Patricia Stoltey

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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

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

Category: Blood-Red Pencil blog, Writing Tag: #amwriting, Blood-Red Pencil blog

A Schedule Do-Over and a Few Mini-Reviews

July 8, 2018 By: Patricia

Oh boy, I’ve really had it with Facebook. Having the social and info posts I want to see in my timeline controlled by a faceless algorithm and putting up with hate posts and comments so constant I have to unfollow people I care about have taken a toll. I’m in the process of shrinking my …Read More

Category: Blood-Red Pencil blog, Books and Authors Tag: Burning Ridge, C.K. Wiles, Greg Hunt, Margaret Mizushima, mini book review, The Carroll Farm Fight, Van Jones

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

Category: Books and Authors, Guest Blogger, Writing Tag: Brian Kaufman, Character arc, characters, The Fat Lady's Low Sad Song, thematic arc

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

Category: Blood-Red Pencil blog, Books and Authors, The Writing Life 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

Category: Books and Authors, The Writing Life, Writer's organizations 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

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

Category: Books and Authors, Guest Blogger, The Writing Life, Writing Tag: #amwriting, Alice Duncan, Colorado Book Awards, procrastination, R. Gary Raham, Teresa R. Funke, Wishing Caswell Dead

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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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