patricia burroughs, screenwriter and novelist
Once there was a woman who was so desperate to escape, she held a cold-blooded killer at gunpoint and said, “Take me with you.”
That’s all I knew. I didn’t know who she was, what she was escaping from, but I knew her desperation, tasted it, felt it, lived with it until I found her world and her story and a way to tell it.
Before I wrote the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Award-winning script “Redemption,” its characters inhabited my soul and my first published novel, What Wild Ecstasy.
No matter how many stories I later told in novels and scripts, the lady and the outlaw, the deputy and the prostitute, the sheriff and the reporter never loosened their grip on me.
These were the people whose passions and pains launched my career in publishing and in screenwriting and whose story would not die.
From Book View Cafe… the book that began my writing journey returns.
LA DESPERADA (THE NOVEL) AND REDEMPTION (THE SCRIPT)
Available for purchase from Book View Cafe and Amazon (Kindle).
Sample chapters here.
Script sample here.
Reviews and endorsements here.
Blog here.
Hi Pooks,
So you’re not the last to know, I just trashed you in my latest blog. You’re welcome.
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Mike
You did, indeed, and quite well. Thank you! I think.
your book sounds really interesting. i love historical fiction. what is the setting? i’m always the last to get with new technology so i don’t have an e-reader. is it available in paperback? i did add it to my goodreads “to read” list!
It’s out of print and so now is only available as an ebook, alas. That may change in the future but for now… not so much. It’s set in 1882 in West Texas and New Mexico. Thanks for asking!
Sounds interesting!