Patricia Burroughs

Patricia Burroughs—Pooks—is an award-winning screenwriter and novelist who also has a stint of writing fanfic under her belt. Her most popular fanfic has over 3 million hits to date, but for professional reasons, she keeps that title and nom de plume private.

Pooks began her writing career in romance with five published novels. She received nominations and recognition from RT Reviews and was a Finalist for Romance Writers of America’s RITA.

Then she got lured over to the dark side—screenwriting. Her first script landed her an agent, director, stars—everything needed for the movie to get made but money. Later scripts [action comedies, romantic comedies, science fiction and fantasies] continued the string of “almosts” until the years 2000 and 2001, when she became the only screenwriter in history to be a Finalist twice—with two different scripts–for the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. She received the Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for an adaptation of her first published novel, La Desperada, under the title, “Redemption.” Uncredited but paying work followed, and she was happy with her Hollywood dreams…

Until one day she woke up with a new story rooting itself into her heart, a story that couldn’t be told in a script but needed many more pages to spread out, flex its muscles and take wing. She returned to novels and is presently writing an epic fantasy trilogy, to be published in digital and print by Story Spring Publishing, beginning with This Crumbling Pageant, May 2014.

She fell under the spell of Persephone Fury sometime around 2009 and has been researching and writing ever since. Trips to England, Wales and Cornwall helped her uncover Persephone’s world, and an upcoming trip to Ireland will add new elements.

[Yes, those are hints as to where the books in the series will take place.]