Registration is open for the 2019 Colorado Gold Conference. If you haven’t yet registered, get to it—you’ll be so glad you did! If you have registered, welcome! This year’s conference offers a lively variety of new workshops, classes, and services designed to enlighten, encourage, and inspire you! Read on so you’ll feel right at home from…
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Meet the WOTY Finalist: Aimie K. Runyan
For all that is good and holy in the world, what possessed you to become an author? Like most sane people, I knew that becoming a published author is a tough road that is most assuredly not lined with gold. I figured it was the province of people with fancy MFAs and the like, so…
Shout-Outs 2018
Here’s to BookBar Denver This has to be one of the snappiest independent bookstores you’re likely to ever encounter. Books. Bar. What’s not to like? They have great nibbles and excellent beer and wine, too. The joint was positively humming on Small Business Saturday, and the staff, as always, was smiling and efficient. Also, there…
Art of the Schmooze
With the Colorado Gold conference right around the corner, I thought it might be a good time to revisit an article I wrote a couple of years ago… If there’s anything scarier than public speaking, it’s private speaking. Not the quiet conversations you have with friends, but the prospect of being thrown into a room…
Congratulations. Pat yourself on the back. Really.
This is for all of you who submitted to Gold. Who have signed up for critique roundtables, pitches, one-on-ones. Or who just plan to come to Colorado Gold – or any other writer’s conference or contest. The reason I say congratulations is that you’ve taken the HUGE step of saying, OUT LOUD AND PROUD, that…