Candy! Sweet, old-fashioned, bad-for-you, acne-producing candy. Can you think of a better theme for a website than candy?

Pat Detmer is an award-winning humor writer who has been published in the Seattle Times, The Newcastle News, The Eastside Journal, and had a humorous column in The Whidbey Marketplace for over five years. She also appeared in Newsweek's "My Turn" and currently has space on BoomerGirl.com under the "Laughing All The Way" title.

She's won or placed in several fiction contests, most of them having to do with speed (24-hour from topic assignment to finished piece), brevity (100-word and 200-word shorts), or scenarios where the characters are already established and full-blown (3 appearances in Star Trek's Strange New Worlds short story anthologies.)

You can check out an essay that was a recent semi-finalist in the Humor Press contest here: Making a Good Impression.
  

You can contact Pat at PatDetmer@aol.com. If you've wandered here aimlessly and/or have friends who might like to be on her e-mail list, let her know via the above email address.

And for snail mail, cards, and gifts (candy would be sweet!):                                 
6947 Coal Creek Parkway S.E. #339, Newcastle, Wa. 98059-3159

Why Pat Detmer likely smoked until she quit at 30: