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Hello all! I'm looking for a few beta readers to help with my debut crime novel, which is the first in a planned series. This will eventually be self-published. I've been writing and polishing this one for close to a year now, and I'm excited to finally start sharing it. The story for Book 1: When a body surfaces from beneath the ice in the small mountain town of Stoneveil, Colorado, former Detective turned reluctant consultant Galen Voss is pulled back into the world he tri

So how did I come up for the premise for this idea? In the case of Stoneveil: Shadows Under Ice, it started with a conversation with my mother-in-law. At the time, I was working on another story and asked her to read it. She told me it was fine, but it really wasn’t the type of story she normally enjoyed. She mentioned that she preferred murder mysteries and crime stories. That got me thinking. I’ve always enjoyed small mountain towns in books, movies, and television. There’s

Apparently, this frozen mountain town murder mystery did something right, because this prologue made the top 1% in ProWritingAid's Novel Beginnings competition. Prologue Morning fog draped across the Lower Mountain Loop, thick enough to settle on his jacket and chill the back of his neck, and he couldn’t shake the feeling that the mountain was watching him. His radio whispered static at his hip. Today it set his teeth on edge. He’d been clearing Stoneveil trails for three

Quick writing update. A couple of weeks ago I submitted the prologue of Stoneveil: Shadows Under Ice to ProWritingAid's Novel Beginnings contest for 2026. To be completely honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Honestly, what I really craved then was some external perspective, or perhaps reassurance that I wasn't entirely off my rocker dedicating so much time to tales of frigid mountain villages, unearthed secrets, shady characters, and enough misdirection to stock a bait shop

I’m still getting used to saying that out loud. If I’m being honest, I didn’t grow up dreaming about becoming a novelist. I wasn’t the kid filling notebooks with stories or telling people I was going to write books someday. Most of this happened within the last few years after I started playing around with story ideas that refused to leave my head. One of those ideas eventually became The Timeless Ronin. I’ve always been fascinated by immortality stories, Japanese culture, an