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Pamela K. Kinney

 

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First name
Pamela K.
Last name
Kinney
 

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Pen Name
Pamela K Kinney
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Bio
Pamela K. Kinney gave up long ago ignoring the voices in her head and has written horror, fantasy. science fiction, a children’s fantasy picture book, poetry, five regional nonfiction ghost books (Haunted Richmond, Haunted Richmond II, Haunted Virginia: Legends, Myths and True tales, Virginia’s Haunted Historic Triangle 2nd Edition, and Paranormal Petersburg and the Tri-Cities Area), plus a nonfiction shapeshifters/indigenous mythology book (2nd place in Book Fest Award 2025.), Werewolves, Dogmen, and Other Shapeshifters Stalking North America ever since. Her horror short story, “Bottled Spirits,” was runner-up for the 2013 WSFA Small Press Award and considered one of the seven best genre short fiction for that year. Her poem, “Dementia,” in the HWA Poetry Showcase Vol VII, got her a mention in Best Horror of the Year, Vol 13. Her faerie children’s picture book, Christmas Magic, took second place in the Children’s-Holidays category of the Book Fest Awards, Spring 2024, and her new YA dark fantasy novel, Demon Memories, first in the Moon Ridge, Virginia trilogy, took second place in YA Fantasy for the Book Fest Awards 2025. in 2026. She also has various short stories and poetry published. Her newest release is Nowhere Land, a horror novel, plus, her urban fantasy novel, How the Vortex Changed My Life. Her upcoming nonfiction ghost books are Haunted Surry to Suffolk: Spooky Tales Along Routes 10 & 460 East from Dreampunk Press coming winter 2026, and Paranormal Appalachian Trail coming in 2027 from Schiffer Publishing. There will be a children’s fiction picture book, Mothman’s Son, coming from Dreampunk Press in 2026.
Pamela and her husband live with one crazy black cat (who thinks she should take precedence over her mistress’s writing most days). Along with writing, Pamela has acted on stage and film and investigates the paranormal for episodes of Paranormal World Seekers for AVA Productions. She is a member of both Virginia Writers Club, James River Writers, and Horror Writers Association. You can learn more about her at http://www.PamelaKKinney.com.
 

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Chapter Information

VWC Chapter (if any)
Richmond
 

Speakers' Bureau

Speaker Area(s) of Writing Expertise
  • Fiction (long form)
  • Fiction (short form)
  • Fiction (theater and screenplays)
  • Non-fiction (creative non-fiction)
  • Non-fiction (general)
  • Platform Building/Marketing
  • Poetry
Other Topic(s) of Expertise
paranormal investigation for the writer; emotions of characters
 

Poems, Novels, Plays, or other Works

Work 1 - Title
Nowhere Land
Work 1 - Genre
(Fiction & Literature) Horror
Work 1 - Genre (Other)
Horror-cosmic horror, folkloric, and supernatural.
Work 1 - Cover
Work 1 - Description
If Haunting of Hill House had a baby with Stranger Things, Nowhere Land would be the result.

For centuries, legends have been told of a haunted land not far from Gloucester, Virginia. The local tribes had labelled it a place of demons. Wildlife is hardly seen there, and even insects avoid it. Sound fluctuates; nothing above a whisper one moment, only to come back minutes later. Those who dare to cross the land never make it out, mysteriously vanishing.

Parker Burkett and his sister, Lisa Polivka, inherit the land from their grandfather. They bring in a group of investigators to find if the stories behind the property are true. Parker has plans to turn it into a historical attraction and wants to debunk the ghost tales. He finds the paranormal group gone the next morning, except for a finger still wearing a ring lying in the loft of one of the buildings. It is the only evidence they'd been there.

Ben Neilson, who leads the paranormal team, Seekers of Paranormal World, wants to investigate, but first he must convince Parker to let them. He also wants longtime friend and psychic medium Neri Phelan to help his team.

Neri left the group a couple of years ago after the death of her younger sister on an investigation. She has a past with the cursed land, and she doesn't want anything to do with it. Nightmares and an attack from something dark that destroys her spirit guide help her decide that it's time to break the curse.

Will they solve the truth behind the legends? Or will Neri and Parker, along with Ben and his team, join the countless others over the centuries and become sacrifices to Nowhere Land.
Work 2 - Title
Demon Memories
Work 2 - Genre
(Fiction & Literature) Literature
Work 2 - Genre (Other)
Young Adult Horror/Dark Fantasy
Work 2 - Cover
Work 2 - Description
No one expected the apocalypse in the almost idyllic small town of Moon Ridge, nestled in the mountains of Virginia.

Harper Doyle feels different. She has more than her fair share of problems than any normal teenager; an absent father her mother doesn’t talk about, and her friends died in a fire a year ago. There’s no boyfriend in sight, not even the cute former childhood friend, Jake Hewitt, who’s too busy hanging with the bratty son of the richest man in Moon Ridge.

It gets worse when Harper discovers she’s possessed by a demon.

Cresil is a demon with a problem. She wants to be shed of Harper but finds she can’t. An exorcism by Jake’s psychic mother doesn’t help.

Even worse, Cresil learns that she was never the demon summoned, but was sent by magic to take that demon’s place.

Baal has plans that include leading Lucifer’s demonic army into the mortal realm to jump start the apocalypse and battle Heaven. He just needs a possessed mortal to keep the portal between Earth and Hell open.

Except there’s a prophesy—that includes Cresil, Harper, and Jake—to stop the end of the world.
Work 3 - Title
Christmas Magic
Work 3 - Genre
(Fiction & Literature) Science Fiction & Fantasy
Work 3 - Genre (Other)
Children's picture book. Hardcover and paperback. Holiday Fantasy.
Work 3 - Cover
Work 3 - Description
The Season of Christmas is not just for humans. It is a season of joy for other things natural and unnatural, too.
Join the celebration!
Awarding winning author Pamela K. Kinney's first children's book is exquisitely illustrated by independent artist Brit Austin.
Uses open dyslexic font.
Work 4 - Title
Werewolves, Dogmen, and Other Shapeshifters Stalking North America
Work 4 - Genre
(Nonfiction) New Age & Spirituality
Work 4 - Genre (Other)
Werewolves, Dogmen, and other shapeshifters in the United States (cryptids), plus mythology and folklore.
Work 4 - Cover
Work 4 - Description
Have you ever been driving, alone, at night, and know that what you saw along the side of the road was not human? Do you ever wonder just what was howling on your last camping trip? Have you ever felt your skin crawl as you passed by that hitchhiker in the fog?
Join Pamela K. Kinney as she explores the North American tales and mythology that deal with shapeshifting frights. From the arid deserts of the American Southwest to the dense forest of the American Northwest, and even farther north to the Last Frontier of Alaska; from the Midwest to the Appalachian Mountains, continuing to the Atlantic Ocean in the east and down south to Florida, the tales of were-beasts are myriad-and hauntingly similar.
With all these stories spanning cultures and landscapes, might there be some spark of truth to them?
Researching books, movies, and legends, Pamela K. Kinney leaves nothing unturned in her quest to discern the truth about the shapeshifters staking North America.
Work 5 - Title
How the Vortex Changed My life
Work 5 - Genre
(Fiction & Literature) Science Fiction & Fantasy
Work 5 - Genre (Other)
Urban fantasy with horror
Work 5 - Cover
Work 5 - Description
Cat Viggolone just can't get a break. She'd gotten married, but that ended when the husband left her for his younger secretary. She wanted children. That flew out the window with the cheating husband. There's the career, but working a window at the Virginia DMV can't really be classified as a great career choice. At thirty-three, her life had become positively dull.
Then the vortex opened.
Sucked into a corridor just outside of hell, she meets Connor, a werewolf, and Larry, a demon that looks like a blue-eyed eyeball. They escape back to earth, only to find that the vortex has opened up in downtown Richmond. The town is going to hell, literally. Besides a grayness seeping out and turning all living things into zombies, monsters and demons are invading Cat's world.
Will Cat and her new friends (including an angel named George) be able to stop the vortex before it claims the entire planet?
Cat's life is definitely no longer humdrum and ordinary.
 

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Additional Works
Virginia's Haunted Historic Triangle 2nd Edition: Williamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown & Other Haunted Locations
Nonfiction-paranormal
https://bookshop.org/p/books/virginia-s-haunted-historic-triangle-2nd-edition-williamsburg-yorktown-jamestown-other-haunted-locations-pamela-k-kinney/764f0654de317449?ean=9780764357725&next=t
In this 2nd edition, go deeper into ghostly history as you tour Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown in the Historic Triangle. Visit haunted Jamestown Island, where Captain John Smith and the first English colonists settled. Stroll around Williamsburg and follow the same footsteps of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington as they walked along Duke of Gloucester Street. Tour ghostly historic Yorktown from the colonial era through the Civil War. Take side trips to the towns and counties nearby that put the finishing touches to the history of the whole area. You’ll hear odd noises and see apparitions, but above all, be prepared to get to know the ghosts of the Historic Triangle and its surrounding areas. They’re dying for you to hear their stories.
July 28, 2019
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