Patti Brooks - Author & Expert Equestrian

At sixteen years of age, Patti sold her first article to a national magazine for $4.00. Since then she sold five 500+ articles, mostly to equine trade journals and several national magazines like, including Good Housekeeping. Her first novel, Mountain Shadows, was published in 2003 and was required reading in a number of Adirondack high schools. Her next novel was Fame & Deceit. Prior to writing BLOOD HOAX, she also wrote a collection of short stories, Five Minute Escapes. Patti’s life has been as much of an action-packed adventure as her novels. She survived a plane crash in the Adirondack High Peaks and walked ten miles in sub-freezing temperatures to civilization; was struck by lightning and walked away from the ordeal; was hired as a young girl by Santa Claus to give pony rides to guests; has raced horses in the Park Harness Championship competition; jumped her horse out of a horse-sized birthday cake while a crowd of hundreds cheered her on, their champagne glasses raised in her honor. When not in the middle of the action, she loves to indulge her passion for distance riding and Morgan horses in her native Connecticut.