Patricia Stoltey

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News and Books from the Colorado Gold Conference

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I wanted to report on a few of the highlights of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Conference so the usual Monday Colorado Author feature will return next week. I will, however, be mentioning a few of our authors in this post, just to whet your appetite for more good books to come. First, I have …Read More

Colorado Gold Conference Begins Today

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Today the conference fun begins. I checked into the hotel yesterday afternoon and played hermit while I caught up on e-mail, and did other online chores. I’ll be pretty busy from 11:00 AM today until about 1:00 PM on Sunday. Be sure to stop by The Blood-Red Pencil today for more tips on self-editing your …Read More

Mix and Match

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What I’m Reading This Week: I finished The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner. It was hard to put down, but I was just a tiny bit disappointed by the ending. While I would have thought early on that I would rank it 5 out of 5, I’d have to drop that to something like 4.25 out …Read More

Setting Goals — The Way I Do It

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Here’s the final count for my long weekend writing binge: 6,131 words. My target was 10,000 words. So how would you view the actual words written against the target number? If you were doing the goal setting, and the writing, would you feel you had failed? Here’s the thing about my writing habits. Because I …Read More

Progress Report and New Awards Received

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As I announced last week, I had hoped to add 10,000 words to my novel over the long weekend. Here’s my report through Sunday: Friday: 1,908 Saturday: 1,183 Sunday: 2,366 TOTAL through Sunday: 5,457 I guess I’d have to write all night on Monday to get the job done, wouldn’t I? Since I wrote this …Read More

Colorado Author — Mario Acevedo

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Since the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ Colorado Gold Conference is coming up this weekend, September 11-13, it’s fitting that this week’s featured author would be RMFW’s recently announced Writer of the Year, Mario Acevedo. RMFW Writer of the Year is a big deal in these parts, pardner. Mario’s mystery series is about Felix Gomex, a …Read More

NaNoWriMo vs PaNoWriPro

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It’s just around the corner. November, I mean. November used to mean Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Now we think of NaNoWriMo. You know what it is, right? “National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, …Read More

Mix and Match

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What I’m Reading This Week— I’m just finishing up The Apostle by Brad Thor. This is a satisfying political thriller involving an American doctor kidnapped in Afghanistan and the special team hired by her rich mother to rescue her. Features Scot Harvath, Thor’s series character, who is a former covert counterterrorism operative. Next book on …Read More

Chipping Away at the To Do List

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In case anyone was wondering, I did not win either Lotto or Powerball with those tickets I bought on Saturday. Sorry, Galen, but I only matched one number on each ticket. I was pretty sure my good feelings weren’t related to unexpected windfalls. My record with lottery tickets has not been good since the early …Read More

Book Reviews — Don’t You Just Love ‘Em?

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Here are the reasons you want to send advance review copies of your book to as many magazine and online reader review sites as you can: 1. Reviewers are real people. Real people have a variety of preferences, preferred genres, and writing styles. Just because one reviewer doesn’t like your book so much, doesn’t mean …Read More