About Patricia Ann Ledford

Patricia Ann Ledford grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee. An early career in politics evolved into managing marketing campaigns for major clients and ultimately into working on film projects and producing television programming.  As Tennessee’s first film commissioner, she is especially proud of recruiting the film The River to the Kingsport area, which resulted in the creation of Laurel Run Park in Hawkins County.  More information regarding her film/tv career is available on  IMDB.com.https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0496562/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

After 40 years of writing professionally for a diverse range of political, corporate and non-profit entities in Nashville and Chattanooga, she finally achieved a life-time goal of writing stories of her own creation. Strings - The Story of Hope is her first novel.

She divides her time between writing in her North Carolina hideaway and enjoying family, friends, and cultural activities in Kingsport and Chattanooga.

On Writing "Strings – The Story of Hope"

Each morning after she settled into her North Carolina hideaway, Pat sat in her rocking chair facing the Lord's extraordinary work of nature. She read the Bible, then she tried to be still.  After all, that's one reason the Lord sent her to an isolated retreat in the middle of the Pisgah National Forest.  

One morning as she looked across the mountain ranges, she heard the Lord's voice: "Your grandfather was born right over there."  In the next few days, she began her search for her grandfather’s birthplace.  And in her search, trekking one graveyard after another, she found the inspiration for her story:  Strings -- The Story of Hope.    It is loosely inspired by what she imagined during her mountain ventures -- the story of a 15-year-old girl who escapes her burning home only to encounter traumatizing events that bind inescapable strings around her soul.