My February guest author is the featured speaker for the Arkansas Writers’ Conference on June 3rd in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I met her at ScrivCon 2022, where she presented some excellent information for writers. I was lucky to spend some extra time with her and enjoyed her razor-sharp wit. Here are some fun things to know about her before you meet her in June.
Patricia Bradley is a Romantic Suspense Selah winner, Carol and Daphne du Maurier finalist and the winner of an Inspirational Readers’ Choice Award. Three anthologies that included her stories debuted on the USA Today Best Seller List.
She and her two cats call Northeast Mississippi home–the South is also where she sets most of her books. Her romantic suspense novels include the Logan Point series, the Memphis Cold Case Novels, and the Natchez Trace Park Rangers. She now hard at work on the second book in her new Pearl River series set in the Cumberland Plateau area above Chattanooga.
What are you working on right now? I am finishing up the second book in the Pearl River Series set in the Cumberland Plateau north of Chattanooga. Twenty-five years after her parents’ murders, Dani Bennett returns to Pearl Springs to find answers. Even though she saw the murderer, she has no memory of him or her life before she was eight. Attempts on her life begin before she even arrives, and K-9 officer, Mark Lassiter, comes to her rescue. He helps her regain her memory and catch the killer determined to kill Dani.
What is the one thing we would never guess about you? That at my advanced age (Not telling) I can still touch the floor flat-handed.
What book or book series have you recently enjoyed reading? Lynette Eason’s Danger Never Sleeps.
What is your next writing project? A proposal for Love Inspired Suspense based on the short story, the Defender, that I released December 5, 2022. Then the third book in the Pearl River Series, and at this point I don’t have a clue what it’s about.
How do you relax and recharge when you step away from writing? Hold on—I was laughing so hard after reading this question that I fell on the floor. I don’t think I’ve ever stepped away from writing since my first contract. It never fails that the day before I leave on a vacation, edits that have to be turned in arrive in my In-box.
What’s your best advice for other writers? Don’t give up. And study the craft so that when God opens the door, you’ll be able to walk through it to publication. I have a saying above my desk in the living room: Success is that place in the road where preparation and opportunity meet. Too few people recognized it because it comes disguised as hard work.
If you could be any fictional character, who would you be and why? I’d love to be the Invisible Man. Can you imagine the fun you could have with that?
Thanks for having me on your blog! This was fun.
Thank you for agreeing to do this!
Here is the link to the Arkansas Writers’ Conference information https://www.arkansaswritersconference.com/
You can connect with Pat at:
Blog: www.patriciabradleyauthor.com/blog
Twitter: @ptbradley1
FaceBook: www.facebook.com/patriciabradleyauthor
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ptbradley1/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ptbradley/
I’m so excited to be here!!
It’s an honor to have you!