Patrick Lee's Blog

I launched my official fan page on Facebook earlier today--here's the link to it: Facebook Page

I've been very, very slow at blogging, but I'm really planning to keep the FB page updated often.  I'm excited to have the new book coming out early next year, and it'll be cool to have a more active forum in which to let everyone know the latest news as it rolls in.

And, as promised, here are the first three chapters of Runner:

(The application below is provided by the publisher; if anyone's computer runs into problems with it, please let me know in the comments, and I'll see about posting the three chapters as html text right here on the blog.)

My next book, Runner, the first of a new series, hits the stands in hardcover next February.  The series will focus on a man named Sam Dryden.  In this first book, Dryden finds himself trying to save the life of a young girl named Rachel, who can't remember her past but who has some very dangerous people after her.  She also has an ability that should be impossible, and a secret somewhere in her blocked memory that could change the world.


Sometime within the next week or two, I'm hoping to have a link to the first three chapters of the book.  Please stay tuned!

A lot of cool things happening in a short time.  This article at Deadline.com says it all!

I'll add more information down the road, as things develop with the new book--when I settle on a title, for one thing.  The book should be coming out in early 2014.  It's the first of a series featuring Sam Dryden, a character who'll be sticking around through several books. I'll post any news about the movie here too, as things take shape.

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Hey everyone. Looking at the settings in Blogger just now, I found a "spam folder" for comments; I didn't know this existed until now, but for a long time it's been blocking certain comments without my even seeing them. Most of these were not spam. Needless to say I posted them right away. Apologies to anyone who thought I was screening them out for some random reason; I definitely wouldn't have done that.

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Inspired by the success of your friendly neighborhood crack dealer, for the next few days the eBook version of The Breach, the first book of the Travis Chase trilogy, is available for 99 cents.

UPDATE - The price is back up to normal again. Thank you to everyone who made the 99-cent promotion a great run!

Kindle Version

Nook Version

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The third (and final) book of the Breach series, titled Deep Sky, will be in stores on Tuesday, December 27 of this year.

The book takes place a little over a year after the events of Ghost Country, and deals with one of Tangent's strangest secrets: a fact about the Breach that not even Paige Campbell has been aware of until now. Travis and Paige dig into this secret and quickly realize it may hold the answers to every question they've ever asked about the Breach.

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Among the many great things about publishing, there's the fact that you sometimes get an early look at a very cool novel. Case in point: Steve Ulfelder's debut, Purgatory Chasm, hitting the stands tomorrow. I think this guy is going to be around for a while.

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--this would be a good time to stop.

I've gotten e-mails from multiple women in the past few days about a guy in Houston passing himself off as me. He apparently goes so far as to tell these women that the author photo inside the back covers of my books is a picture of a model. Well gee, maybe I should be flattered. I'm not.

Whoever this person is, he'd be well-advised to knock it the hell off while it's still apparently just a dumb pick-up routine. If it continues, this will become a matter for law enforcement to deal with.

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There's a long excerpt (the first 66 pages) of Ghost Country on the HarperCollins site: Link

Wow, two blog posts in eleven months. I better slow down before my friends stage an intervention.

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A couple of these showed up at my place this week. Picking up a copy of one of your books for the first time--I can't imagine that moment will ever get old. Thanks to everyone at Harper for a great cover! And thanks to Stephen Coonts for the blurb!