Patricia Skipper is a television commercial writer. She has won numerous Addy Awards for her broadcasting wrtiing talents.

Patricia’s writing career kicked off at the Charleston Evening Post, covering Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia. Patricia wrote for the Post across Europe with stories from Tallinn, Estonia, Helsinki, Finland, Copenhagen, Denmark and more.

During college, Patricia joined WNOK-TV, Columbia, SC, and began her endeavors in broadcasting. Her television career saw her switching between WDCA-TV, Washington DC, to KBHK-TV San Francisco. While on the West Coast, she helped a fledgling new movement called “Mothers Against Drunk Driving” MADD. She got their first television public service announcements on the air in San Francisco. Afterward, she contacted stations across the country asking them to run the PSAs. Eventually, the movement took off. Since 1980, MADD has reduced drunk driving deaths by 50%, saved 450,000 lives and compassionately helped more than 900,000 victims.

​Patricia is a resolute supporter of  American Women in Radio and Television. One of their missions was to get equal pay for women in broadcasting which has slowly been accomplished.

Patricia invites her readers on an exhilarating journey through the eyes of Vanessa in her book Deceptive Calm. A stunning light-skinned beauty, Vanessa, raised in a Southern Black orphanage, assumes the identity of a dead White baby. Her charmed life abruptly ends after the birth of her first child when his diagnosis is Sickle Cell disease.

Discovering that the woman he married is black, as is his toddler son, Vanessa’s ruthless husband plots their murders.