Welcome

Put your feet up, settle your keyboard on your lap, draw your monitor close, and prepare to enjoy the writings of Pat Stuart, a former intelligence officer who has lived and worked in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. She has published, A Gathering of Grizzlies, a fine arts catalog, Grizzly Memories, a 'how to' book on fundraising with animal sculptures, Pockets of Magic, travel essays from South Asia, and Elkhounds of the Gods, a book of short stories. As a freelance writer, she has contributed stories, articles, and essays to various anthologies and magazines.
Attention Agents and Publishers
Regime Change: A strong and dynamic CIA officer, a woman in a crippling relationship with her husband, deals with a Libyan terrorist organization and a cyberwar operation gone wrong during the Arab Spring. 384 pp. Read the first chapter here.
Coming Soon
Determined Women, a creative nonfiction work in progress, tells the story of Icka Eilert Buss, an Ost Frieslander of meager resources who emigrated to the American prairies with three toddlers and an infant. She built a cabin, busted sod, planted, harvested and eventually became a successful and respected farmer. One hundred years later, her great granddaughter, Marolyn Dale Miller, inspired by her story, took her three children into Wyoming's mountain wilderness to camp and build a log house with hand tools. Despite societal disapproval and the daunting tasks before them, both women perservered to accomplish their dreams. They were two of thousands whose actions and examples changed a society and a nation.