Now Available - Bobby's Trace
Novel by Edward C. Patterson
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Bobby's
Trace — Jacket Notes
Perry Chaplin is in mourning for his life partner, Bobby - a time of stress,
notwithstanding. The more he drifts, the more he unhinges until he's one
room short of a rubber one. Get a grip, Perry. So, he takes his chances
on a blind date, which further plunges him along the nightmare highway.
He gets an unsought lesson in life-after-death that turns his bereavement
into a horrific adventure. Come peek through Perry Chaplin's mysterious
window. See what there is to see. Enter Our Lady of Perpetual Grace, where
the holy water brews and the confessionals whisper. What lurks in the
rectory's attic? What lies beneath the surface of life and death? What
comes in Bobby's wake; in Bobby's trace? Perry Chaplin knows. Will you?
Now Available - No Irish Need Apply
Novel by Edward C. Patterson
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The closet is a dark and stifling place, especially for gay teenagers. It’s a place we seek to escape the world around us — to escape our own better nature, because we have been told that we should be true to ourselves as long as we are like everyone else. For Louis Lonnegan and Kevin Borden, the closet is a place to hide, but also a place to escape. Dedicated to PFLAG, the Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, No Irish Need Apply explores the daily life in the suburbs — in High School; in the tender and tentative homes of two widows trying to raise sons and lovers. Growing up gay can be a dilemma to everyone involved — a journey as adventurous and dangerous as scaling Everest. Life at Seventeen, always a hormonal cauldron, has never been so explosive.
Now Available - Cutting the Cheese: a Novel by Edward C. Patterson
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Edward C. Patterson's Hilarious Romp through the Pink Halls of Political Correctness
Welcome to New Birch and to Roy Otterson's palatial mansion, which is opened to a meeting of the Gay and Lesbian Activist Association of New Birch and Sipsboro (GLAABS), your normal, run of the mill organizations, pledged to the betterment of their alternative community and the advancement of social issues. Right. Social issues, my . . . Well, you might think so until you step across the Otterson threshold and savor the horny, hilarious antics of this upwardly motivated crowd of mixers. Who wants who? Who has who? How does one really decide who gets ahead in this race for queen's crown. Cutting the Cheese is a self-effacing, comic romp through the Gay hierarchy, based on the author's own provocative experiences in a world drizzled pink—a quick and outrageuos ride down the funny bone that you will not soon forget; and will want to ride down again and again. Welcome to New Birch, where its every one for themselves under the disco ball.
25 years in the making,
Nan Ya is a Novel set in 12th Century China; however,
life among the courtly set is spread over a wide canvas of events in war
and peace; and covers a wide range of thematic material from basic human
instinct, control and power, sexuality and loyalty. The work tracks the
life of Li K'ai-men, a scholar-official from his earliest post to his
Imperial assignment to his exile in old age. The work is available on
line (start here) and in .pdf format
for your enjoyment, feedback and referal. (281 pages).
Note: Footnotes from the original are available only in the .pdf downloads.
For a look into the Writing of this work, press here.
I would greatly enjoy feedback, constructive or otherwise on this work. Please email me at edwpat@att.net
Another Note: I have had a few inquiries asking whether this work is really a translation. I am flattered that I was that convincing, but in the spirit of Robert Graves and J. R. R. Tolkien - the translation aspect is a fictional frame. This is a novel, 100% my words reflecting my art and my research. Hope that clears things up.
E. C. Patterson, MA - Sinology
Nan Ya
A Souvenir of 12th Century China
by
E. C. Patterson
To the memory of John Ronald Ruell Tolkien,
who rekindles the wonder for us all
