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Patrick W. O'Bryon
I wandered about looking for somewhere, anywhere I might hide out on a nine-day passage. Arriving at a reception for the Europe-bound grad students, I recounted my tale. A German about ten years my senior excused himself from the group, only to return moments later to introduce himself as an assigned leader, there to hold orientation meetings onboard. He had spoken with the ship’s purser, and wonder of wonders, I would get the upper bunk in his private cabin. Rather than a four-person berth as held by the other student passengers, I’d won a far more luxurious accommodation.
“I have only one request,” he said with a grin, “Seven to nine in the evening is my private time, just in case I’m entertaining a guest. You get nine to eleven.”
“Not a problem,” I replied, “that’ll work out just fine.”
Off to Germany at last, I took my complimentary champagne and went out to watch Lady Liberty sliding past.
Thanks for your question, Karen. Stay well! Patrick
“I have only one request,” he said with a grin, “Seven to nine in the evening is my private time, just in case I’m entertaining a guest. You get nine to eleven.”
“Not a problem,” I replied, “that’ll work out just fine.”
Off to Germany at last, I took my complimentary champagne and went out to watch Lady Liberty sliding past.
Thanks for your question, Karen. Stay well! Patrick
Patrick W. O'Bryon
It's going through editing and cover design in the next six weeks, so I expect it will be published toward the beginning of fall. Thanks for your interest!
Patrick W. O'Bryon
Beacon of Vengeance is the second in the Corridor of Darkness series, each a stand-alone novel but in truth integral parts of one 1200+ page opus. And a fourth part keeps haunting me, calling out to be written when Fulcrum of Malice is published in 2015. We'll see if readers want more of these characters when the COD trilogy is complete!
Patrick W. O'Bryon
I dictated my first book to my mother when I was four years old. "Rusty and the Little Star." I still have the illustrated version I put to paper a year later, saved by my beloved kindergarten teacher Miss Martin and returned to me shortly before her death. My inspiration comes from many decades of travel and expanding horizons, both personal and global. My parents exposed all eight children to frequent trips across the country, and the moment I finished undergraduate studies I was off on my own to see the European world which had so influenced my father.
Patrick W. O'Bryon
The third volume in my Corridor of Darkness, A Novel of Nazi Germany series. Inspired as it is by my father's true adventures as a banker/foreign correspondent/scholar/American spy during the 1930's and '40's in Nazi Germany and elsewhere, the story drives me along. It will be difficult to bring it to a close, simply because there are so many stories wrapped up in this horrific moment in recent history, stories which are still to be told. And there is so much we still have to learn from those wrenching days.
Patrick W. O'Bryon
Hit the keyboard every chance you get, and don't hem yourself in by believing there are limits on what you should write or how much you should first experience before bringing a story--any story--to life.
Patrick W. O'Bryon
Being allowed to pick and choose from all of life's joys and desperate challenges and turn them into a story which will, with luck and inspiration, interest-intrigue-delight the reader, and inspire thoughtful consideration of the human condition and how to better it.
Patrick W. O'Bryon
I shift my focus to other things and allow my subconscious to work out the problem. Taking a long walk in the early morning, taking in the birdsong and colorful natural surroundings before the local world awakes, often solves a plotting riddle or gets me past a hump. Often I will write a scene, even if it is entirely out of chronological order in the linear development of my current novel, or even if I'm not sure I will ever use it, just because it inspires me. These tend to become pivotal plot moments when the whole story comes together. Happily, I have never suffered from total writer's block.
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