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Pat Ballard Visit Pat's Amazon Connect blog or read Pearlsong Press blog posts about Pat.
Pat Ballard writes romance novels and short stories with Big Beautiful Heroines to show that plus-size women are just as sexy, romantic, and exciting as their slim sisters.
" For as long as I can remember," she says, "I loved 'making up' my own stories. And being the oldest of six children, and next to the oldest of 25 grandchildren, I had a lot of practice spinning my yarns 'on request.'" I learned to love romance novels after discovering author Emilie Loring. I collected and read every book I could find by her. I knew that this was the type of book I wanted to write." My wonderful sisters, Ellen and Jerri, became weary of hearing me say I was going to 'write a book,' so one day they approached me with a pen and spiral notebook and said, 'do it.'"So thanks to them, I wrote my first novella. And in doing so, I proved to myself that I could. "After I decided to stop the self-destructive fad diets that I had lived on since the age of eleven, and accept myself as who I was born to be, I set about to write romance novels with Big Beautiful Heroines. "But the books aren't just for plus-size women. The message is for all women to love ourselves as we are and stop trying to be something we were never meant to be." Pat lives and writes in Nashville, TN. Click on the links below for more info on her books. New nonfiction by Pat Ballard:10 Steps to Loving Your Body (No Matter What Size You Are) Fiction by Pat Ballard: The Best Man A Worthy Heir │ Dangerous Curves Ahead: Short StoriesHis Brother's Child │ Nobody's PerfectWanted: One Groom │ Abigail's Revenge
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books? Please consider posting a reader review at Amazon.com to spread the word. Ask your local public library to add Pat's books to their collection so more people can enjoy them.
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Elegant Plus magazine interview
Nashville, TN One Paper article on Pat Ballard & Pearlsong Press
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"Thanks for the bravery of being yourself. I, too, have
spent years looking for the thin person inside. Now at this ripe age of
fifty-something, it dawns on me that I am what I am, so enjoy!! You and I
have the same dream, only you have succeeded where I am just
beginning."
"Thank God, someone has the strength to be sane, and let a woman 'just
be.' Someone can look the societal ideal in the eye and say 'no thanks,
I'm valuable as I am.' Women are tired and overstressed from doing it all.
The lengths we go to in order to 'fit the ideal body image' are
undervalued. We need a collective 'enough already,' and to send out the
message that who we are as individuals is worth enough. Thanks."
"Your
books....left me feeling proud to be a large size woman who can appreciate
the greatness inside of me." "I am thrilled every time I see a 'big' gal step forward and take her place—it's about time!! I have stopped feeling 'bad' about my size—I've learned that it has absolutely nothing to do with self worth, with intelligence, with ability, and that I can be just as sexy at my size as a size 4—damn the torpedoes!" Linda
"I am a full-sized woman, too....I want to
accept me as I am NOW and I am sick and tired of dieting. I am a wonderful
cook and I can do lots of things. I am a great dancer, I am a grandmother
of 15, and I do NOT look my age. I am a attractive woman, but I have a fat
body. My husband does not like me fat, and that has bothered me for years.
DAMN—he can go to hell (ha ha ha ha). I want to be ME and create and sew
again and paint again and go to parties again with or without him. I am so
bored and unhappy WAITING TO BE SKINNY, TRYING TO BE SKINNY. I am tired of
dieting and going through the nights with my tummy growling...Now is the
time to live. TODAY...happy, exercising, doing the things I love, like
dancing and skating—oh, I love to skate—and riding my bike—I will get a
seat that fis my round, lovely rump, heh-heh. I love to swim, also...but
the bulges are sins in the eyes of others....Thank you for your
inspiration!!!!"
"I just had to write and tell you how much I
loved your books....I read a lot of other romance novels that occasionally
feature a plus-size woman, but it is so good to find an author who writes
nothing but romance stories that feature plus-size heroines. "I love your books. I read a lot of romance books, but was pleased to find romance books with plus (-sized) women in them. I have read all your current books. They are wonderful....Keep the good work up." Nicola from Michigan "I guess I'm one of the men that the 'size positive movement' labels as a FA or Fat Admirer. I really don't like that moniker in that I don't admire Fat, but appreciate the curves of a full-size woman. I just consider myself more of a Renaissance man who prefers an ample woman, much like my father preferred my mother. I am an average-sized man but come from a family of 'big-boned' women. They were all very nurturing women, much like my first and sixth grade teachers, so I have come to the conclusion that I associate a body size with those teddy-bear women who molded my emotional side. I know that a nurturing, intelligent, funny, and adventurous woman can come in any color, race, religion and size, but that was my early socialization. I think the idea that a large woman can be a heroine is long overdue, much like the idea that they are smart, witty, loving, healthy, sexy, passionate, and adventurous is long overdue! ....I just wanted to say thanks for having the courage to follow your dreams. You give inspiration to Big Beautiful Women everywhere, and to men like myself who had been ridiculed in the past for (our) preferences. Pat Ballard, thank you for trying to open the world's eyes and hearts!" Jeffrey S. McCalla of Houston, TX
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