By Jeanne Stein Welcome, everyone. Let’s have some fun. I suppose most of you looked at the topic question and shrugged. Genre is everything that’s not literary, right? It’s what Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers is all about, right? But the subcategories of genre books have both expanded and tightened in the last few years. An…
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Wrapping Up a Trilogy
By Jeffe Kennedy A couple of weeks ago I was privileged beyond belief to hear one of my longtime heroes speak – fantasy writer Stephen R. Donaldson. He read and discussed his lifetime of work at Bubonicon. I also got to be a guest author at the same event, making it all that much more…
Collecting People
By Liesa Malik How many books have you read recently on building characters? Not building character—as in developing your own moral compass—but building characters that you can write about in your next novel? A quick search on Amazon recently pulled up over 100,000 titles when I searched for “books, characters in fiction.” Whew! As commercial…
New Book? Don’t Poop on The Party!
By Aaron Ritchey So I have a friend who didn’t do an initial book signing for his first book. He didn’t do any sort of book launch party, nothing like that. He just threw his book up on Amazon, did some online stuff, but didn’t really celebrate the fact that he had done something that…
Emotional Barrier in Fiction: After You Cross It, What’s Next? (Part Two)
This was originally posted on September 27, 2013 by writersinthestorm Today Tiffany Lawson Inman is continuing the discussion of the emotional barrier in fiction. If you missed Part One from last month, click here. by Tiffany Lawson Inman Hello again! We learned in Part One of this post, that the emotional barrier is VERY IMPORTANT,…