I'm a reinvented woman from Anchorage, Alaska, who decided four years ago that the only way to realize my dream of becoming a novelist was to push aside the fear and excuses--I'm too old, I'm not good enough, I don't have time, No one will read this stuff--and WRITE. Two finished novels later I'm still settling in my niche and discovering what I do well. I consider my fiction to be non-genre. I like creating flawed characters with a good side. My stories are set in Alaska-- a gold mine for flawed characters. My favorite authors are Alice Hoffman, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Anne Patchett, and Walter Mosley. My full-time job is investigator after working as a newspaper journalist for 20 years. I have one daughter, one son, and four grandchildren who all live too far away.

"Ever Rose," the story of how a 100-year-old tale from the Alaska gold rush changed the lives of a modern-day family, available as an e-book on Amazon (another book has the same title so if you want to look for mine, please search Patricia Watts).
"Watchdogs," to be published on She Writes Press May 2013.