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In the Press
“My father was called the Father of Travel. He bragged about going around the world thirty times, but he wasn’t making it up.”
“What happens in the mind of a writer? What makes them tick, or inspires them to put pen to page? Joanna Fitzpatrick shares her historical fiction mystery novel, The Artist Colony, and a gives us a glimpse into the mind the writer.”
“An Artist Colony & Cottage: Local author weaves a tale that wanders into early Carmel”
“JF on Writing: Inspiration has the power to shut off that critical inner voice that resides in our heads no matter how many books we successfully publish or how many awards we achieve. Mute that voice and the Muses will rush in.”
“My husband offered to buy me a car for our fortieth anniversary. I immediately saw myself behind the wheel of a brand new, ruby red Mini Cooper riding along the Pacific coastline with the top down, music blaring. But the truth is I really don't like driving cars. What I really like is riding electric bikes.”
“What a long, strange trips it’s been for Joanna FitzPatrick, a Pacific Grove novelist whose fiction is often inspired by real-life characters and events”
“Did you need to do much research to write the novel?
Much delightful research. That's why I write historical fiction. If I wasn't a writer I'd probably be a historian. Once you get started, as many of you know, you just drop into one rabbit hole and then another until finally, exhausted, you have to stop and write your story.”
Hasty Book Feature with Ashley Hasty
“Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. I'd spend our "close" time together convincing Anna that no man, including her gorgeous lover Count Vronsky, is worth killing oneself over . .”