Pat Simmons is the co-publicist at Midwest Publicity, a two-woman public relations company. She handles media publicity for yearly Romantic Times BOOKLOVERS Conventions, securing author interviews for national bestselling authors like L.A. Banks, Bobbi Smith, Christina Skye, Heather Graham, and others via radio, television, and newspaper.

Pat Simmons holds a B.S. in Mass Communications from Emerson College in Boston, MA. Her hobbies/interests include digging up dirt on ancestors while researching her genealogy. She is a closet collector of greeting cards and tears up as she watches fighter jets race across the sky to mark the beginning of a sport event.

Pat Simmons is nosy by nature. She’s known for making friends where ever she goes, and being the life of the party—only if there’s four guests or less. Pat is considered a connoisseur of board games, and collects off-brand games that nobody wants to play so she bribes them with her tetrazzini. She praises God for the inspiration to write, and the “village people” for helping her get the job done. She is a contributor to the Essence Magazine best selling anthology, Love is Blind with Parry “Ebony Satin” Brown. She is the bestselling author of her debut novel Guilty of Love (September 2007). Upcoming novels include Talk To Me (November 2008), and Not Guilty of Love (September 2009).

Pat Simmons’ media appearances include: KMOV-TV, St. Louis; St. Louis American Newspaper; WFUN 95.5 FM, St. Louis; Ferguson Times Newspaper, Ferguson, MO; Heaven 1580 AM, Lanham, MD; WCLM, Richmond, VA; ArtistFirst Radio Network, Alliance, OH; Blog Radio Network; and V100.7,
Racine, WI.