Q&A Profile: Gary McBride

by | Nov 1, 2022 | Writing Tools

Gary McBride has been a BWA member since August 22, 2018, the day after he met then-BWA President Rick Killian, who offered—on the spot—to host Gary’s study group, Writers Who Read. This monthly investigation of recently-published novels aims to uncover how to read...

Q&A Profile: Jim Ringel

by | Aug 1, 2022 | Writing Tools

Jim Ringel writes the Lama Rinzen Mystery novels, a series of crime mysteries wrapped inside Buddhist mysteries. In each Lama Rinzen mystery, the lama is reborn into one of the six Buddhist realms and must solve a crime to learn the realm’s lesson and proceed down the...

Q&A With Kit Brown-Hoekstra, BWA Member

by | Apr 30, 2022 | Writing Tools

I love science and wanted to be a veterinarian, so I went to Colorado State to study biology. When I didn’t get into vet school, one of my professors told me I was a pretty good writer and to talk to one of his friends in the journalism department (Don Zimmerman), who...