Bill VanPatten

An Interview with Bill VanPatten: Author of A Little Rain – Bronze Winner in the 2022 SPR Book Awards

Bill VanPattenBill VanPatten is a former award-winning scholar and teacher who changed careers to write full-time. He has also performed standup comedy and still does so on occasion, especially if the venue serves killer martinis.

Tell us about your book.

A Little Rain explores the complexities, lies, and secrets of a disintegrated family, as they wind up in court over the sixteen-year-old son’s actions. Twists and turns abound as the story unfolds through different points of view.

Why did you want to write a book?

Before I became a writer, I was a successful academic. I’d published eight books, about two-hundred […]

2023-05-03T12:56:43+02:00May 3rd, 2023|Categories: Interviews|Tags: |

Review: Sometimes You Just Know by Bill VanPatten

 Sometimes You Just Know by Bill VanPatten

Sometimes You Just Know by Bill VanPatten is a tender, warmhearted work of LGBT romance that is unafraid to tackle challenging questions or pack emotional punches. With its closely observed realism, sensitively drawn characters, and highly believable dialogue, this is a beautifully naturalistic story of love and loss, which is in turns funny, surprising, and heartrending.

As the title suggests, the big theme of the novel is that of intuition, the strange way one can know something without consciously knowing the reason why. The novel is a careful examination of this idea in respect to love, death, and family – […]

2023-05-11T12:34:12+02:00April 5th, 2023|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , , |

Review: A Little Rain by Bill VanPatten

A Little Rain by Bill VanPatten

A young gay man participates in a court hearing for a mysterious crime in Bill VanPatten’s emotional and reflective novel A Little Rain, an engrossing work about how the impact of generational trauma and the strain of keeping secrets can break a family apart.

When Alex Chance is sixteen years old, he attempts suicide shortly before landing in front of the judge who will determine his fate. By the time he arrives in the courtroom, he’s in a dissociative fugue, clutching a paperback copy of Stephen King’s Misery and barely speaking. So what happened to lead Alex to this fraught […]

2022-05-12T08:21:51+02:00April 8th, 2022|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , , |

Review: Looks Are Deceiving by Bill VanPatten

Looks Are Deceiving by Bill VanPatten

The tight-knit small town of Mañana, CA is turned upside down by a cruel hate crime in Bill VanPatten’s Looks Are Deceiving, a mystery novel featuring an endearing amateur sleuth and timely conversations about racism and homophobia in contemporary America.

Will Christian is a 49-year-old aspiring writer and gay Latino man who moved to Mañana to live closer to his sister. Everything is going swimmingly until he sets out for a bike ride in late June and makes a grim discovery: the body of a young man, subject to severe blunt force head trauma, a 22-year-old who also happens to […]

2022-04-07T03:00:16+02:00February 24th, 2022|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , , |
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