A report from South Dakota: Cool Writers, A Controversy and a Rock Star Deadwood, South Dakota is 385 miles north of Denver. You shoot straight through Cheyenne, parallel the eastern border of Wyoming and watch trains tugging their long snakes of coal. The road climbs east through the Black Hills. In late September, gold aspen…
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The RMFW Spotlight is on Liesa Malik
1. Welcome, Liesa! Tell us what you do for RMFW and why you are involved. I love being involved with RMFW! In 2003, I never imagined being so engaged, but each time I volunteer for something, new rewards come right along with the responsibilities. Currently, I am critique group moderator for the Littleton Writers critique…
Rocky Mountain Writer Podcast–Episode #16
Ken Kirchner, a.k.a. Kendrick E. Knight, and his approach to Indy Publishing Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ own Ken Kirchner has discovered solid success as an independent writer, publishing e-books only on Amazon. The former U.S. Air Force weapons system officer talks about the two series of books he’s writing and the one stand-alone novel that…
Getting faster all the time… Not!
I’ve been writing fiction for almost 25 years. You would think in all that time it would get easier and the writing would go faster. But this is how it really is: I begin my book. Three lines in, I start to agonize. Am I starting in the right place? Is this a dramatic enough…
KEEP IT TO YOURSELF, SOMETIMES
I remember one of my first writers conferences. I pitched a project to one of the visiting agents or editors, and I remember being so thrilled when he asked to see the first three chapters. Later, one of the more seasoned conference attendees asked me how my pitch went and in my excitement I told…