Patricia Stoltey

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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

Two are Better Than One; Tips for a Successful Co-Author Partnership … by Kerrie Flanagan

December 12, 2018 By: Patricia

When you meet the one, it all falls into place. You no longer have to carry the burden alone. The workload is shared, you encourage each other through the tough times and celebrate successes together. With the right partner, co-authoring can be an incredible experience that fuses the synergy and talents of two writers into …Read More

Tag: Bared Secret, C.K. Wiles, Chuck Harrelson, Kerrie Flanagan, Showtime Rendezvous, Stage Bound, Stark Reflections Podcast, writing collaborations

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

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

The Other Arc … by Brian Kaufman

June 28, 2018 By: Patricia

The term character arc refers to the inner transformation of a novel’s character over the course of a story. A character begins the novel as a certain kind of person. As the plot progresses, characters react to developments in the story. By the novel’s end, each character is a different sort of person. The change …Read More

Tag: Brian Kaufman, Character arc, characters, The Fat Lady's Low Sad Song, thematic arc

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

What’s going on at your #amwriting spot?

April 24, 2018 By: Patricia

I’m sad to say not much actual writing has been going on in my favorite #amwriting place, which is my little office upstairs in the front corner of the house overlooking the court. I’ve hung out on social media a little, watched the pygmy nuthatch and the woodpecker jog up and down the tree out …Read More

Tag: #amwriting, Alice Duncan, Colorado Book Awards, procrastination, R. Gary Raham, Teresa R. Funke, Wishing Caswell Dead

How to Write Outside Your Experience … by Teresa R. Funke

April 17, 2018 By: Patricia

I used to get this question all the time, “What’s a young woman like you doing writing about World War II?” It was said sometimes with simple curiosity and other times with a tinge of suspicion. How could I, a young woman writing about a war that ended more than twenty years before I was …Read More

Tag: cultural diversity in writing, Dancing in Combat Boots, Home-Front Heroes Series, Teresa R. Funke, War on a Sunday Morning, World War II, write outside your experience, Writing Blueprints, writingblueprints.com

What the Heck Happened to January?

February 1, 2018 By: Patricia

Time sure does fly when I’m busy. For that matter, it flies pretty fast when I’m procrastinating, too. I spent a lot of hours in January reading suspense novels. I can recommend author Ruth Ware because I read two of hers and loved them (The Woman in Cabin 10 and In a Dark, Dark Wood). …Read More

Tag: Follow Me Down, Gordon MacKinney, Kenneth W. Harmon, Ruth Ware, Upon the Stage of Time, Wishing Caswell Dead

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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