Bio
Pat was born in 1950 in Quincy, Illinois, thus the name of the business that she and her husband started in 2003: The Quincy Group. She has two younger sisters, and the family unit moved nine times in eighteen years as their father fled from the police.
Ha ha! Just kidding. Early in her life, her father was the police. That was just a little joke that she told many times while trying to explain why she’d attended eight different schools, most of them parochial, as her father was promoted and the family packed up and followed him from one small Midwestern town to the next. She attended Quincy University and received a Bachelor’s Degree in English. Unfortunately, when she tried to put that degree to good use as a English teacher, she found that most people knew how to speak English already.
She moved to the Pacific Northwest in the early seventies and was gainfully employed in Customer Service, Materials Management, Sales, Sales Management, and Marketing, all in the printing and paper distribution world.
But no matter where she’s lived or how she’s been employed, she has always written: Neighborhood newspapers that she printed by hand and then made her sisters sell with her, door-to-door, plays that she forced her sisters to perform, mystery novels released in chapters once a month – a la Dickens – to the grade school paper, skits, poems, obituaries, ad copy . . . you name it, she’s written it.
The rumors that I was born an African-American child are unfounded, in spite of what my baby pictures may indicate . . .