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| User: | patesden (12720706) pat esden
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| Name: | patesden | |||||
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| Bio: | I am a part time writer. You can find my fantasy novelette "Suck of Clay, Whir of Wheel" in issue #23 of Challenging Destiny magazine and my story "Myth of Keji" in the 2007 issue of Mythic Circle. My urban fantasy short story "Black Pumps and a Skanky Tom" will appear in the premier issue of Cat Tales( Wildside Press). My historic fantasy short story "The Braiding" was in Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show in January 2008—I’m particularly thrilled about this story. "The Braiding" is set in the Venetian Republic. It's about a woman glassblower who must make an animated glass heart with a magus in order to save the life of the daughter of the Doge. I coolest part about the story is that the glassblowing scenes are accurate thanks to a very talented man who showed me how it could be done. I’ve completed a pair of companion YA fantasy novels set in upstate New York--MATCHBOX DRAGON and SECRET KNOWLEDGE. MATCHBOX DRAGON is the story of fourteen year old LEDA WILLIAMS. Leda wants one thing—to know her father. When Leda learns her father is a Gypsy fiddler and steps into his travel trailer, she never dreams that her mother’s new boyfriend and his dangerous magic is about to come between them. SECRET KNOWLEDGE is the story of Leda’s best friend, MOSSY BURKE—a modern day Druid. On her sixteenth birthday Mossy’s future as the keeper of the Druids’ secret knowledge is divined. But when local fey and a ghost-dog that belongs to the king of the Underworld are tortured by someone who wants the same secret knowledge Mossy is charged with memorizing, Mossy may not be able to keep the secret which is closest to her heart: her boyfriend isn’t human--he’s half-heron/half-sprite, a fey considered both forbidden and dangerous. Right now, I'm working on another contemporary YA novel THE MYTHMAKERS. A month after Isa and Poppy graduate from high school, they take off for Shirewood’s Faery Faire in a bread truck they have converted into a storytelling theater on wheels. They plan on traveling the fair circuit for the summer--the same circuit Isa's dad and her fortunetelling stepmother are working. But Isa has just started dating Steve, a gypsy boy whom her father thinks is a loser. When Steve turns up severely beaten and refuses to say what happened, Isa sets out to prove the gossip and her father wrong—a choice that puts not only Isa’s fledgling buisness and her father’s respect at risk, but also means she may have to reveal supernormal talents she’s supressed for year. On the other side of my life, I'm a master florist who owns an 1830's country store in which I have a florist and antique business. I also write quarterly articles for Vermont Bride Magazine. Here's some links where you can read reviews and snippets of stories I've had published: http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=issue&vol=i7&article=_005 http://www.challengingdestiny.com/previews/destiny23.htm http://www.anthologybuilder.com/viewstory.php?story_id=239 Here are a few sites about writing that I belong to and recommend: Hatrack http://www.hatrack.com/ Verla Kay's http://www.verlakay.com/boards/index.php Codex neo-pro writing group http://www.codexwriters.com/ In Depth Writing Classes--take the classes, then come hang out with advanced writers' group http://www.writingindepth.com/ Would you like to have your cards read? http://www.isleofavalon.co.uk/tarot/ | |||||
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| Interests: | 24: antiques, birds, celtic myths, contemporary fantasy, druids, eatable wild plants, faery, fairies, floral design, folk remedies, folktales, golden retrievers, gypsy culture, highland games, historic fantasy, history, mythopoetic, new england myths, renaissance fairs, tarot, urban fantasy, writing, writing fantasy, ya | |||||
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| Member of: | 4: anthobuilder, cabinetdesfees, urbanfantasyfan, ya_fsf_con | |||||
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