Patricia Stoltey

Author

NaNoWriMo is Upon Us

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And I’m determined to complete the whole first draft of a novel this November. It may not be publishable, even with revisions, but it will hopefully get me writing again and help me establish a routine that I can continue on through December and into 2017. It’s day two, and I’m at 3,000 words. I …Read More

If You’ve Signed Up for NaNoWriMo…

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  Please stop by Chuck Wendig’s Terribleminds blog and read A Cooling Mist Of NaNoWriMo-Flavored Novel Writing Advice Especially pay attention to the part about not chewing your hands off. I finally picked a title for my NaNoWriMo project and entered it on the NaNo site. I added some things to my bio (I’m PattyPetunia …Read More

The Night Before the Snow Day … by Natasha Wing

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Note: Natasha has an active Goodreads giveaway for a copy of this book, but only one day left to sign up. When I was a kid growing up in Connecticut, I dreamed of snow days. For all you warm country people, that meant no school, snowman building, and sledding! The most disheartening sight was seeing …Read More

A Clever Book Giveaway on Goodreads from Natasha Wing and Bailey Cates

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In her Magical Bakery Mystery #6, Spells and Scones, Bailey Cates mentions a kid’s book called The Night Before Thanksgiving by Natasha Wing, author of the Night Before series. Now Natasha is doing a Goodreads giveaway featuring signed copies of both books. The giveaway runs from October 25th to November 2nd. You know you want …Read More

HEROES: Standing the Test of Time … by Joylene Nowell Butler

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I’m often asked how I create strong protagonists for my suspense novels. I love answering that question because in the initial stages, my protagonists are anything but strong. When introduced for the first time, Valerie (Dead Witness), Brendell (Broken But Not Dead), and Dakota (Break Time), tortured my beta readers with their blandness. My weakness …Read More

“Mâtowak: Woman Who Cries” and the team behind the book

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I recently had the pleasure of reading an advance review copy of the mystery Mâtowak: Woman Who Cries (scheduled release date November 1st) by Joylene Nowell Butler, and will have the additional good fortune of hosting Butler this week as my guest author. One of the interesting things about this novel is the team behind …Read More

Know When to Quit … by Liana Brooks

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“Never give up. Never surrender.” That’s my writing motto. Write regularly. Write through the bad days, the rejections, and everything else, and eventually you will write the books that you can build a career on. But there comes a point where you need to quit. Not quit writing, but quit writing that story, or that …Read More

Fame, Fate, and Fun With Words … by Kathy Lynn Emerson (aka Kaitlyn Dunnett)

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Back at the end of August, I had what most people would call my “fifteen minutes of fame” after Jimmy Fallon, on the Tonight Show, held up one of the cozy mysteries I write as Kaitlyn Dunnett, Ho-Ho-Homicide, and announced that “It’s got two things everyone likes—Christmas and murder.” I was stunned when I saw …Read More

Writing Beyond Expectations … by Matt Hilton

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When writing my first (published) novel – Dead Men’s Dust – I made a conscious decision to write something very different from other crime/thriller books on British bookshelves. There are traditions in crime fiction set in the UK where amateur sleuths or damaged Detective Inspectors tend to be the norm, and I was infinitely aware …Read More