We're Steve Kudron and Jennifer Brown. We started our business in 2008, opened in Grand Lake in 2012 and soon made it home. In 2018 we bought the Overlook and opened it to friends and travelers as a gathering place; in 2021 it became our home. Most of the photographs on this site begin on its deck, or a few minutes up the road in the Kawuneeche Valley.
Steve has spent those years helping look after the town he loves, first as mayor and now as town manager, working on housing, getting around, and keeping Grand Lake's history and character intact. He rarely leaves the house without a camera, and he writes novels as Stephen Krown. Jennifer is a writer with an MFA in Creative Writing who writes novels as Roxy J. Brown, the owner of The Mountain Gal and Quacker Gift Shop, and a champion of the arts through the Grand Lake Creative District. Diesel, Daffodil and Delilah, our cats, supervise.
About Steve Kudron (Stephen Krown)
Steve Kudron, who writes as Stephen Krown, came to Grand Lake in business and stayed to serve the town, first as mayor and now as town manager. When he isn't at Town Hall he's usually somewhere in the Kawuneeche Valley with a camera, waiting on a moose. Float: The Mostly True Adventures of Casey Wrobel is his first novel. The author portrait is by Heather McGarey.
About Jennifer Brown (Roxy J. Brown)
Jennifer Brown is a writer, entrepreneur and community arts advocate in Grand Lake. She writes picture books under her own name and novels as Roxy J. Brown. A fifth-generation Oklahoman with an MFA in Creative Writing and a degree in history and women's studies, she writes about how place, memory and family shape the stories we carry. She owns The Mountain Gal and Quacker Gift Shop and works with the Grand County Tourism Board and the Grand Lake Creative District. She is the author of Mittens the Mountain Kitten and The Christmas Cabin.
See the prints in person
The photo wall and our Grand Lake Authors shelf are at Quacker Gift Shop at 1034 Grand Avenue in Grand Lake, downstairs from The Mountain Gal.