Coming Soon!
Pat has written a book!
Briefly, here’s what it’s about:
A young woman, after graduating from a nearby university with her
master's in English Lit, moves back home to her little South Carolina mill town,
gets engaged to her high school sweetheart and goes to work in the local
museum. And then she gets dumped by her fiancée. And then her father dies of a
heart attack. It’s a lot, right?
The book opens at her father’s funeral, and the reader gets the hint
that in addition to these two awful-enough experiences, she has endured as-yet-revealed
family tragedy as a child. Consequently, she wants to move away to avoid being
the town’s “poor thing” any longer.
She moves to Asheville to start over. It gets lighter then; she finds a
cool place to live, and she makes friends - a woman with a cop stalker and a
gay barista. Both of them are co-workers she meets when she gets a job in a
café-bookstore. She has romance, she runs into some danger, and she contracts
with a true crime writer who wants her to read his first effort at crime
fiction. He emails her some pages and she begins to get the eerie feeling that
he knows what happened to her family when she was a child. There are diverse
characters in the work, including a motorcycle riding, Cherokee roommate and a cat
named Stuart.
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Does anyone want more? Tell me what you would like
to see included in my book.
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One of my readers has a favorite scene:
She was invited by the kind
man to say her last goodbyes, but she declined saying she wanted to remember
her father striding out to his truck with an ever-present toothpick in his the
side of his mouth. She surprised herself with the sentiment, and as soon as she
said it, she knew it was true. Only then would she permit herself to cry real
tears, which gave the funeral director permission to do what he did best –
comfort her.
I will keep you
informed, and I definitely appreciate support and feedback: patjab40@gmail.com
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