Born in West Virginia, Pam was raised in a tiny town in Northeast Ohio, traveling frequently back to the South where her parents are from. Specifically, the coal towns of Clay County, West Virginia where she was born a
coalminer’s granddaughter. A place that deeply influenced her as a writer.
Raised by a tribe of wild Pentecostals, Pam cut her teeth on the back of a church pew, growing up in clapboard churches, tabernacles, and tent revivals. After she shook the sawdust off her feet and out of her hair, much of her early adult life was spent within the inner circle of an evangelical megachurch, under the watchful eyes of a well-known televangelist. During those turbulent years, Pam wrote non-stop. She attended creative writing classes at The University of Akron and Kent State University, but believes her best education came from the professionals—mentors and writers in the trenches.
As a single mother, she worked in Administrative Medicine, in Medical Education for two major teaching hospitals, and as a Pediatric Private Practice Administrator. Early in 2003, she married Michael and ended her 20-year medical career to fulfill her dream as a full-time writer and speaker.
Her award-winning stories, articles, and essays have appeared in magazines, anthologies, and newspapers in various states. She has taught the creative writing process, networking, and public speaking at numerous writers’ conferences and book festivals throughout the country.
In 2007, Pam was invited by the First Lady of West Virginia and the First Lady of Mississippi to speak to the people of Charleston and Jackson. Pam has appeared on Fox Morning TV, WLOE and WMYN News/Talk Radio, and WMAG Radio.
A guest speaker for the Southern Festival of Books in Memphis, she has been a guest speaker or key-note speaker at over 150 private venues such as Rotary Clubs, Women’s groups, The Junior League, Writing Conferences, Book Clubs and many churches throughout the South.
Pam’s first book, Southern Fried Women was a finalist in Fiction and Literature-Short Story, Best Books of 2006 Book Awards, USABookNews.com and a finalist for ForeWard Magazine’s Book of the Year. This collection of short stories examines themes of forgiveness, death, love, discovery, racial conflict, faith, tragedy, innocence, destiny, and guilt. Set in various locations and periods in the South, the stories present realistic characters in common situations facing questions of meaning, purpose, and the existence of God in their lives. Taught as part of Southern Studies in some high school classrooms, Southern Fried Women is fast becoming a cult classic.
Pam’s completed first novel, Televenge, will be released for publication in October 2012 by Satya House Publishing. Andie Rose Oliver lives under the manipulation and control of Reverend Calvin Artury, a self-proclaimed evangelist. Debauchery follow when the Reverend lures Annie’s husband, Joe, into full-time employment on the megachurch ministry team. The high-stakes events in Televenge underscore the extremes to which some spiritual leaders will go for money, power, and fame, and the horrors many suffer to be free of religious legalism.
Pam’s second novel, The Sanctum, is now complete. Neeley McPherson accidently killed her parents on her fifth birthday. Thrown into the care of her abusive grandfather, she is raised by his elderly farmhand, Gideon Green, a black man, whom she grows to love. In the winter of 1959, when Neeley turns thirteen, Gideon is accused of stealing a watch and using a Whites Only restroom.
The infamous Catfish Cole, Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard of the Carolinas, pursues Neeley and Gideon in their courageous escape to the frozen Blue Ridge Mountains. After Gideon’s truck hits ice and careens down a steep slope, they travel on foot through a blizzard, and arrive at a farm of sorts—a wolf sanctuary where Neeley crosses the bridge between the real and the supernatural. It is here she discovers her grandfather’s deception, confronts the Klan, and uncovers the shocking secrets of the Cherokee family who befriends her.
The Sanctum is a coming-of-age Southern tale dusted with a bit of magic, and set in a volatile time in America when the winds of change begin to blow.
Today, Pam continues to speak to many groups throughout the country, and lives in a small Ohio town with her husband, Michael. Together, they have three children, and three grandchildren.
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Someone once told me to write my heart out . So I dug deeper to write unforgettable stories, remembering the valley that almost killed me, and then the glorious mountaintop where hard work and determination pulled me to my feet. It was during those years of stumbling out of the valley that I found my voice—a voice to pierce my reader’s hearts.
Out of the dark into the life of a writer, I am an overcomer. Storytelling has followed me since early childhood, and I speak to readers from a place of redemption — a soul open for all to see.
Welcome to my world.
- Pamela King Cable
At home in the country
