Author Interviews

The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs says thousands of Indigenous American and Alaska Native women have been missing or murdered in recent years, and many of those cases remain unsolved. A Berthoud writer set out to raise awareness about this real-life crisis using fiction.

Colorado writer X. Ho Yen remembers loving science fiction as a child. He’s autistic – and he liked science fiction that depicted a futuristic society where people like him were treated equally. Now he's a published author who just released his third book.

A Loveland kindergarten teacher has published more than 20 children’s books. They teach life lessons for young kids and aim to get them thinking about how their actions impact other people. She talks about her newest book — and how she’s still writing and teaching at the age of 87.

During World War II, tens of thousands of Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes and live in camps. For one Colorado writer, the story of his own family’s incarceration inspired him to look at the legacy of those camps. Hear more about the new book those events inspired.

Check out In The NoCo's look back at author interviews from 2025. We covered everything from biographies to science fiction.

The Great Gatsby is a classic novel – and one Colorado author loves the book so much she set out to tell the story from a fresh perspective. In a new novel called Mrs. Wilson’s Affair, Broomfield resident Allyson Reedy set out to retell the story from a different character’s perspective.

A struggling novelist sets off a social media firestorm in a new novel by Colorado author R.L. Maizes. "A Complete Fiction" raises sticky questions about who gets to tell someone else’s story. We talk with the author about how her own social media obsessions inspired the book.

It’s easy to find the history of the men for whom some of Colorado’s highest mountains are named. But when it comes to peaks named for women, like Mount Ida, or Mount Flora – it’s tough to figure out just who those women were. With her new book, a Colorado author set out to discover some of that history.

In the late 1800s, silver mining made Leadville a wealthy city. But after the silver market crashed, city leaders faced economic hardship. So they decided to try an unusual idea to draw tourists to Leadville: They built a massive palace made out of ice. We’ll hear the story of the historic Leadville Ice Palace today on In The NoCo.

It’s easy to find the history of the men for whom some of Colorado’s highest mountains are named. But when it comes to places named for women, like Mount Ida, or Mount Lady Washington – it’s tough to figure out just who those women were. We talk with a Colorado author who set out to discover some of that history.