Patrick Barnes

I’ve always loved storytelling. I’ve been an avid moviegoer my whole life and a lover of reading. When I watch a movie, I think about every decision made behind the scenes, the choices the director made, and the writing itself. It been a lot of fun to access this bank of information and apply it to my writing. I’m 39 and still watching movies and reading books with these goals in mind. Two books later, three if you count my unpublished first book, and I’m still learning. I guess I always will be. It’s been great to get some validation that it’s all working and I’m still seeking more. I welcome criticism as well.

The Audric Experiment won the Literary Titan Book Award. I've won journalism awards, have had my movie reviews published on the u-wire where they post the best movie reviews in the country. I have been awarded numerous five star reviews for my books and had them compared to classics such as The Giver or Fahrenheit 451.

The reason I write is to change things. There are a lot of things that writing can change. It can change minds, feelings, souls, and lives. And while changing the world is a little grandiose, that is what I seek to do. Both of my books are ambitious, controversial, and intensely powerful. Neither is especially powerful in the sense that they showcase gang violence, or teen suicide. They are philosophically powerful. I write for that thematic statement that makes the reader say: tomorrow can be different than today if I apply this to my own life. I am well-aware that no one wants to read something preachy and I always walk that fine line. Judging by the reviews for my books, so far I have not fallen off course.