By Samantha Ross Our characters come to life through their attitudes, perceptions, personality, their point of view of themselves, and the their world. The reader knows this is a person. The reader is on this journey with them. Setting should reach out and grab the reader, pulling them into the moment. It’s just as important…
Category: RMFW Events
The 2015 Writer of the Year is Susan Spann!
By Wendy Howard CLICK HERE to view the announcement party photo gallery. The 2015 Writer of the Year finalists were Joan Johnston, Cindi Myers, and Susan Spann. Susan Spann’s mysteries have made a splash, published in hard cover to unfailingly good reviews. Her third Shinobi mystery, Flask of the Drunken Master, was published earlier this…
The Free July Program is on the Western Slope
Western Slope Free Program – No RSVP Two workshops, two presenters, one morning. Join us! Saturday, July 11th, 9:15 AM to 12:00 PM Grand Junction Business Incubator Center 2591 Legacy Way, Grand Junction, CO BAD MOON RISING: SET THE TONE THROUGH MOOD AND ATMOSPHERE ~with Warren Hammond Your character needs a voice, and so does…
What’s Going On At Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers?
The Colorado Gold Conference Have you signed up yet? With keynote speakers like Jeffery Deaver and Desiree Holt, how can you go wrong? Add in agents and editors–Danielle Burby, Trish Daly, Denise Dietz, Tiffany Schofield, Chelsey Emmelhainz, Sarah Joy Freese, Erin George, Carrie Howland, Emily S. Keyes, Melissa Jeglinkski, Ben LeRoy, and Latoya C. Smith–and…
Pearls of Wisdom … by Guest Rhonda Blackhurst
Last month I attended Genre Fest 2015, an event organized by the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, Rocky Mountain Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, and The Colorado Authors’ League. The speaker for the morning was David Morrell, creator of Rambo–-as well as numerous novels (both fiction and nonfiction) and short fiction-–and to say I was…