All day long at my job at the library I watch people pick out books. Step one: the cover or the author’s name (if they’ve read them previously or heard something about them) catches their eye. Step two: they pick up the book and read the cover blurb to find out what the book is…
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Rocky Mountain Writer #79
Kevin Michaels & Still Black Remains Kevin Michaels is the author of the just-released Still Black Remains, a novel that takes readers down into the gritty streets of New Jersey with gangs and the Mafia. Michaels is the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel Lost Exit, as well as two entries in the Fight…
Perspective Lost and Found
Sometimes, if you take a break from your current WIP for an extended period of time, you lose focus on it. The next time you sit down it becomes hard to recapture the tone, the pace, the perspective on the work that you had when you started it. This can sometimes be especially true for…
Speaking of Podcasts…
Mark Stevens, RMFW’s podcast guru, published a post yesterday that mentioned his broken podcast microphone, and that reminded me we haven’t mentioned those podcasts here on the blog for quite a while. You do listen to the podcasts, right? I mean, you are aware that RMFW has a series of excellent podcasts for your education…
Everything Is Broken
I hate it when things aren’t working right. Last week was a doozy. First, it was the microphone I use to record podcasts. (Yes, RMFW, the microphone you purchased to help start the podcasts– all $50 worth. It worked for two years & 77 podcasts and then pfffft.) It looked the same as always. Nothing…