THE WINGED WARRIORby P J Hauldren The Winged Warrior is an epic romantasy. S till working on the first draft (this is a huge worldbuilding job!) and what you read below is somewhere in the draftsy stage.  I hope you enjoy it. Pat (c) 2025 P J Hauldren CHAPTER 1 “Goddess of the Night. Hear my plea.” The sun sat on the edge of the world, its soft light dimly reflected in the rising moon that hung full and low as if it were slow to wake from its long sleep.

CATSUPby P J Hauldren Here's an excerpt of the first 2 pages of my short story,  'Catsup,'  in the From Planet Texas with Love, and Aliens anthology edited by Pat Hauldren, Becky Burkheart, and Tricia Ferguson This compilation began as a writers' group story anthology and grew! (North Texas Speculative Fiction Writers Workshop). Hope you enjoy it! Pat Return to 'My Published' page

JUSTICEby P J Hauldren Here's an excerpt of the first 2 pages of my short story, 'Justice', in the Short & Twisted Western Tales anthology edited by Becky Burkheart. I'm excited it got in the first story position! Now everyone can see my typos! LOL Hope you enjoy it! Pat Return to 'My Published' page

Sometimes, I like to call myself a mythogographer, one who is a compiler of myths, who renders myth to page to create something new. The more I write, the more I rely on myths of our past to create a mythology for the future, which is probably why I write speculative fiction. Often, writers get asked, "Why do you write?"

I realized recently while texting on my phone that my voice to text did not know the word “dadgumit” at all. Instead, my iPhone typed “dammit.” Not at all what I wanted to my very religious friend!

Jun 27 & Jul 5, 2022Generating Gorgeous Genre Both in the Apex Strategy session and at the Apex SFF Group, I was honored to present an hour-long workshop on Generating Gorgeous Genre. Each Monday night, the Apex Writers Group, founded by NYT bestselling author David Farland ( has a one-hour Zoom workshop on various topics about writing, publishing, andmarketing.

I am guest blogger at the DFW Writers’ Conference website blog. “Life is Learning” by Pat Hauldren I’ll be teaching a class on how to write for online media to build your author’s platform,

My article “New concussion policy for for high school hockey league” was listed as one of the top sports stories of 2010! How cool is that? I’m really having fun writing for the Examiner.com (now Axios). I have 5 gigs there: Writing, Spec Fic, Hockey, Women’s Sports, and SyFy Channel. All right up my alley. This past year has been fun and I look forward to delving more into my columns in the coming year.

Tony Eldridge invited me to blog for his website Marketing Tips for Authors (again!). I was happy to do so. Tony makes me sound sooo professional! Examining Online Media: How To Build An Audience Before Your Book Is Published! By Pat Hauldren is a compilation of information from the class of the same name. Check it out, let me know what you think! Tweet it! FB it! My first blog for Tony was: How Networking Worked for Me By Pat Hauldren Thanks everyone for your support.

Sunday I got to talk about “The Science in Science Fiction” at the National Space Society of North Texas‘ Moon Day event at the Frontiers of Flight Museum, celebrating the 42nd moon walk. I had never thought to talk about this subject, but it’s right up my alley, and I’ll be presenting classes on it soon. In this presentation, I discussed the history of science fiction to present-day, and how science fiction writers are also “science predictors” using all the myriad of inventions and creations and discoveries that were first forecast by science fiction writers. I had a lot of fun and hope to do this one next year as well.

I’m teaching a class Sunday, Feb 26, at 8:30 a.m. (gulp) at the 2011 DFW Writers’ Conference at the American Airlines Training Center! The class is “Examining Examiner: How to build an author’s platform before your book is sold.” Handouts are available on the “Workshop” page. See you there!

Do you write to music? I often do. But it has to be the right music, at least for me. And it really depends on what stage I’m writing in—first draft? Rewriting? Editing? First draft. No. No music. Except (there are always exceptions) if I’m stuck on a scene. Then I’ll select some appropriate music for the background. Like, say, I’m writing a fight scene, or some scene where I need some heroism, then my fave background music is the soundtrack from the TV series…

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