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

Category: Blood-Red Pencil blog, Books and Authors, Guest Blogger, The Writing Life, Writing Tag: Blood-Red Pencil blog, Katie Cat, Susan Meissner, The Last Year of the War, The Masked Singer, Wishing Caswell Dead

I Can’t Find the Toolbar

February 18, 2019 By: Patricia

Okay, there’s part of it. I do love change…really. I need to do more homework.

Category: Uncategorized Tag: Aargh, Wordpress update

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

Category: The Writing Life 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

Category: Photography, The Writing Life 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

Category: Blood-Red Pencil blog, Books and Authors, The Writing Life Tag: Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert, Kim Fu, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, Wishing Caswell Dead, Wishing Caswell Dead large print

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

Category: Books and Authors, Guest Blogger, Writing Tag: Bared Secret, C.K. Wiles, Chuck Harrelson, Kerrie Flanagan, Showtime Rendezvous, Stage Bound, Stark Reflections Podcast, writing collaborations

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

Category: Books and Authors, Guest Blogger, The Writing Life 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

Category: Books and Authors, The Writing Life, Writing 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

Category: The Writing Life 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

Category: Books and Authors, Guest Blogger, The Writing Life 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

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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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