In 1980, I moved from Los Angeles to Denver and took my second job in journalism, working for The Rocky Mountain News. A friend worked there. He was someone I knew from my youth in the suburbs of Boston. My friend, Phil Reed, turned me on to mysteries. And I started reading them with abandon….
Tag: fiction
Ten Things
Ten Things This sticker. Is it perfect or what? Courtesy of Erin Flanagan. Erin won Best First Novel at the Edgar Awards (Mystery Writers of America) this year. Her novel, Deer Season, is unique. Yes, it’s a mystery. But it’s not written as a mystery. Proof that the “rules” are bendable, malleable, there to be…
Fourteen Positives, Five Demerits
I’ve been writing fiction for 39 years. It took me 23 years to get published. I thought I would always write crime fiction. Now, after five novels out in one mystery series, I have a regular old novel coming out on January 1 from Lake Union. It’s called The Fireballer. Of course I have no…
Jeremy Bannister, or The Ups and Downs of An Aspiring Novelist
Yes, I am back promoting the late Gary Reilly. This July, my partner Mike Keefe and I released Gary’s 15th (all posthumously published) book. It’s called Jeremy Bannister, or the Ups and Downs of An Aspiring Novelist. It’s an unusual book because Gary wrote every chapter the same length–one chapter to a page. It’s about…
Rocky Mountain Writer #197
Harper McDavid & Zapata Mary Johnson (a.k.a. Harper McDavid) lives in Morrison with her husband, two dogs, and big-boned cat. Her debut novel, Zapata, a romantic suspense, was published in 2019 by Soul Mate Publishing. She’s been a Colorado Gold finalist twice and is currently pantsing her way through a second novel, Proximity of Betrayal,…