Sep 4, 2024
Cynthia Swanson is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the psychological suspense novels The Bookseller, The Glass Forest, and Anyone But Her. Cynthia is also the editor of the Colorado Book Award winning anthology Denver Noir. She lives with her family in Denver. Find Cynthia online at
Maria Kelson & Not The Killing Kind
Aug 30, 2024
Maria Kelson has two collections of poetry (as Maria Melendez) with University of Arizona Press, which were finalists for the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the Colorado Book Award. Not the Killing Kind is her debut novel. It received the inaugural Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Crime Fiction Writers of Color from...
Aug 5, 2024
David R. Slayton (He/Him) grew up in Guthrie, Oklahoma, where finding fantasy novels was pretty challenging and finding fantasy novels with diverse characters was downright impossible. Now he lives in Denver and writes the books he always wanted to read. His debut, White Trash Warlock, was a finalist for the Colorado...
Are National Writing Conferences Worth the Expense? With Travis Tougaw
Jul 19, 2024
Should you spend big money to attend the big national conferences? Travis Tougaw recently attended his first, ThrillerFest in New York City, and he votes yes.
Earlier this year, Travis published his debut novel Foxholes followed by Captives — and his third novel, Last Call, comes out later this fall. Travis is...
Jul 3, 2024
Jill Lynn is a two-time ACFW - that’s American Christian Fiction Writers - Carol Award winning author of inspirational romance for Harlequin Love Inspired and a co-author of the Selah Award winning nonfiction book of the year Just Show Up. She lives near the Colorado Rocky Mountains with her husband and two teenage...