Tag: pat bertram
member name: Pat Bertram
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June 16, 2009 01:39 AM EDT --
On Tuesday June 16, 2009 I'm going to be interviewed on Rita Schiano's blogtalk radio show: Talk To Me...Conversations With Creative, Unconventional People. I would love to have you call in with a question. . . .
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May 17, 2009 10:56 AM EDT --
On May 17, 2007, I --- or rather, Pat Bertram --- signed up for the Internet, and it was love at first byte. The entire world opened up to me, and I was reborn. I’d already written four books, . . .
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January 27, 2008 12:54 PM EST --
To be real, a character must have strengths and weaknesses. I have been creating a profile for Chip, the hero of my work in progress, and I know some of his strengths: he is independent, can . . .
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January 31, 2009 09:09 PM EST --
Win an autographed copy of More Deaths Than One (my very first autograph!) and your choice of two other titles from Second Wind Publshing LLC.
The premise:
A friend of mine found an . . .
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July 26, 2009 09:44 PM EDT --
When he entered the cornfield and saw the stalks closing in over his head, his heart beat faster and icy beads of sweat chilled his brow. He wiped his clammy hands on his pants and forced himself to relax. . . .
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January 17, 2008 12:33 PM EST --
On Tuesday I received two encouraging emails. The first was a rejection letter from an agent:
"Thank you for allowing us to review your manuscript for Light Bringer . Your writing is very . . .
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January 09, 2009 02:53 PM EST --
Some of you read this chapter when I posted it for the TruTV Search for the Next Great Crime Writer contest (which I did not win -- what were they thinking?) but I'm pleased to announce . . .
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January 24, 2008 01:18 PM EST --
Well, here it is. The Publishers Weekly review of my Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award entry Daughter Am I :
A group of spunky octogenarians joins a woman on a search to discover the truth . . .
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April 22, 2009 02:35 PM EDT --
Steven Clark Bradley , author of Patriot Acts , has written such a marvelous review of my novel More Deaths Than One , that I can't keep it to myself. I want to shout it to . . .
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May 27, 2009 02:29 PM EDT --
On Thursday, April 9th, Lazarus Barnhill, author of Lacey Took a Holiday and The Medicine People hosted a live chat about writing and destiny for my No Whine, Just Champagne group . . .
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July 16, 2009 07:03 PM EDT --
Another week of summer has passed since we last met. Don't know whether to be glad the heat is going to be leaving us, or whether to be sorry that winter is creeping up. There. Now don't you feel just . . .
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July 23, 2009 06:41 PM EDT --
July is almost over. I could ask where the time has gone, but I know the answer to that one -- it passed me by while I was paying attention to other things. No, writing is not one of those things, unless . . .
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October 14, 2009 01:57 PM EDT --
Daughter Am I is now available from Amazon , Smashwords , and Second Wind Publishing . Some of you might recognize the story -- it is an updated version of my Amazon Breakthrough Novel . . .
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October 24, 2009 09:23 PM EDT --
I made it through the first week of my blog tour!! I’m getting to the hard part, though. I have several interviews coming up, and it’s challenging to keep from making identical responses to . . .
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October 07, 2009 11:13 PM EDT --
How was your writing week? What are you focused on now and what do you hope to be focused on next month? What are your writing concerns? What writing activities have you been involved with this week? . . .
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October 19, 2009 01:45 PM EDT --
Day Two of my Virtual Book Tour, and I am still going strong. This is like saying: I've just run the second block of a marathon and am still going strong. Most of the tour is still ahead of me, but I'm . . .
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October 20, 2009 01:51 PM EDT --
Again I will be at Malcom's Round Table discussing Daughter Am I , but this time we will be focusing on the quest angle. The hero's path, the mythic journey, the quest -- these are all different names . . .
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October 21, 2009 01:46 PM EDT --
Mary stared open-mouthed into the hole in the wall. Instead of the dining room, which should have been on the other side of the wall, there was a windowless room not much bigger than a walk-in-closet. . . .
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October 22, 2009 04:40 PM EDT --
The Internet is such a wonderful place. Today, day five of my blog tour, I am in Florida with author Nancy J. Cohen talking about dialogue. Virtually speaking, that is. Physically, I am in Colorado, listening . . .
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October 04, 2009 03:04 PM EDT --
Exactly two years ago, I joined Gather to enter a contest, the TrueTV Search for the Next Great Crime Writer contest. I had no intention of doing it, but I'd reconnected with my sister after a ten-year . . .
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