By Pamela Nowak Change…it’s a quiet word, not really representative of all that’s associated with it. For each of us, it has a unique set of implications. Since I’m in a contemplative mood, I’ll spend today exploring them. When I was younger, change represented the unknown, with all its uncertainty. It was something I usually…
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A Book List for Holiday Shopping — Part Three
The members of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers are both traditionally and indie-published in almost any genre you can imagine. Last weekend I posted a few books available for purchase along with a buy link so you can learn more about the novels (and click that “Buy” button, of course). That was just a drop in…
Adventures in Self Publishing
By Karen Duvall Self-publishing continues to be a hot topic among writers and just when I think I’ve heard enough, there’s more I need to learn. I dipped my toe into the self-publishing pool for the first time about a year and a half ago. The water was ice cold and I ran away screaming,…
Adventures in Genre Writing: Lesson Five
By Jeanne C. Stein Story Structure – Plotting, Inciting Incident This class we look at story structure, beginning with constructing a plot. There are as many ways to plot a story as there are writers to plot them. When I started writing the Anna Strong series, I used the “seat of the pants” method—I knew…
Facing Fear of Failure
By Jeffe Kennedy This is the cover for my next TWELVE KINGDOMS book, THE TALON OF THE HAWK. It comes out May, 2015, but the Addicted 2 Heroines blog is running a Hottest Heroines cover contest for all covers revealed in 2014. I was thrilled they chose the TALON cover for round one, and even…