Edward C. Patterson

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2008
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Southern Swallow

1 - The Academician (Mar-2009)
2 - The Nan Tu (Jan-2010)
3 - Swan Cloud (Nov-2011)

Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • No Irish Need Apply

    Kevin Borden has a secret, and that secret is about to shake the world around him - a tame and suburban world ruled by his widow mother, Sarah and peppered by his study-mate, Louis. Teenagers sometimes do the darndest things, but in Kevin and Louis' ...

  • Bobby's Trace

  • Cutting the Cheese

    Luke Oliver has just come out of the closet and confronts a brave new world - a meeting of the Gay and Lesbian Activist Association of New Birch and Sipsboro (GLAABS) - your run of the mill, gay political caucus. Run of the Mill? . . . my @$$. Steppi...

  • Surviving an American Gulag

  • Turning Idolater

  • The Jade Owl

    In China they whisper about the Jade Owl and its awful power. This ancient stone, commissioned by the Empress Wu and crafted by a mineral charmer, long haunted the folk of the Middle Kingdom until it vanished into an enigma of legend and lore. Now th...

  • The Third Peregrination

    The Jade Owl Legacy Series: Book 2 The world is on the brink, now that the relics flow together again. The new China Hands should have left the Jade Owl in the tomb, to fester silently for another age, but they didn't. Now there is a tapping in the b...

  • The Academician

    Southern Swallow - 1

    "A bigger fool the world has never known than I - a coarse fellow with no business to clutch a brush and scribble. I only know the scrawl, because my master took pleasure in teaching me between my chores. Not many men are so cursed . . ." Thus begins...

  • The Dragon's Pool

    The Third Book in the Jade Owl Legacy Series. A shadow stalks the lanes and streets, from Gui-lin to San Francisco, from Florence to the Dragon's Pool. In its wake, Rowden Gray and his China Hands follow a course to right the wrongs of time. The reli...



  • Look Away Silence

  • The Nan Tu

    Southern Swallow - 2

    "We all lived in the shadow of K'ai-feng's ashes now. No denying it. However safe we felt, the world hung by a silken thread." So begins the second book of the Southern Swallow series - The Nan Tu (The Southern Migration) and, like the first book, Th...

  • Oh, Dainty Triolet

    Oh, Dainty Triolet is a compilation of three of Edward C. Patterson's most popular works into an Omnibus Edition comprising Cutting the Cheese, Bobby's Trace and No Irish Need Apply. Cutting the Cheese is a comic romp through the world of gay activis...

  • The People's Treasure

    Before the first Emperor conquered the Han peoples and the world came under the sway of Heaven, the villagers of Yu-shui-ch'ien paid homage to the creatures under Mount Li, pledging to keep the ch'i world alive and the feathered-kin's lineage intact....

  • The Road to Grafenwohr

    PFC Quincy Summerson begins his military adventure in 1968 in Bavaria realizing that his presence stirs the paradigm - the thin line between twilight and night. His hyperactive imagination gets the better of him, and soon the world enlists him for a ...

  • Swan Cloud

    Southern Swallow - 3

    “We were like Swan Clouds, or so my master Li K’ai-men said, because for ten years we drifted from place to place -- city to city -- one temporary capital after another.” Ten years has passed since The Nan Tu, Book II of the Southern Swallo...

  • In the Shadow of Her Hem

    "China Hands To Me " A green fog has engulfed the Wei River Valley. The First Emperor's tomb is mysteriously rumbling. The Big Goose Pagoda is glowing like a lighthouse. And to blame? A bunch of Americans stranded in the consulate at Bei-jing, who, ...

  • Belmundus

    Harris Cartwright, a young A-list actor, is at the crossroads. His career's on fire - in a good way, but a missed step on an evening romp with an alluring stalker brings him to the brink of a strange world. He finds he's been drawn into a dystopian r...

  • Pacific Crimson - Forget Me Not

    Pacific Crimson - Forget Me Not is a tribute in verse to the men and women who fought War II in the Pacific. The world owes more than it could ever muster to these defenders of freedom during humankind’s deepest, darkest and dire hours - a century ...

  • Purple Lullaby

    This novel follows the lives of two young kids as they fall into an innocent love, only to have that love squashed by a minister who thinks he is Jesus Christ reincarnate.Based on the true life story of the author, Purple Lullaby takes the readers in...



  • The House of Green Waters - Southern Swallow Book IV

    “Exile is a state best experienced to understand. To spend thirteen years in a fly-infested wetland, slogging through jungle streams and unfurled on deserted beaches -- to be blown hither and thither by storms and falling palms, is a lesson no bo...

  • The Sapphire Astonishment

    The last time we encountered Nick Firestone (in The People's Treasure and In the Shadow of Her Hem - Book 4 and 5 of The Jade Owl Legacy) he was a five year old scamp, precocious and filled with the spirit of adventure. Now he's all grow'd up, as Sim...

  • The Twinning of Vincent Cassidy

    From the dim, dark reaches under the overpass, sits a man with a story -- a tale he’ll tell to anyone who will listen. His name -- Vincent Cassidy. His occupation -- well, he’ll tell you himself. His fall from grace -- a strange encounter...

  • Mother Asphodel

    “Clothes don’t make the queen. The queen makes the queen.” It’s Santa Saturday in New Hope, Pennsylvania and Mother Asphodel is trudging through the snow to a gig at the Phoenix Club - her drag queen couture bundled in a shopping cart - her b...

  • Boots of Montjoy

    In Boots of Montjoy, Lord Belmundus returns to Farn and battles for control of the realm. The Cetrone raise their cry for equality, while the Yunockers wage war for dominance. Intrigue and politics hold sway, while the Electors decide the fate of Far...

  • Master Wu's Bride

    It is Chi Lin’s wedding day " an exciting time for any bride, unless the groom has died before the ceremony and the ceremony, as per contract, must proceed. Chi Lin becomes the Fourth Wife " the ghost bride in the House of Wu, a respectable Min...

  • Old Friend Cane

    A NICK FIRESTONE MYSTERY Nick Firestone & Company has a new challenge. It’s 2027 in a post-USA San Francisco. The world is drenched in intrigue, eShirts, GovCoupies, and GlimmerGlass. Still, the old folk of Chinatown are trying to hold on to their ...

  • Little Vin at Dreamland

    Vincent Grainger is on the brink of a creative life. It’s 1910 in Coney Island, Brooklyn, and Vin is an imaginative actor at Dreamland Park’s Congress of Oddities. But life in the Irish immigrant community can be as harsh as it can be sweet. Off ...

  • Vagrants Hollow - The Southern Swallow Book V

    “Being a ghost is a difficult thing, let me tell you, as I’ve tried it several times during my existence. Like most members of a ch’i-t’ang, I come and go as the call summons -- sometimes in the dead of night; sometimes when I’m squatting...

  • Willa Goodheart

    Willa Goodheart, down to earth and friendly, undertakes a new position at work - a promising opportunity. However, upon coming home she discovers she is a person of interest connecting her to a string of murders in the bay area. Willa, true to her la...



  • The Rise of Lord Belmundus

    Harris Cartwright, actor of stage and screen, is as attractive as he is attracted. The world is his oyster and his red carpet. He earns his living in the land of make-believe. His finery is fakery, and yet it boosts his roles and mesmerizes his many ...

  • Across the Forling

    Lord Belmundus has escaped from the Katorias prison and has managed to reach the walls of Montjoy. But what prospect is that? The Forling, a desert of red kowlinka sands looms endlessly before him, crawling with dangerous creatures -- porcorporian,...

  • The Didaniyisgi

    The actor, Harris Cartwright has been drawn by the Sceptas Charminus into the world of Farn. Although unwilling, he is now Lord Belmundus, Co-consort is a strange family living in Mortis House on the Ayelli Hill overlooking Montjoy City. He is on the...

  • The Kalugu

    Lord Belmundus, that is, the actor Harris Cartwright, is drawn by curiosity. Now in his position as the Didaniyisgi of the Yuyutlu, where he regulates commerce and mediates disputes, he finds his responsibilities of limited interest. It does afford h...

  • The Battle for Montjoy

    While Lord Belmundus voyages back to Farn on the Gananadana, the Battle for Montjoy continues to rage. The Danuwa have liberated the Kalugu and now set their eyes on the Porias and the Yuganawu. But General Tarhippus is not an easy critter to defeat ...

  • Cetronia Strikes Back

    Lord Belmundus, now a full member of the Cetrone, assumes a new leadership role - Commander in Chief, while the exiled nation prepares to invade across the Forling to liberate the Kalugu. New weapons are mastered. New strategies are devised; and Harr...

  • The Aniloka

    With allies on its side, Montjoy prepares to welcome their new Elector back to the Ayelli Hill. Lord Belmundus is an engine of preparation, assuring that the Cetrone's return - the Aniloka, is a memorable event; and thus, he reviews the plans of all ...

  • The Hour of the Zinbear

    Lord Belmundus, having declared The New Day, now set forth to bring it to fruition. As the civil factions of Montjoy vie for position, the battle for the great armory, the Ryyve Aniniya takes shape. But beyond this lies a more disastrous threat from ...

  • The Summit at Protractus

    With Yustichisqua preparing Cetronia to return to Montjoy with the Elector of Zacker, Lord Belmundus is busy preparing to attend a conference in the realm of Protractus, the preparations of which is considerable and the consequences, momentous. In Th...

  • Yustichisqua

    Lord Belmundus has given Little Bird a tall order - a mission to return to Cetronia and bring the rest of the nation to Montjoy; in particular, the Elector of Zacker. No small order this. In Yustichisqua, the once subservient Trone rises to become th...



  • Nayowee's Curse

    The Cetrone have returned and the new Elector is settling into his Rainbow Kaleezo. Still, despite reconstruction, some citizens are restless and none so much as the mistress of the asi-asa, Nayowee. She has a mind to make things go her way, and she ...

  • The Adumbration of Zin

    The Battle of Pecubah having been waged and the descent into Pontifrax undertaken, Lord Belmundus wanders into Magus for his appointment with the Elector of Zin, the dark lord Grimakadarian. The fate of the war hinges on this meeting; and the hope of...

  • Spasatorum Quest

    The Adumbration of Zin, having been ameliorated, the citizens of Montjoy must weather the aftermath and revive their spirits. There are victims to shelter and bodies to nourish. There are old friends to seek and guests to wish a fond farewell. Recove...

  • The Six Bells of Madame Lin

    Lin Mang, blinded by proximity to her father's lacquerware factory, manages her own industry - a seamstress, who amazes her neighbors by producing unparalleled embroidery in a long-lost style passed to her through the women of her clan. Lin Mang's wo...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Edward C. Patterson has published 43 books.

Edward C. Patterson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Six Bells of Madame Lin, was published in April 2023.

The first book by Edward C. Patterson, No Irish Need Apply, was published in March 2008.

Yes. Edward C. Patterson has 1 series.
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