If you want to improve your writing, RMFW is the place to do it, with free workshops in the Denver area and Western Slope, bestselling author Jeffrey Deaver’s half-day workshop in April, an annual education event in May (which this year features two workshops with Kristen Lamb), the Colorado Gold conference in September (a long weekend jam-packed…
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Spring NovelRama!
It’s that time of year again for the IPAL sponsored Spring NovelRama! That’s right, our four-day frenzied writing weekend is back, ready to help you reach your 2018 writing goals, and we’re ready to go. Are you? What is NovelRama, you ask? It’s where you, the writer, work hard to write 25K in four days….
Double-Dipping Genres
A member of my critique group is wondering if creating a pseudonym for certain genres would bring better sales. That same author is itching to write in more than one genre at the same time, under the same name. Here are some thoughts to consider. If you have an uninspiring name for the type of…
Rocky Mountain Writer #117
Chris Goff & Writing Mysteries During Fraught Times This coming Saturday—March 3—the Colorado Book Festival descends on the downtown Denver Public Library with a full day of talks and panels. The day is being organized by our friends at the Colorado Authors League but, of course, there is good representation from Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers,…
The Summer of Jack
For most Americans of a certain age, the summer of 1968 is viewed as a kind of dark chasm that yawned between the Summer of Love and the Summer of Woodstock. It was, after all, the summer of Martin, the summer of Bobby. Of My Lai and Biafra. It marked the rise of Nixon and…