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The actor, who plays Rodney Blackstock on the ITV1 soap, has been busy penning a children's book and a thriller in recent months.
Mower told This Morning today: "I've written a children's book which is finished, so I'm talking to a publisher about that. I'm a writer more than an actor now. Obviously I'm in Emmerdale, but I don't do too much in it. I've got a nice story at the moment, but I try not to do too much acting.
"The [other] story that I'm writing is a thriller. My lead character - well, he thinks he's the lead character! He's an Irish TV presenter, and he's based really on Eamonn Andrews. I got to know Eamonn really well - I was in a play in Dublin for about five weeks, and I used to play golf with him.
"So I had this idea of this chap who is very, very famous and he was going to get murdered. He happens to get murdered on the second page!"
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Mower also praised his current Emmerdale storyline, which has seen Rodney blackmail Carl King (Tom Lister) after taking the blame for a hit and run offence that he committed.
"Poor old Rodney. He used to be a millionaire, you see. It's one of those stories you get in soap," Mower explained.
"When he was a millionaire, one of the producers said to me, 'We've got a great idea, Patrick. What we're going to do is make you go bankrupt, you're going to lose all your money, and then we'll have a wonderful story. We're going to build you back up and you're going to become a millionaire again'. And then they changed producers, so I still haven't got any money!
"Rodney is quite a nice guy, but it's like the worm has turned. It's quite a nice story."
Emmerdale continues tonight at 7pm and 8pm on ITV1.
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