Have you ever been asked that? Bet you have. Bet we all have. The answers to the question are as varied as the ways we DO come up with our ideas. My book An Unsinkable Love came from an open call from a small publisher. A friend in a critique group was editing for them…
Author: Terri Benson
Terri is traditionally and self-published in novel length, plus dozens of articles and short stories published—many award winning. She was Education Chair for RMFW for several years as well as being the Western Slope Liaison through 2019, an irregular blogger (in more ways than one), member of Sisters in Crime, presents workshops at writer's conferences, and teaches night classes at Western Colorado Community College. Terri spends her non-writing time working at a Business Incubator helping people start and grow small business, camping, jeeping, and dirt biking with her junior-high-school sweetheart/husband of 40+ years and a succession of Brittany spaniels.
Invest in your Writing Career
If you didn’t attend the 2017 Annual Education Event last month in Golden, take a moment to kick yourself. Really. The event was nearly sold out, and if not for a last minute storm that came through it would have been a tight fit to get everyone in, and for good reason. With a morning…
How Busy is Too Busy?
For writers, and most other people, this is an individual question. How many things you work into your schedule, and how much time you choose to spend not writing, is predicated by your life and will never be like anyone else’s. If you’re like Corrine O’Flynn, the coordinator for the Colorado Gold Conference, you must…
Is your writing moving along like you hoped for in 2017?
I don’t know about you, but one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get my writing life better organized which included writing more often, mucking out my office-cum-storage room, getting a business plan done, and deciding if I was going to go ahead and self-publish the first three completed historical romances in the series…
What is it worth to you to be published?
Is it worth a Saturday and about $75? Is it worth having great food, sitting amidst lots of excited (and exciting) writers, and listening to interesting, informative, amazing presentations? If it’s not, then you should stop reading now. And maybe think about how badly you really want to be published. Because on April 29, Rocky Mountain Fiction…