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…
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.
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…
Rocky Mountain Podcast – Episode # 13
Rocky Mountain Writer Podcast – Episode #13 Mario Acevedo Longtime RMFW member Mario Acevedo talks about the Sept. 5 workshop held in Grand Junction: “Everything You Need to Know About the Next RMFW Anthology.” Mario, who has agreed to step in as editor for the anthology, talks about the submission schedule and selection process and…
Rocky Mountain Podcast – Episode #12
Rocky Mountain Writer Podcast – Episode #12 Desiree Holt Erotic romance writer Desiree Holt, one of two keynote speakers at the 2015 Colorado Gold conference in Denver, drops by for a chat about her six series of books, her daily writing schedule and a preview of the three classes she will be teaching at the…
Attitude
Another note-to-self in the form of a blog … I’ll cut to the chase: what we do is a choice. We put ourselves in this situation—“forced” to think about stories and characters and plots and craft. The burden of it all; the agony! The tortured artist at work–just look. Over there in the corner, writhing…