Patrick Craig is a lifelong musician and writer who left a career in the music industry to follow Christ in 1984. Along with twenty years experience serving as a Worship Leader and Pastor, Patrick and his wife Judy present seminars on Music and Worship at churches, retreats, seminars and conferences. His current ministry, with Judy, is as a traveling Worship Leader to several small churches in Northern California. Patrick and Judy have two daughters and five grandchildren and live in Petaluma, CA. The Mystery of Ghost Dancer Ranch is the exciting story of two teenage cousins staying at their Grandparents’ ranch for the summer, who stumble on a mystery that involves desperate crooks who want to steal the ranch to build a casino, the ghost of a long-dead Sioux War Chief, a young Native American man on a mission to save his tribe and secret tunnels and caves left over from an old Spanish Mission under the ranch. Throw in a guardian angel that guides and protects the girls and some evil spirits that want to bring the story to a bad end, and you have The Mystery of Ghost Dancer Ranch, the first in a series of mystery adventures featuring Punkin and Boo.
Patrick E. Craig is a lifelong writer and musician who left a successful songwriting and performance career in the music industry to follow Christ in 1984. He spent the next twenty-six years as a worship leader, seminar speaker and pastor in churches, and at retreats, seminars and conferences all across the Western United States. After ministering for a number of years in music and worship to a circuit of small churches in Northern California, he is now concentrating on writing and publishing both fiction and non-fiction books. He has recently signed a three book deal with Harvest House Publishers to publish his "Apple Creek Dreams" series. The books are historical Amish fiction and the first book, "A Quilt for Jenna," will be released January 1, 2013. Patrick is represented by the Steve Laube Agency.
Patrick has an extensive background as a writer. Throughout his school years he edited high school and college newspapers. In 1964 he won a national editorial contest sponsored by the Wall Street Journal for an editorial he wrote on the death of President Kennedy, and, in the same year, acted as Senior Editor for a special issue of the University of Washington Evergreen during a summer internship for High School Editors. After a year at Whitman College, where he was a journalism major, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area where he became a fixture on the local music scene.
As a professional songwriter, he wrote with and for such artists as Bill Champlin (Chicago), David Jenkins (Pablo Cruise), Buddy Miles, The Tazmanian Devils, and many others in the secular music industry. His songs were recorded by such artists and music groups as West Coast Natural Gas, Indian Pudding and Pipe, Joey Covington's Fat Fandango, The Sons of Champlin, The Tazmanian Devils, Buddy Miles, David Jenkins, Laura Allen, The Fairfax Street Choir and in Europe by the Swedish Band Seid. He had two music albums released on Warner Brothers records, and contributed to best selling albums by artists such as Chris Isaak and others. Recently a compilation of his early work was released in Switzerland as a specialty music album.
