Author Archives: Pat Bowne

How cool a world is it, when you can put ‘publish novella’ on your to-do list and check it off before you’ve finished your coffee?  Admittedly, it was a large coffee. Anyway, for those of you wanting another Osyth ‘fix’ … Continue reading →

I’d be editing my novella ‘Unite and Conquer’ into Kindle format. I just got permission to use Chris Hadley’s painting, ‘The Cat Jury’ on its cover!  When I saw these wonderful, eerie cats, I knew they were the ones from … Continue reading →

I have a guest blog post up at Toni Sweeney’s ‘My blog.’ Drop over and check it out! And many thanks, Toni! Share This:TweetFacebookStumbleUponDiggDelicious

My chorus is singing excerpts from Les Miz, so revolution is on my mind for about a half-hour every Tuesday night.  The rest of the time, I do what I usually do — which includes scoping out enough academic news … Continue reading →

I’m not a huge fan of the chocolate-chip cookie, but every now and then I want one.  My local drugstore had an amazing sale the other day, with a box of cookies at about half the price of the name … Continue reading →

I’ve posted a few times on the persistence of Victorian Morals in girls’ fantasy, and how they lead to characters who do the self-sacrifice thing even absent any supernatural justification.  So I was pretty interested to come across a YA fantasy … Continue reading →

When my agent was marketing ‘Advice From Pigeons’ around, he sent me all the rejection e-mails.  I wasn’t sure whether I was grateful or not, but one of them stuck in my mind and has popped up every now and … Continue reading →