Patty Yumi Cottrell gets evasive with invasive questions

Every month, I interview an author I admire on her literary firsts.

Los Angeles lost another great writer to New York when Patty Yumi Cottrell moved back to the east coast last year. But the author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace, this month’s giveaway, got a lot of writing done while she was in the City of Angeles — so you can expect to read her hilarious-sad work in the months to come.

I got to chat with Patty about doing things differently and writing for a whiskey company and getting confl...