tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107492942012-05-25T15:28:14.559-06:00The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. ~Benjamin FranklinPat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.comBlogger596125http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/fb_pwrd.gifThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-66239422240158566702012-04-27T11:01:00.001-06:002012-04-27T11:02:13.120-06:00Who would have thought that creating a graphic novel would hazardous to your health?  Maya Stephenson certainly didn't when she created her series of stories following a thief, Benjamin Black,...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-62471503309122659752012-03-13T14:59:00.002-06:002012-03-13T15:01:53.069-06:00This being, my largely abandoned blog, I forgot to mention that my latest novel, The Canvas Thief, published by Carina Press, is now available! ********************* Ten years ago, with two perfect...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-10111003092422497522011-11-18T11:45:00.004-07:002011-11-18T11:53:35.154-07:00In the Albuquerque, New Mexico area this Thanksgiving weekend? Looking for a fun place to shop, without the Black Friday lunacy and a way to support small business? Look no farther, it's the...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-20348868445657294632011-07-22T14:21:00.008-06:002011-07-22T14:57:12.160-06:00Free urban fantasy book! Free art! That right, free. Win a free copy of my quirky urban fantasy, The Music of Chaos. It's easy. Just click this link to go my contest page over on Romance Junkies....Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-13708182801624233112011-06-21T15:56:00.006-06:002011-06-21T16:28:32.411-06:00Looking for a fun summer read? The Music of Chaos, my light urban fantasy about a not-entirely competent paranormal secret agent, is now available in print. The pitch: "Blind dates are always a...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-58170660169214195442011-04-15T15:58:00.003-06:002011-04-15T16:07:51.136-06:00And a sexist one at that. My response to Ms. Bellafante's mind-rapingly stupid review of HBO's adaptation of George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy, A Game of Thrones, can be found here, at my new blog,...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-51669725965186664902011-04-13T16:53:00.003-06:002011-04-13T17:08:28.229-06:00Oops. I forgot to mention that Chapter One of The Music of Chaos is now available online. Free. In related news, yep, I am working on the sequel. I'm about more than 2/3 of the way done. It's...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-72692368641106079902011-03-14T16:21:00.004-06:002011-03-14T16:31:50.867-06:00In which I say, "You like me, you really like me." The Music of Chaos, my quirky urban fantasy novel, scored another nice review. Regan O'Connell is a Wolfe, part of a supernatural police force....Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-62895732858269904912011-03-14T12:35:00.007-06:002011-03-14T13:01:55.117-06:00As I noted in my posting below, my blog got plagiarized. The thieving site, is the ironically named Write (Create) Your Own Ebook...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-24052080170526492752011-03-14T12:00:00.008-06:002011-03-14T16:35:18.183-06:00And by their web page. Note: If you are reading this post anywhere but on Ramblings from the Desert or at But It's a Dry Heat (both authored by P. Kirby), the content is stolen. These days, new...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-50906082243670627192011-03-03T15:05:00.004-07:002011-03-03T15:38:31.185-07:00Otherwise known as my first review. The Music of Chaos got its first review. Music of Chaos is a fast moving, well written story of sorta Good vs. really evil Evil, man vs. woman, vampire vs....Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-23006015233170362562011-02-14T15:34:00.002-07:002011-02-14T15:38:54.418-07:00Urban fantasy set in the desert southwest. ************* Regan O’Connell seems to have it all. She has a PhD and a good paying job as a project manager with a consulting company. Unbeknownst to her...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-87698530418985744752010-10-29T10:58:00.002-06:002010-10-29T11:01:16.650-06:00This is clearly a case of what happens when you give a dog access to the Internet.To 'Your Retail Store': Today I went into your store, and I was appalled and disgusted that you blasphemed Almighty...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-84899713620097357602010-10-20T16:53:00.003-06:002010-10-29T11:15:35.127-06:00There's this ad that's been playing on TV for the past several weeks. In it, the archetypal Soccer Mom is wheeling her shopping cart through a grocery. As she wanders the isles, she opines about...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-3408928839721699002010-10-20T15:45:00.002-06:002010-10-20T16:00:21.854-06:00Thank dog for Netflix and Xbox, which provide political-ad-free entertainment. I can't entirely avoid political ads, because each morning my beloved switches on the TV to watch the news. This...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-6359974620136048442010-10-19T15:10:00.002-06:002010-10-19T15:12:19.896-06:00Need proof of evolution? Look no further than spam. (The virtual version, as the exact taxonomic classification for the edible kind remains a mystery to science.) For every innovation in spam...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-89804537205314060032010-10-13T15:52:00.000-06:002010-10-13T15:53:08.060-06:00I doubt there's anyone who hasn't been impacted by cancer in some way. Decadent Publishing, through their Read for a Cure program, is providing an easy way to indulge your love of reading and help...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-10072453976391164862010-10-05T15:19:00.006-06:002010-10-20T16:08:15.003-06:00Coming at the end of October...The Music of Chaos, my urban fantasy novel, from Decadent Publishing. With all the usual urban fantasy elements--ass-kicking heroine, magic, snappy dialogue, and...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-53615243595892471742010-10-01T11:00:00.000-06:002010-10-01T11:01:04.244-06:00I've got him in my sights, corrosive revolver loaded and ready to fire. "The only good Crimson Lance soldier is a dead one," I mutter. My finger twitches on the XBox controller. And then my view...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-84836513037965831312010-09-28T16:06:00.005-06:002010-09-28T16:12:42.472-06:00Aw, come on. It's easy. All you have to do is leave a comment here. That's it, click the linky. Then leave a comment. It doesn't have to be clever. Just any old comment is worth a dollar,...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-38108524639300525212010-09-24T09:34:00.003-06:002010-09-24T09:38:01.086-06:00Wednesday night. Under a gray sky, a mass of fat rainclouds rolled over the house. So low you could almost touch them, but opaque and thick like dark gray cotton balls, not misty, like fog. They...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-7692547000294335522010-09-22T14:49:00.006-06:002010-09-22T16:01:31.520-06:00"Clash of the Titans" is delightful. Delightfully bad. Having recently suffered through the critically acclaimed, but mind-rapingly dull, "No Country for Old Men," husband-critter and I decided to...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-26433469358175994132010-09-20T16:24:00.000-06:002010-09-20T16:25:47.352-06:00After spending the morning staring at the computer screen at work, wondering, "What the hell is it I do I here?" I'm back home. And staring at the computer screen. My faithful greyhound enters the...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-68012606875236747192010-09-17T10:42:00.006-06:002010-09-17T11:41:09.512-06:00So Christine O'Donnell thinks "Masturbation Isn't the Answer?" What, pray tell, is the question? "What's the capital of Indonesia?" "Masturbation." Yeah, she's right. It just doesn't work. (Of...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10749294.post-21165598870284228872010-09-17T10:29:00.000-06:002010-09-17T10:30:50.945-06:00It's six-thirty am and my horse is bugling at the house. I, the antithesis of a morning person, am thinking dark thoughts about glue factories and horse steaks. Bleary-eyed, I tromp out to to the...Pat Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13412454476874666367noreply@blogger.com0