By Pamela Nowak Memories are precious things. I’ve known that for most of my life but was struck anew at just how priceless they are when helping pack up my mom’s household items as she moved to a much smaller residence last month. We came across box after box of old photos, school projects, handmade…
Category: General Interest
The Legal Side of Anthologies (Part 1)
By Susan Spann Anthologies offer a great opportunity for authors to publish creative works and find new readers. Some anthologies feature works by authors from a specific group (for example, RMFW’s own CROSSING COLFAX, which contains short stories from members of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers organization), while others have open submissions on a specified topic, like horror…
Publishing, The Avenue of Broken Dreams: Getting Back to the Basics
By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer Being an author is awesome. That being said, it can also be humbling as hell. I learned this very lesson this past week. I was wearing a smile from ear to ear after receiving a royalty check for The Assassin’s Heart. Then WHAM! I taught a class at the Thornton Recreation…
Adventures in Genre Writing: Lesson Three – Some Rules
By Jeanne C. Stein I know, I know. I, more than anyone else, hate it when someone says there are “rules” to writing, especially since exceptional writer W. Somerset Maugham warns: There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. And of course, for every rule we set there…
Pen and Paper? Are You Kidding Me????
By Mark Stevens I recently sparked a flutter on Twitter. I mentioned that I write by hand. Yes, full novels—start to finish. By hand. I mentioned this on Twitter and I could hear virtual jaws dropping from coast to coast. Okay, in reality, I had five or six comments along these lines: “Are you KIDDING…