Finalists just announced in the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold Rush Literary Awards. RMFW offers encouragement and opportunity to writers in all genres through this annual contest.  Winners will be announced and celebrated at the RMFW Hybrid Gold Conference, set to take place October 15th thru the 17th.

Mystery, Thriller
Delve Too Deep by Phillip Castle
One Way In by Susie Lindau
Pieces by Becky Munyon
The Puzzle by Robert Selzer
Worse than Death by Brooke Terpening

Mainstream
Kamikaze Girl by Kevin Campbell
It’s Cool if You Hate Us by Charles Culp
The Ghosts of Chang An by Vickie Fang
Green Side Up by Ann Ivancie
The Band by Jedeane Macdonald

YA, Middle Grade
The Problem with Pamela by Heather Durham
Kung Fu to You, Too by Richard Erixon
True Love Never by Kelley J.P. Lindberg
Elly Elliott – Secret Code Breaker by Jedeane Macdonald
The Serpent’s Covenant by Ann Marie

Women’s Fiction, Romance
Bannock Bliss by Lyda Mary Hardy
Celie Logan’s Gone to the Dogs by Martha McCannon
The Original Handmaid by Margaret Morse
The Sweetest Revenge by Meegan Epps
The Parts We Leave Behind by Rise’ Smith

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Spec, Horror
To Feel the Earth as Rough by Dani Coleman
The Osect Indiscretion by Matthew Cushing
Seraph by Cheryl Fallin
Thief of Time by Val Moses
Mars Material by John Arthur Neal