About Me | Patricia Ann Yates

My bookshelves are filled with old fiction and non-fiction books about England in the early 1800s. After reading them, I’ve learned a great deal about English society during that era. Coming up with names for my characters was fairly easy—almost all of them are named after my British grandfathers and grandmothers.

 

 

I enjoy reading as much as writing. Some of my favorite authors include Rebecca Connolly, whose work I greatly admire, as well as Julia Quinn, Tammy Andresen, Scarlett Scott, and Sabrina Jeffries. I recently enjoyed reading Alice Coldbreath’s novels with knights, jousting, and tournaments. I’ve read hundreds—probably thousands—of historical romances.

When I’m not writing, my favorite places to be are the beach, antique stores, thrift shops, and bookstores. When I'm in a bookstore, I search for books written long ago. The oldest book in my collection—actually a pamphlet—dates back to England in 1820. Published in London July 1, 1808.

The wording is strange: Her ladyship, aware that a cornet and a splendid fortune would "cover a multitude of sins," resolved to blaze forth a splendid meteor in the hemisphere of fahion: her assemblies and masquerade eclipsed every thing that had yet been given by the most exrtravagant purveyors of pleasure; but her husband, who sighed in vain for domestic enjoyments, alway retired early from these scenes of dissipation, a circumstance which her ladyship once abruptly noiticed "to the best bred man in Europe," who was not a little shocked at the impropriety of her behaviour, and has not been since o nthe list of her illustrious admiriers.We must do both Lord and Lady the justice to say that she never dares to expose her person indecently in the presence of her husband, but the moment he retires, the concealing fir or shawl is discarded And the whole of her huge and hideous bosom exhibited to public view. What but the most deprived motive instigate a married woman of her age to such odious practices?

Yes, that is all one paragrph and there is more.

In addition to writing historical romance, I enjoy stories of haunted houses, paranormal investigators, and mysteries that unravel the unexplained. My ghost story adventures is at patriciayates.com

And yes—like the hero in one of my historical romances, I once owned a black cat.

My email address is: payates@pm.me. My website address is www.patriciaannyates.com