Patricia Stoltey

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A Bomb Cyclone This Week, Spring Flowers Next Week

March 14, 2019 By: Patricia

To tell the truth, I already had spring flowers before the bomb cyclone winds and snow arrived in Colorado this week. And in spite of the blizzard conditions yesterday, my purple crocuses popped right back up through the snow today. I do love Colorado weather (especially when I can stay inside with a cup of …Read More

Tag: Blood-Red Pencil blog, Bomb cyclone, Colorado weather, Five Star Anthology, Mary Birk, Sandra Dallas, spring flowers

Where There’s A Will, There’s Bound To Be A Way

February 19, 2019 By: Patricia

My WordPress Confusion And sure enough, after I did a little more homework, I found I could recall, install, and activate the classic editor screen for creating new blog posts…and use it until at least 2021. What a relief! I’m super busy right now and just don’t have the time to learn another blog writing …Read More

Tag: Blood-Red Pencil blog, Katie Cat, Susan Meissner, The Last Year of the War, The Masked Singer, Wishing Caswell Dead

When You Don’t Use an Idea Fast Enough, Does It Really Move on to Someone Else?

December 17, 2018 By: Patricia

Ideas Won’t Hang Around Forever? In 2015, Elizabeth Gilbert’s still best-selling book, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, was published. I read it then, and I’m getting ready to read it again this winter. The book gave me a lot to think about, but there’s one point Gilbert made that has come to pass in …Read More

Tag: Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert, Kim Fu, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, Wishing Caswell Dead, Wishing Caswell Dead large print

I’m at the Blood-Red Pencil Blog Today!

July 10, 2018 By: Patricia

For posts on writing and editing (and a few on the writing life), visit the Blood-Red Pencil blog on Tuesdays and Thursdays, plus some Friday guest and book birth day posts. You can subscribe to get email notices so you don’t miss a thing. My post for today is What is a Sentence? Come on …Read More

Tag: #amwriting, Blood-Red Pencil blog

A Schedule Do-Over and a Few Mini-Reviews

July 8, 2018 By: Patricia

Oh boy, I’ve really had it with Facebook. Having the social and info posts I want to see in my timeline controlled by a faceless algorithm and putting up with hate posts and comments so constant I have to unfollow people I care about have taken a toll. I’m in the process of shrinking my …Read More

Tag: Burning Ridge, C.K. Wiles, Greg Hunt, Margaret Mizushima, mini book review, The Carroll Farm Fight, Van Jones

At Least I’ve Been Reading Lots of Good Books

June 13, 2018 By: Patricia

Even though I’m not working as much on my work in process as I’d planned. Sometimes you just gotta read, read, read until you can’t read anymore. Here are the books I’ve enjoyed the most. Note I’m hopping from one genre to another and sampling lots of new (to me) authors as well as checking …Read More

Tag: Alice Duncan, Blood-Red Pencil blog, book reviews, Brian Kaufman, Karen C. Whalen, mini book review, P. Grady Cox

I’ve Returned to the Blood-Red Pencil Blog

January 4, 2018 By: Patricia

I’m back at the Blood-Red Pencil as a monthly contributor. My first regular post is up today, and it’s all about beginnings. Just because you made a New Year’s resolution and broke it before the end of the first week, you don’t have to throw in the towel. This year, look at those goals and …Read More

Tag: beginning, Blood-Red Pencil blog, breaking resolutions, getting organized, New Year's resolutions, Pat Stoltey, time managment

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Meet Patricia

I read, I write, I blog, and sometimes I do the laundry and cook. My 2014 novel, Dead Wrong, was a finalist in the thriller category of the 2015 Colorado Book Awards. Wishing Caswell Dead (Five Star/Cengage, December 20, 2017) is a historical mystery set in 1830s Illinois in the fictitious Village of Sangamon. The novel was a finalist for the 2018 Colorado Book Awards for General Fiction. Read More…

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