Patricia Stoltey

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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

Category: Books and Authors, Guest Blogger, Writing 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

I’m a Reader with Eclectic Interests

April 15, 2018 By: Patricia

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

Category: Books and Authors, The Writing Life Tag: Barbara Nickless, Blood on the Tracks, C.K. Wiles, Cirque, eclectic interests, Kenneth W. Harmon, Mary Ellen Dennis, Showtime Rendezvous, Teresa R. Funke, The Paranormalist, War on a Sunday Morning

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

March 5, 2018 By: Patricia

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

Category: Books and Authors, The Writing Life, Writer's organizations Tag: a book to make you cry, A Few Things I've Learned, aches and pains in aging, books for better health, Chill out, Colorado Gold Conference, Left Coast Crime 2018, New life lessons, Northern Colorado Writers Conference, social media, social media is anti-social, The Art of Racing in the Rain

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

March 1, 2018 By: Patricia

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

Category: Books and Authors, Guest Blogger Tag: Alice Cooper, Catharine Carter Critcher, Edith Hamlin Dixon, Frances Flora Bond Palmer, Glenna Goodacre, How the West Was Drawn, Linda Osmundson, Malvina Hoffman, Mary Cassatt, women artists, women's art, Women's History Month, Women's History month--Artists

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

Category: Books and Authors, The Writing Life, Writing 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

Category: Blood-Red Pencil blog, Books and Authors, The Writing Life, Writing Tag: beginning, Blood-Red Pencil blog, breaking resolutions, getting organized, New Year's resolutions, Pat Stoltey, time managment

A Goodreads Giveaway for Wishing Caswell Dead

December 27, 2017 By: Patricia

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

Category: Books and Authors, The Writing Life Tag: Goodreads giveaway, Publishers Weekly, Western Writers of America, Wishing Caswell Dead

The Recipe for Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

December 24, 2017 By: Patricia

  As you can see from this card typed on a real typewriter back in the day, I’ve been using this recipe for a very long time. It makes a nice soft sugar cookie, especially if you don’t handle the dough too much by rolling out and adding flour as you roll and cut. The …Read More

Category: Pat's Favorite Recipes, The Writing Life Tag: Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

It’s All About the Book

December 22, 2017 By: Patricia

Sometimes, it seems there’s nothing else going on in my life  except for the book. Then I think about other little things I’ve done…like the day I baked two batches of banana-blueberry muffins and five batches of traditional Party Mix. Today I went to the library and stocked up on movies so I can do …Read More

Category: Books and Authors, The Writing Life, Writing Tag: book promotion, guest blog appearances, happy holidays, RMFW podcast, Wishing Caswell Dead

My Favorite Reads of 2017

December 12, 2017 By: Patricia

One of my goals for 2018 is to read more, lots more. For me, that means watch less television in the evenings. Should be an easy transition. A few years ago, I rarely watched TV because I always had my nose in a good book. Attacks of lethargy and stress and the lure of all …Read More

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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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