All day long at my job at the library I watch people pick out books. Step one: the cover or the author’s name (if they’ve read them previously or heard something about them) catches their eye. Step two: they pick up the book and read the cover blurb to find out what the book is…
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Perspective Lost and Found
Sometimes, if you take a break from your current WIP for an extended period of time, you lose focus on it. The next time you sit down it becomes hard to recapture the tone, the pace, the perspective on the work that you had when you started it. This can sometimes be especially true for…
Speaking of Podcasts…
Mark Stevens, RMFW’s podcast guru, published a post yesterday that mentioned his broken podcast microphone, and that reminded me we haven’t mentioned those podcasts here on the blog for quite a while. You do listen to the podcasts, right? I mean, you are aware that RMFW has a series of excellent podcasts for your education…
Everything Is Broken
I hate it when things aren’t working right. Last week was a doozy. First, it was the microphone I use to record podcasts. (Yes, RMFW, the microphone you purchased to help start the podcasts– all $50 worth. It worked for two years & 77 podcasts and then pfffft.) It looked the same as always. Nothing…
Five Reasons to Submit Your Work to Anthologies
I’m sure by now you’ve heard that Found: Short Stories by Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, is a finalist in the 2017 Colorado Book Awards from Colorado Humanities. And hopefully you’ve also heard that I have an essay in a new anthology called Still Me … After All These Years: 24 Writers Reflect on Aging. Those…