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Patricia Ann Bowen

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Patricia Ann Bowen started her career as a copywriter and has been writing nonfiction ever since, everything from catalog copy, speeches, articles in newspapers and magazines, grants, contracts, an e book, you name it. She’s also been a business owner, coach, marketing manager, and international relations guru.

Now she writes novels, novellas and short stories, mostly about women with complicated lives. She pens gardening articles for her local newspaper, and grants to support her local library. Her recent writing has appeared in the Table for Two anthology, The Sun magazine, and her book The Cure, a time travel medical tale, is her first try at speculative fiction. It's been followed by a collection of short stories including a novella titl ...more

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My first job out of college was copywriter for a hobby-craft company. Writing was the perfect job for me, because I’d stuttered so badly since childhood that most verbal communications got my undies in a bunch. I sprinted through catalog descriptions, magazine advertising, newsletters, replies to customer letters, and words that were printed on the company’s product packaging, with little fear of

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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
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“the white patriarchal court system, which wrongly insists it is a justice system while punishing women and people of color.”
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