By Liesa Malik Bouchercon, the world’s largest fan-based crime, mystery, and thriller convention was held in Long Beach, CA this past weekend. Colorado’s literary community was well represented, and several RMFW members attended, including writer-of-the-year, Shannon Baker, Programs chair, Mark Stevens, and authors like Mike Befeler, Christine Goff, and Susan Spann. As one fan said,…
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Adventures in Genre Writing: Lesson Four – Character Development
By Jeanne C. Stein I’m in China the rest of the month on vacation. No laptop. No cell phone. Will I survive? If I’m back next month, you’ll know I did! Since we spent most of last class discussing rules, here are some of NYT bestselling author Jeffrey Deaver’s regarding characters: 1. They must be…
World Fantasy Con 2014
By Jeffe Kennedy Last weekend I attended the 40th World Fantasy Convention (WFC). In fact, I’m writing this post as I fly home, so I’m in that post-conference phase where everything I heard and learned has melted together in my brain. This was only the second time I attended World Fantasy—the first being two years…
Five Reasons Why J.A. Kazimer is Better Than Me
By Aaron Ritchey Many of you know J.A. Kazimer’s normal persona, but this blog post isn’t about J.A. Kazimer the person, it’s about J.A. Kazimer the RMFW scion, the writerly icon, the literary messiah! This is about the Platonic ideal of J.A. Kazimer. I first met her in Colorado Springs many years ago and right…
On The Dangers of Writing Fictional Men
By Colleen Oakes I remember discussing Twilight (a book I’m not embarrassed to admit I loved) at length with a couple of girlfriends, right around the height of the hysteria that captured a nation of teenage girls and forced a lot of grumbling married men to watch Robert Pattinson stare for hours at an exasperated…