Carol Berg: The Right Words As Carol Berg puts it, the difference that a single word can make is “pretty amazing.” And Carol should know. She has written 15 epic fantasy novels that have won national and international awards, including three Colorado Book Awards and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. Her stories have…
Author: Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens is the author of the The Fireballer (Lake Union, 2023) and The Allison Coil Mystery Series including Antler Dust, Buried by the Roan, Trapline, Lake of Fire, and The Melancholy Howl. Trapline won The Colorado Book Award for Best Mystery. Stevens has also published short stories in Denver Noir (Akashic Books, 2022), Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and Mystery Tribune, among others. Stevens is longtime member of Mystery Writers of America. In 2023, Stevens was named Writer of the Year by Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers for the second time. He lives in southwest Colorado.
The Big Bargain
For those of you who heard my talk at the Georgetown Indie Con in early June, you may now skip this blog. This is about one point from that talk on character and character development. The idea has sort of stuck with me—so maybe it’s worth writing about, too. The idea is this: we all…
Rocky Mountain Writer #130
Christopher Paolini: Colorado Gold Keynote Preview Eragon. Eldest. Brisingr. Inheritance. Those four titles should ring a bell, specifically the name Christopher Paolini. Christopher, with 35 million books in print, is one of the keynote speakers at the 2018 edition of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ Colorado Gold conference and we’ve got him on the podcast for…
Rocky Mountain Writer #129
Kate Jonuska & The Dictionary of Fiction Critique Fresh off the publication of her highly-praised first novel Transference last year, Kate Jonuska turned around right this year and released a book she wishes she had before she first started writing. It’s a dictionary. More specifically, The Dictionary of Fiction Critique: How to read like a…
Rocky Mountain Writer #128
Teresa Funke & War on a Sunday Morning As a fiction writer, Teresa Funke celebrates ordinary people. In fact, she takes a very unusual approach to her stories—they are all based on interviews with real people. From there, the fiction begins. Teresa Funke’s latest is War on a Sunday Morning. Written for readers age nine…