Pamela G Holmes

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Where have I been? Under a stack of student essays. 📚 Every one deserves a real read and real feedback, so this page took a back seat for a bit. But I'm back now just in time for LITERARY ANALYSIS week in ENC1101. ✍️ When you need to focus and you want the creative juices flowing without hesitation, where do you go to write? This is mine. Surrounded by books and quirky art that makes me happy. And ALL of the color pens. Who says your draft journal can’t be colorful?! Looking for a psychological thriller with literary depth? Praise God for Pasties breaks genre norms. One of my favorite parts of this whole debut adventure: signed copies landing in the mailboxes of total strangers. There's nothing sensational about Human Trafficking stats. The numbers don't reflect the pain of the humans who live through the horror of trafficking. But the prose of Praise God for Pasties does. FORT WALTON BEACH, FL: I am out here at @chapterandcobooks on Eglin Parkway from 1 -3 PM! Can’t wait to see all my FWB loves!!! Praise God for Pasties earned an 8.75/10 from a Publishers Weekly reviewer through the BookLife Prize, who praised its psychological depth and originality in approaching a difficult subject. Not a humble brag, but I'm genuinely proud of this praise. I put a lot of effort and love into my writing - for me it IS about craft, artistry, literary depth. I've always believed that good literature makes you feel. So, when you read Praise God for Pasties, I hope you feel the humanity of the characters. One of the trickiest habits to build in a college writing class? Citing sources smoothly inside your sentences, not just in a Works Cited list at the end. This week in ENC 1101, we're talking about persuasion — and how much of it happens without a single word of argument. When your head is too full of thoughts and you need to let the words spill out. What’s your writing practice look like? #pamelagwrites This week in ENC 1101, we're tackling Module 2 — what it actually means to write (and read) in an academic context.
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