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! TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

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 →

Editing and marketing have made me dive back into my Royal Academy Trilogy after almost a year since I finished the third book.  In the interim, I’ve been working on a single point-of-view novel with a YA protagonist.  So going … Continue reading →