Patrick Rowlee

Patrick Rowlee is the author of four previously published novels: VARRICK'S DISTURBANCES, TWO FACES TO NO ONE, BLACKBALLED, and HE PLAYS LIKE COBB. His latest novel, THE TALISMAN EFFECT, is the epic story of an unidentified comatose patient, "John Doe," which follows not only his "Black Hole" existence, but documents his amazing past as a musician and songwriter. Through the miracle of recorded music, Doe is able to non-verbally message an accidental helper, a night-shift janitor named Pammy Lee Wertzhog.

Heralded by world-famous musicians and observers of the music scene as an epic musical journey, THE TALISMAN EFFECT is a must-read for anyone who either grew up in the 50's-80's or admires and loves the music of the "Golden Era of Rock & Roll." Rock musicians such as Ralph Molina (drummer for Neil Young & Crazy Horse for the past fifty years) and John "Drumbo" French (Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band) have endorsed THE TALISMAN EFFECT because it sheds light not only on the impact music has on the artist's fans, but the effect one's own music has on one's own life.

All five of Patrick Rowlee's novels are available in paperback and e-edition exclusively through Amazon and Amazon Kindle Direct (except for print edition of TWO FACES TO NO ONE, available only through the author, who can be reached on Facebook).

Three of Rowlee's previous novels (all but TWO FACES TO NO ONE) are set in the world of baseball, but focus on social issues (race relations, morality, secularism versus spirituality, etc.) and other matters that transcend the world of sports.

HE PLAYS LIKE COBB, released in September 2015, focuses on a middle-aged former high school pitcher whose life becomes completely and irrevocably transformed by a week-long visit to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The protagonist, Eamonn "A.D." Delahanty, has never distinguished himself in his forty-seven years until the effects of visiting the Grand Old Game's HOF begins to kick in. He not only begins to play like the late, great Tyrus Raymond Cobb - thought by many to be THE greatest player of all time - but starts exhibiting Mr. Cobb's extreme level of competitiveness, stubborn and misanthropic tendencies, and - worst of all - racist sensibilities.

After A.D. actually begins playing like the great Cobb, everything in his life changes dramatically. He soon becomes a veritable "force of nature" not only on the baseball diamond, but everywhere else in his now-dramatic existence.

Next on tap for Mr. Rowlee is a novel to be released in late 2018 or early 2019 titled COLLEEN STREET CHRONICLES: SLICES OF THE SIXTIES, a retrospective on the 60's seen through the eyes of a wizened, yet still idealistic man who believes so much in doing what is right for his fellow man that he risks his health, his lifelong career, and reputation to protect the children and families involved in his gradually revealed profession. Ricky Garrity is a man who's toiled most of his life for a huge, but not always well-meaning institution that could control his future retirement. He must convince the "evil empire" for which he worked to allow him full benefits, despite his becoming a world-renowned opponent of this once-loved world-wide organization. COLLEEN STREET CHRONICLES chronicles the childhood of Ricky Garrity, mainly the seven years he spent residing on his beloved Colleen Street in Cactusville, California from 1961 through 1967. You will meet his bizarre family who somehow are more than able to endear themselves to all of us. Look for COLLEEN STREET CHRONICLES late 2018 / early '19.