Author2Author Blog Chat welcomes;
Author, P.L Blair
to the sofa!
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Ellie
Oh my gosh, Pat (P.L), how are you?
P.L
I’m very well, thank you, Danni (Ellie). How are you?
Ellie
I’m okay thanks hun. I’m so pleased today to have you here, we had an awesome time over at our Spotlight and now you have joined me here at the Author2Author BC Class of 2014, sofa.P.L Blair is my sixth guest on our all new Author2Author Blog Chat, and the sixth guest to appear on the Fantastical Reads Event that I’m covering over on Facebook.
Please note: The Fantastical Reads Event has now ended (8th Feb). For those of you who had joined us on this event, thank you so much for your support.And to those who missed it! I’m so sorry that you did, the party was awesome!
Ellie
Pat! (P.L!) Make yourself at home and we’ll begin as soon as you’re ready.
{P.L
smiles and wiggles in her spot. Bows her head to indicate that she is ready,
Ellie smiles}
Ellie
Pat (P.L), I know you would like take it away and I’m just gunna sit back for a moment and let ya!
{Ellie
pokes her tongue out at P.L, playfully}
Ellie
Take it away hun.
{P.L
Smiles as she takes Ellie’s question sheet out of her hand, and starts with the
first question}
P.L
Yes and thank you Danni (Ellie).About me? Okay, well my name is P.L Blair – I write under my own name … Sort of. The initials stand for “Patricia Louise.” I chose to write as P.L. Blair because – well – the woods are crawling with Pat and Patricia Blairs, and Patricia Louise is kind of mouthful.I was born Aug. 18, 1947 – yep, I'm a Leo!
{P.L
gives a big grin}
P.L
I was born in Tyler, Texas, and spent a big chunk of my life there and, later, Corpus Christi and Rockport, Texas, before moving to Sheridan, Wyo. I'm still single – after all these years
{P.L
chuckles along with Ellie}.
P.L
Because I never wanted to be anything, really, except a writer, I took journalism courses in high school then went on to Tyler Junior College and Texas Woman's University, where I got my bachelor of arts degree in journalism. I've always wanted to write books, but the practical side of me said, “Yes, but you have to find a way of earning a living while you're learning about this book thing.”
{P.L
grins}
P.L
So most of my life, I've worked for newspapers and, recently, a combined cluster of radio stations/online publication (Sheridan Media) here.My religious beliefs – I'm a Christian, no particular denomination. I've attended all kinds of churches from Baptist to Methodist to Lutheran. I do believe in the afterlife, that as a follower of Christ, I will go to Heaven when I die. But … as with so much else in my life … my beliefs are not always conventional. I don't think we humans become angels when we die. Angels are a special creation of God. I do believe that Heaven will offer us our hearts' desires …All of that said, I don't think it's my place to try to push my beliefs on other people. Talk about them, yes, when invited. Shove them at people, no. I believe religion is a very personal thing. Even Christ told His disciples that, if they went into a town where no one would listen to them, they were to leave that place. They were to go only where they were accepted.
{Ellie
chuckles}
Ellie
What about the chicken and the egg questions?
{Ellie
leans over the pages and points to the question at hand. P.L Laughs}
P.L
In terms of evolution – yes
{Ellie
and P.L Grin at each other}
P.L
I do accept the theory of evolution as it was devised by Darwin and modified in the decades since – definitely the egg. Fish lay eggs, amphibians and reptiles lay eggs. And yet … Can you picture a velociraptor mom watching her babies hatch and … out from one of them straggles a … chicken? Is it baby, or is it lunch?
{P.L
laughs}
P.L
So maybe the chicken did come first!
Ellie
Astrology, Fate and Destiny …?
P.L
I guess I'm a little bit into astrology. At least … I don't reject outright the idea that stars can have some impact on who we are and what we do. The coldly logical side of me asks how I can be affected by the position of constellations that have, in fact, relocated themselves thousands of years before I was born. On the other hand, since I'm an extremely right-brain person – so I've been told – I can see, for example, the “Leo” traits in myself, and the characteristics of the other signs of the Zodiac in friends and acquaintances.As for Fate and Destiny … I do kind of believe in them. It's either that
{P.L shrugs}
P.L
Or I do indeed have a guardian angel who works overtime sparing me from the worst consequences of the many accidents and brushes with near-death that I've had through the years.
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P.L
Do I believe we'll achieve time-travel? I do. I caught a statement by a physicist a while back, something to the effect that there is no reason in the laws of physics why time should exist – that is, the division of time into units such as hours, days, years, etc. Effectively, he was saying that all of time, from inconceivably distant past to inconceivably distant future, exists right now, in this moment. We just can't perceive it. And maybe that's a good thing, or we might all be on the Midnight Express to insanity. But … if he's right, then it's conceivable that we might one day discover the key to unlock whatever doors separate us from “yesterday” and “tomorrow.”On the other hand, maybe we already have it without knowing it. I sometimes think of time-travel in connection with reports of hauntings in various places. I do believe in ghosts – and other spirits – and I think there may be myriad explanations for them. But … There are some places that are “haunted” by re-enactments of past events. And I think {shrugs}, maybe those aren't “hauntings” at all. Maybe those are places where the doors between past and present are at least partially open, so we get a glimpse into the actual reality.
{P.L
turns over the page and laughs}
P.L
What advice would I give my 18-year-old self?
{Ellie
laughs}
Ellie
I know. I do love this question as well.
P.L
I would take a copy of Shadow Path (book 1 in my Portals series) back with me, shove it into her hands and say “Start writing NOW!”A few of my favorite things:Music – No one kind of music, really. I'm kind of eclectic; I like a bit of this and a dab of that. When I'm writing, if I can have music at hand, I like movie sound tracks – Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Raiders of the Lost Ark – that kind of thing.
Ellie
Oh my god me too!! AT the moment I’m listening to Oblivion soundtrack, dark and haunting but beautiful and I swear it’s perfect for what I’m writing.
{P.L
Smiles}
Ellie
Continue
{Ellie
laughs and P.L Looks back at the sheet of paper}
P.L
Bands – My all-time favorite band is still Journey, back in the days when Steve Perry was lead singer. That man had a tremendous vocal range.Artists – Again, hands down, Steve Perry in the vocal category. Composers? Howard Shore, who scored all of the LOTR movies. The music is sweeping and grand, and wonderful to write to!Movies – The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, closely followed by the two Hobbit movies I've seen so far. After that, Pirates of the Caribbean – the first one in particular.TV – I love the CSI shows. They are part of what inspired me to write my Portals books. Also, Criminal Minds. I am a huge fan of Doctor Who, although it's been hard to get here in Sheridan, Wyo. I just recently was able to connect with the “Premium” channels so I can now get BBC America – which is a joy, but Doctor Who is currently on hiatus.
Ellie
Big Doctor Who fan myself, glad you guys are getting it out there as well. It’s filmed in my hometown as well! And Torchwood.
{Ellie
pokes her tongue out playfully and P.L Laughs}
P.L
Actors/actresses – I am a fan of David McCallum, who I fell in “crush” with as Illya Kuryakin, the cute Russian spy on The old man from Uncle TV series. In fact, Illya has stayed with me all these years and is the model, in part, for Tevis mac Leod, the Elf detective in my Portals books. My favorite “actress,” in fact is less actress than TV personality. I am a huge fan of Carol Burnett. The woman is smart, funny, delightful to watch. Her “Carol Burnett show” on TV was always on my must-watch list. More recently, I really like Marg Helgenberger, a very talented woman.
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{P.L
turns over the page}
P.L
My writing – inspiration and how long I've been doing it …Well I have two major inspirations, and the first was Daddy – my grandfather – who read to me starting before I was old enough to talk. I can still recall sitting on his lap, listening to his voice … I couldn't get enough of the wonderful stories he read, and as I got older, I would make up my own stories based on the characters in the books that he read – and that I could later read for myself. So I guess I got bitten by the writing bug before I was old enough to attend school. I wrote my very first story at the age of 7 … something about a witch – amazing that I still remember that nearly 60 years later!
{P.L
laughs and Ellie smiles}
P.L
The second great influence in my life was when I discovered JRR Tolkien. I read The Hobbit, then Lord of the Rings – and I thought, “I want to write books like that!”
Ellie
Same, same!
P.L
Talents other than writing …I enjoy painting. I'm a dabbler and cannot draw worth a darn, but I do love painting landscapes and, even more so, seascapes. I've done a few paintings just for fun. I also love doing research – any kind of research! History is one of my favorite subjects, not the dry facts and dates but the untold stories, the history behind the history. I also, as a hobby, research pedigrees of Thoroughbreds and American quarter horses.But my writing is my greatest passion. I would love to write every day for the rest of my life – and to finally be found face-down on my keyboard at, say, around a hundred and ten years or so old, having just typed the last word of the last sentence of my last book. I think my characters, I dream my characters. My greatest fear is that I will run out of ideas to put on paper. On the other hand, I write stories that involve characters from our myths and folklore, so I hope that will give me a long-running supply of ideas and plotlines.I have dabbled in other forms of writing besides novels. Occasionally I write poetry, now and then a song. I would love to find someone who can write music, because … I hear my songs in my head, but I cannot write a lick of actual music.
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And – of course – I write news articles and features for Sheridan Media. That's my “day job.”
I don't have a lot of hobbies, and most of them revolve around writing. I enjoy – as I've mentioned – researching horse pedigrees. I read voraciously when I'm not writing. My favorite books are fantasies, closely followed by detective novels and, more recently, paranormal romance. I'm eclectic, though, and I enjoy the occasional western, nonfiction on a variety of subjects, biographies … Pretty much anything I can get my hands on (or get through Kindle or Nook).Where would I like to be in five years' time? I would like to be a hugely successful writer with a large following of fans who truly enjoy my books. Of course I'd love to have enough money to survive comfortably, but … For me, money has never been the driving force in what I do. Would I love to be a billionaire? Of course. But what I want most of all is for people to really, really like my books. At heart, I'm not so much a writer as a teller of stories. I want people to enjoy the stories I tell.
Ellie
I couldn’t agree with you more, Pat (P.L), on that last part. Nothing means more to me when it comes to my writing than the fans/ followers we generate at the end of the day. The money is a bonus I ain’t gunna lie but to be honest the thought that people love my work and want more, that’s the thing right there like, that’s the drive. Thank you for pointing that out, it was perfect; it’s exactly how I feel also.You can carry on now…
{Ellie
laughs}
Ellie
Just had to agree with you there, sorry to interrupt ya
{Ellie
Winks and they laugh together. P.L continues the next question}
P.L
Can I write on demand or under pressure? I think that's when I do my best writing, because … That's how I developed my writing style, through 30-plus years of writing for newspapers. Newspaper editors notoriously do not believe in “muses,” nor are they tolerant of reporters waiting around for the muse to “show up.” I've spent a good chunk of my life attending meetings or conducting interviews, then heading back to an office (or the home office) with only two or three hours to churn out anywhere from one to four or five stories.Plus, when you work for a newspaper, you write in a state of only slightly controlled chaos. Newsrooms (at least the ones I've worked for) are open, reporters' desks separated by only a few feet at most. So while you're writing a story, the guy at the desk beside yours may be on the phone, or interviewing someone seated in the spare chair at his desk. An editor is walking around wanting to know if stories are ready – or interrupting to ask if, when you get done with your current story, can you please make a phone call … Or your own phone is ringing, someone who needs to talk to you right now! Even working out of my home, I still do my best work when there's at least some background noise going on. I have trouble working when things are too quiet.
Ellie
That sounds epic hun, to be able to put up with that, all at the same time is personally to me amazing. Even though it’s a dream of mine haha!
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Ellie says in retrospect:
At this stage of the interview I had asked P.L if she could write on demand, under pressure and I have her a small sample of a story scenario to complete for me. Here is what happened
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Ellie
Complete the Story …I’d been at work all day, the last working day of the year. Never have I missed a day at work all year round. And seeing as this was a fact, I decided to take a detour on the way home and catch up with some old buddies of mine at our local bar, ‘Daggers’.“Jeez, is that the time!” I jumped from my seat. I had been here for almost three hours; Marcy would almost certainly be worried about me.I hurried to my truck but I was unable to drive; I drank way too much, and I’d be stupid too. So I walked to the bus-stop and who should I see but the mom of Jimmy, one of my son’s friends. She waved at me.She pulled to the curb. “You going my way, Stranger?” she joked. I laughed along with her. She lived in my street; of course I was going her way. I jumped in her car and we headed off onto the highway home. She looked at me from the side, taking me in; she talked away about nothing going on, expecting me to be all-knowing when suddenly there was a light in the sky, brighter than anything I’d seen before. Tracee pulled the car over on the shoulder and we both leapt from the car to get a better view. Many had the same idea, and had also stopped, getting out of their cars.“What the heck…?” Tracee gleamed; she didn’t seem scared one bit.We stood in silence as we watched the light turn into what looked like a shooting star across the sky, heading straight for our town. “Was it a meteor!” Some guy shouted from the way, as he ran off for shelter. It couldn’t be, we’d know about it! But then again I’ve been in the pub, maybe they had announced it and I just didn’t see it.“Was there anything on the news?” I asked Tracee.“Not that I saw,” she answered without taking her eyes from the sky.Everyone covered their ears like one big Mexican wave. The sound that bellowed through the airwaves pierced the drums and caused dramatic static; deafening to all. …*
{P.L smiles, she
thinks for a moment and continues my story}
P.L
Then the sound stopped. Just ...Stopped. Hands pulled away from ears. People looked around – questions in their eyes, and ... Fear. I swallowed. I felt the fear too – and the questions. What had happened? Had we all gone deaf? Or ...Was it something worse. Moving as one, we all looked toward the heavens.The meteor had stopped too. It hovered above us, no longer a meteor, no longer bright and glowing. It was ...It had become ...A ship. One of those flying saucer things that science and the military said didn't exist. I tried to swallow moisture into a throat that suddenly felt like parchment.I couldn't even work up a decent spit.Tracee's hand slipped into mine, her palm slick with sweat, seeking a comfort I couldn't give. Above us – directly above us – a ... a door? A hatch? Something slid open in the ship. Light spilled out, a sudden burst so bright it was painful. I looked away, eyes squinting shut, ears assaulted by the shrilling cries that rose around me. Was my voice part of it? I didn't know.The light dimmed, and I dared look up, spots swimming in my vision, but I could at least see. Something stood in that open hatchway, a shadow – shadows, my brain corrected. More than one.The crowd fell silent. Silence hung around us like a tangible thing, a beast of terror come to life.“People of Earth!” The voice boomed from the ship above us. English! Whatever – whoever – these things were, the voice spoke English! “People of Earth! Do you think you've been alone all these millenia? Do you think we have not watched you, waited, guided, tried to correct you? Have you not guessed the truth?“No.” The shadows moved as though – as though heads were wagging in slow disappointment. “No, you have not. But we are here now to tell you the truth. People of Earth, you have been an experiment, and ...“The experiment has failed.” The shadows withdrew. Just for an instant, that blinding light spilled out.Then it was gone, the ship above us sealed. “People of Earth,” the voice boomed from somewhere within that saucer-shaped mass overhead, “you have failed. The experiment is ended. We made a mistake with you.”The ship suddenly bristled with what appeared to be long tubes – a lot of long tubes, open and pointing at us – at everything around us. Some kind of purplish light glowed at the end of each tube we could see.“We are here,” the voice boomed, “to correct our error.”
{Ellie
laughs}
Ellie
Epic!
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{P.L smiles}
P.L
Now we’re on the questions about my work
Ellie
Oh here it comes!
{They both laugh
together}
P.L
Shadow Path, book 1 in my Portals series. It's the intro to the rest of my books. All are written to stand-alone – the detective novel format – but Shadow Path sets the tone for the rest. I'm published by Studio See Publishing LLC, a small company based in Sheridan, Wyo., that – like me – is still in that struggling-for-recognition stage. Pam See, the company CEO, in fact launched the company with publication of Shadow Path, so she and I have kind of been informal partners from the beginning.What inspired me to write my first book? Age!
{P.L
Laughs}
P.L
I've always wanted to write books. I took journalism courses and got into news coverage because I wanted a way to support myself while I wrote books. Somewhere along the way, I got caught up in the news work and…
{P.L shrugs}
P.L
…the dream of writing books kind of got lost in the shuffle. Then … suddenly its 2006, I'm 59 years old with the 60th birthday looming in less than a year. And I thought, if I was going to become an author of books … I had better … actually … write one of those things! So then, of course, it was a matter of what kind of book I would write. Which was easy – I love fantasy, so … But then I also love mysteries and police procedurals – and a huge fan of the CSI shows on TV – so that's where the detective element came in.My books are urban fantasy with a dash of police procedural and a whiff of romance that has built with each successive book. I am … I have to confess … a bit prudish, so the romance element – so far – is nothing that a late-teen couldn't read. In fact, with my first three books, I have readers as young as 10 or 11, and Shadow Path and Stormcaller have both won awards from the Paranormal Romance Guild in the Young Adult category.
Ellie
Congrats!
P.L
Thank you. So, so far my published work has been in the urban fantasy category. In fact, all of my published books to date have been in the Portals series. I do have a so-far-unpublished epic fantasy book, first in a planned trilogy. That's harder for me to write than urban fantasy because I'm not really a world-builder, nothing like Tolkien in that regard. Basically I'm a story-teller rather than a writer; I just tell my stories in writing. So I tend to shy away from map-making and world-building, things that slow down the story-telling process.To date, it hasn't been hard to come up with ideas and plots, because I draw on characters/creatures from myths and folklore. I think about how those beings would “fit in” – or not – in our modern, human world – and how we humans would cope if suddenly we're confronted by magic-wielding beings from our fantasies. Or straight out of our worst nightmares. My plots so far have come out of little snippets of “what if,” my own daydreaming about how we would react if suddenly someone is using a rune-inscribed sword to commit murder. Which, by the way, is the basis of Shadow Path. In Stormcaller, book 2 in my series, the plot centers around Tlaloc, a god out of Aztec myth, who comes to our human world with a demand and an ultimatum: Restore his worship as in the old days, complete with human sacrifice, or he will send a killer storm to devastate the Texas coast.As for my characters, the two main ones – human police detective Kat Morales and her elf partner, Tevis – came very easily. Tevis, as I've mentioned, is a bit of Illya Kuryakin – appearance and some of his traits – mingled with Sherlock Holmes, still my all-time favorite fictional detective. Kat has Hispanic roots, because there is a large Hispanic population in South Texas where my novels are set, so that just seemed natural to me. But there's a lot of me in her – or at least the me I would like to be: smart, attractive, sexy, strong enough to take on the bad guys that she deals with as a cop and strong enough to let her feminine side come through.
{Ellie
chuckles}
Ellie
Awesome!
P.L
Do I ever get random moments when I suddenly get ideas flying at me in all directions? Oh yeah! I nearly always have a notepad and pens with me, so when those moments happen, I try to get them written down as fast as possible. On more than one occasion, I've pulled over to the side of a road to scribble down entire paragraphs or pieces of dialog – or scribbled down something while I'm stopped at a traffic light. I'll even write stuff down at Stop signs if traffic isn't stacking up behind me.
P.L
Who was/is the easiest character to write? Kat, because she is me in so many ways. I don't have to stop and think about how she's react to a situation. I already know.Who was the hardest character to write? That would be the Deathtalker, the title villain in book 3 of my series. He is/was a serial killer with a unique way and reason for his murders. He is/was a kind of psychic vampire, seducing young women into falling in love with him, then forcing them to kill themselves so he can feed on their life forces as they're dying. Deathtalker was the first book in which I wrote from points-of-view other than Kat's, and I gave myself the bigger challenge of writing from the Deathtalker's POV. So I'm crawling inside the head of someone that I didn't really want to associate with. It was an interesting experience.Favourite character? Tevis! In part because I love elves, and in part because I then modeled him after one of my all-time favorite TV characters.
{P.L
turns the page}
P.L
Do I have anyone who beta reads my work before I publish? I have several in fact. My publisher – who actually was my beta reader before she became my publisher! Also another author of fantasies who has both proof-read and beta read my most recent book, Sister Hoods. And … a friend/SF fantasy fan down in South Texas who beta reads not only for grammatical/spelling correctness and the overall flow of the book but who makes sure that I stay on-track in the books' setting. It's been a while since I lived in the Corpus Christi/Rockport areas, so I occasionally “misplace” streets and other landmarks
{P.L
chuckles}
P.L
Do I have a ritual before or during writing? Not really. I usually just plop myself down at the laptop and start! I usually devote the morning hours to the creative stuff, and the afternoon for editing/proofing, that kind of thing. I'm a morning person, up usually by around 5-5:30, and by around 5 or 6 in the evening, I'm brain-dead. So I schedule my writing to be when I feel at my peak creatively.And yes you’re are right, writers do often spend their time researching, I put in a lot of time on the web – not only researching places but researching information in general that I need. I do internet searches to refresh my memory on the creatures I'm using in my books – nymphs, for example, or satyrs, research on Tlaloc when I decided I wanted to use him. I seldom use the creatures exactly the way our myths or folklore record them. My books are based on the idea that our ancestors had contact with these beings – which is why we have stories of them – but that around a thousand or so years ago, they ceased coming to our world. So, as we tend to do, we humans have “embellished” the stories about these beings, and forgotten the reality behind the myths. So I feel free to make changes in these beings and their behavior. In Shadow Path, for example, you will discover that Pixies in my world have very little in common with Tinker Bell. But I want to have a baseline before I start making variations.
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P.L
How long does it take me to write a book, and how much down time do I have in between completion? Usually … somewhere between six and 10 months for completion. For downtime so far, that can be measured in days – or hours. I've been lucky so far in that the idea for the next book has come to me before I've finished writing the current work-in-progress.
Ellie
Pretty blessed then, I needed a break between Book 2 and 3, so I took to reading and TV watching
{Ellie
laughs}
P.L
Literary influence? W.B. Yeats – because when I was around 9 years old, I discovered his compilation of folk tales of Ireland. That's what set me on a course of reading about folk tales and myths from other countries, and awakened all the wonder of magic and the Little People.
{P.L
looks at next questions and smiles}
P.L
Now this is a good question.If my books had a soundtrack, who would create it and would it be motion picture or score? You know this one Danni (Ellie), it would have to be Howard Shore, because of his work on Lord of the Rings. I would settle for score, but it would be awesome to see my books done as movies!
{Ellie
Laughs}
Ellie
I thought you’d like that question. The one after it as well
{P.L
Looks to the next question and smiles}
P.L
Yes you’re right!If my books were turned into movies, what actors/actresses would you have to play your characters? Other than Tevis – for whom I would ideally like someone as close as possible in appearance to a young David McCallum – I really haven't got that far. I would love to see a series of movies, of course – starting with Shadow Path and continuing like the Harry Potter series.
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P.L
So what’s up next for me? And of all my books/stories, which is my favourite? I'm working on book 5 in the series – Working title: Unholy Cause. Without giving too much away, it deals with a pending clash between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, with our Human world as the chosen battleground. Looking into the future … I'm working on some way of getting Kat and Tevis to Sheridan. I keep getting images of Dwarves and/or a Dragon in the Big Horn Mountains up here! There is gold in the Big Horns, after all …Oh My God, favourite! That's hard! I love Shadow Path, because it's my firstborn, so to speak. And book 4, Sister Hoods, because it takes the relationship between Kat and Tevis to the next level … So those two are the contenders – so far – for my all-time favorite.
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P.L
My all-time favorite quote – and I wish I knew who to attribute it to: “Life isn't about waiting out the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.”And lastly; I want to say that I love to write! I love the creative process, love telling stories – love entertaining people. I used to play Dungeons and Dragons – until 10 years or so ago when the group broke up. One of my favorite character classes was the Bard. I had several bard characters because, at heart, that's who I am, I think: an entertainer, a lifelong learner who enjoys making discoveries and telling stories and sharing those discoveries with others. I write my Portals books for escape. If you find anything in them that's profound or earth-shattering, I'm okay with that, but they aren't intended to be either of those things. They are written for pleasure, and if they carry you out of the mundane world for a few hours while you're reading them, if they transport you to someplace magical and wondrous, they have achieved their purpose.I really hope that you will pick up one or two of them – and that you will enjoy the adventure and the fun.
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eBook - £3.18/ $5.24.Paperback - $34.95.Print Length: 230 pages.Publisher: Studio See Publishing, LLC (31 Oct 2012)Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.ASIN: B00A03NM9I.Paperback: 240 pages.Publisher: Studio See Pub Llc (March 15, 2009)ISBN-10: 0979697433/ ISBN-13: 978-0979697432.Book Blurb:
He was born without a soul … called
into being with only one purpose: to bring death to women who are caught in his
seductive snare. Will Kat, Tevis and their allies stop him? Or will Kat become
another of his growing tally of victims?
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Image provided by PLB Paperback - ?Print Length: 292 pagesPublisher: Studio See Publishing, LLC (27 Oct 2013)Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.ASIN: B00GC5BRI6.Paperback: 292 pagesPublisher: Studio See Pub Llc (May 15, 2010)ISBN-10: 0979697441/ ISBN-13: 978-0979697449.Book Blurb:A bank robbery in Rockport, Texas, sends Corpus Christi police detective Kat Morales and her elf partner, Tevis, in pursuit of a band of nymphs and satyrs. The answer to their initial question - why nymphs and satyrs would rob a bank - only leads them into a deeper mystery in an enchanted woodland on the South Texas coast. And while he and Kat try to save the woods from an evil wizard and a deadly wyvern, Tevis finds himself engaged in a personal struggle with potentially disastrous consequences: He is deeply, irrevocably in love with his partner ...
terrific interview Pat
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