Thursday 29 July 2010

About Patricia

Patricia Barber is the author of First Time Tenant and lives outside of Reading with three cats and a house trained husband.

A serial entrepreneur, she has run businesses in a wide variety of industries including healthcare, insurance, lettings & property management, retail, tarot reading and catering. She has owned and run her family based Inventory Company since 1986, and became chairman of the inventory clerk's regulatory body, the AIIC, in 2006.

She holds diplomas in Relaxation Therapy and Holistic Diagnosis and also works as a Foot Health Practitioner.

When she's not working or writing, she organises a local singing group and is active in the British Fantasy Society; she has run conventions and organised their annual short story competition (which she is currently a first round reader for) as well as providing administrative support to their special publications branch.