Pat Green-Gen X Watch

08/06/2025

Usually dont care about these things...but hell yes! With Miami Vice – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

08/06/2025

Today I’m feeling extra grateful for our local indie bookstores. Places like Yellow Bird Books Aurora (Aurora, IL) and Frugal Muse Books. Music & Video (Darien, IL) and Peoria Book Rack Gift Booktique (Peoria) have been so supportive – they even hosted me for book signings of Hearts of Glass this summer. These community bookstores are run by folks who genuinely love books and readers. If you haven’t been to one lately, drop in, have a chat, and pick up something new (or used). There’s nothing quite like the vibe of a neighborhood bookstore – they keep the real-world magic of reading alive.

08/05/2025

Those who read the fem fridays with the true stories these books are based on will get this. I am writing the second draft of the Lake Geneva hotel chapters in '89.

My emotions are on the razor's edge. We were kids in impossible situations and only one of us is still here to tell the tale. How many more Pat and Kathy's and Ford and Cassies are out there...and how many more are no more? Survivor's guilt is a sh*tty afternoon snack.

08/05/2025

On August 5, 1983, the comedy Risky Business, starring a young Tom Cruise in a breakout role, opened in U.S. theaters. That movie taught us that sometimes you just gotta say “What the f**k” and go for it. I’m channeling that energy as I put myself out there with Hearts of Glass Series. This is my last great adventure and I hope you connect with it... with me – after all, life is a risky business and dreams are as fragile as a faberge' egg!

For more 80s memories do check out Likewhateverpod and On this day in the 80s...

And please. Read or listen to my book. Hearts of Glass Living in the Real World. I hope you not only see me, but reflections of yourself.

08/04/2025

Have you finished Hearts of Glass: Living in the Real World yet?

Whether you read it, listened to the new audiobook, or did both — I’d love to hear what you thought! 💓 Reviews help so much in getting the story out to new readers (and listeners) who need it.

✨ If the story moved you…
✨ If a character felt real to you…
✨ If the 80s mall vibes gave you life…

Then please take a minute to leave a quick review on Amazon, Goodreads, or wherever you grabbed your copy. Your words matter more than you know — especially for indie authors like me.

08/04/2025

This week in 1981, MTV launched on cable, actually playing music videos 24 hours a day. MTV moments were a defining part of the Gen X coming-of-age. It’s no wonder I filled Hearts of Glass Living in the Real World with musical vibes – an ’80s story without a killer soundtrack just wouldn’t feel right. Did you have a fave MTV video from back then?

To get the new Audiobook or Paperback: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/hearts%20of%20glass%20living%20in%20the%20real%20world
Get it on ebook for $1.99!
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08/03/2025

From my favorite Go-Go! I co sign!

I rely on you guys to help me continue to believe there are good people in the world. I want to thank you for all the love and support. We are building a little community here. I feel it! We shall overcome. Hopefully sooner than later. 🤞

08/03/2025

Happy Sunday, Gen-X and millennial and whoever else reads! If you love reminiscing about the ’80s and ’90s like I do, check out my friends Nicole and Heather’s “Like Whatever, Gen-X” ( Likewhateverpod ) podcast. They f**k around and find out down memory lane each week. I even joined them recently as a guest to chat about Hearts of Glass and random mall rat memories. Their latest episode about the Governator himself...Arnold Schwarzenegger. It’s the perfect nostalgia fix.

08/03/2025

Roxy Music. Flesh and Blood.

08/02/2025

On this day in the 80s... in 1985, Weird Science hit theaters, bringing us the wild tale of two misfit teens literally coding their dream girl.

If that isn't peak '80s weird, what is? It reminds me of the weirdness of our Gen X era, Equal parts creativity, heart, and a bit of toxic chaos.

Ford does not make his dream girl. He finds her as she is and neither of them is perfect as they navigate life. They build each other lovingly.

I'm thrilled to shamelessly plug my own ’80s-set adventure Hearts of Glass: Living in the Real World that is nothing like Weird Science (save being set in the 80s). It is out now in paperback and audiobook (not audible yet-soon-but everywhere else-Spotify is the best place to go). If you love the mix of fun and feels from back in the day, you’ll enjoy this story set in 1988 at Fox Valley mall– with love, friendship, and trouble brewing for three mall-rat teens.

08/01/2025

Audible? Lemme give you some facts. After my host distributor gets their fair and square 20%. Audible takes another 75% of that. That leaves a few pennies to pay my voice over artist, my publisher, and me. I would prefer you pirate it. But we will let you know when it is on audible so we can send Katy Perry to space again while I starve.

It is available in other places. They don't r**e creatives.

08/01/2025

Gotta go to the day job and then hang out with my 25 year old! I am leaving this here for my friends at Likewhateverpod and you! If you are Gen X a lot of your people died. Something about this cover by Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper in their supergroup Hollywood Vampires gets me.

'People Who Died', originally by the late Jim Carroll Band, performed by the Hollywood Vampires featuring Johnny Depp on vocals.Official video recorded at He...