Air Force weapons system officer talks about the two series of books he’s writing and the one stand-alone novel that…
Rocky Mountain Writer Podcast #15
Rocky Mountain Writer Podcast – Episode #15 Terri Benson: Western Slope Coordinator for RMFW Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ Western Slope Coordinator Terri Benson chats about workshops and related activities around Grand Junction. She also talks about her writing career, about the advantages of getting involved in RMFW, and the thirty years of work that preceded…
Rocky Mountain Writer Podcast #14
Rocky Mountain Writer Podcast – Episode #14 Writer of the Year Panel at the Tattered Cover Writer of the Year finalists Susan Spann and Cindi Myers offered their thoughts, insights and advice during a late August panel at the Tattered Cover in downtown Denver. (Writer of the Year finalist Joan Johnston was unable to attend…
Do You Write Candy?
Do you write candy? Or something—you hope—more filling? Do you hope the next book you write is everyone’s guilty pleasure? Or do you want readers to stop and admire your prose stylings like a rare orchid? Do you want your readers to enjoy the experience as if they were going to an amusement park? Or…