Bio: Pam Bachorz
Name: Pam Bachorz
'09 Book Title: Candor
Publisher: Egmont USA
Favorite Books: Anne of Green Gables, Shattering Glass, Rules of Survival, Life as We Knew It, Midnighters triology, Rash, I Am The Messenger, Whales on Stilts, Great and Terrible Beauty, An Abundance of Katherines, Acceleration, Golden Compass triology, Spiderwick, Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. OK I'll stop now. Those were just the ones within eyesight.
Favorite Bit of Writing Advice: Authors make careers out of finishing books, not lingering over them. (paraphrasing Holly Lisle)
Random Info About Me: I grew up in a small town in the Adirondack foothills, where I participated in every possible performance group and assiduously avoided any threat of athletic activity. With a little persuasion I will belt out tunes from “The Music Man” and “The Fantasticks”, but I know better than to play cello in public anymore. I attended college in Boston and finally decided I was finished after earning four degrees. They currently reside under my bed, much to my mother's chagrin.
Besides working as a chambermaid, record store flunky and summer camp instructor, I have worked at various media companies doing geeky librarian and image acquisition stuff. Right now I'm the sole employee and president of my own consultancy, Picaru. Staff meetings are very brief.
My family recently moved to the Washington, DC area after living in Celebration, FL for 6 years. I'm mother to a 3 year-old boy.
Candor Synopsis: In a town where his father brainwashes everyone, Oscar Banks has found a way to secretly fight the subliminal Messages. But when he falls in love, he must choose whether to let Nia be lost to brainwashing-or to sacrifice himself.
Oscar has everyone fooled: he’s the top student and the best-behaved teen in town. Nobody knows he’s made his own Messages to deprogram his brain. But then he falls for the new girl’s sweet-tart attitude and decides he wants company. Keeping Nia real with his special Messages will risk his cover, but she’s impossible to resist. Will she still love him when she finds out he’s been controlling her mind? And how can they survive in a town that’s designed to erase them? Candor is a sugarcoated fantasy world, but the ending to this story is far from sweet.
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