Thursday, March 27, 2008

Pamela S. Thibodeaux - Featured Author


Pamela S Thibodeaux
Author, Speaker

Co-Founder/President
Bayou Writers Group

“Inspirational with an Edge!”

I've always been an avid reader, from Dr. Seuss before school age, to Walter Farley's "Black Stallion" series as a preteen, then on to romance where I found my passion. Mainstream, contemporary, historical...it did not matter. If it was a romance, I read it! They say 'don't judge a book by its cover' but I refused to listen....if it looked good, I read it.
One day while pregnant with my daughter I flung the book I currently attempted to devour in disgust and muttered, "I can do better than that!" I'm still not sure if the book was really that bad or if I merely had a hormonal moment, but thus began my writing journey.

That incident occurred more than twenty-five years ago and I must say I, as an author as well as a human being, have evolved a great deal in a quarter of a century.

For years I was a closet writer who wrote in 5-subject notebooks, shy and afraid of what people would think. I had no idea that there were rules to writing or anything similar. I simply wrote as the characters and story unfolded in my mind. Once I bought my first word processor, my secret was out. The one defining moment when I thought I just may be on to something was when my mother, also an avid reader but a sports fanatic, missed the Super Bowl to read my manuscript. If you know any sports fanatics you'll know that it takes something very special or drastic to pull them away from that game.

I've come a long way since those years as a closet writer. Today I am multi-published in romantic fiction and creative non-fiction. My writing has won awards such as Coeur de Louisianne’s 1999 Diamond in the Rough and their 2000 Ruby and in 2001 I earned my RWA Pro Pin.

My romantic fiction novels have been tagged as, "Inspirational with an Edge!" and reviewed as, "steamier and grittier than the typical Christian novel without decreasing the message" and consistently receive high praise and good reviews.

My short stories have received awards such as Reviewers Top Pick from Night Owl Romance & Recommended Read from My Book Cravings
My non-fiction has been featured in publications such as Cross & Quill, Fellow Script, and Vocational Biographies and much of it can be found online at Associated Content
I’ve also contributed to publications such as Bylines Writers Desk Calendar, Crumbs in the Keyboard; Stories from Courageous Women Who Juggle Life & Writing and Penned from the Heart Daily Devotionals (volumes xi, xiii, & xiv)
In 2002 I Co-founded Bayou Writers’ Group in Lake Charles, Louisiana and currently serve as President and Treasurer for the group.

Full-length Titles are available in Ebook from the Publisher’s Website and Print from Amazon

Tempered Hearts Tempered Dreams
© 2005 © 2005
Publisher: ComStar Media Publisher: ComStar Media
ISBN# 0-9769960-2-2 ISBN# 0-9769960-3-0

Tempered Fire The Inheritance
© 2006 © 2007
Publisher: ComStar Media Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
ISBN# 1-933866-08-X ISBN# 1-60154-055-8
Link for Tempered Ebooks Link for Ebook

Short Stories Include: Up Coming Releases!
Cathy’s Angel Tempered Joy from ComStar Media
© 2007 The Visionary from Enspiren Press
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Where To Find Me:
Choices My Website: http://www.pamelathibodeaux.com/
© 2008 My Space: www.myspace.com/pamelasthibodeaux
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press My Blog: http://pamswildroseblog.blogspot.com/

A Hero for Jessica
© 2008
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press


Links needed for post:

Night Owl Romance: http://www.nightowlromance.com/nightowlromance/reviews/Review.asp?ReviewId=1143

My Book Cravings:
http://www.mybookcravings.com/shara_cathysangel.htm

Associated Content:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/27703/pamela_s_thibodeaux.html

Bayou Writers Group:
http://www.geocities.com/bayouwritersgroup

Link for Tempered Books:
http://www.comstar-games.com/csg-store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=25_27

Link for Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/002-3165282-8434425?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Pamela%2C%20S%20Thibodeaux

Link for The Inheritance:
http://www.thewildrosepress.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=410

Link for Cathy’s Angel:
http://www.thewildrosepress.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=613

Link for Choices:
http://www.thewildrosepress.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=701

Link for Com Star Media:
http://www.comstar-media.com/

Link for Enspiren Press:
http://www.enspirenpress.com/

2 comments:

Tracey H. Kitts said...

Thanks for being my guest, Pamela:)

Pamela S Thibodeaux said...

No, Thank You, Tracey for having me as your guest.

The pleasure was all mine.