What a great mystery fan convention!!! I hadn’t been to one since 2009 when I attended Bouchercon in Indianapolis, so I’d almost forgotten how much fun it is to catch up with old friends and make a lot of new ones among the writers and readers of crime fiction. And this year, there was the …Read More
Archives for March 2013
Today I’m on My Way to Left Coast Crime in Colorado Springs
I’m taking my laptop with high hopes I’ll have time to post a couple of reports…but I’m making no promises. When I attend these events, I often collapse into an exhausted puddle before 10:00 PM and then scurry down for an early breakfast the next morning. Breakfast (with lots of coffee) is one meal I …Read More
Chiseled in Rock Two Day Awesome Interview
My interview with Denise Dietz, Senior Editor at Five Star, is now posted for your reading pleasure at Chiseled in Rock blog. Part I went up yesterday, and Part II is there today. Deni not only tells us everything we want to know about Five Star’s acquisition process (mysteries and their new Frontier Fiction line), …Read More
My Life in Court by Lisa Black
Lisa Black spent the five happiest years of her life in a morgue. As a forensic scientist in the Cleveland coroner’s office she analyzed gunshot residue on hands and clothing, hairs, fibers, paint, glass, DNA, blood and many other forms of trace evidence, as well as crime scenes. Now she’s a certified latent print examiner …Read More
Great Prize Money in the Northern Colorado Writers Contests
This is the third year for the Northern Colorado Writers writing contests, and the organization is increasing the prize money to 1st: $1,000; 2nd: $250; and 3rd: $100. Like last year, all winners, honorable mentions, and editor’s picks will be published in and receive a free copy of the 2013 Pooled Ink. The deadline for …Read More
Why Crime Fiction… by J. L. Abramo
J. L. Abramo was born in Brooklyn, New York on Raymond Chandler’s fifty-ninth birthday. He earned a BA in Sociology at the City College of New York and a Masters in Social Psychology at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of Catching Water in a Net, winner of the St. Martin’s Press/Private Eye …Read More
Northern Colorado Writers Conference and More
You’re Running Out of Time to Sign Up for the Northern Colorado Writers Conference Whether you write fiction, poetry, essays, articles, or short stories, there is an art to stringing together words to elicit a certain response and reaction from your readers. The 8th Annual Northern Colorado Writers Conference, April 26-27 at the Fort Collins …Read More
Tuesday at the Rock, Trolling for Guest Bloggers, and Snow
Chiseled in Rock Shannon Baker, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer member and author of Tainted Mountain, a Nora Abbott mystery, is our guest blogger today at the Rock. Her post, “Don’t Worry, Be Hopi” is about research, the Hopi culture, and planting seeds. You’ll find it all at Chiseled in Rock blog. Trolling for Guest Bloggers …Read More
What I’m Up to…
Here are some of the things going on in my life and schedule: 1. I’m getting physical therapy for my creaky knee and I don’t need to worry about any surgery, at least not for now. Phew! 2. The Fort Collins Recreation Department and the Senior Center are going to produce another Mountain Scribe Anthology …Read More
Finding Your One Thing by Julie Luek
Julie Luekenga lives in the high mountain ranching community of Gunnison, Colorado and is a freelance writer published in regional and national publications and a member of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers.Writing under the name Julie Luek, she is a regular, every other week, contributor to the international writing website, She Writes. She is also a …Read More