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Show and Tell...

Lots of images to share with you today.

I'll start off with pics from a couple of Mario sightings. The first is The Monday Art Walk that featured our hero last week. I'm sure he wants to post more, so I'm including only two.









RMFW represented by Warren and Cathy Hammond and me…

This one needs no explanation. Yes, if you haven't seen it before, this is the famous gun bra…



Next, yesterday Mario gave a talk to an enthusiastic crowd at the OLLI South daytime learning program. It's offered by the Unive...

Whedon and Life Changing Moment Redux

Mario here:
Yesterday Jeanne, Warren Hammond and I presented at the Author Extravaganza Writers Conference sponsored by the Douglas County Libraries.
Here are Jeanne and Warren trying to decipher their notes on their PowerPoint presentation.  



Sadly, we're out of Devil Ducks but Jeanne found these cute Halloween bats for our raffle shwag.Kim shows off her prize.








JOSS WHEDON news (cause that's how we roll here at BE)!
Check out his interview with Ira Glass of This American Life on 826NYC.  Joss...

Ready This Time....I think

Hey-- I think I'm back on track. Well, maybe. Anyway, got a few tidbits to share this week. And since Mario mentioned it, the retreat was wonderful. A few of us go to the Hand Hotel in Fairplay and spend the weekend with nothing on our minds but our work. The staff, especially Mike who is a cook beyond belief, goes out of its way to make us feel comfortable and at home. Susan Smith and I were saying it's like going to grandma's.

We all have our favorite rooms (mine is The Trapper), Mike feeds ...

Monday weirdness and FMAT

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Jeanne's off in Fairplay, at a writer's retreat (wink, wink).  She must be expecting quite a thirst judging by all the wine and scotch she packed.
We're getting close to Halloween and over at Bitten By Books, they've got 31 days of Dark Delights.  Get prizes from your favorite paranormal authors.  





Here at Biting-Edge, we consider ourselves lucky to have known Richelle Mead since the days before she set to conquer the world.  And we're not kidding about her ambitions.  Check out the ...

Jeanne's Fall Break

I woke up this morning with three things on my mind—

1. It was cold in the bedroom. Feels like fall. Days of sleeping with the windows open are over.

2. Got to get ready for my trek tomorrow up to Fairplay for the semi-annual writers' retreat. Three days of nothing but writing and eating. What's not to love?

3. It's the first day of October—where has the year gone?

Wait. It's October 1st. It's THURSDAY October 1st.

Thursday.

I don't have a blog…how could I not have a blog? I've been doing this for...

A long weekend of words

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I spent this weekend staffing a booth at the Mountain & Plains Independent Booksellers Trade Show.  Thanks much to the volunteers helping me from the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and the Rocky Mountain chapter of the Mystery Writers of America.
I look forward to the trade show as I get to reconnect with my friends in the pub biz.  This year was a special treat as not one, but two of my favorite authors attended.  Here they are, from South Dakota, Lori Armstrong (left) and from...

Ever heard of Norman Borlaug?

So, what kind of week has everyone had? It's been nice to be home and actually get some work done. I could get used to this.

Lot's of Dollhouse stuff which I'll put at the end. Includes some Season 2 spoilers compiled by the Webmaster at the Buffy/Angel website.

First though, ever heard of Norman Borlaug? He died this month at 95 and I'll bet most of us would not recognize the name. But he was a true hero. From the NYT:

Norman E. Borlaug, the plant scientist who did more than anyone else in the ...

She popped the cherry

Mario here:
Big kudos to Jeanne for breaking the seal at the new Broadway Book Mall with her signing of Retribution.  As usual, Ron and Nina Else proved to be the gracious hosts and provided great chocolate treats.  We're waiting for the second printing, Jeanne!




If you look to the right side of this page, you'll see links to many fabulous paranormal blogs.One cool site to visit is Midnight Moon Cafe and their current blog features one of Jeanne's favorite distractions: hunks!  Such as Richard A...

Whoopee!

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Top mystery novels Blogs

Look who got an award!!!

Thank you, readers, for nominating us and thank you, Daily Reviewer for including us!! Very cool.





So, as Mario mentioned, we attended the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold Writers Conference last weekend. What he didn't mention, is that he serves as unofficial bartender every year in the hospitality room. Well.. at least he did until I managed to snap the following pictures.








See what he's doing? Now watch…




Can we say ewwwwww... that's...

Colorado Gold

Mario here:
The 2009 Colorado Gold conference is history.   For you Biting-Edgers, you know I was voted RMFW's Writer of the Year, aka the WOTY.  
The crown Jeanne gave me, while magnificent, lacked two attributes.  First, it didn't come with minions, which left me as king of a kingdom of one.  Second, the crown was awesome yet too small to express my pride as being honored as this year's WOTY.  So I handcrafted the giant WOTY fez.

Our fabulous conference speakers, (left to right), New York...