Patricia Stoltey

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My Rocky Road to Publication by Judy Alter

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An award-winning novelist, Judy Alter is the author of three books in the Kelly O’Connell Mysteries series: Skeleton in a Dead Space, No Neighborhood for Old Women, and Trouble in a Big Box. With Murder at the Blue Plate Café, she moves from inner city Fort Worth to small-town East Texas to create a new …Read More

Chiseled in Rock, Stuff, and the Tuesday Question

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Thanks to everyone who visited here yesterday for the Genre Favorites Blogfest. I met some new bloggers, including a few who shared my love of musicals and all things bookish. Three Authors, Three Questions at Chiseled in Rock Today is Chiseled in Rock Tuesday of course, and my post is “Three Authors, Three Questions” starring …Read More

Guilty (Oops! I mean Genre) Favorites Blogfest

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Thanks to Alex J. Cavanaugh and his Guilty Genre Favorites Blogfest, I have a chance to spend today connecting with a few old blogger friends and meeting some new ones. To see the linky list of participants, hop over to Alex’s blog. My guilty genre favorites are: MOVIES Musicals, musicals, musicals. I love them all. …Read More

Colorado Gold Highlights

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There was much to applaud at the writers’ conference in Denver, but there were three outstanding speakers that made this year’s Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold Conference stand out. I didn’t take notes during these speeches, so I don’t have any quotes for you. But all three speakers left me with a warm appreciation …Read More

I’m at Colorado Gold. Please stop back on Monday

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Yes, I’m in Denver doing my best to soak up every bit of writing information I can, connect with every single writer, agent, and editor I meet, and find some new potential blogger/author guests to feature in 2013. The workshops I plan to attend today include: The Lady or the Tiger: Traditional Publishing, Independent…or Both? …Read More

Getting Ready for Colorado Gold

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I’m pretty excited to be attending the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold Conference this coming weekend. Since I’m scheduled to help at registration on Friday, I’m heading to Denver Thursday afternoon so I don’t have to travel down at the crack of dawn Friday morning. Thursday evening, I plan to enjoy a mini writing …Read More

Bugs in the Wires?

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I don’t know what’s going on with our Internet access but I don’t have it all the time. My hubby is pretty good with wire and cables and connections and splitters and all those things I don’t know much about, but he actually had to give up and call our phone/Internet/etc provider since all that …Read More

Becoming a Writer by Tim Northburg

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My guest today is Colorado writer Tim Northburg. Tim is the author of multiple sales training and motivational guidebooks. He thrives on sharing his philosophy of success and motivation with others and he hopes his impact as a writer is thought-provoking and fun. Tim brings a wealth of success in the arenas of sales, marketing, …Read More

Tuesday Stuff

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Chiseled in Rock Tuesday I’ve posted a piece at Chiseled in Rock blog on creating fictional characters using my own experience with The Desert Hedge Murders to illustrate my methods. The covers for the ebook versions of both Sylvia and Willie mysteries are there too, and the new author photo as well. Thursday’s Guest My …Read More

When Writers Reread the Classics…

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When I first read The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne in high school, I thought the book was amazing. The characters jumped out from the pages and the story held my interest, in spite of the fact it was an English assignment and I had to take notes and write a report by a looming …Read More