Susan Brooks: Conference Workshop Proposals & Literary Wanderlust Update As soon as we turned the corner into 2018, the conference planning for Colorado Gold kicked into gear. In fact, planning started much earlier but RMFW members and others were notified a couple of weeks ago that they now have the chance to apply to present…
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.
Rocky Mountain Writer #111
Wendy Terrien: 2017 Independent Writer of the Year Last summer, Wendy Terrien was named Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ Independent Writer of the Year. In August, she published two novels on the same day. Both were sequels to her first novel, The Rampart Guards, which just happened to be named one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books…
Rocky Mountain Writer #110
Jennifer Rose & The Book of Keys (Twins of Orion Series) Jennifer Rose might have just what you need as you begin to ponder your writing goals and plans for 2018. On Saturday, Jan. 6 Jennifer is presenting RMFW’s free monthly workshop at the Sam Gary Branch library in Denver. The workshop will run from 1…
Rocky Mountain Writer #109
Denitta Ward & Somewhere Still Denitta Ward will tell you that she did it all backwards. But she got on the path to publication earlier this year when took RMFW’s online course about self-publishing, taught by Lisa Price Manifold. The result? The publication of her first novel, Somewhere Still, in November. Denitta is a member of…
Shout-Outs!
1. How about that Western Slope chapter of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers? Last Saturday morning, 28 writers gathered for a three-hour workshop. They came from Grand Junction and all over, from Meeker to Montrose. Energy, enthusiasm, eagerness? In abundance. All sorts of writers—and half were non-RMFW members. Shout out to Vicki Law for the idea…