Edward C. Patterson has been writing novels, short fiction, poetry and drama his entire life, always seeking the emotional core of any story he tells. With his eighth novel, The Jade Owl, he combines an imaginative touch with his life long devotion to China and its history. He has earned an MA in Chinese History from Brooklyn College with further postgraduate work at Columbia University. A native of Brooklyn, NY, he has spent four decades as a soldier in the corporate world gaining insight into the human condition. He won the 2000 New Jersey Minority Achievement Award for his work in corporate diversity. Blending world travel experiences with a passion for story telling, his adventures continue as he works to permeate his reader’s souls from an indelible wellspring.
Published Novels by Edward C. Patterson include No Irish Need Apply, Bobby’s Trace, Cutting the Cheese, Surviving an American Gulag, Turning Idolater, The Jade Owl (Jade Owl Legacy Series Book I), The Third Peregrination (Jade Owl Legacy Series Book II and Southern Swallow Series (Book I – The Academician). Coming soon: The Dragon’s Pool (Jade Owl Legacy Series Book III), Southern Swallow Series (Book II – The Nan Tu; Book III – Swan Cloud; Book IV – The House of Green Waters), Look Away, Silence, Belmundus, The Road to Grafenwoehr, and Green Folly. Look also for The People’s Treasure (Jade Owl Legacy Series Book IV) and In the Shadow of Her Hem (Jade Owl Legacy Series Book V). Poetry books available are The Closet Clandestine: a queer steps out and Come, Wewoka – and – Diary of Medicine Flower.
From The Jade Owl: In China they whisper about the Jade Owl and its awful power. This ancient stone, commissioned by the Empress Wu and crafted by a mineral charmer, long haunted the folk of the Middle Kingdom until it vanished into an enigma of legend and lore. Now the Jade Owl is found. It wakes to steal the day from day. Its power to enchant and distort rises again. Its horror is revealed to a band of five, who must return it to the Valley of the Dead before the laws of ch’i are set aside in favor of destruction’s dance. Five China Hands, each drawn through time’s thin fabric by the bird, discover enchantment on the secret garland. Five China Hands, and one holds the key to the world’s fate. Five China Hands. Only one Jade Owl – but it’s awake and in China, they whisper again.
Professor Rowden Gray has come to San Francisco following a new opportunity at the East Asian Arts and Culture Museum, only to find that the opportunity has evaporated. Desperate, he means to end his career in a muddle of pity and Scotch, but then things happen. He latches on to a fascinating young man who is pursuing a lost relic that Professor Gray has in fact been seeking. Be careful for what you seek – you may just find it. Thus begins a journey that takes the professor and his companions on a spirited adventure across three-thousand miles of Chinese culture and mystery – a quest to fulfill a warrant long set out to ignite the world in myth and legend. The Jade Owl is the beginning of a series – a legacy that fulfills a terrible truth; and in China, they whisper again.
BOOK I of THE JADE OWL LEGACY SERIES – and NOW available on the Kindle: The Jade Owl
BOOK 2 of The Jade Owl Legacy Series – THE THIRD PEREGRINATION go to: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001Q3M9QI
Posted by: Bill Flynn on March 10, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Edward C. Patterson is a talent that should be up there with the best. This all come through in one of his many books, The Jade Owl. Patterson could be the most underated novelist on this planet. His work should appear in the best selling category…Right up there with the ten best authors.
Posted by: jacamo peterson on March 10, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Ed Patterson is a gifted writer who produces thrilling adventures through his books.Certainly a Top Ten Writer,will most likely soon be seen on best seller lists.Jade Owl is just one China adventure, he has others.
Posted by: J.R. Reardon on March 10, 2009 at 4:55 pm
What a gifted writer – I look forward to reading Mr. Patterson’s work!
J.R. Reardon
author, “Confidential Communications”
Posted by: Wendy Potocki on March 10, 2009 at 4:56 pm
If you’re looking to find a new author to call your favorite, you’ve just found him!!!
Always interesting and constantly entertaining, his writing spirits you through the story. You arrive at your destination glad for having made the trip!
Try just one, and without a doubt, your bookshelves will soon be lined with all his others!
Posted by: Susan Jane on March 14, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Ed Patterson is a prolific and brilliant writer. He crafts every word like the poet he is. A beautiful work.