Summer time is shorts weather. But the kind of shorts I’m thinking about today are personal essays like those written by James J. Patterson in is new book, Bermuda Shorts. A quick and witty read penned by a very talented and ultimately entertaining writer. I was honored to be asked to manage the production of this handsome edition.

Political satirist, musician, songwriter, dramatist, essayist, and novelist, James J. Patterson’s new collection of essays meanders delightfully, ominously, frightfully, hilariously through his life and times, touching down at specific moments in the nation’s history as well as his own, as seen from the back alleys, barrooms and his hidden sanctum in what he calls The Capital of the Empire, Washington, DC. More than just a garment, Bermuda Shorts, according to Patterson, is a state of mind.

To accommodate the superb writing is a book & cover design that makes it stand out from the rest…

— Lowry McFerrin, Proforma Mactec Solutions