Nathan Lowell – A Field Guide to Amazon At the Colorado Gold conference last month, Nathan Lowell gave a workshop called “A Field Guide To Amazon.” Not surprisingly, the room was packed. On the podcast this time, Nathan offers the highlights from that standing-room-only session. He talks about Amazon rankings, about the possible advantages of going all-Amazon,…
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The RMFW Spotlight is on Corinne O’Flynn, Conference Chair
Our monthly feature, The RMFW Spotlight, is intended to provide members of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers with more information about our board members as well as featured volunteers. This month we’re pleased to finally corral the Colorado Gold Conference chairperson, Corinne O’Flynn. Her focus on Colorado Gold in Denver on September 9-11, 2016 kept her…
Getting to Know You: The RMFW Q&A Project #7
The Getting to Know You Project is intended to introduce RMFW members with short responses to three questions, a photo, and a few social media links if available. If you would like to participate in the project for future months, please email Pat Stoltey at blog@rmfw.org Jamie Ferguson Website & blog: http://jamieferguson.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jamie.ferguson.author Twitter:…
Rocky Mountain Writer #59
J.v.L. Bell & The Lucky Hat Mine The Lucky Hat Mine is J.v.L. Bell’s first novel and it officially launches on Saturday, Oct. 1. The novel is a “light mystery” for all ages—it’s set in the 1860’s of Colorado, more specifically, Idaho Springs. On the podcast, Bell talks about what inspired the story, her approach to…
THE CURSE OF THE WANDERING PROTAGONIST
Originally published in Nelson Literary Agency’s monthly newsletter Here are three examples of a formula I’ve seen many times in our query inbox. See if you can figure out why the formula doesn’t work…and why we’re probably going to pass on reading the sample pages: Example #1: Middle Grade “Protagonist and his friends go on many exciting adventures….