Patricia Stoltey

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Reading at BookBar in Denver and other totally unrelated comments

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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

When is a Cozy Mystery Series Not a Cozy Mystery Series? … by Alice Duncan

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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

What’s going on at your #amwriting spot?

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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

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

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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

I’m a Reader with Eclectic Interests

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I read almost all genres of fiction and tons of non-fiction besides. Currently I’m reading the advance review copy of an entertaining historical romance, Cirque, by Mary Ellen Dennis (available for pre-order in hardcover and ebook) and have also taken a peek at the beginning of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a [Fbomb]: A …Read More

A Few Things I’ve Learned Over the Last Couple of Years

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We’re never too old to learn new life lessons. I seem to pick up a few insights every year–things I should have known sooner and other revelations that unfold as life unfolds. Here are some of the thoughts that wander through my sometimes unfocused mind. Social media is more anti-social than social. It’s a bad …Read More

WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH – ARTISTS By Linda L. Osmundson

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The story goes that when Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) told her father she wanted to be a painter, he said, “I’d rather see you dead.” Such was the mentality about women in the arts – writers, painters, sculptors – for centuries. Women’s History month will most likely skip over women who contributed to art history. What …Read More

What the Heck Happened to January?

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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

I’ve Returned to the Blood-Red Pencil Blog

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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

A Goodreads Giveaway for Wishing Caswell Dead

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As promised, I’m giving away five hardcover copies of Wishing Caswell Dead on Goodreads. This giveaway is for U.S. residents.  Here’s the link: Goodreads Book Giveaway Wishing Caswell Dead by Pat Stoltey Giveaway ends January 05, 2018. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway In the early 1800s in a village on the Illinois …Read More