Pamela K. Kinney gave up long ago trying not to listen to the voices in her head and has written award-winning, bestselling horror, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, along with nonfiction ghost books ever since. Three of her nonfiction ghost books garnered Library of Virginia nominations. Her third ghost book, Virginia's Haunted Historic Triangle: Williamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown, and Other Haunted Locations, had reached a second printing and is now a 2nd edition with extra new stories and ten new ghostly images added, plus a new ghost book, Haunted Surry to Suffolk: Spooky Takes Along Routes 10 and 460 released in 2020 from Anubis Press. 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 latest novel was an urban fantasy, How the Vortex Changed My Life. In 2019, her science fiction novella, Maverick Heart, released from DreamPunk Press, along with a horror story, "By Midnight," in the Christmas horror and fantasy anthology, Christmas Lites IX, and a nonfiction story, "The Haunted Cavalier Hotel," in the paranormal nonfiction anthology, Handbook for the Dead. Five micro horror stories of hers in the anthology, Nano Nightmares, a horror short story, "Hunting the Goatman," included in the anthology, Retro Horror, plus a horror short story, "A Trick, No Treat," and three horror poems of hers, were included in Siren Call Publications' Halloween issue, a poem, "Dementia," in Horror Writers Association's horror poetry anthology, HWA Poetry Showcase, Vol.
VII. all released in 2020. "Dementia" won "Best Poem" in the poetry category for Critters Readers Poll 2020. She also just had a horror short story, "Family Inheritance," and a poem, "Ghosts," included in the Journal of the Virginia Writers Club, Spring 2021, and a horror short story, "Death of the Apostrophe," in the spring issue of Siren Call Publications. In 2022, she will have a Halloween horror story, "Pumpkin Hollow," included in the Horror for Halloween anthology to be published by Dreampunk Press in October 2022.