Patsy Collins

Patsy Collins is a frequent guest on my blog.

We’ve been nag buddies for a long long time, and have worked together on workshops for RedPen. Our most recent event was a residential writers’ weekend workshop at the Cottage Hotel, Hope Cove, in March 2018. Our next one will be at the same venue in Spring 2019. Click here for more details.

Patsy’s first guest appearance on my blog was way back in October 2015. She’d just published her first romantic novel: Firestarter!. Patsy was my guest again in April 2016 and once more, in November 2016. In October 2017, Patsy described how she researches her novels – on location. She popped in again in January 2018 to discuss New Year’s Resolutions.

Patsy Collins is a novelist and short story writer. More than 400 of her short stories have been published, many of them in magazines in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Australia and South Africa. 

Some of her short stories are also available as collections: No Family Secrets, Not a Drop to Drink, Over the Garden Fence, Through the Garden Gate, Up the Garden Path, All That Love Stuff and  Slightly Spooky Stories. Her most recent publication (April 2018) is Love and Kisses.

Patsy’s stories also appear in collections with other authors. For example: Noirville, Tales from the Darker Side.

For those enjoy a longer story, Patsy has written five novels: Firestarter, Escape To The Country, Paint Me A Picture,  A Year And A Day and Leave Nothing but Footprints.

She’s also co-written From Story Idea To Reader, a non-fiction book about writing, published in November 2016.

Her co-author, Rosemary Kind, is an experienced writer / editor / publisher, so the pair of them make an excellent team.

I reviewed this book on Amazon and can recommend it to you.