This year, at Colorado Gold, I had the opportunity to attend both the PAL and the IPAL meetings. I also talked to a lot of attendees. I heard some terrific positive feedback about the conference and I heard a few complaints. For the most part, these complaints echoed sentiments I’ve heard before. As authors, we…
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The Artist’s Way, Still Relevant After All These Years
Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way is the best path I have found for learning to create more freely. Essentially, how to unblock your creativity and keep it clear. There are highly effective tools that will help you recover your creativity from a variety of blocks including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions and other…
Finding Your Writing Pace
Authors often forget that professional writing is a two-pronged calling. First and foremost, writers write. It’s what defines us, and we do it whether or not we write for publication or for pleasure (or, as happens in many cases, both). There’s nothing wrong with writing as an avocation instead of a career – and some writers make a business…
Do Appearances Matter?
The anthology I’m in, DARK SECRETS: A PARANORMAL NOIR ANTHOLOGY, is out now! I’m super proud to hang between the covers with so many authors I admire. Plus it’s just fascinating to read what everyone did with this crossover genre concept. It seems there’s been a number of scandals lately where writers posed as someone…
Robert J. Sawyer – 2016 Colorado Gold Keynote Speaker
RMFW is pleased to announce Robert J. Sawyer is the Saturday evening keynote speaker at the 2016 Colorado Gold Conference. Robert J. Sawyer—called “just about the best science-fiction writer out there” by the Rocky Mountain News—is known for exploring deep philosophical and moral questions in his work. He is one of only eight people ever…