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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 thought Heaven should be like a giant library with all the books in the world…but now I’m thinking a huge BookBar would be fine too. The author pictured to the left is Jayme Mansfield, reading from her historical novel, Rush.

Many thanks to Colorado Humanities and their Colorado Book Awards team. Their efforts to celebrate the books and their authors, with the help of BookBar, are much appreciated.

The event actually pulled me out of my slump and reset my attitude to #amwriting. Of course, knowing I had a submission due for my critique group this week helped. I’m working on a second Sangamon Village novel and having lots of fun with new research and a new assortment of characters, including some really bad dudes.

Northern Colorado Writers Conference

Friday morning (May 4th) I’m attending a two-hour master class on self-publishing at the NCW Conference in Fort Collins, CO. On Saturday, I’m attending all day to reconnect with friends I haven’t seen in a while and soak up a little more knowledge about writing. There’s always something new to learn.

The Garden

I finally got outside yesterday and planted the spinach and lettuce seeds in one of my garden boxes. At least those veggies are tough enough to survive the surprise snows and freezes we often get in Northern Colorado, even in May.

Next I’ll tackle the stripped flower bed by planting gladiolus bulbs. At the hardware store, I picked up a cute little hole digger to make it easier.

What I’m Reading

R. Gary Raham’s sci fi novel A Once-Dead Genius in the Kennel of Master Morticue Ambergrand: From Deathbed to Pethood and Beyond in Earth’s Far Distant Future is funny, brilliant, and complex enough to slow down my read even though I want to read faster to see what happens next. I’m abut 3/4 through the book which is downloaded from Net Galley, so I expect to finish it very soon.

That’s all I have for today. Hope you have a wonderful week with just enough rain and sunshine to make your flowers grow.

What are you reading and/or writing? Will you be attending any conferences or conventions this spring? Do you have a garden?

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

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

Will I See You at the Northern Colorado Writers Conference?

April 7, 2016 By: Patricia

I’m all registered and ready for another great experience at the Northern Colorado Writers spring conference in Fort Collins, Colorado on Friday and Saturday, April 22-23. The conference will be held at a new location this year. The Marriott Hotel in Fort Collins is centrally located and easy to find. The lineup of presenters is …Read More

Category: The Writing Life, Writer's organizations

Writing the Range with Northern Colorado Writers … by April Moore

February 25, 2016 By: Patricia

Rome wasn’t built in a day. That’s what I had to remind myself on January 1 when I embarked on setting up my first writers conference. It ended up taking me five weeks to gather nearly 25 presenters for the 2016 Northern Colorado Writers Conference. While I had been a part of the NCW Conference …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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