Author Jeanette Minniti began her novel “The Only Way Home” in a writing class, where it developed into historical fiction and a coming of age story.
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SunLit Interview: Ever the writer, even Gary Reilly’s fiction often focused on literary craft
Gary Reilly was the author of 25 unpublished novels during his lifetime. Since his death in 2011, Running Meter Press has published 15 of them. Born in Kansas, he grew up in Colorado, where he attended college and, after a stint in the Army, devoted himself to his writing – though he never tried very […]
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When coronavirus life got me down, I found hope by exploring comedy
At the beginning of this pandemic, everywhere I looked there was something to bring me down. These were bleak times. No toilet paper. Each news story scarier than the last. Everyone stuck in the same place day after day. People judging one another’s decisions, when everyone was just trying to make it to the next […]
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“Runes for Writers”: How solving writer’s block is kind of like recalling where you left your keys
Marc Graham is a bestselling author, speaker, story coach, and shamanic practitioner. He is also the developer of the Runes for Writers creativity system. When not on stage, in the studio, or bound to his computer, he can be found traipsing about Colorado’s Front Range with his wife and their Greater Swiss Mountain Dog. The […]
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Colorado’s Tattered Cover bookstore sold, will become nation’s largest Black-led bookseller
NEW YORK — A leading independent bookstore, the Colorado-based Tattered Cover, has been sold to a group of investors and will become the country’s largest Black-led bookseller. An investment group led by Denver natives Kwame Spearman, who will serve as CEO and operations manager, and David Back purchased the Tattered Cover for an undisclosed amount […]
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C. Joseph Greaves’ Colorado friends asked, “When are you going to write about here?” This book is the answer.
C. Joseph Greaves is an honors graduate of both the University of Southern California and Boston College Law School who spent 25 years as an L.A. trial lawyer before becoming a writer. He has been a finalist for most of the major awards in crime fiction including the Shamus, Macavity, Lefty, and Audie, as well […]
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To quell the panic and anxiety of coronavirus, I seek survivor’s discipline and take note of details
As a writer, I think I should be writing about the pandemic. But I don’t want to. Not that I haven’t written in my daily journal about my fears and questions over the last two months, but I wrestle with perspective, with what exactly exists in between the drumbeats of COVID-19 and the requisite rhythms […]
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Coronavirus has brought out the songwriter in me, and underscored the value of music
I have always been more than one kind of writer. As a journalism student, I am the writer that seeks truth, reports and condenses information into a column or article that gets the point across. As a songwriter, I seek out the most abstract parts of life, the things we as humans struggle to comprehend […]
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Write On, Colorado: In these trying times, change is hard. Writing helps.
My view of red rocks and foothills has been a soothing balm before, is now again. And as per usual, the word grateful does not come close to what my heart registers at my lucky status of being in Colorado, with that expansive view, during a time of isolation. I might go nutsy without it. […]
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How one intense image blossomed into a young adult work of mystery and romance
Susan Cunningham lives in the Colorado Rocky Mountains with her husband and two daughters. She enjoys science nearly as much as writing: she’s traveled to the bottom of the ocean via submarine to observe life at hydrothermal vents, camped out on an island of birds to study tern behavior, and now spends time in an […]