Patricia Feinberg Stoner
Patricia Feinberg Stoner is a British writer: a former journalist, advertising copywriter and publicist.
After graduating from Trinity College Dublin, she joined a local newspaper, The Liverpool Daily Post, as a trainee. Quickly discovering she was a terrible reporter, she switched to feature writing and since then her career has revolved around the written word.
A short, unhappy spell as a recruitment advertising copywriter for the then Benton & Bowles agency prompted an Ogden Nash-inspired rant on the subject of clients, and she quickly left to join Granada Television (‘Brideshead Revisited’, ‘The Jewel in the Crown’) as international press officer. After eleven years she left Granada to set up her own publicity business, The Good Word.
In 2003 she and her husband became accidental expatriates in the Languedoc when they were adopted by a small brown and white dog. During their four years there she contributed a monthly column to a French property magazine, which morphed into her first award-winning book At Home in the Pays d’Oc. This was followed by Tales from the Pays d’Oc and she is currently publishing the third in the series, Murder in the Pays d’Oc in free instalments on her blog www.paw-prints-in-the-butter.com. The dog, inevitably, makes an appearance in all three books.
Patricia has also published two books of comic verse: Paw Prints in the Butter and The Little Book of Rude Limericks.
A Londoner by birth and inclination, she now lives happily with her husband and dog in a small village on the south coast of England. She is delighted to welcome visitors to her Facebook page (Paw Prints in the Butter) and can occasionally be found on Twitter @perdisma.
After graduating from Trinity College Dublin, she joined a local newspaper, The Liverpool Daily Post, as a trainee. Quickly discovering she was a terrible reporter, she switched to feature writing and since then her career has revolved around the written word.
A short, unhappy spell as a recruitment advertising copywriter for the then Benton & Bowles agency prompted an Ogden Nash-inspired rant on the subject of clients, and she quickly left to join Granada Television (‘Brideshead Revisited’, ‘The Jewel in the Crown’) as international press officer. After eleven years she left Granada to set up her own publicity business, The Good Word.
In 2003 she and her husband became accidental expatriates in the Languedoc when they were adopted by a small brown and white dog. During their four years there she contributed a monthly column to a French property magazine, which morphed into her first award-winning book At Home in the Pays d’Oc. This was followed by Tales from the Pays d’Oc and she is currently publishing the third in the series, Murder in the Pays d’Oc in free instalments on her blog www.paw-prints-in-the-butter.com. The dog, inevitably, makes an appearance in all three books.
Patricia has also published two books of comic verse: Paw Prints in the Butter and The Little Book of Rude Limericks.
A Londoner by birth and inclination, she now lives happily with her husband and dog in a small village on the south coast of England. She is delighted to welcome visitors to her Facebook page (Paw Prints in the Butter) and can occasionally be found on Twitter @perdisma.
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At Home in the Pays d'Oc
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Memoir / Humour
Patricia and her husband become accidental expatriates in the south of France when they are adopted by a small dog. This is the story of their four years there and some of their enchanting and sometimes bizarre. encounters: the Velcro bird, the stark naked builder, the neighbour who cuts their phone wires. It is about the joys and occasional heartbreak of living in a land where just because you speak the language it doesn't neessarily mean they will understand you. 
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Tales from the Pays d'Oc
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Short stories / Humour
Twenty-one tales of life, love and laughter in the land of sun and vines. Why did Matthieu spend the night in an olive tree? Why won't Josephine ever eat pizza again? Who stole the Indian prawn? And who rescued two hapless tourists at Armageddon Falls? In this collection of stories the author revisits the territory of her memoir 'At Home in the Pays d'Oc' with a whole host of new and familiar characters 
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Paw Prints in the Butter
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Comic Verse
Comical verses for cat lovers. Meet Lulu the Terrible and learn how she overcame a savage dog but fell prey to the charms of a ne'er do well. Discover how the ancient Cabriole won the paw of the fair Ottoline. Meet the real Puss in Boots and shudder at the sinister Cat Who Howls in the Night. 
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The Little Book of Rude Limericks
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Comic Verse
From the north of England... While driving along the A40 In a little red car that was sporty Jimmy said to Suzette 'How about it, my pet? Let's find a lay-by and get naughty' to the south of France... A cheerful young fellow named Trev Went off for a romp in Lodeve. But he soon lost this smile When he caught something vile In a house of delight called Mon Reve. this little book of limericks ranges far and wide. Open it to discover how a knight with a lisp can still command respect, how the ladies on the Autoroute don't give away their favours for free, and how tajine is really only a posh word for stew.
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