Pamela
was raised in Omaha, Nebraska, by Albert and Rosemary Tracy. For forty
years she honesty told people she was an only child, and then, just five
years ago, she met her birth mother and as a fringe benefit found a sister
and brother.
Pamela
started writing (A very bad science fiction novel) while earning a
BA in Journalism at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Luckily, that
manuscript is missing, but after moving to Arizona, her father made her
pack up the stuff in the basement where she discovered a few writings from
her teenage years. Most were romances. Most had a hero who suspiciously
sounded like David Cassidy. Whoa! In these written-by-hand epics, the
heroes were even named David Cassidy. No wonder he didn't have time to do
more seasons of the Partridge Family.
Pamela
seriously turned to writing after her mother's death in 1993. She'd always
told her mother she wanted to be a writer. It was a way to work through
sorrow.
Her first
novel It Only Takes a Spark was published in 1999. Since then she’s
published twelve more writings in both romantic comedy and Christian
inspiration romance. Her novella, “I Do, Too” in the anthology Dear
Miss Lonely Heart was featured in Crossings book club and released in
hardback. Her novella “Murder or Matrimony” in the anthology The
Wildflower Brides was featured in the Doubleday book club and also
released in hardback. Promises and Prayers for Teachers, an August
2004 Barbour release, was her first non-fiction book and went to number two
on the Christian Booksellers Association’s bestseller list.
The novella,
“From Famine to Feast” in the anthology The Harvey Girls, is
available this month, June of 2006. Another novella, “Ready or Not,” in
the anthology Sweet Home Alabama will be published in December of
2006. Pursuit of Justice, her first novel with Harlequin Love Inspired
Suspense will be available in March of 2007. And, she has just contracted
to write Spiritual Refreshment for Women: Everyday Promises a prayer
book for women from Barbour Publishing.
Pamela
attends Camelback Church of Christ. She is an English professor at
Paradise Valley Community College. Her husband Don is a plumber. Besides
going to church, writing, teaching, camping, sewing, reading, grading
papers, cleaning house, yakking on the phone to friends, and taking care of
her family, she is often asked to speak at various writers’ organizations
in the Phoenix area. She belongs to Romance Writers of America, The
Society of Southwestern Writers, The Arizona Authors’ Association, and the
American Christian Writer’s Association. In February of 2005, her newlywed
status changed to that of newly mom.
