Glassner, Pamela S.K.
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Pamela S.K. Glasner
Pamela S. K. Glasner is an author, most recently having completed book one of a historically accurate, dark fantasy series based concurrently in the 17th and 21st centuries.
Pamela was born in New York City in 1953. Just prior to her eighteenth birthday, her family relocated to Connecticut, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in English and secondary education from Eastern Connecticut State University.
Until recently she was a Real Estate Developer, acquiring blighted and/or abandoned antique urban apartment buildings, restoring them to their original beauty and then providing safe and decent housing for men coming out of prisons and shelters. In 2007 she was honored with the coveted "Historic Preservation Award" for her exceptional work on a 100+ year-old building which is on the National Registry of Historic Places. Shortly thereafter, Pamela made the decision to divest herself of her real estate holdings in order to pursue her first love - writing - on a full-time basis.
A former English teacher, Pamela is also a Registered Reader at both the Royal Society of London and the British Library, as well as a member of the Connecticut Historical Society and the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. She has enjoyed teaching and addressing groups on a variety of topics, lecturing regularly on subjects relating to the real estate industry and, most recently, her new fantasy novel, Finding Emmaus.
In addition to writing, Pamela loves losing herself in research, fine red wine, public speaking, and London, England . . . though not necessarily in that order.
Now residing in rural Connecticut, Pamela is at work on her second novel, book two of The Lodestarre series.
"The only thing worse than having an incomprehensible, incurable illness is having an incomprehensible, incurable illness in isolation."
Francis Nettleton, 1739
The psychiatric community has confused Empathic personality traits with mental illness with tragic results, leading two Empaths—Francis Nettleton and Katherine Spencer—who live three hundred years apart, on personal journeys to learn the true nature of Empathy. Transcending time and death to right a centuries-old wrong, they inadvertently uncover a multibillion dollar conspiracy in which millions of Americans are being misdiagnosed and drugged for no other reason than the enormous income they generate.
Francis Nettleton, 17th century Empath, grew into adulthood believing himself to be insane. Eminently moral but the product of a society steeped in myths and misconceptions, he makes some less-than-prudent decisions which set in motion a murder for which he cannot forgive himself, a murder which will reverberate through four families and three centuries.
Three hundred years later, enter Katherine Spencer. After years of being hospitalized and drugged, she is given a rare opportunity: a second chance at life. At fifty-four, after being told that, rather than being insane, she's more than likely Empathic, she sets out to find Francis and the legendary Lodestarre, both 300 years gone, in the hopes she can finally learn to live.
In the process of finding herself and mastering her newly discovered abilities, Katherine unwittingly becomes the champion for the voiceless millions who are being victimized by a corporate machine of such omnipotent political power that she literally puts her life on the line when she challenges the all-but-unstoppable pharmaceutical industry, America's most powerful and affluent lobby.
Then, into Katherine's life comes Sally Cavanaugh, powerful—though novice—Empath with a secret infatuation which eventually transforms into a full-blown obsession. Overshadowing her ability to discern right from wrong, this obsession just might jeopardize every good thing in her life and everyone else's - just to get what she wants.
In Wiccan tradition, there is the Book of Shadows; in Christianity, the Bible; even the secular world has its encyclopedias. But for Empaths, there was nothing of the sort until Francis Nettleton sacrificed everything and made it his life's mission to create one authoritative body of knowledge, one central set of guiding principles—and he named it The Lodestarre. This manuscript is nothing less than the lifelong, selfless passion of one man's profound desire to put an end to the relentless persecution and needless suffering of anyone who did not—or could not—fit the societal mold.
Finding Emmaus, book one of The Lodestarre series, is a complex, dark, historic fantasy about human frailties and courage. It is an intricate, meticulously researched, deeply disturbing, suspenseful tale of love and sacrifice, obsession and the abuse of power, and the indisputable human right of free will. It is a story with a huge cast of characters who will keep you guessing as to what they will do and what choices they will make as they weave in and out of the story and each other's lives.