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.

Let’s just forget 2020 (please!)

Posted on January 27, 2021January 21, 2021 by Terri Benson

I think 2020 should be like the 13th floor in a lot of hotels: just pretend there isn’t one. Skip it. Ignore it. Consider it bad juju. I can’t say it was all bad (because of book contracts) but the wear and tear on my psyche was just too much. Friends turned into ravers (and…

The Importance of Being Happy

Posted on December 23, 2020December 16, 2020 by Terri Benson

I know a lot of people are having a hard time finding their “happy” these days. This has been a year of anger and sadness and fear, and it’s worn us all down. Now that the elections are over (probably) and there is the light of a vaccine at the end of the tunnel, I…

Does thinking of asking for blurbs make you blubber?

Posted on November 25, 2020December 1, 2020 by Terri Benson

For me, the answer is an emphatic “Yes!” When I got my book contracts this year, they both came with an attached flurry of things I need to do for my marketing, and many are significantly in advance of my release date. Some of it was fairly easy. I mean, most of us who are…

The Party’s Over…

Posted on October 28, 2020October 20, 2020 by Terri Benson

The Colorado Writers Collaborative, the virtual Writers Conference that took the place of Colorado Gold, the Pikes Peak Writers Conference, and the Northern Colorado Writers Conference, is over. From all reports, it was an unqualified success. I know I enjoyed watching many of the online workshops, and hearing from lots of new and different presenters…

I Need An Office

Posted on September 23, 2020September 16, 2020 by Terri Benson

I’ve been in the middle of a kitchen/living room remodel for eight months now. Yes, eight. I can’t fire my contractor, because it’s my husband and myself. Which means it’s weekend and evening work, and only when there isn’t some pressing issue that supersedes our need. There have been times when it’s been a bit…