05/31/08

Welcome to my Web site!

     Pamela Kaye Tracy is a writer and teacher in Scottsdale, Arizona, where she lives with a newly acquired husband

(Yes, Pamela is somewhat a newlywed.  You can be a newlywed for seven years.  We’re only on year six) and a confused calico cat. (Hey, I had her all to myself for sixteen years.  Where’d this guy come from?  But, maybe it’s okay.  He’s pretty good about feeding me and petting me)    

         She 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.

She 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. 

    Pursuit of Justice, her first novel with Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense was released in March of 2007 and is a RITA@ finalist.  The Price of Redemption, which continues the saga of those who live in Gila City, Arizona, was published by Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense in November of 2007.  In 2008, yet another Gila City suspense hit the shelf.  Broken Lullaby was a Romantic Times magazine top pick!.   Another book for Harlequin, this one a straight romance Daddy for Keeps will also be released in Jan of 2009.           

     Pamela attends the Church of Christ.  She is an English professor - you'll find no comma errors in this website!  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.  She serves as the president of their local chapter Christian Writers of the West.  In February of 2005, her newlywed status changed to that of newlymom.