Pamela Dell

Pamela Dell began her professional writing career at the age of ten, when she and a friend published their own monthly magazine – called SEE! – which they sold multiple issues of to their fifth grade classmates. While her friend provided the illustrations, Pamela wrote the stories, mostly the angst-ridden adventures of two fictional fifth-graders she named Ellen and Ernie.
                               
This somehow led, a couple decades later, to a professional career as a writer and editor. After trying out advertising copywriting, entertainment journalism, literary short fiction, freelance editing, and various other word-related endeavors, in the 1990s Pamela found herself -- almost by accident – writing for children again. Since then she has published more than 60 books for young people, both fiction and nonfiction, as well as fictional online content and numerous feature articles and fiction stories in children’s magazines. These include her currently ongoing “Doodlebug & Dandelion” fiction serial in SPIDER MAGAZINE (for 6-9-year-olds), from the long-established and highly respected Cricket Magazine Group. (Sample first story at: http://www.spidermagkids.com/doodlebug).

Pamela is also highly interested and involved in transmedia storytelling and content development. She has consulted and created content for such clients as Warner Bros., Vivendi/Knowledge Adventure, Beacon Street Girls, Teetersaw, and several others. In the late 1990s, as director of content at Purple Moon, an acclaimed interactive media company for tween girls, Pamela created a series of characters, developed a fictional narrative universe, and wrote four interactive scripts for the company’s multiple-award-winning ROCKETT game series. Subsequently, Scholastic, Inc., licensed the Purple Moon characters and narrative world for a fictional book series. Pamela also conceptualized much of the content for Purple Moon’s groundbreaking and award-winning website, also based on her original characters.

Pamela teaches writing workshops for adults and offers numerous types of school visits, including writing workshops for kids, a “behind the scenes” Doodlebug & Dandelion presentation, and presentations tailored to specific books she has published, as requested for a particular classroom or school visit.

Contact Information:
Email: pjdell@earthlink.net