Sharon ReneIn November, Patricia Bradley visited The Storyteller Squad to tell us that “you don’t know what you don’t know.” She shared some great tips with us and promised to come back and tell us about her latest book once it released in February 2021.
Obsession-Natchez Trace Park Rangers, book 2, released Tuesday, February 2 and Patricia has returned to tell us a little about this exciting new story.
Welcome back Patricia. We’re all anxious to hear about Obsession. Tell us all about it.
Obsession—Natchez Trace Park Rangers, book 2, is my thirteenth book of my I’m-living-my-dream life. I figure somewhere around one million, two hundred thousand words of mine have been published since the first one released seven years ago.
That’s a lot of writing. If you assumed that writing is pretty much all I do, you would be correct. Friends often ask why I don’t retire, and I’m never quite sure how to answer that question.
On the one hand, I can’t not write, but on the other, sometimes I wish I could take time to go to lunch with my friends when instead I have to stay home and meet a deadline. This was when we could still go out to lunch, but substitute chat on the phone with someone for twenty minutes. Sometimes I simply don’t have those twenty minutes and not all my friends understand that.
They don’t understand I have stories to tell and the stories don’t get told by themselves, especially when I’ve been struggling to get words on the page. Like Obsession.
After Covid hit, I had a hard time creating anything, so when I was able to start writing I was already behind. For three months, I worked at my computer writing between eight and ten hours a day. In the early part of those months those hours might net only eight hundred to a thousand words, not nearly enough to meet my deadline.
But the mind is a funny thing. The more you do something, the more likely you can do it again. The word count crept up until I was writing 2500 words a day, and not only that, the story came together. I made my deadline a day early.
Even more, I knew I could do it again, which is important since I have another deadline of June 1, and I haven’t written the first word. Prayers are greatly appreciated!
I hope readers enjoy Obsession. I knew the first time I stopped at Mount Locust I would set a book at this historical place. I hope the book inspires them to take a trip down the Natchez Trace. It’s well worth the time. And now for a little more about Obsession:
Natchez Trace Ranger and historian Emma Winters hoped never to see Sam Ryker again after she broke off her engagement to him. But when shots are fired at her at a historical landmark just off the Natchez Trace, she’s forced to work alongside Sam as the Natchez Trace law enforcement district ranger in the ensuing investigation. To complicate matters, Emma has acquired a delusional secret admirer who is determined to have her as his own. Sam is merely an obstruction, one which must be removed.
Sam knows that he has failed Emma in the past and he doesn’t intend to let her down again. Especially since her life is on the line. As the threads of the investigation cross and tangle with their own personal history, Sam and Emma have a chance to discover the truth, not only about the victim but about what went wrong in their relationship.
The book sounds great and I love the cover. Thanks for sharing your exciting release with us.
If you like Romantic/Suspense be sure and grab a copy of Obsession.
Patricia’s bio and links are below if you would like to connect with her.
BIO & Links:
Patricia Bradley is a Carol finalist and winner of an Inspirational Readers’ Choice Award in Suspense, and three anthologies that included her stories debuted on the USA Today Best Seller List. She and her two cats call Northeast Mississippi home–the South is also where she sets most of her books. Her romantic suspense novels include the Logan Point series and the Memphis Cold Case Novels. Obsession, the second book in the Natchez Trace Park Rangers series, released Februrary 2, 2021. She is now hard at work on the third book, Crosshairs.
Writing workshops include American Christian Fiction Writers online courses, workshops at the Mid-South Christian Writer’s Conference, the KenTen Retreat where she was also the keynote, Memphis American Christian Fiction Writer group, and the Bartlett Christian Writers group. When she has time, she likes to throw mud on a wheel and see what happens.
Links:
Website https://ptbradley.com/
Blog – https://ptbradley.com/blog/
Facebook – www.facebook.com/patriciabradleyauthor
Twitter – https://twitter.com/PTBradley1
Amazon – https://amzn.to/2S6DKGY
Bookbub- https://www.bookbub.com/profile/patricia-bradley
Goodreads- https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7789445.Patricia_Bradley
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/ptbradley1/
Pinterest – https://www.pinterest.com/ptbradley/
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Jill K Willis
This novel sounds great–another book I will add to my to read pile. 🙂 Thanks for the blog, Sharon and Patricia.
Patricia keeps her reader in suspense!