5 days ago5 minOn Ignoring Formulas and Shattering StereotypesWhen I was still thinking I might go the traditional publishing route with my first novel in the Jake Goddard and Susan Brand series, The...
Feb 143 minValentine's Day, Toolkits, and TrackhoesHow did the single woman of the Free Range Writers trio get tapped to write a post on Valentine's Day? Probably because my cohorts Greg a...
Jan 315 minI Plan to be There too.By Margaret Pettis Our guest, Margaret Pettis lives in northern Utah. She co-founded the Utah Wilderness Association and the High Uintas ...
Jan 243 minWill We Ever Evolve? (part 3)By Dave Butler In their posts over the last two weeks, Pam and Greg pushed me to think about evolution. But not necessarily the kind desc...
Jan 174 minWill We Ever Evolve, Part 2?Pam Beason posed the titulary question last week. I'm going to tackle it again this week. No doubt the eighteenth century satirist, Jonat...
Jan 102 minWill We Ever Evolve?All fiction writers would like our novels to be considered timeless, so when we incorporate historical events or trends into our stories,...
Dec 27, 20203 minYearning for TravelBy Dave Butler In their final posts before Christmas, Pam wrote about making memories, her aversion to materialism, and doing more with l...
Dec 20, 20203 minThe Holidays: Great Time to Cozy-up with a Mystery. But Please, not a Cozy.In which the author tries to explain his aversion to the cozy. Recommends a mystery for his readers' holiday reading pleasure. Makes a bo...
Dec 14, 20204 minCreate Memories This Holiday SeasonI’ll just come out and say it: I’m basically anti-materialistic. So this time of year with its emphasis on consumerism makes me more tha...
Nov 29, 20204 minAll The Stories We Could TellBy Peter Kingsmill This week, we at Free Range Writers are pleased that Canadian environmental writer Peter Kingsmill agreed to share tho...
Nov 22, 20203 minThe Third Option: Traditional PublishingBy Dave Butler Following up on Pam and Greg’s posts over the past two weeks, I want to share some of my experiences in traditional publis...
Nov 16, 20203 minHybrid: The Offspring of the Union of Two Distinct Species.*Hybrid Publishing: the best of both worlds.** In our last Free Range Writers' post, Pam Beason wrote of her experiences as a fully self-c...
Nov 8, 20205 minThe Good, the Bad, and the Surprises in Publishing - by Pamela Beason There are a lot of ways to publish a book these days, and I’ve done them all: traditional, hybrid, and self-publishing, which is also cal...
Oct 25, 20203 minEmbracing Your Inner Wild - Guest Post by Margaret MizushimaMy family moved to Colorado when I was a young teen, and I’ve been drawn to the mountain wilderness to explore hiking trails and peaks ev...
Oct 18, 20203 minGrowing a CharacterBy Dave Butler When I look back at the posts we’ve written and hosted at Free Range Writers since we began in June of 2019 (this is # 50!...
Oct 12, 20203 minBears Ears: A National Treasure Trashed.Nicole Anderson is a communications teacher and freelance writer living in Sandy, Utah. She has been a member of several conservation org...
Oct 4, 20203 minThe Things that Haunt This Writer - by Pamela BeasonIt’s Halloween month, and my neighbors are already going all out with creepy decorations. One house that I routinely walk by features gia...
Sep 27, 20206 minSteeping Stories in Strong Settings… Guest Post by Christine CarboToday we are honored by a guest post from Christine Carbo, the author of the Glacier Mystery novels, an ensemble series set in and around...
Sep 20, 20203 minThe Importance of Being Current?By Dave Butler I’m sure that both Pam and Greg -- and many other fiction writers -- have been asked, at least in the last few months: “In...
Sep 14, 20203 minWriting as Patchwork QuiltPartner Pam wrote a powerful and evocative piece about the importance of sensory recall in her most recent post, and her writing, as usua...