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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 trying not to ignore the voices in her head and has written horror, fantasy. science fiction, a children’s fantasy picture book, poetry, nonfiction ghost books, and a nonfiction cryptid/indigenous mythology book, 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 is considered one of the seven best genre short fiction for that year. Her poem, “Dementia,” that was in the HWA Poetry Showcase Vol VII, got her a mention in Best Horror of the Years, 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. She has a story and a poem in The Haunted Zone, a charity horror anthology with stories and poetry written by women military veterans, a horror story published in the horror anthology, Vinyl Cuts, a story in Halloweenthology: Witches’ Brew, and a poem included in the Terror at Miskatonic Falls anthology—all three anthologies were released in 2024. Her YA dark fantasy novel, first in the Moon Ridge, Virginia trilogy, Demon Memories, was released October 15, 2024. She is working on a new nonfiction ghost book for Schiffer Publishing, about ghosts/cryptids/UFOs on or near the Appalachian Trail.
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 Horror Writers Association, Virginia Writers Club, and James River Writers. Learn more about her at https://PamelaKKinney.com.
 

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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
Demon Memories
Work 1 - Genre
(Fiction & Literature) Horror
Work 1 - Genre (Other)
dark fantasy, Young Adult
Work 1 - Cover
Work 1 - 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 2 - Title
Werewolves, Dogmen, and Other Shapeshifters Stalking North America
Work 2 - Genre
(Nonfiction) New Age & Spirituality
Work 2 - Genre (Other)
Werewolves, Dogman, and shapeshifters in the United States (cryptids), plus mythology and folklore.
Work 2 - Cover
Work 2 - 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?
Work 3 - Title
Christmas Magic
Work 3 - Genre
(Fiction & Literature) Science Fiction & Fantasy
Work 3 - Genre (Other)
Children's picture book. Hardcover and paperback.
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
Virginia’s Haunted Historic Triangle 2nd Edition: Williamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown & Other Haunted Locations
Work 4 - Genre
(Nonfiction) New Age & Spirituality
Work 4 - Genre (Other)
Ghosts/paranormal/regional. Second printing/second edition.
Work 4 - Cover
Work 4 - Description
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.
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'd wanted children. That flew out the window along 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 up 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
Paranormal Petersburg, Virginia, and the Tri-Cities Area
https://bookshop.org/p/books/paranormal-petersburg-virginia-and-the-tri-cities-area-pamela-k-kinney/7248933?ean=9780764349423
Travel to Petersburg, Virginia, and the surrounding areas of Colonial Heights, Hopewell, Prince George, Dinwiddie, and nearby Ettrick-Matoaca, Enon, and Chester to discover what spirits, monsters, UFOs, and legends await the unwary. Why are the Union and Confederate spirits still fighting the Civil War in the battlefields? Who is the lady in blue who haunts Weston Plantation House? Learn what the phantoms at Peter Jones Trading Post will do to keep from being photographed. Drink tea with runaway slaves still hiding on the top floor above the Blue Willow Tea Room. Are Edgar Allan Poe and his bride still on their honeymoon at Hiram Haines Coffee and Ale House? Why does the Goatman stalk young lovers? Meet the ghosts of Violet Bank Museum that greet guests at the house. Hauntingly active as they share space with the living, the dead refuse to give up their undead residency. September 30, 2015


Haunted Richmond, Virginia-nonfiction (New Age/spirituality) and Ghosts/paranormal/regional-https://bookshop.org/p/books/haunted-richmond-virginia-pamela-k-kinney/7246862?ean=9780764327124 -Richmond is chock-full of ghosts and haunted places. This city names Edgar Allan Poe as its native son, and it is rich in ghostly lore, legends, and tales. Join this tour to: - Learn why Virginia's governor shares his mansion with ghosts; - Dine with ghosts at Ruth's Chris Steak House and Crab Louie's Seafood Tavern; - Discover that the Byrd Theatre has more than movies to offer customers; - Visit the prison in Powhatan (it might not be safe, even for those working there); - Call on the Lady in Red who roams the corridors at Wrexham Hall. These and other interesting and scary stories will transport you beyond, to a Richmond that most mortals never see!- June 15, 2007.
Haunted Virginia: Legends, Myths, and True Tales: nonfiction paranormal https://bookshop.org/p/books/haunted-virginia-legends-myths-and-true-tales-pamela-k-kinney/7247392?ean=9780764332814 Like every state in the Union, Virginia has unique myths, legends, and yes, even true stories that sound much like legends, but aren't. Learn about the urban legend of the Bunnyman and what happens to mortals at his Bunnyman Bridge in Clifton at midnight on Halloween. Prepare to discover the myths surrounding Edgar Allan Poe and other famous Virginians. See why Natural Bridge is actually a haunted tourist attraction. And what makes the Great Dismal Swamp so creepy: Is it the ghosts or Bigfoot? Meet the Witch of Pungo in Virginia Beach and find out that Mothman and the Jersey Devil actually visited Virginia. Read Virginian stories of witches, demons, monsters, ghosts, pirates, strange animals, and soldiers from the Civil War. Come visit a most amazing, frightening, and even intriguing Virginia that you never knew existed. April 23, 2009.
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