On Tuesday, August 14th, I attended the RMFW event at the Tattered Cover bookstore that featured a panel of the Writers of the Year nominees. They gave out raffle tickets, and I was the lucky one to win a breakfast with an editor at this year’s Colorado Gold conference. I spent an hour with Denise…
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6 Weasel Words to Cut from Your Manuscript
For the past three years, I’ve had the honor of being a first-round judge for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers annual Colorado Gold novel contest. This means I get to read and critique other writers’ first chapters and synopses. Every year, I’m amazed at how much I learn from analyzing these works, from plot structure…
Will you be presenting at the next Colorado Gold?
The first time I considered presenting at a writers conference, I immediately thought, “But I don’t know enough to teach anything.” Turns out, just about everyone who has been writing for a while knows something. Perhaps, like me, you’ve done a lot of research and figured out how to ferret out information in places besides “Google”…
Rocky Mountain Writer #143
Todd Leatherman & Son Rise Todd Leatherman, who writes as TH Leatherman, published the third book in his ongoing sci-fi series earlier this month. It’s called Son Rise and it follows Marque of the Son, published last year, and The Burning Son, which debuted in 2016. Todd makes his home in Firestone, Colorado. He enjoys…
Journal your way to rich settings
The wedding excitement of September 7th has subsided. We enjoyed a loving and entertaining weekend, and my daughter Jalena was the most beautiful bride in the world. Euphoric, I rode a hot air balloon of happiness over a sunny, Rockwellian world where all the men were handsomely dressed. The women were beautiful, their hair perfect,…