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Pat Bertram is a native of Colorado and a lifelong resident. When the traditional publishers stopped publishing her favorite type of book -- character and story driven novels that can't easily be slotted into a genre -- she decided to write her own. Daughter Am I is Bertram's third novel to be published by Second Wind Publishing, LLC. Also available are More Deaths Than One and A Spark of Heavenly Fire.
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When twenty-five-year-old Mary Stuart learns she inherited a farm from her recently murdered grandparents -- grand-parents her father claimed had died before she was born -- she becomes obsessed with finding out who they were and why someone wanted them dead.
Click here to buy Daughter Am I from Second Wind Publishing, LLC

Click here to download 30% free at Smashwords or to buy any ebook f...


A Spark of Heavenly Fire

In quarantined Colorado, where hundreds of thousands of people are dying from an unstoppable, bio-engineered disease, investigative reporter Greg Pullman risks everything to discover the truth: Who unleashed the deadly organism? And why?
Click here to buy A Spark of Heavenly Fire from Second Wind Publishing LLC.

Click here to download 30% of A Spark of Heavenly Fire free at Smashwords or to buy any ebook format, including Kindle.

More Deaths Than One

Bob Stark returns to Denver after 18 years in SE Asia to discover that the mother he buried before he left is dead again. At her new funeral, he sees . . . himself. Is his other self a hoaxer, or is something more sinister going on?
Click here to buy More Deaths Than One from Second Wind Publishing LLC.

Click here to download 30% of More Deaths Than One free at Smashwords or to buy any ebook format, including Kindle.
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Daughter Am I Blog Tour -- Final Week

My Daughter Am I blog tour is winding down -- I have seven days to go (eight if you include today) and I don't know whether to be sad or to rejoice. Since my promotion motto is "Promotion is just another word for party," I decided to rejoice and have an end of blog tour party on the 22nd and 23rd. You are all invited, of course.

The most interesting aspect of the tour has been coming up with unique guest pos… Continue

Posted on November 14, 2009 at 7:51pm —

Pat Bertram

Live Chat and Dead Darlings

This seems to be a slow weekend here on the Internet. I can never figure out where people disappear to or why. What could possibly be more fascinating than roaming cyberspace? :) I realize in some places the weather is too nice to stay inside, in other places it's too nasty to do anything online. Many writers are involved in National Novel Writing Month. Many others are busy procrastinating. And me . . . well, here I am, still virtually book touring.

Today's stops:

Beth's Book Review Blog --… Continue

Posted on November 8, 2009 at 2:39pm —

Pat Bertram

Raking the Leaves of My Mind

The other morning I was staring out the window at all the leaves on the ground, marveling at how so much come from almost nothing. A bit of water, a bit of soil, a bit of sun, and something exists where nothing did before. I cherish those leaves. There’s no lawn here, just native grasses, so I don’t need to rake the leaves. I let them finish out their natural cycle of replenishing the soil from which they came.

Looking at those leaves, I was reminded of written words, and how they come from alm… Continue

Posted on November 6, 2009 at 6:39pm —

Pat Bertram

Writing Without a Reader Is Like Kissing Without a Partner

One of the guest stops on my Daughter Am I blog tour is the Second Wind Publishing Blog. I talk about a fan letter (well, fan email) I received, and cite a quote by John Cheever, “I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss — you can’t do it alone.”

Many writers don’t consider readers -- they write solely for themselves, or at least they say they do -- but often as I am writing a passage (or m… Continue

Posted on November 2, 2009 at 9:44pm —

Pat Bertram

Plagiarism?

I had a bit of a scare this morning. I checked my blog as usual found a comment on my "Origin of the Grim Reaper" bloggery from someone named Robert Weniger, who said: You Plagiarist. I posted the exact words and you copy/pasted it from my website.

Um . . . What??

I love Wordpress and all the statistics and information one gets! Besides email addresses from commenters, wordpress notes the IP address… Continue

Posted on October 30, 2009 at 7:30pm —

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At 1:26am on February 1, 2009, Joan De La Haye said…
Hi Pat. Great to see you here as well as on Facebook. Enjoy what's left of the weekend.
At 11:27pm on January 31, 2009, Sheila Deeth said…
Just saw the contest on your site Pat. Wow! Now I need to get my thinking cap on.
At 10:23am on January 29, 2009, Sheila Deeth said…
Hi Pat. Great to meet you here.

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