Rocky Mountain Writer Podcast – Episode #10 Susan Spann – Writer of the Year In this episode, we talk with Susan Spann, recently announced as the 2015 Writer of the Year for Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. Susan talks about her switch from writing unpublished historical fiction to published mysteries, about the moment of inspiration for…
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 Podcast–Episode #9
Rocky Mountain Writer Podcast – Episode #9 Kirk DouPonce–Designing Book Covers In this episode, we talk with book cover designer Kirk DouPonce, who has produced over 1,000 covers for publishers and writers in his career. He’s also one of the workshop presenters at the 2015 Colorado Gold Conference, to be held in September in Denver,…
Rocky Mountain Writer Podcast–Episode #8
Rocky Mountain Writer Podcast – Episode #8 Chris Mandeville – Author of Seeds: a post-apocalyptic adventure In this episode, we talk with speculative fiction writer Chris Mandeville. In addition to recently publishing her first novel, Seeds: a post-apocalyptic adventure, Chris will teach a four-hour master class at the Colorado Gold conference in September. The class…
Nobody Writes Like You
By Mark Stevens Can you write like your favorite writer? I know I can’t. You might have Ursula Le Guin or Patricia Highsmith or Ernest Hemingway in mind when you write something, but somehow it comes out on the page as, well, you. Somewhere in all those choices of words, sentences, characters, images, plots, moods,…
Rocky Mountain Writer Podcast–Episode #7
Rocky Mountain Writer Podcast – Episode #7 Jack Marshall Maness – 2015 Colorado Book Award Winner In this episode, we talk with Jack Marshall Maness, whose first novel, Song of the Jayhawk, the first in a trilogy, just won the 2015 Colorado Book Award in historical fiction. Jack talks about his writing and research process…