Patricia Stoltey

Author

A Message from Katie Cat

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Pat’s too busy to play with me. So she says. Apparently she’s too busy to write a real blog post, too. She’s full of excuses, but I know the truth. It’s her turn to submit a couple of chapters to her critique group this week, and she hasn’t written one single word since May 24th. …Read More

Rules for Writers … by Susan Oleksiw

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During the last few weeks, the media has been full of discussions about slips and goofs and outright disasters on social media. Young college graduates are warned that an inappropriate selfie could ruin a chance at a good first job, a rant on Facebook could lead to ostracism, and an insensitive comment could bring down …Read More

When It’s Time to Update Websites and Social Media Sites

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Tending to my website between book releases turned out to be more like NOT tending to my website. I was shocked to see that I hadn’t done anything over there since 2010. I hadn’t even put the e-book covers front and center. (Hanging my head in shame!) It’s updated now. And I’ve done the little …Read More

The Cover Art for Dead Wrong (Five Star/Cengage, November 2014)

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I am very excited to post the cover for Dead Wrong, my suspense novel to be released by Five Star/Cengage in November 2014. Lynnette Foster is a woman on the run. She thinks her husband will be close behind, but she’s dead wrong about who’s chasing her. ADVANCE PRAISE FOR DEAD WRONG “Intrigue, vengeance, battles …Read More

It’s the Little Things That Drive Me Crazy

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And there were several of them this week. 1.  My son sent an over-sized birthday card without realizing it would need extra postage. In the past if I received mail with postage due, the mailman would deliver the mail anyway and put a little envelope in the mailbox for me to put the change owed …Read More

Mother’s Day Snow in Northern Colorado

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You saw the pansies right after I planted them in the previous post. Here’s what they looked like yesterday. The pansies were next to the dahlia, which is the thingie sticking up above the snow. And here’s what the flowers look like this morning. I don’t know know what else to say.

More Snow? Really?

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I was complaining the other day on Facebook that I’d planted a few pansies and a couple dahlias in one corner of my garden on a beautiful May day, and two days later we had hours of downpour, much of it in the form of hail. Needless to say, my flowers were shredded. We had …Read More

Writerly Stuff You Need to Know About

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Upcoming Classes in Colorado A Writer’s ToolboxFrom Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Note:  Chance to Win a Conference Registration Fee — RMFW is giving away a conference registration fee and two online classes as door prizes at the May Education Event.Presented by Hannah BowmanLiza Dawson AssociatesSaturday, May 178:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.MDenver, CO Novel and Memoir …Read More

Triple-header: Reaching Out to Readers … by Jacqueline Seewald

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T.S. Eliot said in “The Waste Land” that April is “the cruelest month.” I’m not certain whether this past April was one of my best months or one of my worst. I will explain. April 2014 saw the publication of three of my novels. The first was THE BAD WIFE, my 4th Kim Reynolds mystery, …Read More