Author of MURDERS IN THE SWAMPLAND; BLUE EYES; BRIDGED BY LOVE. To be published at Asylett Press... DANDER IN THE CLIFFS, SAYING I LOVE YOU. I'm writing a follow-up true crime book titled MURDERS ON THE SUNCOAST and a novel titled MY EIGHTEENTH BIRTHDAY.
Patricia Shipp Lieb,; published by Asylett Press at http://asylett.com
Born and raised in Texarkana, Arkansas, my career as a journalist includes working ten years (1991-2001) as an award-winning reporter and feature writer for The Suncoast News in New Port Richey, Florida.
As the crime reporter for the Daily Sun-Journal in Brooksville, Florida, (1987-1991), I learned enough about murder to write for the true crime magazines, RGH and Globe, (on the side, of course, and using the name Patty Shipp) for some 10 years. In addition, (again moonlighting) I wrote for Vocational Biographies during a ten-year span.
As well as writing features for the Daily Journal in Kankakee, Illinois, for three years prior to moving to Florida, I was an original writer at the Bourbonnais Herald in Bourbonnais, Illinois, in 1976.
In the early 1980s, I was the co-editor/co-publisher, with Carol Schott Martino, of the literary magazine Pteranodon and the Pteranodon Chapbook Series; and in the 1990s co-editor/publisher of the online Write On Magazine with Evelyn Manak. My fiction, articles and poetry have appeared in numerous literary and national magazines as well as publications for teenagers including Scholastic Scope and Star magazines.
I have served as a speaker at various writers' conferences including the annual Florida Suncoast Writers' Conference at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg; the National Federation of State Poetry Societies annual conventions (for some 10 years held across the U.S.); Illinois State University; Nichollas State University in Thibodaux, LA; the Chicago Chapter of the American Pen Women; the College of St. Francis in Joliet, IL; Columbia College in Chicago; Central Illinois' Writer's Conference at Millikin University; and for some state poetry societies special events in Illinois and Ohio; also, on several occasions, I have served as guest speaker at William Carey College in Gulf Port, MS on several occasions, the GFWC Spring Hill Service League and The United Way Author's Luncheon at the Brooksville Golf and Country Club in Brooksville, FL, the Suncoast Information Specialist (SIS) in St. Petersburg, FL, and at other local club events including for the North Dunedin Rotary and the Countryside Kiwanis clubs.
Honors include the 1998 “Outstanding Achievement In Your Vocation” award from the Rotary Club of Dunedin North; “Outstanding Dedication To Reliable and Impartial News Coverage” from the Dunedin City Commission in 1996; and “Reliable Reporting of Local Government News 1991—1999” from the Dunedin City Commission. I am an honorary member of the Kiwanis club in Countryside, Florida.
Hobbies:
Writing, Reading, Working out at the guy, going to the beach
Movies and TV:
Bularger........... Nothing to Loose.......... What's the Worse that could Happen?
Music:
Willie Nelson; Nora Jones
Books (including myebook's):
Lots.........
