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WELCOME Before dedicating real time to her lifelong love of writing, Patricia spent over fifteen years illustrating children’s books for Harcourt Brace, Albert Whitman, and Napoleon Publishing (acquired by Dundurn Press.) Looking for a new direction once her children entered school, and seeking an avenue to use her writing skills, she spent the next fourteen years in business development and instructional design. Her educational background spans a diploma in book illustration, web design, and corporate communications. As a child, her life was filled with animals. They occupied her sketchbooks. They dominated the subject matter of her short story writing and painting. All those colorful, funny, irresistible nonhuman beings, exhibiting their own unique culture and mysterious ways of communicating, their ‘otherness’ steering her life’s passion as a writer, an artist, and currently, as a part-time canine instructor for one of North America’s leading pet product organizations. For several years she maintained The Dog Blog, a monthly communication, benefiting students and the dog community at large. Her debut novel Chasing Shadow is now available for purchase. In the works With her second novel coming down the pipes, Parks spins a tale of young love across time as it weaves together past and present, in the search for answers. And, given her strong connection with animals, the author must be forgiven for also including a very annoying little dog.