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Pamela has always abided by the philosophy that you create the change you want to see. Fed up with never seeing women or people of color depicted as savvy, hotshot attorneys in the legal thrillers she read, Pamela decided to create her own characters. Despite the demands of a busy legal career, she accomplished her ambitious goal by rising at four in the morning to write before work, dedicating her weekends to writing and even spending her vacation time glued to her laptop for ten or more hours a day. In the process, she discovered her passion.

Pamela has achieved a successful writing career while working as a Managing Counsel for a major corporation in Southern California, specializing in labor and employment law and social media law. Prior to that, she served as Employment Law Counsel for Raytheon Company and spent several years as an associate with the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, in Los Angeles. A former journalist, Pamela began her broadcasting career with WXYZ-TV in Detroit and later worked as a news writer and associate producer for KCBS-TV in Los Angeles.

A graduate of UC Berkeley’s School of Law, Pamela has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from USC and a master’s degree in broadcasting from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She previously served on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles chapter of Mystery Writers of America and is a diehard member of Sisters in Crime, an organization dedicated to the advancement of women mystery writers.

Pamela's novels include: Every Reasonable Doubt (2006), In Firm Pursuit (2007), Murder on the Down Low (2008), Buying Time (2009), and Attorney-Client Privilege (2012). The Black Caucus of the American Library Association honored Buying Time with its 2010 Fiction Award, calling the book “a captivating, suspenseful thriller.” Her sixth novel, Anybody's Daughter, which tackles the horrific world of child sex trafficking, was a 2014 NAACP Image Award nominee. Pamela has also penned the short stories, Easy Money, featured in the anthology Scoundrels: Tales of Greed, Murder and Financial Crimes (2012) and Setup, selected for the Sisters in Crime anthology, LAndmarked for Murder (2006). A natural hair enthusiast, Pamela is also the author of Kinky Coily: A Natural Hair Resource Guide.