Pam Baddeley started life in Essex where her childhood was spent feverishly writing stories - some of which she sold for a few pennies in the school playground. So she first heard the question dreaded by writers, at the tender age of 10: "Where do you get your ideas?" This early training culminated in the writing and re-writing of her first full-length novel between the ages of fourteen to eighteen, a valuable writing experience.

Wishing only to be a writer, her first job was in a public library where at least she was in contact with books but afterwards she took a circuitous route into IT, where she works today. Meanwhile, her writing also detoured through fanzines of various cult science fiction programmes until she returned to writing her own material in 1991. Since then, she has written four novels, all on fantasy, supernatural or science fiction themes, although she is aware how unmarketable such subjects are considered by publishers.

Her CV includes two published short stories and a number of competition wins and shorlistings, including a shortlisting for the 2002 Fidler Award for unpublished fiction for children. She is currently revising a long novel.

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