PAMELA CALLOW, JD, MPA

I was born in Ontario, Canada, the youngest child of two immigrants. My mother emigrated from East Germany after World War II. My British father was hired to work as an engineer on the ill-fated Avro Arrow project.

At the age of two, my family moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Growing up by the ocean has shaped my life, and has, in turn, shaped my writing. I attended the University of King’s College, where I took the Foundation Year Program, studying the greatest works of Western Civilization. I graduated with an undergraduate degree in English Literature. Following that, I studied law and was admitted to the Nova Scotia Bar. I’ve always had an interest in public policy, so I returned to university to complete a Master’s Degree in Public Administration.

I then worked as a strategy consultant for an international consulting firm, travelling all over North America. After I had my children, I exhumed an old passion and a long-held dream: to become an author. Hundreds of thousands of words later, I became one. My first novel won many contests for unpublished authors, and made it to the acquisitions desk of a major NY publishing house—when it was rejected. Fortunately, I had already written my second novel. In fact, I was working on a third, and already had interest from a publishing house for it. But at the same conference that the third (unfinished) novel attracted interest, I pitched DAMAGED to my soon-to-be editor Valerie Gray—and the Kate Lange Thriller Series was born. 

P.S. This is a candid photo of myself with my writing muse, Peaches, who has been a constant companion throughout the writing of the series. I feel she deserves some credit. 🙂