<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Jester Prince]]></title><description><![CDATA[Howard Jay Patterson]]></description><link>https://www.howardjaypatterson.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 03:11:32 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.howardjaypatterson.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[A Long Journey...]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I began working on Jester Prince, shortly after retiring from the Flying Karamazov Brothers after my 34 year run, I just wrote everything I could remember, for several years. It turns out my memory is better than I expected: that first manuscript was enormous. I employed an old college chum, David Stanford, who had been laboring in the publishng industry while I was onstage Karamazoving for multiple deccades, to act as editor. He managed to discard about two thirds of my original, using...]]></description><link>https://www.howardjaypatterson.com/post/a-long-journey</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f7bff45caf4ed272b86689</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 21:53:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8565eb_6b301c6923a34d4cb63a600027711a3b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Howard Patterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Blog Evar!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello! I'm trying to set up a blog page as part of my Author's Website, none of which I've attempted before. I've been working on Jester Prince for over a decade, and it's thrilling to be on the very verge of having an actual book in hand. When I began working on it, people still read books, publishers still printed books, bookstores were buildings where you could go to buy books, authors were people you could meet if you wanted by going to a bookstore but you could also read their book while...]]></description><link>https://www.howardjaypatterson.com/post/first-blog-evar</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f7ab1190b4365cb8663932</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 20:15:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8565eb_e68574322ae845969ae4fad3b69b9715~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Howard Patterson</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>