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Friends & Followers Get 10% off Reg Price for PPWC 2026

This year’s Pikes Peak Writers Conference promises to be life changing, and I want YOU to come join me at the country’s friendliest conference. To make the coming (or going) even easier, I am giving YOU 10% off the regular registration price. Use the code Cactus10 and you will save nearly $60! This discount is limited to the first five registrants to use it, so pitter-patter.

Pikes Peak Writers Conference runs from April 17-19, 2026 in Colorado Springs.

And don’t forget to use Cactus10 at checkout to save 10%

WiP Update!

As you read this, I am shopping A Quarry of Woes, my humorous fantasy western novel-in-progress to agents and publishers. The story follows an oversized, danger-prone youth with a gifted green thumb who must pair with his estranged, outlaw sorceress mother in order to save their frontier town from a mining baron whose ambitions threaten to tear apart the very fabric of nature and magic. It’s Terry Pratchett does Deadwood, or Kevin Hearne remakes Little House on the Prairie…except my band of misfits actually leaves town once in a while.

Out Now!

Overstuffed Lunchbox: A Bunch of Bite-Sized Bits, my compilation of published and unpublished short works, “masterfully blends, humor, fantasy, and suspense” – GoodReads

Laughs, gasps, and heart-pounding action are crammed inside this bulging box of circus heroes, world-weary warriors, and flirtatious neighbors bearing questionable casseroles. Lunchbox offers up a collection of short tales that are endlessly entertaining.

Where I’ll Be:

• MAR 7, 2026 – RMFW Workshop Extravaganza! Colorado Adventure Point, Lakewood, CO
• MAR 25, 2026 – Book Sale & Signing, Great Harvest Bread Co, Arvada, CO

• MAY 3, 2026 – Book Signing, Chapel Hills Barnes & Nobles Booksellers, Colorado Springs, CO

• AUG 8, 2026 – Springs Book Bash, Colorado Springs, CO
• OCT 1-4, 2026 – Colorado Gold Writers Conference, Aurora, CO

Bowen didn’t look to be a writer, but writing found him anyway. Since publishing his first offbeat short story in Allegory e-zine, Bowen has won awards for his work and continues to find homes for his quirky tales, boldly told.

Bowen’s stories are for fun-seekers, thrill-seekers, and joy-seekers. He writes for those who like to smile as they read. Quirky is his touchstone. Offbeat, his muse. If you’re looking to step away from characters of dark, brooding intensity or worlds devoid of hope, then look no further. This stuff is right up your alley…if you buy books in an alley.

Which is creepy.

Go to a bookstore.