Who is Patricia Pellicane?
Please welcome Patricia. Today she is here to tell us a little bit about herself and her new release.
1. First lets start off with you telling us a little about yourself.
Well, I could start off with my standard bio, but I’m getting tired of it and can only assume others have to feel the same. I’m not a very exciting person, although some folks think I am. Believe me I haven’t a clue why.
Pretty much I’m comfortable in my own skin, since this is the one I’m stuck with, and I haven’t much of a choice, I figure that’s a good thing.
I married a year out of high school. Fifty years ago. Still with the same man. Had seven children, so far have fifteen grandchildren, probably one more to go. Everyone lives within a town or so of my house, so we see each other often.
I work steadily on keeping a good attitude as I age. Cantankerous and crotchety people are so unbecoming, don’t you think?
Still there are a few things that get me riled. I suppose you might call them my pet peeves. One is, BUY AMERICAN. Can I say it clearer? With thousands out of work, how dare anyone of us choose a foreign product over one made in America? And the second is driving 20 miles an hour in a school zone. This one makes me crazy. When I slow down people beep at me and zoom past the first chance they get. Every day I’d say, “Where is a cop when you need one?” Until the day a cop was one of those zooming by.
Yeah, I called the precinct. No, I don’t expect anything to come of it, but it made me feel better. Is that crotchety do you think?
2. How long have you been writing?
About twenty years, with a eight year break in between. I had to work for medical coverage at our friendly neighborhood electric company. I love to say friendly electric company because I enjoy an oxymoron.
Probably ridiculous of me but I’m still waiting for that big break. Obviously an eternal optimistic.
3. What’s your favorite genre to write and read?
I love romance. The juicer and hotter the better.
4. I see you now review books have you come across any you didn’t enjoy?
I don’t enjoy shifters or vampires all that much and don’t review them often. Of course all of it is fantasy, but I think those push the envelope a bit. Just my personal opinion. I know some people love them.
5. How long does it take you to write a story?
Short stories take a little over a month. A novel closer to a year.
6. Where do your ideas come from?
Everything. Sometimes it’s part of a conversation, a word. Once a little girl’s name, but mostly ideas come when washing dishes. Could anything be more boring? My mind travels to far off places every time.
7. If you could be one author who would it be?
That’s a hard one. I love Steven King, not for his horror, but for his sense of humor. And then there’s Sandra Brown. She writes some hot stuff. James Patterson. Most of his stuff is crisp, clean and excellent. I don’t think I can name just one.
8. If you had to choose one place to live for the rest of your life where would it be? Probably New Orleans. I love that city. And New York of course, for the museums and shows and restaurants. Okay, I talked myself into it. New York. But there is San Francisco and the sea food. As you can see once I make up my mind you can’t sway me. LOL
9. Tell us where to find you?
ppellicane@gmail.com also my website www.patriciapellicane.com/
10. Where do you want you’re writing to go?
I strive to be the best I can be, which is why I read voraciously always searching for words, which I keep a list of to maybe use one day. Plus I rewrite a number of times before I’m comfortable with what I see. Writing to me is like poetry or music. It may not rhyme and of course it shouldn’t, but it has to flow smoothly like a song and when an odd word or phrase sticks out it knocks you out of the harmony, it destroys the rhythm and pulls you from the fantasy.
I’d like to one day be one of the best in my field.
11. I see you are published at Freya’s Bower as I am. Tell me what would you tell an author about FB if they were submitting to them?
I’d tell them the editors are wonderful, the publisher, always there to help promote, but they are sticklers for perfection in the mechanics of writing. Of course that is to everyone’s benefit as the finished products are really first class.
12. Is writing your only job?
Yes, thank God. I tried writing while keeping a full time job and couldn’t do it. I have to hand it to anyone who can. Where do you get your energy?
13. What is your favorite movie?
Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, The Notebook, Pride and Prejudice, see where I’m going here?
14. Do you have a new release coming out?
In May ‘Tell Me You Love Me’, a full length novel. It’s an historical set in 1800 England. It has the most beautiful cover.
15. If so tell us a little bit about it.
The story is about a serial murderer and of course a young lady who falls in love with gorgeous man who has some serious secrets.
16. Any future stories you can tell us about?
I have a short story for Total-e-bound, ‘Temptation’. Very hot. Contemporary romance with an old boyfriend that’s bound to give the lovers a bit of trouble. That will be out in July. Also in July a little longer story, ‘Heat Wave’, the second of a three book series for Resplendence. Western, set in 1866, Yuma, Arizona.
17. One last question. If you could give at least one piece of advice to a new author what would it be?
I’d tell them the road is long and terribly uneven, filled with extreme highs and desperate lows, but once bitten by the writing bug, nothing else is going to satisfy. And whether you make it big or not, the trip is part of the deal. So I’d say enjoy the ride and never, under any circumstances, ever give up.
Thank you so much for being here and I can’t wait to read your new story.
