What a wonderful weekend we had at the 33rd Annual Colorado Gold Conference! On behalf of our board and volunteers, we hope you learned new things to apply to your writing, found yourself encouraged and inspired to keep developing your ideas, and felt supported and connected after three days of classes, panels, critiques, workshops, speeches,…
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Colorado Gold 2015: Another Wonderful Weekend With the Herd
Another Colorado Gold Conference (my sixth) has come and gone. No matter how I try to freeze the clock, somehow the moments pass–far faster than normal–and it seems things have no sooner started than I’m home once more and waiting for the next one. This was an unusually wonderful Colorado Gold for me, this year,…
Finding Your People
What made the conference spectacularly awesome was hanging out with other writers. I skipped interesting and informative classes to talk to writers. I stayed up way past my bedtime and functioned on minimal sleep in order to spend time hanging out with writers. I even skipped coffee once or twice in order to talk to writers.
Adventures in Cover Art for Traditionally, Hybrid, and Self-Published Authors by Theresa Alan
You finally finished your one-hundred-thousand word masterpiece after tireless effort, and, if your writing process is like mine, much metaphorical head bashing against your laptop. You think the hard part is done. You are wrong. Whether you’re traditionally published, self-published, or choose a hybrid publisher (you’ll get a small or no advance, an editor, a…
Rocky Mountain Writer Podcast #15
Rocky Mountain Writer Podcast – Episode #15 Terri Benson: Western Slope Coordinator for RMFW Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ Western Slope Coordinator Terri Benson chats about workshops and related activities around Grand Junction. She also talks about her writing career, about the advantages of getting involved in RMFW, and the thirty years of work that preceded…