By Carol Caverly I’ve been in the writing business for a long time, since the late fifties, I think. It’s been a long wondrous, fascinating journey. But as the years have passed, and the business changing completely (some for the better, some for the worse) the fire in the belly has disappeared, or perhaps worn…
Category: General Interest
Making the Long and Winding Road to Publication a Little Shorter with RMFW
by Mark Stevens, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers President As she accepted the Writer of the Year plaque at Colorado Gold, Linda Joffe Hull talked about living and writing for a decade in the “purgatory of almost” before finding a publisher for one of her books. As she will tell you, it was a long and…
Introducing the Only-Slightly-Frazzled Blog Editors, Julie and Pat
Pat: Well, Julie, here we are wrapping up two full months of the new Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Blog. Thanks to our techno-goddess Wendy Howard, Mark Stevens and the RMFW Board of Directors, and a great team of regular and guest bloggers, I think it went pretty well. Julie: I’m loving the blog but really…
Talk to the Paw: Mud Puppy
As some of you may know, I was out of town last weekend and left the furkids home while I attended the Colorado Gold Conference in Denver. We had a pet sitter stay at the house with them, hoping that’s all it would take to keep them out of mischief. The cats did very well,…
I Took Way Too Many Notes at the Colorado Gold Conference
By Patricia Stoltey I felt obligated to stick to the same word count I suggested for the rest of our blog’s contributors and guests, but it was hard. I took so many notes, and I learned so much, that I still feel as though I fell off my diet and stuffed myself too full. Let’s…