“If you don’t like it, wait five minutes.” That’s the mantra Coloradoans mumble when the temperature plummets from 70 to 30 in one day. Important plans get interrupted, and you may sprain your back shoveling two feet of wet spring snow off your deck and have to cancel your tennis match. The unpredictability of weather…
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Rocky Mountain Writer #42
Aimie K. Runyan & Promised to the Crown Aimie K. Runyan’s first novel, “Promised to the Crown,” launches this week. The novel is set in 17th Century France and New France, a.k.a. Canada. The idea for the book started for Runyan in third grade when she took an instant interest in the French language and…
5 Ideas to Boost Your Writing Confidence
The blank page is to many authors what a large audience is to a shy and introverted soul asked to give a speech. Terrifying. And it doesn’t help when writing friends are completing that next chapter, submitting another short story to an anthology, or simply garnering another 50 readers to their blog. Before succumbing to…
Tips For Evaluating a Traditional Publishing House
The explosion of small and micro-presses in the United States (and elsewhere) makes it more important than ever for authors to investigate publishers carefully before signing a publishing contract. While even diligent research can’t help you foresee and avoid every possible problem, here are some tips to help you evaluate whether or not to accept a…
Focusing Your Energy Where it Counts
I’m probably the last person in the world who should be talking about focus.
You know that person with her head so high in the clouds that she put her car keys in the freezer? Or pulls into the neighbor’s garage, gets out of her car, walks into the house, and wonders who changed the linoleum and why the cat is the wrong color?