Northern California Publishers & Authors

Phone: 916-483-1046
E-mail:
Web site: www.patmyst.com

Topics

• Writing mysteries, ethnic fiction, and children’s books
• Writing horror and speculative fiction

Bio

Patricia E. Canterbury, is a native Sacramentan, an award-winning poet, an award-winning short story writer, a novelist, a philanthropist, and a political scientist.

Her first published novel, The Secret of St. Gabriel’s Tower, is the first of a proposed five-book historical mystery series for middle-grade readers. It is part of A Poplar Cove Mystery. Carlotta’s Secret, the first of her children’s eight chapter book contemporary mystery series, The Delta Mysteries, has been optioned by a major motion picture studio.

Pat won the First Annual Georgia State Chapbook contest in 1987 for her poetry chapbook, Shadowdrifters . . . Images of China. Pat has had two short stories published in 2004, one in Shades of Black, an anthology by contemporary African-American mystery writers, and Dark Dreams, an anthology by African-American horror and suspense writers. She is seeking new publishers for her series.

Pat was the assistant executive officer of the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. She lives in Sacramento with her husband, Richard, who is the author of the short story collection Snapshots on Hell Street, and pets. Pat is very active with Sisters-in-Crime, Mystery Writers of America, Northern California Publishers & Authors, and the Society of Children’s Writers and Illustrators.