L.R. Patton

L.R. Patton became the top secret name of an award-winning poet and author when she discovered that she had more stories to tell at a quicker pace than traditional publishing could keep up with. So she decided to take matters into her own hands and start ghost-writing for herself.

Though she must remain beneath the cloak of invisibility, I assure you that the L.R. is a real person. She began “writing” before she even knew all her letters, spinning imaginative tales her mother didn’t think to write down. But as soon as she learned her letters, she wrote them all down for herself on the wide open space of fresh white computer paper. She had her first short story published when she was in sixth grade.

L.R. began her writing career in the field of journalism, which is a fancy word that means she was a writer (technically called a reporter) for a newspaper. She was fascinated by the true and fantastical stories of real people, and she attributes this fascination to the reason she became a novelist.

In 2015, she ended her newspaper days and began writing for at least three hours a day every day, because she believes that putting in the work is what makes a writer. She writes fiction, nonfiction and poetry, but her favorite things to write are stories that will entertain her young sons.

L.R. lives with her husband and six sons in San Antonio, Texas, where she reads as many books as she can every month—sometimes as many as 20. She writes at least 5,000 words a day, five days a week.