Patricia Miller

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2025

Award-winning author Patricia Miller grew up in a small town in Ohio, where she has worked as a mental health counselor for 35 years. Patricia’s longtime passion to help individuals live happier and healthier lives comes alive in her children’s therapeutic picture book, Its OK to have Feelings: A Peyton’s Palace Adventure focusing on emotion regulation and published by Headline Books. She also writes Agatha Christie-like, who-dun-it cozy mystery collections, Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained Vols 1-5 which include illustrations by middle and high school art students from all over the state of Ohio. Patricia also has published a YA sci-fi trilogy, The Joshua Trilogy, and she is a short story contributing author in two anthologies (Love on the Lakefront) with Mystery Weekend Romance and (Holidays in the Heartland) with A Timeless Christmas. Her first two mystery collections were each named finalists in the American Bookfest Best Book Awards, and volume 3 was a 2nd Place Purple Dragonfly award winner in the mystery category. Patricia has presented Character-Driven Writing workshops, including at the 2024 West Virginia Young Writers Celebration at the University of Charleston at the invitation of Dr. Stephanie Burdette, the Faculty Advisor for the WVSU Reading Council. Patricia is a Mystery Writers of America and Great Lake Fiction Writers member. She enjoys hiking and biking weekends and British murder mystery marathons.

It’s OK to have Feelings: A Peyton’s Palace Adventure

Stress is real, especially for young children. It’s important that they have the right skills and tools in their toolbox to best manage stressors and regulate their emotions. It’s Ok to have Feelings: A Peyton’s Palace Adventure, is a children’s mental health therapeutic picture book aimed at providing effective emotion regulation skills while taking children on a magical castle adventure. Patricia Miller is a LPCC-S and LSW with over 35 years of clinical experience and is the curriculum developer for the Intensive Outpatient Program at Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital where she currently is employed.

Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained, Volume 3

Readers of award-winning Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained, Volumes 1 & 2 will not be disappointed with Volume 3. The mystique continues in Secrets at Sea with an investigation into a murder on the high seas aboard the Agatha with returning fan-favorite amateur sleuth Kelsie Raymond and her boyfriend, Max. Vats Trouble delves into a mysterious murder when a body falls through an office window, landing into a vat of cheese. The mysterious disappearance and reappearance of a suit of armor in an old castle leads to secret passageways and the supernatural in Freakish Knight. And in Keyholes, the recent purchase of an old 3-story office building leads to trapdoors and secret rooms discovered with the help of a diary written over a century ago.

Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained, Volume 4

Amateur sleuth Kelsie Raymond bursts onto the scene again, investigating her most baffling cases in Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained, Volume 4. What starts as a birthday celebration quickly turns dangerous when Kelsie and her friends become embroiled in a complicated murder investigation in Murder on Blood Red Island. A feisty farm owner named Bertha Wiseman is framed for stealing expensive collectibles in Duck Valley Robbery. A news reporter and an estate manager reluctantly partner against strange and supernatural phenomena in a stately mansion in Home Sweet Ghostly Home. And Kelsie Raymond becomes a personal assistant turned investigator into the murder of a wealthy businessman with his son as the likely suspect in The Tethering Affair.