The Colorado Gold Conference 2015 Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold Conference September 11-13, 2015 The Westin, Westminster, Colorado Keynote speakers: Jeffery Deaver and Desiree Holt Register now at the RMFW website conference page. Colorado Gold Writing Contest for Unpublished Novelists The deadline for entering is June 1st, 2015 New This Year Enter the…
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Getting Critiqued in the Colorado Gold Contest—Winners Weigh In … by Jennifer Kincheloe
The RMFW Colorado Gold contest is a competition for unpublished writers of genre and mainstream commercial fiction. It is a rare chance to get your work in front of industry professionals, such as literary agents and editors, who judge the contest and also provide feedback. This blog is the second of a three-part series where…
How the Colorado Gold Contest Changed How I Feel About My Writing … by Jennifer Kincheloe
As an aspiring author, it was hard to know where I truly stood. Was my book good? Excellent? Abysmal? People seemed to like it, but honestly, I had no idea. The RMFW Colorado Gold Contest for unpublished writers changed how I felt about my writing. The contest put twenty pages of my novel in front…
Guest Post: Samantha Ross – Recap of Carol Berg’s Western Slope Workshop
Are they real? Are your characters real people? According to Carol Berg at the RMFW writers meeting on the Western Slope the answer has to be yes. Readers know it is a story, but the characters need to be alive. The goal should be that they are not characters, but people. How do we do…
Why You Should Vote for the WOTY
By Liesa Malik Okay, friends, here’s the low down, the scoop, the real deal – the WOTY is fixed! That’s right. Fixed! And you know why? Because each year three distinguished authors willing to represent our organization with their work end up on a ballot that is under-supported. It’s rather like local elections. According to…