Jan 6, 2025
This time on a quick bonus episode of the Rocky Mountain Writer podcast, a chat with Sue Hinkin of Rocky Mountain Mystery Writers of America about the 2nd Annual Rocky Mountain Virtual Con, a FREE conference for all writers being held on Saturday, Feb. 8 via Zoom.
Sue Hinkin is the author of the award-winning thriller series, The Vega & Middleton Novels, featuring the investigative team of Los Angeles TV news journalist Bea Jackson and best friend, photographer Lucy Vega. BestThrillers.com called Lucy and Bea one of the top female detectives of 2023. A former Cinematography Fellow at the American Film Institute, Hinkin was a TV news photographer like her character, Lucy. Now living in Colorado, she was voted Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Writer of the Year.
Complete details about 2nd Annual Rocky Mountain Virtual Con - and to register, for free - are at rmmwa.org
Schedule for Virtual Con:
SCHEDULE:
10-10:55 AM CRAFT: The Power of Now
The former President of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of Mystery
Writers of America, Mark Stevens is the son of two librarians.
Raised in Lincoln, Massachusetts, he has worked as a reporter, as a
national television news producer and in public relations.
Stevens is the author of acclaimed The Fireballer (Lake Union,
2023). He is also the author of the award-winning The Allison Coil
Mystery Series including Antler Dust, Buried by the Roan, Trapline,
Lake of Fire, and The Melancholy Howl. He has had short stories
published by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Mystery Tribune, and in
Denver Noir (Akashic Books, 2022). Denver Noir went on to win
the Colorado Book Award for Best Anthology in 2023. In 2016 and
again in 2023, Stevens was named Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’
Writer of the Year. He hosts a regular podcast for that
organization. Stevens also publishes reviews for the New York
Journal of Books, Four Corners Free Press, and on his review
website. He lives in Mancos, Colorado.
Learn more at www.writermarkstevens.com
11-11:55 AM Book Marketing Strategies: What
Publishers and Authors Say What Works
Now
BestThrillers.com founder Bella Wright and Staff
How are publishers, writers and publicists marketing their books
right now? What are the most valuable formats, services and
channels? To find out, we reached out to hundreds of authors,
publishers and publicists involved in creating and promoting
mystery and thriller books. There are quite a few surprises in our
BestThrillers.com Book Marketing Survey. You’ll earn about what we
found. See more at www.BestThrillers.com
LUNCH BREAK
1-1:55PM CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: THE LATEST IN
FORENSIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
DP Lyle, MD, is the Amazon #1 Bestselling; Macavity and Benjamin
Franklin Silver Award winning; and Edgar (2), Shamus, Agatha,
Anthony, Scribe, Silver Falchion, USA Today Best Book Award (2),
and Foreward INDIES Book of the Year nominated author of 25 books,
both non-fiction and fiction, including the SAMANTHA CODY, DUB
WALKER, JAKE LONGLY, and CAIN/HARPER thriller series, and the ROYAL
PAINS media tie-in novels. His forensic science books (FORENSICS
FOR DUMMIES, HOWDUNNIT:FORENSICS) and his very popular Q& A Series
(MURDER AND MAYHEM, FORENSICS AND FICTION, MORE FORENSICS AND
FICTION) are published worldwide.
See more at www.dplylemd.com
2-2:55PM Writers LIFE: Anne
Hillerman
New York Times best-selling author Anne Hillerman’s debut novel,
Spider Woman’s Daughter, received the Western Writers Spur Award as
best first novel.\That book and the six novels that followed were
all New York Times best sellers. Her ninth mystery, Lost Birds was
launched April 23, 2024 and the tenth book in the series is due for
release in 2025. Her mysteries continue the Navajo detective
stories her father Tony Hillerman made popular. Anne has also been
involved in script development for the AMC TV show, Dark Winds,
featuring Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. When
she’s not working, Anne likes to read, cook, ski and travel. She
lives in Santa Fe and Tucson with frequent trips to the Navajo
Nation. Learn more at www.annehillerman.com
Intro Music by Moby Gratis:
Outro Music by Dan-o-Songs:
Host Mark Stevens
Watch these interviews on YouTube (and subscribe)!
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBP81nfbKnDRjs-Nar9LNe20138AiPyP8&si=yl_seG5S4soyk216