Patricia Stoltey

Author

I Might As Well Be Wearing a Ball and Chain

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I’ll bet most of you think I’m going to talk about my marriage. Sorry to mislead you, but we’re doing fine. As a matter of fact, Bill and I celebrated our 27th anniversary on Friday by going out to brunch at La Creperie in Fort Collins. We followed that up with a visit to the …Read More

Time for a Blogroll Do-Over

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As part of my plan to update my blog, I’m going to clean up the sidebar. Step One:  dump all of my blogrolls and start over. Over time, I’ve found that many bloggers stop posting and some change the focus of their posts. Others were added for a special purpose that no longer is relevant. …Read More

Writing Success is a Journey, Not a Destination by Michael Murphy

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Michael Murphy lives in Arizona with his wife of forty years. He is a full time writer and part time urban chicken rancher. Goodbye Emily, his eighth novel, is now available for Kindle and Nook. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Writing Success is a Journey, Not a Destination by Michael Murphy One of my great enjoyments of writing is …Read More

Pat’s Alternate Universe No. 1: The Ballerina

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I am a creature of eclectic interests, a dabbler in a variety of hobbies and creative  pursuits, a former traveler who now enjoys armchair adventures more than the real thing, and a strong believer in reinventing oneself and one’s life at every opportunity. When I daydream, I sometimes imagine what my life would have been …Read More

Chiseled in Rock Tuesday: Where Do You Go for a Writers’ Retreat?

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This year at Chiseled in Rock we’ll be featuring more contributors (including agents) and more topics of interest to authors. I’ll be looking at places writers like to hang out in the Northern Front Range of Colorado and new contributor Julie Luek will be doing the same in a monthly report from the Western Slope. …Read More

The Monday Special Report

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Here’s your chance to win a copy of The Ledge by Jim Davidson If you like edge of your seat suspense and true life adventure, you must read The Ledge by Jim Davidson. On the way down from a trek up Mount Ranier, Jim and his partner fell into an icy crevasse. The Ledge is …Read More

Tempted to Let Your Beloved Edit Your Work? by Nancy G. West

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 Special Note: To read a book review and guest post at Kings River Life online magazine, go here. It’s worth the trip because there’s a giveaway of Nancy’s books going on. When Nancy G. West was seven years old, she and her mother wrote poems to each other on special occasions. In high school, the …Read More

Teen Romance: Reality versus Fantasy by Ripley Patton

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Today I’m pleased to introduce Ripley Patton whose debut YA novel was released in November 2012. Ripley lives in Portland, Oregon with one cat, two teenagers, and a man who wants to live on a boat. Her short fiction has been nominated multiple times for awards, and she won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for …Read More

Blooming Late by Camille Minichino

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Camille Minichino, a retired physicist turned writer, has published 18 mysteries in three series: The Periodic Table Mysteries, The Miniature Mysteries (as Margaret Grace) and the Professor Sophie Knowles Mysteries (as Ada Madison). She’s written articles for popular magazines and teaches writing in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory …Read More