Monday, July 2, 2018

Patricia Gligor, Guest Author


This week my friend Patricia Gligor joins us to discuss her new book, Secrets in Storyville. I'm about halfway through the book and it's very different from her Malone series. I'm really enjoying this new standalone mystery 

Thank you for visiting today, Pat!


What inspired me to write Secrets in Storyville?

As a reader, I’ve always loved a good mystery. Most of the books I’d read were standalone mystery/suspense novels. But, several years ago, I picked up a cozy mystery, which took place in a small town, and I was hooked on cozies. Now, I still love a good suspense novel but I find that I read more cozies than any other mystery sub-genre. Some are standalones and some are part of a series.

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As a writer, I never know where inspiration for a story will come from. But it’s always from people, places and things that have crossed my path. Sometimes they’re recent and other times they emerge from my memory bank.

When I finished writing my fifth Malone mystery, Marnie Malone, I wasn’t sure what my next book would be. I’d spent so many years on the series and had become so involved in the lives of the characters. I knew I’d miss the Malones but I also realized it was time to end the series and to do something totally different.

My Malone mysteries are all written in the third person and they are set in real locations, places that really exist. An old Victorian in my neighborhood was the inspiration for the series.

For a long time, I’d wanted to write a cozy mystery in the first person and set it in a fictional small town. Now I had my chance. Secrets in Storyville is completely separate from and different than my Malone mysteries but the books have one thing in common: an old house inspired me.

 As it turned out, I didn’t use that house (photo below) as the main setting in my new book but it is a secondary setting and important to the plot. 

The other elements of the book came to me in the usual way – bits and pieces that somehow eventually coalesced to form a book. A book that was so much fun to write!
I hope you enjoy reading Secrets in Storyville as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Blurb:


Kate Morgan, a single mother, lives in the small town of Storyville, Ohio where she grew up. A want-to-be author, she works as a sales clerk in the town’s only department store doing what she describes as “a job a monkey could do.” Although she’s bored with her job, she’s reluctant to consider making any major changes in her life. However, she’s about to find out that change is inevitable.

When Kate’s ten-year-old daughter, Mandy, tells the family she plans to do a family tree for a school project, the negative reaction of Kate’s parents and grandmother shocks her but also arouses her curiosity. Why are they so against Mandy’s project? Surely her family is too “normal” to have any skeletons in their closet.

Kate decides to support her daughter even if that means defying her parents. As she searches for the truth, she discovers some long buried secrets that, if she decides to reveal them, will change her life and the lives of the people she loves - forever.




Bio:
 

Patricia Gligor is a Cincinnati native. She has worked as an administrative assistant, the sole proprietor of a resume writing service and the manager of a sporting goods department but her passion has always been writing fiction. 


Secrets in Storyville, a small town mystery, is separate from her series.
Her books are available at: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B007VDDUPQ  

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13 comments:

  1. I'm so happy for you, Pat. I love that old houses inspire you. As I've mentioned, I've got your new one on my Kindle ready to go, but I have to get through a few other books first. Congratulations!

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    1. Thanks, Amy.
      I'm so thrilled with this book that, although this is my sixth novel to be published, this is the first time I framed a cover image and put it on the wall above my desk. Every time I glance up at it, I smile. :)

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  2. Marja,
    Thank you so much for inviting me to be your guest this week. You're a great friend and I appreciate all the tips you gave me as I struggled to self-publish for the first time.

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    1. I'm delighted that you have a new book, Pat,and thank you for posting here. I wish you success with your new story, my friend.

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  3. Hi Marja and Pat,
    I'm looking forward to reading your new book, Pat, which is on my Kindle. Only a few more before it. Wishing you many, many sales!!

    Marilyn

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, Marilyn, and for your good wishes. Fingers crossed!

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  4. Just downloaded. Great knowing your backstory for your latest. Looking forward!

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    1. Thank you, Madeline. You'll have to let me know what you think of the book after you've read it. I had so much fun writing it!

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  5. I'm in the middle of reading your novel right now, and I must say that it's veeerrry interesting. Looking forward to reading the rest. Congrats on your new release.

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  6. I'm looking forward to reading this, Patricia. I love family secrets!

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