Yes, I chose the name Pat because Pat can be a man or a woman, whatever the reader feels more comfortable with imagining.

And the surname Wilpenter. That came about after I read of a great way to come up with pseudonyms. It's the SLICE AND DICE method. Think of two surnames. Cut 'em in half and recombine the bits. So it was Williams + Carpenter... which gave me Wil + penter.

After a quick search in Google, I knew there was nobody else by that name and so it was that Pat Wilpenter "burst" onto the scene.

Gary