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Pat Perrin
Speculative and Historical Fiction; Freelance Educational Writer

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.2010

The Jamais Vu Papers (with Wim Coleman)

Did you ever get the feeling you’ve NEVER been here before? Once upon a time in Los Angeles, an addled psychiatrist was vainly trying to treat a jaded celebrity who suffered from a chronic case of déjà vu. The cure, it seemed, was to instill a sense of jamais vu, a mysterious feeling that one has never been here before—not in this world, this life, or the most familiar...

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PUBLISHED: Aug.01.2010

The Wand Bearer Trilogy #1: Juggler in the Wind (with Wim Coleman)

The Wand Bearer Trilogy, Part OneWhen a ragtag circus shows up in the town of Buchanan, Kansas, fourteen-year-old Randy Carmichael must confront his alcoholic mother’s fears and his own lifelong mysteries. Voices summon him, a godlike figure appears in his dreams, and supernatural adversaries lie in wait for him as as he embarks upon a quest that will take him beyond mortal reality...

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PUBLISHED: Dec.02.2009

Anna's World (with Wim Coleman)

The United States of America in the late 1840s--a nation torn by the crime of slavery and a war of conquest in Mexico. Fourteen-year-old Anna Coburn doesn't want to grapple with such terrible issues. Just growing up seems awful enough. Forced from her home and away from her beloved father, Anna is sent to live among the stern people called Shakers. Their strange ways and strict...

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The Secret World of Unicorns

Have you ever seen a unicorn?Though rare, they’re out there. In China, if you’re very lucky, you might see the K’i-lin, a unicorn considered to bring great fortune. Mist and Rain Fader unicorns are said to love the waterfalls of South America. And, rumor has it that unicorns have even been glimpsed in New York’s Central Park. In The Secret World of Unicorns, young readers will...

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The Taker and the Keeper (with Wim Coleman)

Middle-schoolers Gregory Guest and Yolanda Torres have no intention of becoming heroes overnight. But as the only kids in Bainsboro who see that the world has gone horribly wrong, what choice do they have? Aided by their eccentric science teacher and Gregory’s trusty red monocle, Gregory and Yolanda travel into the King Arthur legend to save today’s “real” world from a legendary...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.06.1991

The Jamais Vu Papers (1991)

By Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin. Real-world personalities such as cognitive philosopher Daniel C. Dennett, author Tom Robbins and physicist Fred Alan Wolf get involved with fictional characters in a lucid-waking adventure. The Jamais Vu Papers was our first novel-and our most unabashedly experimental one, which alternately infuriated and delighted its readers. "Seminally...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.1990

PragMagic (with Wim Coleman, Marilyn Ferguson)

The subtitle: Pragmatic Magic for Everyday Living-Ten Years of Scientific Breakthroughts, Exciting Ideas and Personal Experiments That Can Profoundly Change Your Life. Based on research, reviews, commentary, and exercises from Marilyn Ferguson's newsletter, Brain/Mind Bulletin. Adapted and updated, with new material added by Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin.

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Terminal Games, with Wim Coleman, as Cole Perriman

Terminal Games was published by Bantam under the pseudonym Cole Perriman. It was translated into German (3 editions), Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian. In an exclusive, expensive, and often bizarre branch of cyberspace, anonymous people live out their anonymous fantasies. But when Insomnimania members begin dying, hi-tech fantasy morphs into real-life nightmare....

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Mar.01.2012 - 8:39 am

Message: Creativity

Every now and then I need to get nonverbal, so I return to visual art. A year or so ago, words began to sneak into the visual as “messages” written on handmade paper and wrapped...

Jan.19.2012 - 10:19 am

reinvention?

I put this up as a comment on the blog about self-reinvention. But that was an older blog, so I decided it might best go here. Is self-reinvention really planned? Does it happen...

Oct.01.2011 - 11:41 am

Red Monocle giveaway

This month we're doing a giveaway of the first two books in our Red Monocle series—The Taker and the Keeper and The Death of the Good Wizard—on YABC and their sister site, Kid's...

Jul.06.2011 - 2:27 pm

Moved to the USA

Red Monocle 2: The Death of the Good Wizard

We finally got moved! For 13 years, Wim and I lived in the lovely colonial city of San Miguel de Allende, Gto., Mexico. There we wrote novels, did all kinds of freelance work (as...

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Jan.21.2012 - 4:00 pm

In response to: Red Roomers Blog About Self-Reinvention

reinvention

Survival mechanism -- exactly! Thanks for explaining it so well.

Jan.18.2012 - 6:54 am

In response to: Red Roomers Blog About Self-Reinvention

planned reinvention?

Is self-reinvention really planned? Does it happen the way you plan it? (Does life?) Creative experience is about...

Dec.04.2009 - 10:03 pm

In response to: Best Gift Book

Anna's World by Red Room author Pat Perrin (and Wim Coleman)

I’m going to plug our own triple-award-winning Anna’s World, highly praised historical fiction for young readers that...

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Short Story: Anansi and the Box of Stories

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Feb.25.2011

The Wand Bearer Trilogy #1: Juggler in the Wind (with Wim Coleman)

Published by http://biblioreads.blogspot.com/2011/02/juggler-in-wind-young-adult.html

WOW. I intended to read the first chapter before bed and then a little each day over the weekend, but twelve chapters later I had to tear myself away so I could get some sleep!...

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Video: Talking about Anna's World

Video: Anna's World book trailer

Video: Stitches-Stones-Spaces: Artworks by Pat Perrin

About Pat

I'm a writer and visual artist, the author of books and essays for both mainstream and educational publishers. My husband, Wim Coleman, and I often collaborate, and together we've written, edited, or contributed to some 65 publications. Earlier on, I spent...

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Pat PerrinSpeculative and Historical Fiction; Freelance Educational Writer

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Pat Perrin
Speculative and Historical Fiction; Freelance Educational Writer