Usually when I talk about voice, I am talking about the “voice” in the writing — the tone, the cadence, the language. But when it comes to audiobooks, there really is nothing more important than the actual voice that comes out of an actual throat. (I will not be listening to AI narrations anytime soon…

In the year 2001 my first novel (under the name Pat MacEnulty) was published by Serpent’s Tail Press. It was called Sweet Fire, after the song by Joni Mitchell about drug addiction. The book got great reviews such as this one from The Guardian: MacEnulty writes about her subject with sympathy, wisdom and – an…

If you read Secrets & Spies, then you know that Ellen was impregnated by a German Intelligence officer in 1915. The novel I’m currently working on is the story of her child 24 years later! The novel doesn’t have a title yet, but I’m calling it “Ellen’s Girl” until I come up with something better.…

I just spent the past week listening to the audio files for my memoir The Hummingbird Kiss. Whew, that was brutal. It’s been a good four decades since the events described in that book, and I’ve done a remarkable job of erasing most of that era from my consciousness — and from my conscience. I…