Patricia Stoltey

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Uh…WordPress Changed Stuff While I Wasn’t Paying Attention

February 18, 2019 By: Patricia

I need to do some homework to figure this out. This is what happens when I get busy with something else (like the revisions and edits for my current novel-in-progress) and I don’t follow up on the update notifications. It’s called gross negligence. I guess I better get busy. I have a guest blogger scheduled …Read More

Tag: Arrgh!, Wordpress update

The Joys of the Season

December 24, 2018 By: Patricia

First of all, let me wish you a wonderful holiday season with a Merry Christmas and a happy, satisfying new year. My husband and I opt out of holiday travel so we can avoid the stress that comes with airports and airplanes and weather disruptions, not to mention the whole family gathering, gift-buying, cooking, and …Read More

Tag: Merry Christmas, Sassy Dog and Katie Cat

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

Exiting the Doldrums

December 6, 2018 By: Patricia

No, I haven’t been to the Equator I’ve been lost in those other doldrums–the kind characterized by inactivity and slothfulness. I don’t feel depressed, just plain old-fashioned lazy. I’ve read a lot of books though. And I have applied my critique group’s suggestions to my work-in-process. But have I finished the big revision yet? Nope. …Read More

Tag: Kerrie Flanagan, Lesa's Book Critiques, social media, Wishing Caswell Dead

Interview and Book Excerpt at the Colorado Sun

October 6, 2018 By: Patricia

Colorado Humanities has teamed with the Colorado Sun to spotlight this year’s Colorado Book Awards winners and finalists in the digital paper’s weekend SunLit feature. This weekend was my turn. The excerpt I selected from Wishing Caswell Dead is the chapter where Jo Mae Proud is introduced. There’s also an interview where I responded to …Read More

Tag: book excerpt, Colorado Humanities, Colorado Sun, interview, SunLit, Wishing Caswell Dead

The Hawks are Watching Me (and Sassy)

August 23, 2018 By: Patricia

First I heard the hawks in the neighborhood, then spotted two sitting on housetops on the route Sassy and I walk each morning. They screeched back and forth in an eerie call that made me think they were talking about us. The next day, the two had moved up a block, still on our walk …Read More

Tag: Hawks, Sassy

What do I do when I’m not writing? … by Karen C. Whalen

August 7, 2018 By: Patricia

There are periods of time when I don’t write, when I’m in between projects and just need to let my words simmer for a while. When I’m not writing, I’m reading books about the craft, or I’m reading other writers’ works for sheer pleasure, or I’m marketing, which means I’m scheduling book events and blogging. …Read More

Tag: #amreading, #amwriting, A Stewed Observation, blogging, coay mysteries, Dinner Club Murder Mystery series, Everything Bundt the Truth, Karen C. Whalen, No Grater Evil, Not According to Flan, reading, when I'm not writing

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

Reading at BookBar in Denver and other totally unrelated comments

April 30, 2018 By: Patricia

I had the best time ever on Friday evening when I read excerpts from Wishing Caswell Dead at the 2018 Colorado Book Award finalist event for general fiction, literary fiction, and poetry categories. BookBar in Denver was the location. What a great place! A bar and a bookstore, all in one awesome package. I always …Read More

Tag: #amreading, #amwriting, A Once-Dead Gemius in the Kennel of Master Morticue Ambergrand, BookBar, Colorado Book Awards, Colorado Humanities, garden, gardening, Northern Colorado Writers Conference, R. Gary Raham, Wishing Caswell Dead

When is a Cozy Mystery Series Not a Cozy Mystery Series? … by Alice Duncan

April 26, 2018 By: Patricia

When it’s my Daisy Gumm Majesty historical cozy mystery series! I swear this isn’t my fault. The idea for the series came to me in the early 2000s. The books were supposed to be cozy mysteries, and they were supposed to star a fake spiritualist-medium named Daisy Gumm Majesty, a young woman married to a …Read More

Tag: Alice Duncan, cozy mystery, cozy mystery series, Daisy Gumm Majesty series, ePublishing Works, historical cozy mystery, Spririts Unearthed

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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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